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November 8, 2011 at 11:07 pm
For those who have never spent years in a religious fog you might not know what it's like to wake up from that fog. Just today I posted this to a friend of mine who shucked his fundamentalism a little while ago (code name waking up from the matrix). I'm not an emotional person so this is as mushy as it gets.
well I'm still in a fog. Sometimes my mind drifts away to thoughts on god and I think that this will all blow over soon. I will go back to what has always been. Then I wake up.
Oddly the more the fog lifts the happier I become. I don't have to hate anyone but myself or blame anyone but myself for anything that has happened in my life. My life is my own. The problem with a god is that if he pisses you off you can't throttle him and you can't make him change or understand your point of view because, of course he doesn't exist. you just have to accept some fucking bullshit purpose that you will never know the reason for. Knowing that a god doesn't exist is an odd feeling old habits die hard but the more it dies the happier I feel. Yeah life!
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
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November 8, 2011 at 11:12 pm
God is an unnecessary evil and delusion. Yeah life!
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November 9, 2011 at 2:14 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2011 at 2:20 am by Voltair.)
Right there with you I recently chucked the good ol Godbear out the window too... It is hard for me to not think/argue against the idea every day >.<.
It will help when I am no longer at a religious school and I think I will be getting happier soon. How long have you quit the "kool aid"? oh and yeah life!
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November 9, 2011 at 5:23 am
Kudos to all who go trough the struggle. You will eventually be free of the anxiety(?), for me it took only one day 
Life is pretty neat, isn't it? Especially when you have your eyes open 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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November 9, 2011 at 11:23 am
(November 9, 2011 at 2:14 am)Voltair Wrote: Right there with you I recently chucked the good ol Godbear out the window too... It is hard for me to not think/argue against the idea every day >.<.
It will help when I am no longer at a religious school and I think I will be getting happier soon. How long have you quit the "kool aid"? oh and yeah life!
I've been a fundie for 30 years. The kool aid runs deep in my veins. My deconversion has taken years and a lot of study. I can say that I officially quit the kool aid a few weeks ago. Sooner or later you've just got to face the truth.
It's odd, when I was a fundie the common belief was that sometime who left the faith was supposed to be deluded,, angry, bitter, sad, or just rebellious. While I admit the fundamentalist vortex (resembling something like a flushing toilet) can be demeaning, and when friends and family back away from you this can be upsetting, but if they didn't do this then that stress would be eliminated -problem solved.
It's odd. Technically i'm a rebellious sinner because I no longer "follow god" (follow the so called leadings of a so called being). From 30 years of fundieism I can safetly say that the majority of "following god" involves doing what your pastor/religious leader says you ought to do. A pastor who knows as little about this "god" as you do. So technically both a pastor and I are rebellious sinners because we are on equal terms. How can you truthfully follow what you don't truthfully know? I digress. I love ironies. I find them to be very funny, and I have been finding a lot of them lately (go figure, lol).
To religion I remove my belt and take a bow....in the other direction. The sun has set on my religion and the moon has risen.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
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November 9, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Ah I was a kool aid drinker until about 3 1/2 months ago. My group was called "Church of Christ" so they were all about studying your Bible and following it to a T. They ripped things out of context etc but hey there you go... With me Christianity was supposed to be about loving other people and saving them from Hell so... yeah.
Ironic isn't it? We were supposed to save people not really from themselves but from the wrathful God. He was the source of the whole problem in the first place... madness ugh.
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November 9, 2011 at 3:39 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2011 at 3:41 pm by Ziploc Surprise.)
(November 9, 2011 at 2:58 pm)Voltair Wrote: Ah I was a kool aid drinker until about 3 1/2 months ago. My group was called "Church of Christ" so they were all about studying your Bible and following it to a T. They ripped things out of context etc but hey there you go... With me Christianity was supposed to be about loving other people and saving them from Hell so... yeah.
Ironic isn't it? We were supposed to save people not really from themselves but from the wrathful God. He was the source of the whole problem in the first place... madness ugh.
Total madness.
(November 9, 2011 at 5:23 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Kudos to all who go trough the struggle. You will eventually be free of the anxiety(?), for me it took only one day
Life is pretty neat, isn't it? Especially when you have your eyes open
One day only? Is there some sort of mechanical process you know of or must I wait on the weathering effects of time? Ugn! lol
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November 9, 2011 at 6:12 pm
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You recently deconverted atheistS should celebrate with some debauchery. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll is what being an atheist is all about.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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November 9, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Quote:Knowing that a god doesn't exist is an odd feeling
I prefer a more naturalistic view on life. I don't need the acceptance of "god" to feel that I'm a human being, despite what some people say. If anything, all I have to do to deny the existence of god is to take a quick look at my surroundings for a brief second to declare that there is NO god (which goes vise versa for some people). God was solely based on misunderstandings to how the universe operates, which bring me to say that it was man made.
Science overpowers superstitious beliefs.
Religion is like a Penis, you shouldn't whip it out in public and you shouldn't shove it down your child's throat.
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November 9, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Congrats guys, you've started using the intelligence that evolution gave you.
Now if we can just get Statler and G-C and the rest to do the same 
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