what age did you stop beleaving in the religion you where raised with?

[dzagama]

dupe.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

I can pinpoint the exact moment I lost my religion. Our very own Scotticus hit me up with a fact: Life is a state of disequilibrium. Everything clicked and I lost my soul. Thanks, Dr. Scotty!

Richard Feynman on Boltzmann Brains | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

I <3 fisiks.

[punk'n]

i was asked not to come back to church around 14 or 15 cos i was an evil child. i stopped believing before then but that was the icing on the cake.

[Uncast]

It was drilled into me pretty hard most of my life and leaving my former beliefs behind has been really difficult for me. It's really been just in the last year that I decided to leave the LDS church for good. It sucks when you come to that epiphany that what you've thought of as the truth for the last 20 years is bullshit and you start questioning everything you believe about life and death, right and wrong and have to start fresh from square one (well mostly. Some of that shit is pretty obvious across the board). It kinda fucks you up a bit but I hope I'm going to be better for it in the end.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by dzagama

Richard Feynman on Boltzmann Brains | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

I <3 fisiks.

Neato! I'm still on board with flucuation because it's what I'm observing and I'm more concerned with my own tangible existence than the monster universe in total. My own little inner box of black/white molecules.

However the universe does work, I feel pretty safe in assuming it doesn't run on Divine whim.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Neato! I'm still on board with flucuation because it's what I'm observing and I'm more concerned with my own tangible existence than the monster universe in total. My own little inner box of black/white molecules.

However the universe does work, I feel pretty safe in assuming it doesn't run on Divine whim.

xoxo

Still working on your PM, busy with school at the moment.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Uncast

It was drilled into me pretty hard most of my life and leaving my former beliefs behind has been really difficult for me. It's really been just in the last year that I decided to leave the LDS church for good. It sucks when you come to that epiphany that what you've thought of as the truth for the last 20 years is bullshit and you start questioning everything you believe about life and death, right and wrong and have to start fresh from square one (well mostly. Some of that shit is pretty obvious across the board). It kinda fucks you up a bit but I hope I'm going to be better for it in the end.

Friend, you made the right decision. The LDS presents a particularly bad version of Christianity. It asks you to give up your own ability to reason and self determine to the 'wisdom' of the church; which itself is built on the shakiest of foundations. By leaving the church, you have increased the likelihood that you will find the true nature of life and reality.

Happy trails.

[motownguy]

Originally Posted by Uncast

It was drilled into me pretty hard most of my life and leaving my former beliefs behind has been really difficult for me. It's really been just in the last year that I decided to leave the LDS church for good. It sucks when you come to that epiphany that what you've thought of as the truth for the last 20 years is bullshit and you start questioning everything you believe about life and death, right and wrong and have to start fresh from square one (well mostly. Some of that shit is pretty obvious across the board). It kinda fucks you up a bit but I hope I'm going to be better for it in the end.

Which begs the question:

Do you watch Big Love?

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by motownguy

Do you watch Big Love?

I do, and god damn, that cute one sure is a goer.

[wannabejew]

Originally Posted by hoshnobobo2.0

i was watching Bill Maher and he mentioned he stopped beleaving in the religion he was raised with at sixth grade, this struk me as thats when i stopped beleaving as well. so it got me thinking, could the age you stop beleaving be corilated with the age you start having rational discriminating thought?

I think I started to not believe half-way through college. It was a slow process of going from Christian (Methodist) to some from of believing in God but not attending organized church services, then to Deism, then to agnosticism and finally to atheism. Which goes over REALLY well here in the South.