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i grew up deep in bibleland. memorized over 800 verses as a kid, for years we did bible study 5 times a week, went to church 3 times a week, i approached my first nonchristian in public to debate them when i was 7, super familiar with elaborate theology, family were professionals

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i remember after getting out of all this and losing my faith, i felt really... idk, cheated? like i'd spent a huuuuge amount of time and effort learning the elaborate details of a world that turned out to not exist. feels like well fuck, all of that was a waste?!

7:11 PM · Aug 28, 2022

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kinda feels like being a world expert on a way more depressing version of lord of the rings (fwiw im no longer super knowledgeable on christianity, i stopped thinking much about it since i left and now im super rusty)

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Caelan Huntress

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Lots of christians stay because of the sunk cost fallacy Learning an entirely different mythology AND having to switch sides in your own debate against your former friends and family sounds exhausting

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Kai Micah Mills

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had a similar experience, afterwards decided that I was still going to get everything I was promised (eternal life, godhood) but through science instead of faith and so...

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I believe we can methodize the death problem into three major categories: prevention, extension, and ascension I've been working on a (rough draft) roadmap for immortality which you can find here: antimortality.com

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@achalaugustine

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Religion has some benefits even when those are not truly scientific or dependable. Hard work, schedule, commitment, confidence, positive thinking, trust are all good characteristic for succeeding in life.

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lol consider yourself lucky not being Jewish (in this regard). All that + learning Hebrew + Aramaic + daily bible and talmud. I'd say except for a few things it's also a really nice religion, if it were true, so there's actually a sense of loss to boot.

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Yeah totally… although not categorically different than the strange subjective worlds that pretty much everyone else takes to be reality all the way to their grave.

Mighty Matios FoucaltRespecting Berhe is

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No cap you should look into medieval logic

Thought and Ponder

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I think someone like you would find trying to understand the concepts from a psychological perspective to be very intriguing

@pacificroaming

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I had a similar path, only I spent more of my life on it. 23 years. It was the journey I had to go on. It's a "waste" compared to a magic counterfactual where I wasn't born to Christian parents. But that framing doesn't seem particularly relevant to anything, to me

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Relatable, I spent pretty much my entire "k-12" education studying Talmud to the exclusion of all else. I had no secular education beyond reading, writing, and basic arithmetic. I definitely feel cheated, but it is what it is (I'm now getting a master's in physics)