RE: Hello Truth Seekers
August 16, 2009 at 7:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2009 at 7:02 am by fr0d0.)
Well what I said was that my reasoning lead me to make the decision. the same as the reasoning lead me to decide for (I publicly committed a decision to be a Christian. It wasn't in private. I voiced my status the moment I changed it) . Like I said, after your correction, I didn't decide to be an atheist.. that was a figure of speech. I decided to 'not believe'. There was an actual moment I thought that to myself.
Yes it's more complex than that - reasoning had occurred and the shift was enough between belief and disbelief that I couldn't have made any other choice...
I dunno, perhaps I could liken it to marriage.. it's a commitment. I wasn't in this just inside my own head. I was in a community. You could be in a marriage and then really be out of that marriage in your head. Some people stay in marriages when they don't want to be with the other person. Sometimes a person decides it'd be best to split. Formally you have to act on your reasoned position to put yourself where you reason to be. You say "it's over, I'm off", and your position is now true.
In your experience you say the process was gradual and there was no definite point of conversion. I've heard that a lot from people who were believers as children. The other way too... there's no point they remember making a decision.. it's something that just gradually came over them.. a belief in God. To be disingenuous I'd call that fake; In my experience there's no commitment there; The person has no interest in what they believe.
Yes it's more complex than that - reasoning had occurred and the shift was enough between belief and disbelief that I couldn't have made any other choice...
I dunno, perhaps I could liken it to marriage.. it's a commitment. I wasn't in this just inside my own head. I was in a community. You could be in a marriage and then really be out of that marriage in your head. Some people stay in marriages when they don't want to be with the other person. Sometimes a person decides it'd be best to split. Formally you have to act on your reasoned position to put yourself where you reason to be. You say "it's over, I'm off", and your position is now true.
In your experience you say the process was gradual and there was no definite point of conversion. I've heard that a lot from people who were believers as children. The other way too... there's no point they remember making a decision.. it's something that just gradually came over them.. a belief in God. To be disingenuous I'd call that fake; In my experience there's no commitment there; The person has no interest in what they believe.
