RE: So far...
June 10, 2014 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2014 at 4:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 10, 2014 at 9:12 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Atheism sucks big hairy balls. Sorry, but it does. Personal view only you understand.
Best thing that ever happened to me.
I'd much rather believe as many true things and as few false things as possible. Eliminating a huge false belief from infecting my brain was great.
Quote:Been a few months now and so far I got zero payoff. Squat. Diddly. I preferred my comfortable lie to this ugly truth, but having unplugged, I now can't plug myself back in or unthink what I thought.
The payoff is having an internal map of the world that is much more likely to coincide with the actual world.
And the intellectual honesty is not so bad either.
Quote:I can't even have fun debating with christians because I would not want them to lose what I lost!
Don't worry, the vast majority of them are much to comfortable with their delusion to be convinced by you. You overestimate your ability to deconvert them.
Quote:I think I'm going through the kuber Ross model for Yahweh and I'm stuck on anger.
Be angry at those that indoctrinated you, not at reality.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
