I want to believe

[Brian37]

I'd like to believe one day Angelina Jolie will date me, but I can wish in one hand and shit in the other.

[Angrboda]

[CapnAwesome]

I also wouldn't mind believing. But I just need good evidence. Believing in an afterlife would be nice, but the evidence is severely lacking.

[Sterben]

This is gonna sound odd.  I want to be religious.  I want to be so ignorant that I can believe in a mystical creature in the sky that answers everything and assures eternal life.  Ignorance is bliss.  I am too much if a deep thinker to believe in that crap, but I am also grateful for this because the world is so much clearer.  Thoughts?


Sincerely yours,

Kb

      It's an existential crisis that is occurring in your life, anyone with an ability to understand how fucked up the world is going through it. The best way to deal with is not to address what is causing this depression. You need to find a lie you can trust to bury yourself in.

[Anomalocaris]

This is gonna sound odd.  I want to be religious.  I want to be so ignorant that I can believe in a mystical creature in the sky that answers everything and assures eternal life.  Ignorance is bliss.  I am too much if a deep thinker to believe in that crap, but I am also grateful for this because the world is so much clearer.  Thoughts?


Sincerely yours,

Kb

It’s a test of will power. Can you voluntarily hold your breath until the faculty for deep thinking asphyxiates?

[warmdecember]

It's hard to be a theist, to be in an endless loop of fear and guilt.

And then there's church. So. Much. Church.

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Yes, I was very religious until a few months ago

Losing my religion was a long and unpleasant progress. There were weeks and months that i craved The certainty i felt before, and The comfort that provided. However we can't choose what we believe and don't believe. Try to keep an open mind to this new world of yours, it might pleasantly surprise you. With enough time, it did for me.

Mine too, was a long and scary progress. Even after I had stopped believing, I feared hell so much I could never seem to make that jump to calling myself a non-believer. In my mind it was a bridge that I needed to jump and I was afraid. But when I did, it felt like a weight (burden of religion) was lifted off of me and I no longer needed that "security" of being a believer. I could never go back. You can't un-ring a bell.