(August 10, 2023 at 7:49 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: ...
And it's not easy being outside of all faiths now either. Although in many ways it opened up new vistas of freedom and liberty, and removed many burdens of guilt and cognitive dissonance, it came with its own burdens of felt absence and loss - and the nihilistic, physicalist universe I now accept as the most likely accurate view of reality holds little comfort and much horror.
It seems you cannot really win, and I appreciate how hard it is to de-convert and how hard it can be for some to face the nature of reality without faith.
So that's me, and why I'm here, I guess
Feel free to ask question or make comments.
For me the most difficult part is dealing with my Catholic family. So I embarked on something of a double life. But that looks more and more unnecessary as time goes on and my own relatives, especially the younger ones, live in such a way that makes it hard to tell they really are Catholic.
