(September 30, 2017 at 3:32 pm)Die Atheistin Wrote: A thought has just comed to my mind. My family practises religion, because imaginig that a god exists makes them feel happy. Dad is very into this thing, he makes the sign of cross every time he sees a church, he likes to talk about religion and so on. Inspite all of that, he is almost constantly nervous, paranoid and has anger issues. I'm atheist and I'm the other extreme, I have difficulties because I'm too happy sometimes. I have happy thoughts most of the time, I like to think about jokes I've heard and fiction. There are many times when I smile alone in public, though I'm trying to controll it. I laugh alot when I'm alone in my room and I also like to jump. I tell alot of jokes to my family. Sometimes I have problems to concentrate when I'm learning, but they don't occur very often , and they're very mild, almost nonexisting. I might have a mild case of ADHD if I think about it. It seems that your level of happines depends more on your personality and upbringing rather than faith.
A lot of what happens in your life depends on what you have been conditioned to believe. If you believe that there is an all-powerful being who is watching you for every alleged transgression, you would be pretty fearful and careful to not end up burning in some sort of perdition because of one slip in behavior. I was greatly relieved when I worked my way through the BS and quit religion. I'll be 65 shortly, and have only been an atheist for 12 years. I still get twinges of the old brainwashing and have a bit of concern about hell. Then, I member that it is an invention of another religion that was absorbed into Catholicism (which I was once a member of), and the concern goes away. That concern gets weaker all the time, and comes up less often. If you feel happy oftern, good for you! Don't let some religious hypocrite force you not to be happy.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
