Because I've been playing the audiobook of Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi for my wife, here's a line from Musashi's Dokkōdō, the "way of walking alone":
Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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I grew up as a Lutheran Christian in a small, conservative town—and attended Sunday School/summer Bible camp for many years—but became an agnostic after I began questioning things at 16 years old. About a month after that, I became an atheist. I've been one since... so almost 14 years.
Unfortunately, I was afraid to tell my parents, so I still went to church with my family almost every Sunday until I left at 18. I was also still effectively forced to be anacolyte/perform piano/sing in the choir/attend most other church activities. Fucking painful.
I still haven't told my parents, though, and probably never will; it'd cause more pain than anything else, sadly.
I feel you. I still go to mosque if it is because of my parents and families.
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just fly solo as a good human
The older you get, the more serious you want to take it. Being true to yourself etc.
But the more serious you take it, the harder it gets. In the end, I'm afraid it's not doable.
I don't see much difference. You're still choosing to believe in a fairy tale, you just don't like the current available stories.
I have a different perspective—I don't believe that God intervenes in anything. If there is a God/Gods, I think they simply created the universe and set everything in motion.
There is no reason why anyone has to make the same mistakes I made. There is no god. Just skip to the last step and save yourself so much agony.
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