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#21
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 6:03 pm
I don't know whether to laugh for you or cry for you. Realistically, it's no real loss at all, but emotionally, it's got to be kind of rough. Just keep posting, Jake. We're here for you Smile
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#22
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Hello Jacob Blush
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Rayaan Offline
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#23
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm
So if Jacob is an atheist then delete or change all of his REPS, everyone!


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#24
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 6:17 pm
I'd triple rep him if I could... just for allowing himself to question his religion. It takes balls.
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Jacob(smooth) Offline Donators
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#25
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 6:18 pm (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 6:22 pm by Jacob(smooth).)
(March 19, 2014 at 6:03 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I don't know whether to laugh for you or cry for you. Realistically, it's no real loss at all, but emotionally, it's got to be kind of rough. Just keep posting, Jake. We're here for you Smile

Thanks.

It's a bit like that moment where you realise that your parents are in fact human. Or when you realise that the love of your life is just not into you. The satisfaction of understanding the truth is subsumed by the sadness and disappointment that the world is a poorer place than you believed.

I guess it's how we grow.
(March 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm)Rayaan Wrote: So if Jacob is an atheist then delete or change all of his REPS, everyone!


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Rayaan Offline
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#26
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 8:25 pm
So I suppose that the intellectual, truth-seeking part of you has finally triumphed over your warm-fluffy-moist feelings, Jacob?

It has to be so, since the reason you used to provide for being a Christian was always based on the later.
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#27
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 8:27 pm
(March 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm)Rayaan Wrote: So if Jacob is an atheist then delete or change all of his REPS, everyone!


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What! I'd give him another one if I could.

The FSM loves an idiot who has come to his senses.

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*Deidre* Offline
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#28
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 8:29 pm (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 8:30 pm by *Deidre*.)
(March 19, 2014 at 3:57 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:
(March 19, 2014 at 2:35 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Are you really any different than what you were before, Jacob? All you relieved yourself was from truckload of bullshit.

It's hard to say. I guess I consider that I've crossed a line. I'm only an inch away from where was before so no, I'm not dramatically different. It's just that bits have been dropping off my personal theology for a while now. Today's minor epiphany was the concept of sacrificial, agape love as an evolutionary advantage. The warm fluffiness I was enjoying may thus be nothing more than my brain rewarding me for a behaviour which gives my genes benefit, by releasing fun chemicals when I think about it. What I was thinking of as special is no more so than the kick I get from sex or chocolate.

At which point what remains no longer has the cohesion to be described as Christianity.

I'm not happy about this, but there it is.

It was hard for me when I recognized that how I was feeling, couldn't be 'ignored.' And that just led to a different path. I'm happy you are exploring this, at least? I think (personally) you will be much happier as an atheist. Happy in the truest sense of the word.

But, I'm biased now. Big Grin
(March 19, 2014 at 8:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(March 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm)Rayaan Wrote: So if Jacob is an atheist then delete or change all of his REPS, everyone!


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What! I'd give him another one if I could.

The FSM loves an idiot who has come to his senses.

Gee, that has the makings of a Hallmark card. You should go work for them. :p
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#29
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 8:31 pm
(March 19, 2014 at 8:25 pm)Rayaan Wrote: So I suppose that the intellectual, truth-seeking part of you has finally triumphed over your warm-fluffy-moist feelings, Jacob?

It has to be so, since the reason you used to provide for being a Christian was always based on the later.

You are not so bad yourself.
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#30
RE: Hello again
March 19, 2014 at 9:23 pm
Welcome Jacob

I can bake some cookies if you like. Zen does a good BabyQ
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