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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 2:30 pm
(January 18, 2015 at 2:24 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: My experience of religion is one of boredom, feeling out of place and uncomfortable.
Like a lion in a den of daniels.
During those catholic masses my parents wanted me to attend, the lords prayer was to me a high point. It meant it was almost over, after that you eat a cookie, then get the fuck out of there, to properly play with other kids.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 2:34 pm
(January 18, 2015 at 2:23 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I can't say that I did, all that I got was some hair on the back of my head raising on some heavy metal concerts and I was once god after an LSD tab.
It's an experience, but it will fry your brain if you do it too much.
Amen. preach it! 
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 5:18 pm
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(January 18, 2015 at 4:13 am)reiemdis Wrote: Depends if you like your spouse?
Maybe I should have been more clear with the lesbian subtext  But hey, I can't bandaid that post now (been too long), and I've no reason to: you've been banned. 
(January 18, 2015 at 8:29 am)abaris Wrote: My religious experience consists of being bored rigid while sitting through mass.
It's the perfect time to enjoy some seriously cool adventures. Don't be bored... look, see... find your own fun... build your own gods.
... Kill your own gods. 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 5:24 pm
I fucked an ex-nun once. She was working as a hooker in Miami.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 5:24 pm
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(January 18, 2015 at 12:38 pm)helyott Wrote: If an orgasmus is a religious experience, then i could answer = YES.
Guess what i did.
Jumped out of an airplane with a parachute that wouldn't open, and survived?
(January 18, 2015 at 2:19 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: But those feelings aren't divine in nature. They come from me understanding how small and precious we are in this sea of stars.
Precious like rodents are precious 
(January 18, 2015 at 2:23 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I was once god after an LSD tab.
It's an experience, but it will fry your brain if you do it too much.
Thanks... but I think I'll just keep going manic when I want to godmode.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 18, 2015 at 11:43 pm
When life hands you a religious experience I say make lemonade.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 19, 2015 at 12:15 am
LSD
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 19, 2015 at 1:31 am
Yes I have had a so called religious experience and even wrote a book about it, but I wont be sharing that here.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 19, 2015 at 1:42 am
The closest I've ever had to a religious experience would be a feeling of purification after having a confession. (Do non-Catholics do those?) And then several years later I got an even stronger feeling of purification when playing Final Fantasy IV and Cecil became a paladin, so...
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 19, 2015 at 10:38 pm
Honestly, my religious experiences have consisted:
Falling asleep in Church
Being really hungry in Church
Wanting to argue with my religious sex-ed teacher, who believed homosexuality was wrong, sex before marriage was wrong, all abortions are wrong, animals won't go to heaven because they don't have souls (for the record, humans are animals, bitch)
Wanting to argue with religious teachers in general
Being quietly mad through religion class and Church
Feeling idiotic while saying prayers out loud with everyone else (because we were basically just chanting to words to an ivisible dude in the sky, you would feel stupid too)
Making up over-the-top bullshit that no one ever caught
Dicussing religion at 3:00 am with my really close friend, who seems to be agnostic as well
Finding religious and athiest forums was a sort of religious experience, or a non-religious experience
A year or two ago, realizing religion is bullshit
Gone
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