Has your greatest fear ever really come true?

[CogentPhilosopher]

Have you always been an atheist, Cogent? I think that people's beliefs, what draws them to and away from different beliefs, is really fascinating.

No I haven't.

I was born into a Christian (Southern Baptist) household and was raised as that then I went to Luciferianism for less than 3 months when I was 15.

Then I went to Wicca until the summer after I turned 18. After that I was back and forth between atheist and pantheist until the mid-fall of my 18th year.

Then I became an atheist and I became a skeptic atheist a little bit before my 19th birthday and I have been one ever since. I am 19 now and I turn 20 on May 1st.

 

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

I read an article recently about fear, phobias, etc...and how often times, we consume our lives with unwarranted fears. Fear over the unknown can be cause for great anxiety, and most of the time, whatever it is we are fearing...never happens. So, has your greatest fear ever really come true? if so, how did you handle it? Did it help you to overcome your fears, in general?

I remember as a child fearing that I was the only real person.
That everybody else was just unthinking robots.
It is starting to feel more and more like that recently.

 

[Deidre]

No I haven't.

I was born into a Christian (Southern Baptist) household and was raised as that then I went to Luciferianism for less than 3 months when I was 15.

Then I went to Wicca until the summer after I turned 18. After that I was back and forth between atheist and pantheist until the mid-fall of my 18th year.

Then I became an atheist and I became a skeptic atheist a little bit before my 19th birthday and I have been one ever since. I am 19 now and I turn 20 on May 1st.

Interesting, thank you for sharing that. I left Christianity for a few years, and identified as an atheist. I returned to Christianity, but it is different for me now. This faith is my own, it's not based on ancient texts and such. So would you consider yourself to be an ''agnostic atheist?'' It's good to stay open minded, either way.

I remember as a child fearing that I was the only real person.
That everybody else was just unthinking robots.
It is starting to feel more and more like that recently.

We are all just figments of your imagination.

 

[Spiderman]

Does meditation help you?

Tremendously!

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

Interesting, thank you for sharing that. I left Christianity for a few years, and identified as an atheist. I returned to Christianity, but it is different for me now. This faith is my own, it's not based on ancient texts and such. So would you consider yourself to be an ''agnostic atheist?'' It's good to stay open minded, either way.

Yes I am an agnostic atheist. I think I was almost always an agnostic.

We are all just figments of your imagination.

I always thought that if that where the case, that I was a terrible person.

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

Tremendously!

I highly recommend focusing on that then.

 

[Deidre]

Yes I am an agnostic atheist. I think I was almost always an agnostic.

Do you believe that agnosticism is a place of knowledge or belief? I've read some interesting things about agnosticism, and how in some ways, we are all agnostics, when you think about it. If we go with the definition of it to mean ''a place of knowledge.''

I always thought that if that where the case, that I was a terrible person.

Aw, why? It might just mean you have a vivid imagination. lol

 

[CogentPhilosopher]

Do you believe that agnosticism is a place of knowledge or belief? I've read some interesting things about agnosticism, and how in some ways, we are all agnostics, when you think about it. If we go with the definition of it to mean ''a place of knowledge.''

I define it as your belief of the certainty of your position.

For example if believed that it was impossible for there to be any deities then I would be a gnostic atheist.

But since I believe that it is simply unlikely that there are any deities I am a agnostic atheist.

Aw, why? It might just mean you have a vivid imagination. lol

Well think about why we make fictional worlds with dark elements. We make them due to parallels in our world. But if my mind is all that exists, that would mean that I would be the source of all evil.

 

[Deidre]

Our minds have the capacity for the greatest good and the greatest evil, hence the essence of what it means to be human, Cogent.

 

[Aiviu]

This is so interesting. Are you afraid of dying, in general? I love sleep, but it's somewhat unnerving when we fall into a ''dead'' sleep, and wake up from the alarm in the morning, for example and it literally feels like we died and came back to life. No memory of dreams, nothing.

No, i am not. Sometimes i wish that something would take me away but in the same time i know that its not right nor is it the way it is. Most of the time I am indifferent. I dont mind who comes nor do i mind who leaves. I am happy. Even if i look as if I just dont feel happy or if i dont want them near me. Its not true but i just want to have someone near me who is not.

A dream can be remembered if you were able to store it in your mind without overthinking it too much. Just recall the feeling it triggers a bit and then lay it to rest. Most feelings are compressed events of what you've experienced. When then night comes and you rest your head on your pillow your body can give information that waken your mind and can trigger the emotion to remember. The pillow, the bed, your head and the body position, the softness, etc ... Dont think about what you dreamt. Just be in the moment to how your head is on the pillow and to what you see with your eyes. All the to emtpy you from any thoughts.

 

[Spiderman]

Our minds have the capacity for the greatest good and the greatest evil, hence the essence of what it means to be human, Cogent.

And I know I'm completely lost and sick without God and the souls in Heaven to guide and transform my hatred into love, my sorrow and depression into hope, peace, and euphoria.

God satisfies!

 

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

We are all just figments of your imagination.

I've heard that one repeated in its machine-monotone more times than I have bothered to count.
I suggest try rebooting your operating system, you seem to be stuck in a loop.

 

[Deidre]

I have a fear...of being chased by a ferocious animal of some kind when I'm out for a run or riding my bike. It hasn't happened yet, but this could happen.