Hey I know it’s totally cheesy but you all have the strength to overcome your adversity. I believe God never gives us more than we can handle. But, even if you don’t believe in any god or any religion, I still believe that as humans we have the inner strength to persevere. I have gone through suicide attempts, bouts of mental instability, self injury, addiction, an abusive father, and I recently realized I was technically molested by my sister from the age of 4-10, I had just never thought of it like that cause she was only three years older than me and I forgot about it and never really thought about it again until recently , but it fucked me up a lil. Ive ruined so many relationships, Friends, Family, Girlfriends, to the point where I completely alienated myself. All that aside I now have been able to rebuild these relationships and form new ones. My life is constantly improving, I still struggle alot but I now know I have the strength to make it through anything. God is the strength I have found, it may be something different for you but God can save you. I know many of you have lived much harder lives than myself and probably think I’m an ignorant, self righteous, and quite vain individual. But I still hold to my belief that your life can change for the better or for the worse in an instant, and that as long as you keep fighting hard you will defeat your demons. Stay strong.
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Sorry those things happened to you. Unfortunately I don’t think imaginary friends can save me.
Totally get where your coming from. I’ll admit I’m a little offended that you would diss my imaginary friend like that though. I did my best not to force my religion on anyone through this post and really tried to make it accessible to anyone, even those who aren’t spiritual. Like I said though I get it, I don’t blame you for feeling that way. That’s why even though you feel my imaginary friend can’t help you, I feel that you can help you because you are something special. Like I said in my post even if you can’t currently find strength through religion, you still have the strength of will as a human. Peace.
What do you expect ‘feelingfunny’? This site is crawling with hopeless , suicidal , hateful atheists. I used to be like you, on this site. But bastards like these ruined that, this isn’t the place for it. You’re not going to help any of these people by trying to spread your faith, because the people who reside on this site have no faith left. After spending days, months of my time trying to help these people on this site, getting insulted and casted out for something I believe in , I finally learned they’re not worth it. You can’t save everyone. Now I just post every now and then, but never waste too much time on comments. Never even read any comments . Your post is the first one I looked at in a while, I read the first sentence, noticed you mentioned God, noticed someone commented, and I literally made a bet to myself. Some asshole just dissed this guy because of his religion. I won the bet, obviously. The world is too stupid and predictable. Ignorance at it’s finest. Anyways. See you again.
Thnx, but the point was totally not to spread my faith. Faith just happens to be what gives me strength and I specifically stated that that is not the case for everyone and thats ok. The point was to express my belief thatwe can all find that strength in something. If even one person is positively affected by any of my posts here it’s worth it. No amount of negative comments would keep me from speaking my mind because I don’t let others control my actions. Im glad you have faith, but remember all of these “awful people on the internet” deserve forgivenes from God.
Yeah, I don’t really care. Or even know what you typed. Because I didn’t read it.
Haha
I think some of the Christians here are more callous than the horrible, angry atheists. Not all of ’em. I’ve met numerous cool theists on this ‘ere site, and it’s restored my hope that theists actually read the Bible.
I hope I might become one those cool theists, because I’ve seen your posts and comments alot and can say in a way I value your opinion. Thats not to say Im not a callous individual at times, but I try to keep a level head.
My faith in The Tooth Fairy is what’s gotten me through.
People say “but Morris! Are you high? The tooth fairy? You’re being silly”.
I set ’em straight.
Listen: If it wasn’t for The Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, God, and the Invisible Purple Dinosaur Who Follows Me Everywhere I go I’d be lost. My imaginary friends give me hope. They’re real to me, I don’t have to prove their existence to you.
So what if I’m delusional? Who cares if I’m brainwashed? Freedom of religion means I can be an idiot if I want. I don’t have to listen to you annoying people with your voices of reason.
Please. Stop making sense.
Let’s all bow our heads and send up a prayer to The-Dinosaur-Who-FollOws-Me-Wherever-I-Go.
Lol can’t tell if your supporting me or attacking me. Love the delivery though, very animated lol.
I too, subscribe to the notion of a power greater than us. “Greater” simply means I don’t understand it. But with my documented I.Q. of 206 (or was that 20.6 – I can never remember) I can’t accept the theory that sometime in the past 932 giga-gazillion years some shit coagulated purely by chance in a puddle of pond scum and BINGO, life began. And then through its happenstance need to survive, it mutated through iteration after iteration and eventually became human. Like I said, things happen I do not understand.
With even more illogical thought I frequently find myself face-down in the gutter begging this “greater than myself” whatcha-hoozit to save my useless ass. Which of course, never happens. It’s just a senseless act of desperation. But most of the time I can be found screaming at the sky, cursing the whatcha-hoozit for pissing on me. Again, a senseless act of desperation.
I suppose I am one of those flawed beings that knows what faith and hope can do but am in reality too bitter to grasp it. Like crashing into a tree when I knew all along all I needed to do was take my foot off the locked-up brakes and turn the wheel. So when whatever there is out there hears my cries for help or rantings of rage the just say “Oh fuck. That joker again…”
If your open to it I would read the book of Job in the Bible. In a nutshell it’s about a man who never loses faith despite extreme hardship. No promises of glory, or even of relief of these hardships, yet he still held to his faith. People nowadays just want things to be easy, they feel they deserve happiness and that they should not have to struggle despite not doing anything to earn that. It’s good to struggle and it’s not good for things to be easy because when things are so easily obtained or achieved we forget how to appreciate the struggle.
I’ve been through it cover to cover. Read it in the original Greek and Hebrew. I know the difference between Old Testament law and New Testament grace. I know not to boil a lamb in its mother’s milk and I know Job’s loving wife got fed up with all the shit and told Job to “just curse God and die.”
I prefer my lamb roasted with a little mint jelly.
And to anyone that wants to talk shit I feel sorry that your so confused and insecure that you need to attack and belittle people or their beliefs. Your still children that are just jaded and feeling sorry for yourselves. Wallowing in negativity and self pity all to fuel the joy you get from playing the victim. Grow up and grow some balls. Get over yourselves because you are obviously majorly insecure and hungry for attention. This goes to anyone on any web forum that feels a need to hurt, belittle, or attack others. Weak people wuth weak minds.
I guess you didn’t bother to read the page that says READ THIS FIRST in bold, capital letters, eh?
We don’t allow religious stuff here. It tends to devolve into arguing, which is conducive to nothing and no one.
Do not post again on this topic.
You’re right, I didn’t care enough to read that page. It’s not my fault you are too ignorant to see that the topic was not religious. I never, “preached the gospel”. It’s about the fact that we all can find strength in something. So I’m gonna have to call this an administration fail. I’m guessing your just a bitter atheist.
I actually thought SP admins were doing a good job, but this is just stupid. He specifically stated that religion was HIS way of fighting depression and didn’t propose this to anyone who doesn’t believe in a god. This has nothing to do with preaching the gospel or spouting hate. Ridiculous. If you were to penalize anything look through the comments of this post, you’ll find enough preaching and hate there.
If you were actually unbiased you’d take posts that denounce theists and their way of life as serious as posts doing the opposite. Both are preaching and rightfully prohibited. But this post definitely isn’t.
I sincerely hope this was just some SP intern’s fail. Otherwise I’m highly doubtful about whether this website’s purpose is still to help everyone overcome their depression, not just non-theists.
You know what I hate about atheists? It takes even more blind faith to believe in the Big Bang theory than it does to believe in a creator. It’s a fairy tale just like religion. It’s designed to comfort people just like religion. Science itself tells us that’s it’s impossible for all of the life for requirements to have come together perfectly. The more we find out about our planet/universe/life the more it becomes statistically impossible to be coincidental.
Atheists are just as annoying as the bible bashing pricks that knock on my door early on weekends and want to talk about a god I don’t give a shit about.
It’s not really blind faith. Im not some brainwashed Bible thumper that was raised religously. I am a very free thinker. Im just a stoner in my early 20s and I was saved by god when I was a homeless addict in Las Vegas. I had a tangible very real religious experience and ever since then the lives of those closest to me have become so much more peaceful and fulfilling. So in my opinion it’s not exactly blind faith.
It’s all blind faith because we don’t know the truth. Believe what you want it’s all good.
I actually wish there was a dedicated section for discussions like this. I don’t think religion should be banned just because atheists can’t handle it.
And here you are, espousing your own fairy tale right now. I think that’s a human thing to do.
@Anunnaki*
How come you’re always replying to me? Piss off
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here’s what i dislike; people who say they hate atheists beacause (fill in the blank)
or people say i hate religious people because ( ‘nother blank)
another thing i dont like is ppl who feel their opinion on ANY philosophical/religious topic is so important, and so obviously right, that if you don’t agree with them whole heartedly and word for word, then they must obviously have some cognitive deficiency
i am envious of people who can find comfort in religion, i truely do wish i was one of them, hopefully someday i will be…..but regardless of where i eventually land, i feel it’s no one else’s business, n if i do feel like sharing, i would hope people that didnt share my views to at least have enough moral fiber to either say nothing at all on the subject, especially on an open forum where you’re not obligated to reply to every post, or if you feel you must, how about a simple “i respectfully disagree”
also i dont know how such plain speak got so horribly misconstrued….dude’s not talking about the road to perdition or inviting you to his church, but when you navigated the conversation towards religion….fuck yeah he spoke his mind, it’s the 1st ammendment….i guess i just dont understand why you would feel the need to mock someone’s beliefs, no matter how ridiculous you think they are….I mean, Scientologists believe whales were once space whales that brought us here to earth, and the souls of dead aliens live in volcanos…..,i “respectfully disagree” with that but i would never joke on a person for it, firsty, because if it makes you happy n it’s not hurting anyone else, who gives a fuck? and secondly, it’s none of my business and i really dont care what you believe, i’m more concerned about what kind of person you are,,,,,sorry, that was a pretty long winded rant…….brought to you by insomnia