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Title: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: AngelOfDeath on December 01, 2017, 04:48:03 AM
Hello all here, Thanks to several nice folks here for the hello/welcome already.
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: Tank on December 01, 2017, 09:12:59 AM
Hi AoD

See you've already been reduced to an acronym. If you want to change your user name just drop a staff member a PM or tell us here. People do change user names from time to time, it's no biggy.

"living as a secular agnostic/atheist to just be really grim and cold and a dead end lately,"

Well facing the truth can be like that. Why do you think our ancestors dreamed up gods in the first place? They were shit scared in a universe where they knew nothing and where nothing made sense.

You may like to read and consider this Why God? (http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8210.0)

Welcome to the forum, may you add your unique flavour to the collective  ;)

Regards
Chris
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: OldGit on December 01, 2017, 10:00:51 AM
Welcome to the forum, AoD.

QuoteI find the ideology and thought processes of living as a secular agnostic/atheist to just be really grim and cold and a dead end lately

Maybe in such a case one needs to change one's outlook rather than taking comfort from beliefs one knows to be false.
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: Dragonia on December 01, 2017, 01:30:27 PM
Welcome, Angel, I wonder what your past experience is with religion. I am always curious when someone has sentiments such as yours:
QuoteI find the ideology and thought processes of living as a secular agnostic/atheist to just be really grim and cold and a dead end lately
I look forward to seeing more of what you think!  :boaterhat:
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: Recusant on December 01, 2017, 05:02:54 PM
Quote from: AngelOfDeath on December 01, 2017, 04:48:03 AM
Hello all here, Thanks to several nice folks here for the hello/welcome already.  I won't go into great detail but I'll tell a bit.  I'm a single man in my 30s and for lack of a better way to put it I currently consider myself an "aspiring christian".  Could also be that I just need to be medicated, but in truth... that's never helped.  I've never done anything really bad in life, so I'm not looking for god to forgive me for some awful thing I might've done.  I find the ideology and thought processes of living as a secular agnostic/atheist to just be really grim and cold and a dead end lately, and that's the way I've lived for a long time.  Too many people truly do have a nature for evil, and in this modern world we are constantly bombarded with the filth and degeneracy that is popular culture.  I'm probably as cynical as anyone here about religion and organized religion, but we'll see what comes of it, even if it's not a "transformation" into a practicing Xtian.  As to "why join an atheist forum?"... could be multiple reasons, but I don't have any one good reason in mind other than i was a part of an atheist forum years ago.  We'll see what happens

Honestly I expect you aren't going to be worrying much about what anybody here thinks, nor should you. As well, it doesn't matter to me whether you decide to become a Christian or not--whatever works for you is what's important. In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy some discussions here, and maybe they'll even help you clarify your own position.

:welcome:
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: Sandra Craft on December 01, 2017, 09:59:18 PM
To also chime in on this one:

Quote from: AngelOfDeath on December 01, 2017, 04:48:03 AM
I find the ideology and thought processes of living as a secular agnostic/atheist to just be really grim and cold and a dead end lately, and that's the way I've lived for a long time.

My experience was the exact opposite.  I spent some 30 years trying to be religious, mostly because I thought I was supposed to, and giving that up for my natural attachment to reality was like coming out of a heavy, confining fog into a wide-open, sunlit vista.  Without the supernatural, everything suddenly became bigger, more cheering and vastly more interesting. 

But everyone is different.  I know plenty of people who think reading is boring, and even people who dislike avocados.  Just for example.

In any case, it doesn't really matter here.  We have other theist members (tho not so many as previously) and at least one deist so however you fall on the question, you'll fit right in.

Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: xSilverPhinx on December 01, 2017, 11:54:13 PM
Hello and welcome to the forum, AoD!

Good intro. :smilenod:

I've known few people aspiring to believe, my father among them, but I never really felt like I understood where they're coming from. Perhaps its because I have no such inclination.

It seems to me though, if I may be frank, that you're looking to add some literal magic to your life, but I'm not sure such a thing is all that wonderful. There is plenty of wonder in the universe without such magic, but I guess whether to delve into that is up to each person. As long as they don't turn into a self-righteous nasty people in the process of becoming religious or "spiritual" (whatever that is)...  :shrug: 

Anyway, whatever your outlook, I hope you enjoy posting here, and I look forward to reading some more of your perspective. 
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: AngelOfDeath on December 02, 2017, 05:51:13 AM


yes, thats a very good point...... im gonna try & figure out how to reply multiple members in one post
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: AngelOfDeath on December 02, 2017, 06:03:41 AM


It might be that that's the way to go. 



Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: AngelOfDeath on December 02, 2017, 06:18:19 AM


Ok, will add more on this later  :)
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: Tank on December 02, 2017, 07:46:05 AM
Quote from: AngelOfDeath on December 02, 2017, 05:51:13 AM
Quote from: Tank on December 01, 2017, 09:12:59 AM
Hi AoD


Well facing the truth can be like that. Why do you think our ancestors dreamed up gods in the first place? They were shit scared in a universe where they knew nothing and where nothing made sense.



yes, thats a very good point

................. im gonna try & figure out how to reply multiple members in one post

No need to do that and it also make subsequent replies difficult. Just quote and reply to individual posts. There is no limitation on data the forum uses.
Title: Re: new to group and the name is just pretty random ( and scary, lol)
Post by: AngelOfDeath on December 02, 2017, 09:03:07 PM
  ;)