(June 18, 2012 at 11:29 am)Minimalist Wrote: Throughout the course of our lives friends come and go. I've noticed this more with males than females who will tend to have one or two close friends from childhood that they never lose touch with. But men seem to make friends based on what they are doing at the moment. As life changes so do the people you associate with.
I guess what I'm saying is that if these so-called friends only like you because they believe that you believe in the same silly god shit as they do then you are already in the process of moving beyond them. If they can't accept you for what you are, who needs them? More to the point, why call them "friends?"
Wow, philosophical genius! Thanks for sharing that. I believe I might have an answer to that which might actually be the answer/thing that will happen.
I've already been a non-believer for 5 months. They just don't know it. Yeah, I know sometimes I've said that I play along so that I don't get found out BUT... I remember 3 of my friends telling me (at different times) around 3-4 months after my deconversion that something had changed about me. All 3 said it was nothing major but I was different. I'm not sure what I've stopped/started doing, but my point is: maybe they don't know it but they're actually already used to me being a non-believer. So all I would be doing now is letting them know. SO, ironically, I just have to have the faith that they will realise for the past 5 months I've been tolerable, that it's not that bad. We don't need a common belief to be friends.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
