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At what age did you stop praying to Father Christmas
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RE: At what age did you stop praying to Father Christmas



This is all rather biased toward former believers in the Semitic god, which makes it hard for someone unlike you to answer. I was psychotic by the age of four, so my view of reality has always been, and likely will always be, radically different from yours. By adolescence, I had taken to acknowledging that I didn't believe in God, but I don't know when that change occurred from my Christian upbringing, or even if that was my core personality. (I did, as a child, and still today, believe that people were trying to find me to kill me. So I constantly dissembled, and had multiple life "tracks" with different beliefs and aims and personalities, all kept in mind simultaneously so as to make them consistent with my actions, yet each account would be told different depending on who the audience was. I had a private narrative that I shared with no one, and a public narrative meant to fool those looking for me. After all this time, it's hard to tell, in remembering things, which deck I was dealing from at the time.) But I was firmly a non-believer by adolescence, but when that change occurred, I do not know. I became a Taoist at 17, and converted to Hinduism in my 20s. I do not 'pray' to my god, though I sometimes thank her for blessing me by teaching me the lesson that I needed to learn at the time, or for being such an instrumental part of my development as a woman and a person.

So, the answer to your question is, A) I don't know, and, B) You need to ask better questions, with less bias and assumptions; even if I were an atheist, I would find the wording of your question presumptuous and loaded. I suspect you didn't so much want to know what others thought as to disguise a statement of your personal opinion as an inquiry by cloaking it in the form of a question.


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RE: At what age did you stop praying to Father Christmas - by Angrboda - January 15, 2014 at 7:22 pm

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