After freeing ur mind of gods/religions do u ever wonder how u could have

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fell for it in the first place ? I'm embarrassed and even a little ashamed that it took me so long to see through the bs because is so clear
 
Perhaps what you believe freeing your mind is actually trapping your soul? I am sad that you have lost the courage to believe in something you can't prove.
 
No,

It is what I was raised with, it is what my family and everyone else I knew, believed.
 
It is no mystery to me at all. I trusted my parents with my life and accepted everything they told me as fact. But, eventually, I realized that my parents, while having the best of intentions for me, could be completely mistaken about some of the things they believed to be true.

It was a humbling thought, to extrapolate that experience to realize that my own children would eventually figure out the same thing about me and my wife. For that reason, I tried to be humble and not exaggerate my certainty about anything as I was raising my own children.

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John Popelish
 
Heck yes! I was a Jehovah's Witness for 50 years. I was born into it and basically wasted my life. I actually began to "lose my religion" when Armageddon, or the end of the world, didn't come in 1975 as the Witnesses had predicted.

And yes, they said it and if you want I can put up quotes from their literature to prove it.

I do feel stupid. I stayed, although it was half hearted, until 2000. What a moron I was. Glad to out. I have a whole new sense of freedom.

Incidentally, many Witnesses still talk to me and a lot of those are disillusioned and know it's not the truth, but they hang in for the same reasons I did, family, friends and fear of disfellowshipping (excommunication) and the shunning that brings. But it's been ten years now and it never has bothered me.

I am only angry at myself for being so stupid.
 
Yea. We were all children at one stage. We could almost believe anything. It just seemed like the "obvious". It was only when a teacher said she doesn't believe in luck that made me realise how dumb I was
 
embarrassment is nothing compared to the hatred you have believing there is no god and so many people smarter,stronger,richer,...
hatred of this injustice and our useless ongoing through life...
 
Well looking back and remembering when i believed in Santa Claus, Its not that hard to believe. As for why though, we had questions, parents had answers.
 
You will find at the end of your life that the period of time you believed was very short. And the period you were an atheist very empty.
 
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