(December 2, 2012 at 11:55 pm)naimless Wrote: Hello, you voluptuous ragamuffins,
I was watching a lot of Richard Dawkins videos on YouTube recently. He says many things that I find impossible to disagree with. I'm sure you all have had similar experiences, perhaps with Hitchens, maybe even Hicks, Carlin...
Nevertheless, one thing Dawkins mentions is receiving messages from people thanking him for liberating them. Indeed, it baffles me how he sees atheism as a good thing for somebody who had faith to discover.
I am an atheist because it is the most harsh and universal truth I've found, not because it is a good or liberating experience. Indeed, my most euphoric and liberating experience came from believing in karma and Buddhist philosophy utilising things like meditation and lucid dreams (around the age of 15-17).
Even up to around the age of 10 I was raised Christian and happy that I had a higher power in stages 1-2 of Dawkins' scale. As I am now nearing stage 7, quite frankly I can't sleep at night, I don't eat properly, I don't exercise enough any more, I have panic attacks, pains in my neck, migraines, flashing vision etc. and I have little self-esteem or genuine feeling of empathy or compassion for others.
Honestly the main thoughts that go through my head now are, "if I had a gun, I could blow my head off".
As someone who has seen it all, I honestly stop and suggest you rethink your decision to follow atheism based on Dawkins' dogma.
Dawkins is an idiot, and intelligent atheists and theists don't take him seriously.
I feel like writing a manifesto as to why I think Dawkins is worthless, because I think it's valuable reading for most atheists.
But really stop and reason about what you believe and why.
