[stahrgeyzer]

I want to testify that losing everything is painful but eventually that pain fades. I’m almost 100% empty, thankfully! Almost deleted. I grew up pentecostal christian, telling everyone in high school & everywhere about Jesus. Poor me. Lost that bad religion in mid high school due to truth seeking. I followed dozens of different teachings. To name a few, rosicrucian, eastern teachings, catholic, baptist, mormon, various small groups. All gone except my own beliefs thanks to Truth Seeking! For me truth only means trying to make sense of things, and science is the best tool, but I value personal evidence just as much as mainstream/global evidence.

I was afraid of death but that’s fading. It will be nice to never feel pain again. It’s wishful thinking to believe you'll one day be happy for eternity, heaven. Sorry People will say, "Just let then believe what they want. Don't destroy their hope." I used to believe that. They can believe whatever they want. I'm not forcing anything, but I'll offer to pull their thorn if they wish. Their hope will be crushed, and that lifetime of believing believing believing hoping hoping hoping builds up like a locomotive. That moment in this life or the afterlife, when they learn it was all man-made, a lie, they'll be crushed.

Reality is endless cycles of ups & downs. Don’t feel bad because I can testify that after a while the pain of emptiness fades, slowly, and there will be a moment in your existent when you will be no more.

If anyone has some knowledge on how to quickly become deleted then please let me know.

[MtnTime2896]

Why do you want to become deleted?

Originally Posted by stahrgeyzer

I want to testify that losing everything is painful but eventually that pain fades. I’m almost 100% empty, thankfully! Almost deleted. I grew up pentecostal christian, telling everyone in high school & everywhere about Jesus. Poor me. Lost that bad religion in mid high school due to truth seeking. I followed dozens of different teachings. To name a few, rosicrucian, eastern teachings, catholic, baptist, mormon, various small groups. All gone except my own beliefs thanks to Truth Seeking! For me truth only means trying to make sense of things, and science is the best tool, but I value personal evidence just as much as mainstream/global evidence.

I was afraid of death but that’s fading. It will be nice to never feel pain again. It’s wishful thinking to believe you'll one day be happy for eternity, heaven. Sorry People will say, "Just let then believe what they want. Don't destroy their hope." I used to believe that. They can believe whatever they want. I'm not forcing anything, but I'll offer to pull their thorn if they wish. Their hope will be crushed, and that lifetime of believing believing believing hoping hoping hoping builds up like a locomotive. That moment in this life or the afterlife, when they learn it was all man-made, a lie, they'll be crushed.

Reality is endless cycles of ups & downs. Don’t feel bad because I can testify that after a while the pain of emptiness fades, slowly, and there will be a moment in your existent when you will be no more.

If anyone has some knowledge on how to quickly become deleted then please let me know.

I hope my comment in another thread isn't what sparked this. I certainly would NEVER tell someone what to believe. I simply state what I believe and then let them decide for themselves. IE: I truly believe if a person is "Born-Again" (accepted the Holy Spirit of Jesus into their hearts) when they die, they will NOT go to hell on judgment day. If a person is NOT "Born-Again", then they WILL go to hell on judgment day. Nothing more, nothing less.


It is another person's right if they reject that. Voltaire once said, "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I would defend with my life your right to say it".


Furthermore, I agree with you about "religion". I hate religion. I tried several denominations growing up and have now come to realize they have all, more or less, strayed away from what Jesus really wanted. They have become more of a "hierarchy" than anything else. They are a dog and pony show, in my humble opinion. Specifically the pentecostal Church. I also do not adhere to the belief that a "book" is the "inerrant, infallible Word of God". I reject that with everything in me. The Holy Spirit is not "contained" and/or "limited" to a book written by imperfect men.

Lastly, I believe if a person says they "used" to be a Christian, then they never were; because "once saved, ALWAYS saved".


Again, these are my beliefs and anyone may agree or disagree.

[stahrgeyzer]

Originally Posted by Só leigheas

Why do you want to become deleted?

Why do I not want endless cycles of pain & joy? Because I don't like pain, and therefore I think reality is a tragedy.

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."

I believe this attitude is ...helpful?

[stahrgeyzer]

Originally Posted by StarGazer28

I hope my comment in another thread isn't what sparked this. I certainly would NEVER tell someone what to believe. I simply state what I believe and then let them decide for themselves. IE: I truly believe if a person is "Born-Again" (accepted the Holy Spirit of Jesus into their hearts) when they die, they will NOT go to hell on judgment day. If a person is NOT "Born-Again", then they WILL go to hell on judgment day. Nothing more, nothing less.


Is is another person's right if they reject that. Voltaire once said, "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I would defend with my life your right to say it".


Furthermore, I agree with you about "religion". I hate religion. I tried several denominations growing up and have now come to realize they are have all, more or less, strayed away from what Jesus really wanted. They have become more of a "hierarchy" than anything else. They are a dog and pony show, in my humble opinion. Specifically the pentecostal Church. I also do not adhere to the belief that a "book" is the "inerrant, infallible Word of God". I reject that with everything in me. The Holy Spirit is not "contained" and/or "limited" to a book written by imperfect men.

I used to believe exactly what you said above. I gave up on the majority what's printed in the christian bible of 66 books long ago because of well known academic facts. So then I limited my beliefs to just Jesus, the holy spirit, God, and a few other things but I could not hold that faith very long because I'm a high degree truth seeker by nature. It's contradictory to say a God is all powerful and knowing and loving but would create biological beings knowing full well given the very nature of our biological makeup that we would have critical thinking skills and therefore reject such a God, and therefore said God would even allow souls he created to be tortured for eternity in a lake of fire. Sorry, but that is 100% absolute sick nonsense. Even the majority of humans have enough compassion to not torture criminals. Then again, there's nothing criminal about humans requiring a "God" to at least give some rational evidence. There's nothing criminal about being an "unbeliever." I find is sick to even believe God would sentence or even allow living beings to be tortured in a lake of fire for eternity. Pure evil. Believe whatever you want. I prefer trying to find the truth over finding some faith to make me feel comforted.

Originally Posted by StarGazer28

Lastly, I believe if a person says they "used" to be a Christian, then they never were; because "once saved, ALWAYS saved".

Yeah, just like the "prophets" at Z3 news say that if a prophecy fails then it was of the devil and if it comes true it was of God. smh. That's called religious bondage. They have plenty of ways to keep people from leaving the faith. They also tell you to stick to faith no matter what. Faith means you trust without the need for evidence. Good way to fall in bondage. You have no clue of my past and all the countless times I spent kneeling at my bed with tears in my eyes praying to Jesus to heal me and save me. How dare you tell me I was not a Christian.

[stahrgeyzer]

Originally Posted by 2ISAB

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."

I believe this attitude is ...helpful?

I believe that's what cold hearted gangstas say before they pop you one lol. Yes, even back then the long bearded middle eastern religious domineering males had some pretty sick alters / inner-voices.

From pulp Fiction

But times change. I think change is scary, but exciting.

Pleasantries

[stahrgeyzer]

Originally Posted by 2ISAB

Pleasantries

Where doeth thou find such undocumenteth emojis? Or hast my eyes forsaken me?

Originally Posted by stahrgeyzer

Where doeth thou find such undocumenteth emojis? Or hast my eye forsaken me?

Hahaha
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Originally Posted by stahrgeyzer

Where doeth thou find such undocumenteth emojis? Or hast my eyes forsaken me?

Correction:
Android - nougat 7
HTC One M9

[CeliaA]

The more truth you try to seek the more hurt and confuse you will get . Live simply and child like . Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”.

[stahrgeyzer]

Originally Posted by CeliaA

The more truth you try to seek the more hurt and confuse you will get . Live simply and child like . Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”.

If that were true then academic scientists would be the most unhappiest people on Earth, by a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong shot. I've worked with plenty and talked to thousands on forums, but they seem pretty happy to me. According to surveys that actually ask people, "Hey, how happy are you?" christians are amongst the unhappiest. Bhutan, a country that has one of the highest percentage of Buddhist has the happiest people. A University that does brain scans confirmed this. Even when Buddhist were not meditating their brain scans showed evidence of being the happiest.

I would never stop seeking truth. It's help me more than anything. Why in the world would you want to tell people to not seek truth is beyond me. That sounds like the words of the devil lol.

[stahrgeyzer]

I'm not a Buddhist, but I love meditation because it's helped me more than any other tool (excluding science / truth seeking), and I have to admit a lot of their teachings are amazing. Albert Einstein said a lot of great things about Buddhism.





Dogma - a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Abrahamic religions are dogmatic religions. If you question them, then the religion claims you're going to hell to be tortured for eternity.

Buddhism is a dharmic religion, not to be confused with dogma. In Buddhism, dharma means "cosmic law and order", and is also applied to the teachings of the Buddha.

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