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RiddledWithFear Offline
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:29 pm (This post was last modified: November 12, 2016 at 3:31 pm by RiddledWithFear. Edit Reason: Forgot a word. )
(November 12, 2016 at 3:28 pm)Alex K Wrote: Religion and OCD - not good bedfellows!

Absolutely not, agreed.
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Welcome!
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:32 pm
(November 12, 2016 at 3:30 pm)Aegon Wrote: Welcome!

Thank you!
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:34 pm
(November 12, 2016 at 2:38 pm)RiddledWithFear Wrote: Hello, everyone. My name is Jacob, and I have recently left my religion. However, I am still wishing to somewhat hold on to it and am very open-minded when it comes to religion. I don't pretend to know all of the answers. Nevertheless, I have been skeptical about religion for quite a while and finally decided to break away from it. I do have a question, however.

I realize this isn't a therapy forum. Nevertheless, for quite a log time, I have had symptoms of OCD, and that may be a factor of this, but ever since maybe a day or two ago, I've been questioning morals, and I know they're obviously highly important, but I'm rambling. It's like I' subconsciously telling myself, "Well, what if we don't need them?" I had then started question specific ethics, such as murder, etc. and I try to calm myself down but that doesn't really work out. 

Anyways, I'm glad to be a part of a new community. Thanks in advance.

And you were undoubtedly a scripture cherry picker, bible buffet, fair weather Christian type, so your experience here would have been me going jihad on your slacker ass all the time anyhow.

You'll have a better time  here this way.

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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:41 pm
Didn't really understand what troubles you, though...

Welcome anyway. This is a great forum. I bet you'll fit right in.
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:42 pm
Hiya, pull up a chair.

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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:42 pm (This post was last modified: November 12, 2016 at 3:46 pm by RiddledWithFear.)
(November 12, 2016 at 3:34 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:
(November 12, 2016 at 2:38 pm)RiddledWithFear Wrote: Hello, everyone. My name is Jacob, and I have recently left my religion. However, I am still wishing to somewhat hold on to it and am very open-minded when it comes to religion. I don't pretend to know all of the answers. Nevertheless, I have been skeptical about religion for quite a while and finally decided to break away from it. I do have a question, however.

I realize this isn't a therapy forum. Nevertheless, for quite a log time, I have had symptoms of OCD, and that may be a factor of this, but ever since maybe a day or two ago, I've been questioning morals, and I know they're obviously highly important, but I'm rambling. It's like I' subconsciously telling myself, "Well, what if we don't need them?" I had then started question specific ethics, such as murder, etc. and I try to calm myself down but that doesn't really work out. 

Anyways, I'm glad to be a part of a new community. Thanks in advance.

And you were undoubtedly a scripture cherry picker, bible buffet, fair weather Christian type, so your experience here would have been me going jihad on your slacker ass all the time anyhow.

You'll have a better time  here this way.

Tongue

Maybe just a bit. Tongue
(November 12, 2016 at 3:41 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Didn't really understand what troubles you, though...

Welcome anyway. This is a great forum. I bet you'll fit right in.

Questioning the reliability of morals, I guess. Kind of sort of.

Thanks a bunch. Great to be here.
(November 12, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hiya, pull up a chair.
Will do. Tongue
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 3:56 pm
Which morals?

The prevailing view here is that morals are subjective. I, personally, define as morallly right those things that create and sustain human wellbeing and morally wrong those that create suffering. I try to navigate the world with that in mind, generally speaking.
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RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 4:00 pm
I like Zeus's morals. He got to fuck everything, guilt free. All Yahweh got was a teenage jewish princess . . .
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#20
RE: New to the Forums
November 12, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Hello, Jake.  Which particular superstition are you fleeing?
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