To all the atheists on SPW

[Dionysus]

Never posted a thread before, figured I would start at the best place. Ive lifted the burden religion held on me as a child, (never was a real catholic, but i made the assumption like all others that god existed) but i still feel that nihilistic emptiness where i feel nothing has no purpose, not even my life. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like they're in a sort of purgatory on earth or a null state, where you don't have the will to live, yet you don't have the courage to kill yourself? (because this is the one and only life i'll get)

 

[Nack]

Same feeling, my families have their own beliefs, which I don't agree with but have to live with it. In terms of courage in killing oneself, not in my agenda. But if say I was to jump in front of someone to take a bullet, i would gladly.

 

[Dionysus]

heh i've actually converted my mother , and my father never really believed in christianity anyway (which makes me wonder why he didn't impose that belief upon me). I just ask because my SA came from my depression and i feel like i'm battling 2 obstacles at once. Everyone tells me I think way too much, but if I had never encountered some of the writings I now love, *coughNietzschecough*, then maybe I would be happy, but yet in a superficial naive sort of way..and I don't think thats true happiness.

 

[Scrabbl]

Everyone tells me I think way too much, but if I had never encountered some of the writings I now love, *coughNietzschecough*, then maybe I would be happy, but yet in a superficial naive sort of way..and I don't think thats true happiness.

I used to have gone thru a phase like that too.. but then I realized that i'd much better off if I chose to believe things that made me happy & if I repressed all the other thoughts that made me unhappy. Basically I become more optimistic - by choosing to focus on the bright side of things only, even tho it may not be the whole truth.

Beleving in god makes people happy, but I still can't bring myself to believe in it.. it's just too much in contradiction with my other beliefs

 

[TheWall]

Never posted a thread before, figured I would start at the best place. Ive lifted the burden religion held on me as a child, (never was a real catholic, but i made the assumption like all others that god existed) but i still feel that nihilistic emptiness where i feel nothing has no purpose, not even my life. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like they're in a sort of purgatory on earth or a null state, where you don't have the will to live, yet you don't have the courage to kill yourself? (because this is the one and only life i'll get)

Pretty much exactly how I feel.

 

[Banvard]

We make our own purpose - through religion or through none belief. If you believe you have no purpose in life, you are giving yourself a purpose to think that way.

"I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain

 

[iamthenra]

Never posted a thread before, figured I would start at the best place. Ive lifted the burden religion held on me as a child, (never was a real catholic, but i made the assumption like all others that god existed) but i still feel that nihilistic emptiness where i feel nothing has no purpose, not even my life. I was just wondering if anyone else feels like they're in a sort of purgatory on earth or a null state, where you don't have the will to live, yet you don't have the courage to kill yourself? (because this is the one and only life i'll get)

WOW, you took the words right out of my mouth! Purgatory on Earth, yep I know I have said that before....