Secret Confessions

[Doomy]

[Edited Because I Fracking Can]

Welcome to the Secret Confessions thread. Beyond the pure anonymity of the internet, there lies a certain level of understanding behind all the accounts here on FF. The SC account carries burden of allowing the user to give a candid, private confession with (hopefully) understanding feedback. The SC thread is for other posters to give kind and/or helpful advice, words of empathy, or a secret of their own (under the SC name or not).

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[o0_flying high_0o]

*nods* And basically what they said again. 

 

Though, seriously, there isn't even a slight reason to be embarrassed. As I said I tried out being agnostic/ atheist for a bit, questioning things. Even if you consider the possibility of a God for a bit, doesn't make you any less of an atheist when you make up your mind. Or you might decide there is a God. 

It's not about keeping strong and firm to something, even if it doesn't sit right, it's about finding out what you do truly believe.

 

And since Lamp felt it was worth clarifying, I should probably add that my ideas don't exactly line up with those of the Pope on all matters.

[Secret Confessor]

Okay. Thanks.

[Xuut]

I'm Atheist, and pretty much my entire life I have been. My parents are... god knows what. And in my opinion, I pray because... well I want someone/thing to listen. 

 

Even if it's only hypothetical. 

 

I don't think that it makes me believe that god really exists. I think for me, it's more of a way to make myself feel a little better. I don't always have someone to tell everything to, so it's nice to have someone (in a sense) be able to talk to. 

 

If that made any sense what so ever. 

 

And if this is more, "I don't know what religion I am anymore," if your belief overlaps with a lot of other views, don't put a label on it. Yes, the labels help when someone asks you, "What religion are you?" but you don't need to one specify exactly. I'm kind of agnostic/atheist, but my view also overlaps with whatever my parents are. I also just want to remind you that being one religion doesn't define who you are. 

[Secret Confessor]

Wow. Okay. Thank you.

[EndOfTheEarth]

It's possible to not believe in god and still pray... after all, no one can run all the physics and neuroscience computations in their head in time to understand what may or may not happen 100% of the time. In that case, prayer would be an expression to yourself that you hope that probability swings your way that day (which if you think about it, is similar to religious prayer, just with physics as the decider instead of God).

[Megan (Fishy)]

I might just be really tired, but I didn't follow that at all.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Think of it like this:

Assume that you are in a plane that is suffering a severe engine fire. There are things going on that can later be reconstructed by an understanding of physics, but since you don't have the numbers, the time, and a calculator in front of you, you have no way of knowing exactly what is going to happen.

So the next best thing is probability. You assume that if the engine has caught fire, you have a 2/5 chance of surviving a crash. However, you have no way of knowing if you will be in that group, so you tell yourself that you hope that you are in that group, and admit that there are a number of things that you would do if you actually had the power to decide which side of the odds you land on.

Similarly, in faith, you still have no way of knowing that you are on the surviving side of the odds, so you pray to God by essentially doing the same thing; expressing a hope that the odds will somehow be in your favor, and using God as a power outside of yourself to address your petition to that you will land on the good side of the odds. Both are prayer, but a deity provides an external direction for a petition of change.

[Secret Confessor]

Whoa. He's going to be there. With his new girlfriend.

It's not in my nature to be stupid and girly like this, and it's not in my nature to be picky(I'm usually happy with any boy who is silly enough to like me), but the fact that this bothers me tells me that I'm not over Him. So staying with my boyfriend who, in every sense of the word, is perfect for me would be... Wrong? It doesn't make any sense. What happened to boys not liking me? I honestly think I was happier then.

[Doomy]

Chances are, you're young enough where being slightly in like with an old crush isn't a big deal ;) . I wouldn't break up with my boyfriend over that.

[Secret Confessor]

I'm a jerk obviously. Yet, people still talk to me like I didn't just insult them the other day. I'm sick of being given second chances when I don't deserve them. Just tell me you hate and I won't feel so bad about talking to you like nothing happened.

[Secret Confessor]

Is it possible to be so in love that it makes you want to cry, even if you're not the crying type?

[Megan (Fishy)]

Yep.