RE: Is atheism a liberating and good experience?
December 3, 2012 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2012 at 12:50 am by naimless.)
(December 3, 2012 at 12:26 am)thesummerqueen Wrote:(December 3, 2012 at 12:23 am)naimless Wrote: Then I realised the universe wasn't actually made for my wishes and it was all bullshit.
Is that what bothers you the most? That it's not all about you?
No, I think I could deal with that if I found someone that had a similar experience to me.
(December 3, 2012 at 12:33 am)Voltron Wrote: It is liberating in the sense that I don't have to worry about living my life in sin, where I'm going after I expire, etc. etc. But it didn't really change any of my habits or my mental state the ways you described. Sound like you're trying too hard to establish a link between how you're turning out and various belief structures.
I've never seen a religious person worried about themselves going to hell. They are all going to heaven in their view - if they sin, they just ask for forgiveness or change the rules a little. It's everyone else who sins that is going to hell.

I'm not trying to establish the link. I've monitored my mental health for a while and I have been baffled as to the changes in it. It's actually incredibly simple for me now to make the link between believing in a higher power and achieving more happiness given that I was on and off with the higher power shit and on and off with my depression and the spread was years with the trend mutually exclusive.