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Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:01 pm
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How much of your life was spent believing in religion?
I was fortunate enough to not buy into it at a very young age, but I also know that the road to becoming secular is different for many. Do you feel like you lost time you'll never get back? Or do you look back and feel no regrets?
Here is a music video from my channel that relates a bit to the subject of rejecting myths to appreciate reality.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:11 pm
I technically stopped believing when I was 8 or 9 but went through the motions until I was about 13.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:12 pm
Not much. I was eleven when I figured out that these holy joes were full of shit and 13 when I packed it in for good.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:14 pm
I've never been a believer.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:15 pm
About the same. Maybe understood the concept at 4 or 5. Left at 13.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:29 pm
I believed until I was 25. It's tough to say how much a child really believes, of course, but I started to really understand what my parents were pushing me into sometime in my teenage years. Everything from then to 25 involved a lot of time wasted on religion. It sickens me to think about how deep I was into that. I wish I had been a pothead instead.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Not sure I consider my time in Sunday school 'wasted'. Considering it was Midwestern US Methodism in the 60s, I can invoke a stricter viewpoint of Christerism from personal experience than, to date, any Christer I have ever seen posting here.
I'm not 'pimping' them when I note they are not doing it right; by my upbringing, they aren't. And we all know (their) God is eternal and unchanging, so any and all that come here with a (relative to my upbringing) slacker attitude, I know sincerely from my long hours in Sunday school, (their) God is definitely pissed off with their take on His requirements for fealty and piety.
And they are therefore damned by their own dogma, strictures, rules, commandments and edicts.
Nice payoff for my investment.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
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RE: Time wasted
March 2, 2017 at 11:32 pm
The first twelve -- the last thirty-eight god-free.
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RE: Time wasted
March 3, 2017 at 12:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2017 at 1:31 am by Kernel Sohcahtoa.)
Edit.
This was a bad post on my part. With that said, I appreciate you making this thread and the meaningful replies of the other members.
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RE: Time wasted
March 3, 2017 at 12:10 am
LOL, I'll always be grateful for mom's rigid and unrelenting attitude (backed up at church too!) regarding the profound evil of remarriage following divorce. And when I was a kid, that was not an unusual sentiment. I recall 'no fault' divorce being controversial when it was being debated prior to it's legalization.
Another one of those things an 'Eternal and Unchanging' God should certainly have his panties in a wad about these days !!!!
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
