The need to believe?

[*Deidre*]

It takes all kinds.  I enjoy a good right cross to the jaw, personally.  The other half has brutal pivot in her hips too...really delivers the satisfaction.   

For that matter....who here hasn't tried naked judo?  Just what sort of uncultured savages have I found myself set in with........?

And just like that. The thread becomes sexy. 

[Der/die AtheistIn]

You definetly aren't alone in this, I know how you feel. I too was raised in a Christian home and believed all what they've told me, untill I started questioning it. I'm eighteen and will begin the last year of high school on Autumn, so I still depend on my parents. I never told my parents that I'm an atheist.
One day my father said to me that I need to pray, that praying is the most important thing, that atheists are wrong, etc.
I was an atheist at the time, so his speech made confuse about my belief.
So I asked my mother in private: "What does happen if we don't pray? Will God not help us?".
She responded :"No, but praying gives you positive energy. It's comforting to imagine that a God and angels protect you".
I thought that this statement is silly. It's like you admit it to yourself that this belief is not real and you only keep it because it's a nice thought.
Why don't we apply this principle to everything else in life? Why don't we use "Mein Kampf" instead of the Bible?
"It's comforting to think that Hitler and the Sichercheitspolizei still exist and actually take care of us, it gives us POSITIVE ENERGY! Forget the parts about the superiority of a race and the Holocaust, they're part of the past. Everyone who takes this parts from "Mein Kampf" is a lunatic who doesn't understand that this book isn't propaganda, it's for positive energy!".
The idea is, in life you need to be first of all realistic and second of all optimistic. 
Here's a link to a video about the spirituality of an atheist. It might help you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nfXfTg92E

[Ben Davis]

...and just like that, the sexy's gone again #philosophicalcoldshower

[The Grand Nudger]

Where's Justin when you need him.

[Ben Davis]

...also the thread has been Godwin'd at only 13 pages

[*Deidre*]

...and just like that, the sexy's gone again #philosophicalcoldshower

Yea, nothing sexy at all about Hitler. 

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, he was a snazzy dresser....das boots?

[*Deidre*]

Well, he was a snazzy dresser....das boots?

Even if we pretend he wasn't a raging psychopath, he looked like an awkward creeper. Which could have been his real problem, I heard he was super awkward around women. 

But, did you know Einstein was quite sexy to women back then? It must have been because of his big ...big ....BIG....


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[The Grand Nudger]

Nah, everybody back then knew that jews were hung like horses.  It's what made all the aryan women lust after them and one of the many reasons that they had to be eradicated.  
(-don't kill the messenger  )

I was talking about his clothes, Diedre...not the meatsack -in- them.  Evil never looked so good. Hell, that's why Vader cosplayed in his freetime.  jeesh. The man himself was obviously dressed every morning by an aide with questionable hetero street cred.

[mordant]

Even if we pretend he wasn't a raging psychopath, he looked like an awkward creeper. Which could have been his real problem, I heard he was super awkward around women.

It has apparently proven impossible to conclusively determine Hitler's sexual proclivities. The consensus of historians is that he was heterosexual. There's some argument that he was bisexual with repressed homosexual tendencies, that he was a coprophiliac, a masochist, or had other odd fetishes. But those threads of evidence are largely suspect, often originating in the propaganda of his political opponents and never corroborated. By all accounts he had a fairly normal domestic life with Eva Braun, and a fairly unremarkable sex life with her.

Psychologically some think he was schizophrenic; I tend to think he was a garden-variety megalomaniac and perhaps a borderline personality, and, of course, a sociopath and malignant narcissist. Possibly bipolar with psychotic features, too. That constellation of symptoms could pass for schizophrenic to casual observers, but I don't think he would have gotten as far as he did if he were fundamentally out of touch with reality. Of course the pressures of the war may have broken him down more psychologically later; his underlings tended to think he was out of touch toward the end. But that can be explained by simple denial and the need for narcissistic supply.

Fascinating figure, Hitler ... I just don't think it's necessary for him to have every possible florid and bizarre mental, emotional and sexual quirk to explain what he did. It's actually scarier that he wasn't that crazy / abnormal. Look at what Trump is doing to this country, with little more than malignant narcissism and surrounding himself with enabling sycophants.