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Associate Justice PiT
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« on: June 16, 2010, 05:38:48 PM »

     Good job. I agree with Marokai that it takes a lot of courage to shake off ideas that you feel are no longer right for you. I actually made the journey from Atheism to Christianity (or rather what my limited 13-year old intellect at the time understood to be Christianity) back to Atheism, so I think, just maybe, I might share in a tiny bit of what you have gone through.
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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2010, 07:16:34 PM »

I have to say that there was no real 'journey' except away from atheism somewhat. I remember arguing with my mother over whether there was a God or not when I was six years ago (I was a non-believer then, it is strange but many of 'my' 'attitudes' I can see are rooted in the myself that I first can remember long ago at the beginning of my conscious life... I've pretty much always had a pretty existentalist worldview... I can't explain it but that cosmology always 'made sense' to me). I didn't even realize people really believed in the Bible (as in really believed) until I discovered the internet age 13.

But I'm pretty disillusioned with Atheism now.

Out of interest what would you consider yourself ? (and I know you're not one for labels Smiley )

I pretty much hate defining myself... so you have put me on the spot. I would say I suffer from Jaded Intellectualism towards everything (incl. religion) and a manic dislike of the pseudo-intellectual puffery that is 'new Atheism' (ie. Sam Harris, Dawkins, Hitchkens, et cetera, et bloody cetera). What I am... I don't really know. I don't think I am anything... I just happen to have alot of things.

But if want me to stop being so obtuse: non-believer. In Everything.

     I actually feel largely the same way. As time goes on, the less certain I am that there is anything I genuinely believe in & the more certain that the bulk of my worldview is informed solely by my reactions against various things that I find repellant.
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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2010, 08:00:28 PM »

I have to say that there was no real 'journey' except away from atheism somewhat. I remember arguing with my mother over whether there was a God or not when I was six years ago (I was a non-believer then, it is strange but many of 'my' 'attitudes' I can see are rooted in the myself that I first can remember long ago at the beginning of my conscious life... I've pretty much always had a pretty existentalist worldview... I can't explain it but that cosmology always 'made sense' to me). I didn't even realize people really believed in the Bible (as in really believed) until I discovered the internet age 13.

But I'm pretty disillusioned with Atheism now.

Out of interest what would you consider yourself ? (and I know you're not one for labels Smiley )

I pretty much hate defining myself... so you have put me on the spot. I would say I suffer from Jaded Intellectualism towards everything (incl. religion) and a manic dislike of the pseudo-intellectual puffery that is 'new Atheism' (ie. Sam Harris, Dawkins, Hitchkens, et cetera, et bloody cetera). What I am... I don't really know. I don't think I am anything... I just happen to have alot of things.

But if want me to stop being so obtuse: non-believer. In Everything.

     I actually feel largely the same way. As time goes on, the less certain I am that there is anything I genuinely believe in & the more certain that the bulk of my worldview is informed solely by my reactions against various things that I find repellant.

The question then to ask is: Is that a sign of emptiness?

     Only if you let it be. We are where we are; if you can find fulfillment in life, then you've done well for yourself, but you can only make meaning for yourself.
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