He’s lucky, it sounds like he found out at the right time. I didn’t find out until much later and while my coping and masking skills work for a few hours, they’re exhausting to do, they make me feel like I’m lying about who I am, and I can never be relaxed around people.
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8·5 days agoThey didn’t read that far. Most of them who even start don’t even get to the “begat” sections, Genesis 5 if you start in the Old Testament and Matthew 1 if you start in the New Testament. So, the very first books of each testament.
Only if the wall is connected to the outside. If the wall is completely internal and unconnected to the outside wall, you will never get out. That’s why you should always carry bread in your pockets when you leave the house, to leave a trail of crumbs so you have something to eat when you come back to your starting point in the maze.
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These numbskulls who want the 10 commandments everywhere don’t even know what the 10 commandments are, or that there are multiple versions of them, or that basically half of them are explicitly about God, a specific God, and not the “common sense commandments” to not steal, not commit adultery, not lie. Why are they teaching children about adultery if they’re so opposed to sex ed, anyway? And the common sense ones aren’t clear, either. It’s not “don’t lie,” it’s, “don’t bear false witness against your neighbor.” They couldn’t even get that right. The dumb commandments.
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Atheism is lack of belief in any god existing, not disbelief in the possibility of a god existing. I don’t know where you’re getting that definition from, as I’ve never met an atheist who would agree with it? If you ask atheists if they are open to the idea of a god clearly intervening in the universe in any meaningful way, thus proving both their existence and their status as a god, I think the majority would say of course. Many of us would also be disappointed as those gods tend to be selfish, mean, exclusionary, and anti-nature in their treatment and expectations for humans, but we would accept it as reality.
It just seems unlikely to happen given that none seem to have done so yet. If you want to speak of a god in terms of a “spirit of the universe” or similar nebulous impersonal, non-intervening concept, that is hardly different from just believing in the teapot or unicorn, in that it will have zero influence on your life and you may as well not even concern yourself with beliefs at all. Which, coincidentally, is how most “believers” live their lives anyway - without regard to any of the supposed commandments their gods have instituted. It’s like they only believe in the idea of belief as a virtue unto itself, not the actual beliefs. And thank goodness they only go that far!
Much more likely, even. RIP Bertrand
It has its utility but I definitely agree it’s harmful in the long term. It would be nice to not have to mask to be accepted.