I come to find with being an Atheist, science and logic compliment it. No rules. Just facts. And old facts get replaced with better new facts.


There's a comfortable trust and ease there. I could read the short science article (or delve deep) and accept it knowing full well that people have rigorously peer reviewed it and can replicate it, and at this stage in time, it is the valid answer for that topic, until we improve it with better science.


Being brought up with religion, i am still trying to shake the foundations of some stuff like ghosts, spirituality, superstitions and such and just trying to reassure myself now that unless it is validated through science, i shouldn't live with the uncertainty by frying my noggin with it. Leave it to the experts. Let it be proven or ignore it.

Religion is a cult.

I too was indoctrinated as a child.

When I was 10 years old they scared the h*ll out of

me by showing me the rapture. So for a few years

I was waiting for this fake being to come fly me

through the air and take me to heaven. It truly

gave me nightmares. That was 50 years ago.

Now were being controlled with religion by our own

Government.

If they are what being in a religion is then they

can shove it

NOBODY should have to ask permission to do anything

from them. We pay them to work for us not against us.

It's a cult and I'm so glad I gave my children the

opportunity to stop going when they didn't like it.

It was before they were teenagers. So they are

normal, whatever that is. I totally believe in

Science.

Now when it comes to the Spirit World I cant shake

that. It's a very long complicated story. All I can

say is it's creepy and I think its a generational

curse.

Question;What is the difference between a generational curse and other curse??

Mine got baptised out of respect to my religious ex but that was where it stopped. they did ethics instead of bible studies at school. And i said to my ex at the time, if they wanna read that fictional book, they can do it out of their own volition as adults with a thinking brain.



A generational curse is when you might have it, then your kids, then theirs. When you are grasping straws, it can be the convenient scapegoat for you. Having said that, it is about as real as your chosen fictional deity; belief is a powerful mechanism though, good or bad.

Neighbour across our road was into bad wicca, which while growing up scared me (read: i was single digit age), but as i grew older i just realised it was all BS, or will only work if you allowed it in your life, or something. One thing i did do was convince my parents to sell then move to another location, just to get away from this bad witch.

When my parents knocked down the wooden house to replace it with brick, she put eggs on our foundations, would leave coins on our back porch, and also killed a few fruit trees from us and our adjacent neighbours.

Anyways she died sooner than expected, so f her.

Well-meaning unasked for suggestions...

1. It's impossible to think about two things at the same time. If you don't like the (scary) place you're in... go to another place!

2. You can sum up life, the world and everything in it with: **** happens and it is what it is. Everything else is ******** and everything else pales by comparison.

3. The meaning you give it, how it affects you personally and what if anything you do about it rest with you.

"There is no try, only do!" ~Yoda

Ron