(September 20, 2014 at 10:25 am)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: I don't pray. I do play little tricks on my mind sometimes though. When I was very young, I pretended that there was always a couple of evil guys having a conversation in my head, unaware that I could hear them and I would thwart their efforts to kill me every time. I used to avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks when I was a kid too. I also used to pretend I could kill people with laser beams from my eyes. There's all sorts of little mind games you can play with yourself. If I were to pretend I was praying and it was reaching some transcendent intelligence, I would probably just feel like an idiot. I think it's a good thing to allow one's self some freedom to play some mind games every once and a while. Taking that shit seriously is either delusional or schizophrenic though.
I wouldn't call these mind games, I would call this a kid playing pretend...
Quote:I used to avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks when I was a kid too.
Me, too.
Don't all kids do this?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
