Noah and the Ark

[SlowFade]

Originally Posted by n david

Hope that changes, else there will be a rude awakening some day.

When? When I die? I have news for you, when you die your brain shuts down and that's the end. You will no longer exist.

Unfortunately, this won't be enough...

What will not be enough? A threat intended to scare me into accepting your "god"? I have more integrity than that. This is all a big mind game wherein the players have convinced themselves of a false reality. It's like Dungeons & Dragons with offering plates.

[SlowFade]

Originally Posted by notofworks

SlowFade, I respect your position and understand how you've arrived where you are. I can't deny that I've been close. So you're understood, respected, and accepted by me.

What prevented you from accepting reality?

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by SlowFade

What prevented you from accepting reality?

I feel like I finally arrived at reality but it was a different reality than I expected. The God that religion presents was very different than the God I experienced. When I was finally able to walk away from religion, away from pentecostalism, away from mainstream Christianity, away from the God of "having church", away from a preconceived box into which God was forced to live in, I was finally able to experience Him.

But I understand your position and would hope you don't respond to the pressure religion can present...positively or negatively. They mean well, but seem to be occasionally misguided by fear and pressure.

Be well, SlowFade.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by notofworks

I feel like I finally arrived at reality but it was a different reality than I expected. The God that religion presents was very different than the God I experienced. When I was finally able to walk away from religion, away from pentecostalism, away from mainstream Christianity, away from the God of "having church", away from a preconceived box into which God was forced to live in, I was finally able to experience Him.

But I understand your position and would hope you don't respond to the pressure religion can present...positively or negatively. They mean well, but seem to be occasionally misguided by fear and pressure.

Be well, SlowFade.

I too had a similar experience to what SlowFade describes. I didn't just creep around and try to get a peek over the edge at the Abyss of Nothingness.

I plopped right down on the very cusp and dangled my feet in the inky blackness. I stared right into the Abyss.. and was startled when I had a similar experience to Nietzsche's - The Abyss stared back at me.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by SlowFade

I grew up and accepted the cold hard facts. It takes more integrety to be honest about this than to hide behind religious cliches and charades.

Your entire statement above is cliché.

You must have employed some sort of charade as well to convince yourself that nihilism is a "cold hard fact." You are simply stating a belief here. Perhaps the charade is the idea of your own "superior integrity?"

[notofworks]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Yeah. What happened to your "pray for me" outlook from just about a year ago, SlowFade?

Slowfade slowly faded.