IsmailaGodHasHeard
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I am just curious because I have never been an atheist before.
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What is it like to be an atheist?
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doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Pretty much the same as anything else. You believe in the things that seem real to you and you don't believe in the things that don't seem real to you. When it comes to god/gods, you probably do know how it feels. Just like atheists you probably don't believe in the vast majority of the deities in which other people profess belief. Atheists simply believe in one less deity than you do. 
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
You're a human. It kind of feels like that.
Splarnst
Active Member
I can only speak of my own experience, but it's been good for me. There's no one out there watching me, for better or for worse. In my own case, it's definitely for better since I never felt God helped me—everything happened exactly the way one would expect following cause and effect—but I was always afraid God would toss me into hell for not following his rules exactly.
I don't so much like being an atheist as much as I do being an apostate.
I don't so much like being an atheist as much as I do being an apostate.
What exactly do you mean by this? In broad terms I think Gjallarhorn got it right and I think unless you are more specific that's as good as you can really get.
It seems pretty darned good to me.
- Sleep in on Sunday
- Can eat pork, beef, shellfish, etc.
- No dogma to study or remember.
- No tithing.
- Darwin, Satan & Dawkins don't scare me.
- Life seems meaningful enuf without any book telling me what the meaning is.
- I can wear immodest loud clothing.
- My discussions with believers are less rancorous than between believers of different faiths.
- Best secret handshake ever.
- We get all the religious holidays.
- Sleep in on Sunday
- Can eat pork, beef, shellfish, etc.
- No dogma to study or remember.
- No tithing.
- Darwin, Satan & Dawkins don't scare me.
- Life seems meaningful enuf without any book telling me what the meaning is.
- I can wear immodest loud clothing.
- My discussions with believers are less rancorous than between believers of different faiths.
- Best secret handshake ever.
- We get all the religious holidays.
Sometimes I believe I'm awake.
Not that I recall.Did you ever believe you were athiest when asleep?
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Other than the breathing fire and eating babies, we are pretty well ordinary folks.
Seriously though, when you don't have a god to answer to or plead to, it makes you more responsible. You quickly understand that there is no one to blame. It's a very liberating feeling and helps one understand that life is very much what you make it.
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Can you imagine watching a beautifully colored butterfly fluttering from flower to flower in your rose garden while you lay watching from a hamock on a cool late summer evening while the sun slowly sets painting a colorful landscape against the clouds. You son then comes out hugs you and tells you he loves you.
Pretty much like that every day.
Pretty much like that every day.
Banner
Member
doppelgänger;2603372 said:Pretty much the same as anything else. You believe in the things that seem real to you and you don't believe in the things that don't seem real to you. When it comes to god/gods, you probably do know how it feels. Just like atheists you probably don't believe in the vast majority of the deities in which other people profess belief. Atheists simply believe in one less deity than you do.
I was about to post something similar to this....
...then I remembered I'm technically not an atheist. Yikes perhaps I need to reevaluate by position.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
It's fairly debatable if I'm an "atheist" too.I was about to post something similar to this....
...then I remembered I'm technically not an atheist. Yikes perhaps I need to reevaluate by position.
Though I think I can be. Some members disagree.
Agnostics are weak atheists.
Atheists are strong agnostics.
We be good.
Atheists are strong agnostics.
We be good.
It should feel normal and like everyone else. And it usually does. Sometimes it feels repressive... Atheists in the USA try to fight against being repressed and abused but tides go in and tides go out and we can't explain that.
Banner
Member
doppelgänger;2603700 said:
Haha well on the other forum I frequent, the atheists tell me I am one of them so I occasionally identify myself as one depending on who I am talking to... But deep down I think I probably am not one. So yeah... I suppose I like the fence well enough.
To clarify, I usually identify myself as an atheist with theists since I pretty much am one as far as they are concerned. But I call myself agnostic with atheists. And... Tmi... Boring tmi at that lol.
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Banner
Member
Pretty much yeah.
Then why not just say Atheo?