(September 26, 2013 at 4:22 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I'll keep it short and simple.No way! Weren't you pagan till like, well, it was after bolt, I'm sure!
Current age is 33, almost 34.
I have been atheist roughly since my early twenties.
I'm 26, and, aside from brief half-hearted attempts at religion during my teens, have been an atheist most of my life. Even during those times I couldn't really bring myself to believe in gods. I tried to make sense of it by kinda interpreting gods as ways of describing something in nature rather than a conscious magical being (because that was always too ridiculous for me to believe) like the "thing" that made the universe come to life, the "thing" that made stuff look beautiful. Obviously, that didn't last long because it was stupid, and I decided religion definitely wasn't for me by the time I was 16ish. The only other time I even entertained the idea was the day my mother died, and I called on every superstitious thing I'd ever heard of that might help, because nothing could actually help. I "prayed" to every god I'd ever heard of, I wished on the stars I couldn't see as it was daytime, I went for a walk and spoke out loud in case there were fairies or something with magical healing powers who might come to my aid. But that's not belief, that's just a desperate attempt at doing something, anything, to help save someone you love when they are beyond help.
