No joke---enlisting is a fantastic option. You'll get some fantastic real world experience, you'll get to see the world, you wont have any rent, medical, or food expenses, and you'll go to college on the government's dime. I would recommend the Navy or the Air Force if you'd prefer a lower chance of getting shot at. I was in the Navy for 11 years, and I got to do some amazing things, meet some amazing people, and visit some amazing places. It wasn't all great, but most of it was. Seriously, there is no better way for people to experience culture shock than when you have to all learn military culture together. Everyone is going through culture shock together. You will be going through it a little more than the others, but your skin will be so thick and the freedom to be yourself will be so great that you'll be just fine.
If you are sure that your family will never speak to you again, then this is the best way to break clean without being homeless and having no purpose.
Also, if you join the military when you turn 18, you can just tell your parents unequivocally that you are doing that as an adult. You don't necessarily need to disclose that you are an atheist, do you? I don't know if that would mitigate the fallout or not.
I feel for you, man. This cannot be easy for you. Just know that it does get easier.
If you are sure that your family will never speak to you again, then this is the best way to break clean without being homeless and having no purpose.
Also, if you join the military when you turn 18, you can just tell your parents unequivocally that you are doing that as an adult. You don't necessarily need to disclose that you are an atheist, do you? I don't know if that would mitigate the fallout or not.
I feel for you, man. This cannot be easy for you. Just know that it does get easier.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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