NoMoreFalseCertainty Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 What happens when you realize that the god and religion you have known all your life are based on twisted, outdated myths? The thing that was your source of comfort is now causing an agonizing cognitive dissonance beyond anything you've ever experienced. You abhor the Christian God. There is no option of returning, yet you miss the supernatural comfort and certainty he provided. This quote from Nietzsche's Zarathustra sums it up poetically. No! Come back, With all your torments! Oh come back To the last of all solitaries! All the streams of my tears Run their course for you! And the last flame of my heart - Oh come back My unknown God! My pain! My last - happiness. -Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmaxmaxmax Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Wow. Those lines are gut-wrenching. This notion of holding two polar opposite emotions at the same time fascinates me. It's not unlike the love for an abuser, or sympathy for a captor as in Stockholm Syndrome. What do you think? That's another one for the reading list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereticzero Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 CPR beats prayer hands down. --HZ (It is the idea that any action beats no action, such as prayer, when it comes to saving someone's life.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingLife Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Love is real and most people can relate so the church said god is love. Sex is real and it is fun so the church regulated it, made you pay for it like a prostitute does. Theism attempts to hijack every new discovery science makes and infer it is their own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noumena Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaitingInfinity Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 "With all meekness and a calm cheerfulness, expect death." --Marcus Aurelius "They say that on the final day there will be judgment and that God will be angry, but nothing can come from the God of kindness but kindness." --Leo Tolstoy "All religions talk about themselves as the one true faith and about all others as false. This alone is enough to see that none of them are true." --Leo Tolstoy "No religion has ever preached things so at odds with reason and contemporary knowledge, or so immoral, as the doctrines of Church Christianity." --Leo Tolstoy "My religion is to love all living things." --Leo Tolstoy "When people blindly believe teachings that are presented to them as God's law, they deprive themselves of their God-given ability to reason." --Leo Tolstoy I really like Tolstoy, guys. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryper Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Somebody stop me the next time I try to argue with a Calvinist so I can go and do something more pleasant, like stick my penis into a food processor. ---- Bendy Line 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 “We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are dis-empowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”Terence McKenna 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipVanWinkle Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 The following are lyrics from a song featured in an Israeli movie entitled "FREE ZONE".I liked it. I hope you do. "My father bought it for just 2 coins, The lamb, the lamb. My father bought it for just 2 coins, As the Haggadah relates. Along came the cat And ate up the lamb, The dog choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Along came the stick To beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Then came a fire That burnt the stick That beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Then water came That quenched the fire That burnt the stick That beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Then came an ox And drank the water That quenched the fire That burnt the stick That beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Along came a butcher And killed the ox That drank the water That quenched the fire And burnt the stick That beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Then came the Angel of Death And slew the butcher That killed the ox That drank the water Thar quenched the fire That burnt the stick That beat the dog That choked the cat That ate the lamb That my father bought For just 2 coins. The lamb, the lamb. Why do you sing little lamb? Spring isn’t yet here And Passover neither. Have you changed? I have changed this year. And every evening Like every evening I have asked four questions. But tonight I have thought of another question. How long will this circle of horror last? How long will the circle of horror last? Of persecutor and persecuted? Of executor and victim? When will this madness end? What has changed this year? This year I have changed. I was a meek lamb. I have become a tiger. And a wild wolf. I was a dove, a gazelle. Today I don’t know what I am. My father bought for just two coins The lamb, the lamb. Our father bought it for just two coins And everything is starting again." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator TheRedneckProfessor Posted September 16, 2013 Super Moderator Share Posted September 16, 2013 You cannot be happy living someone else's version of your life. --TheRedneckProfessor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enlightened Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 A lot of good ones already covered. I love the quote: “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” – Donny Miller I posted that on my Facebook and several of my Christian friends and family all 'liked' it. The irony... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fweethawt Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Bloweth not thine chunks unto the womb of thy mother's bosom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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