spider
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Hi,
:yoshi: <--- oh wow, that's an awesome smiley.
Ahem... sorry... to the business of introducing myself.
Uh...
Okay, I'll just go right to the relevant stuff. God. Theology. I used to be Catholic. Not just like once-a-year-or-when-things-go-pear-shaped Catholic, though my family was/is like that. More like praying every night before bed, and freaking out about the end of the world like it was going to happen tomorrow.
Anyway, as I grew up, became bolder, more independent, I started to become less anxious and paranoid about things , and had no excuse to hide away from examining my beliefs in a rational way. Unfortunately for my faith, it meant I gradually stopped believing and thinking that way.
Then I was just in the no-mans-land of some sort of deism for a bit, while I (deleted) around with other things and didn't think about it much. Then I felt like I needed some kind of label to replace being Christian, and was a neopagan for a bit, but I was just going through the motions, not really believing in the supernatural so to be honest I had to just be nothing, an atheist.
I thought that was a transitional phase to something else, but the more I looked for answers and other such clichéd things, the more I just reinforced the idea that maybe I didn't need to believe in anything more than what I can grasp here in this reality. I did flirt with Buddhism for a bit, and still read about it, but only as philosophy, and it doesn't seem to change the fact that I don't believe in a god, not the gods I've had presented to me so far.
However, it makes no sense to rest on my laurels like I know everything, so I've lugged my agnostic atheist pinko butt here to talk to people who won't all agree with me, because disagreement seems to wake my brain up a lot more than hearing variations on the theme of my own opinions echoed back to me.
Oh and also to abuse your smileys. :yoshi: each: :sheep: :luigi: :bowser: K: :toad: :jump: :mario: :execute:
:yoshi: <--- oh wow, that's an awesome smiley.
Ahem... sorry... to the business of introducing myself.
Uh...
Okay, I'll just go right to the relevant stuff. God. Theology. I used to be Catholic. Not just like once-a-year-or-when-things-go-pear-shaped Catholic, though my family was/is like that. More like praying every night before bed, and freaking out about the end of the world like it was going to happen tomorrow.
Anyway, as I grew up, became bolder, more independent, I started to become less anxious and paranoid about things , and had no excuse to hide away from examining my beliefs in a rational way. Unfortunately for my faith, it meant I gradually stopped believing and thinking that way.
Then I was just in the no-mans-land of some sort of deism for a bit, while I (deleted) around with other things and didn't think about it much. Then I felt like I needed some kind of label to replace being Christian, and was a neopagan for a bit, but I was just going through the motions, not really believing in the supernatural so to be honest I had to just be nothing, an atheist.
I thought that was a transitional phase to something else, but the more I looked for answers and other such clichéd things, the more I just reinforced the idea that maybe I didn't need to believe in anything more than what I can grasp here in this reality. I did flirt with Buddhism for a bit, and still read about it, but only as philosophy, and it doesn't seem to change the fact that I don't believe in a god, not the gods I've had presented to me so far.
However, it makes no sense to rest on my laurels like I know everything, so I've lugged my agnostic atheist pinko butt here to talk to people who won't all agree with me, because disagreement seems to wake my brain up a lot more than hearing variations on the theme of my own opinions echoed back to me.
Oh and also to abuse your smileys. :yoshi: each: :sheep: :luigi: :bowser: K: :toad: :jump: :mario: :execute:
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