Jason the Rationalist
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You're already aware how much you can miss out on, all the way to an awkward 80% Christian populated funeral. And everything before that. You're American right? Yeah most people you know are pretending to love God. That is very frustrating. It makes me want to grab people and shake the God out of them. Wow I'm sorry you have to deal with that all day. I know of only one solution, and trying to give it doesn't mean I don't understand. I understand what you mean. And nah.
I don't know how someone would "know" that someone else was pretending or not. The person him or her self would know.
I can't recall ever having felt awkward at a funeral and I've been to a number of religious and non-religious ones. The non-religious one felt like a celebration which I think is wonderful. Difficult not to feel at least a bit sad though regardless.
I'm sure people pretending they don't struggle with God can be happy but the struggle itself can be a huge depression. Then there is the void that can't possibly be filled without totally lying to yourself. The sinking darkness that comes when we become adults and start to age can't be avoided, and the only way to deal with it is through distraction. A potent distractor can take a lifetime to find and by then it is too late anyway. That can cause the blues. Then the reality that everyone else is in a trance, oh man what a bummer. There really is no choice and it doesn't matter anyway, if nobody else understands. To know just a handfull of people you think understand just makes the whole party miserable. Forever. Incompleteness, frustration, suffering that builds with each pointless day and an anticlimactic end - when Christians read a few good words about you and then forget you ever lived. An intense feeling of falling every other moment, when reality passes through you without taking you with it. There is no use to fight unless you like to suffer. Some start to believe that suffering is the only source for feeling. They may be right. Reality is based on convincing yourself that things that are not there, are there. There would be no reality at all, if we instinctually couldn't do this. FULLY enjoying reality requires presto same trick.
I don't know what this struggle is that you speak of. I don't have a problem saying "I don't know" when I'm in the position that I don't know. I spend a fair amount of time being intrigued by reality and the universe, captivated. Whether its religious or non-religious people talking about me wouldn't be an issue since I would be no longer. Again I don't know what this feeling of falling is. It sounds like you are projecting. Reality is a projection of some kind? Its very involved if it is, simultaneously beaming.
Yeah I agree, and that is kinda what I was talking about. We're all stuck, going nowhere. We're dying. When we die we'll be so self deluded and pathetic. It is just a matter of what we delude ourselves with, and how it rhymes with our culture and what we want to have. Not to sound like a downer or anything, but all in all there is no use fighting. We should cling to the strongest rock we are whipped by in these rapids. And then convince ourselves we're doing something meaningful until we are dead. So considering all that you can agree now I'm sure.
As soon as we are born it can be said that we are dying. Given a limited time it behoves us to find out as much as we wish to. This may take us in many different directions. Agree with what exactly? I should start believing what you believe? I'm trying to find something that I would wish to subscribe or gravitate to in your posts and I can't.