Count Dookkake
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Any of you dudes who changed from religion to atheism ever take a look at your old posts in lol-religion threads?
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Deep-seated beliefs you once held, but changed
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Used to believe I want to wait for love and marriage before I would have sex.
Now...I really wish I could live through college again.
Now...I really wish I could live through college again.
Count Dookkake said:
Oh man, my posts older than 3 years are absolutely insane. Religious, hard right libertarian, believed that vitamins were so damn healthy. Cringe worthy.
Not to insinuate that people that have those beliefs are beneath me. If anything it shows me how much you can change. People can believe crazy things. I'll probably look back an think some of my current beliefs are crazy, but at least they are arguable today based on today's evidence.
GameplayWhore
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I believed that it was important to fall in love and start a family so I could continue the family line.
Now I just like having friends and sex.
Now I just like having friends and sex.
I'll probably have some sort of gland do something weird in a few years, then I'll be all about having a baby.
Angry Fork
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Choosing to be catholic after being agnostic makes no sense. (Believing in religion in general makes no sense but especially after you already had the opposite stance)bill gonorrhea said:
Being liberal has nothing to do with age or 'accepting reality' or whatever. People get selfish as they get older and toss the worlds problems for the younger generation to handle, then they toss them off to the younger and nothing gets done because they're too busy doing generic home depot weekend shopping type shit. It's just really contemptible.
And married with 2 kids is one of the more annoying things couples do (nothing against you for this it's just something that irks me for some reason) I hate watching people do boring everyday shit all their life, it's like wasted potential. Then they get fat, go to work, come back have a beer watch TV put the kid to bed etc. and do that 5 days a week, then the weekend they fix up things around the house and so on. Probably have their wife telling them what to do. It's just sad to me (in my opinion at least).
Dark Stalkers
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I used to believe that I could become a god.
Atramental
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When I was still a lurker I was religious but around the time I got my account activated I was a newly hatched atheist.Count Dookkake said:
Funny how that worked out.
- Was once libertarian, am now social-liberal (technocratic flavour).
- I used to believe that there is a way to live on forever, now I'm getting more and more convinced that nothing can be eternal.
- Used to be a human supremacist and eat other animals, I'm now a vegetarian and understand that sapience in any shape is beautiful.
fredrancour
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I was very passionately anti-religious as a child but eventually I decided being passionately athiest/antireligous involved just as much bullshit blind devotion as subscribing to any other religion or philosophy wholeheartedly and I burnt out and now am an apathetic athiest who finds passionate atheists and evangelical religious people equally annoying.
toxicgonzo
Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
Angry Fork said:
You know, maybe, just maybe, this thread would serve a better purpose if people could just say what they believe without having to worry about this sort of commentary.Angry Fork said:
I used to believe there was hope for the human race and that we'd somehow find a way to evolve socially and mentally and leave the ages greed, hate and self destruction behind us and that we'd find a way of living sustainably on this planet and not totally fuck it up for future generations. I no longer have these beliefs.
ReBurn
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The older I get the more liberal I become. I still have a long way to go to be fully indoctrinated. I had a chip on my shoulder because I had to work so hard to overcome the circumstances of my youth so I thought that's the way it was supposed to be and I judged everyone else by my view of life. But now I see that there are people who, no matter how hard they work, still need help to overcome their circumstances. There are people who have it worse than I did, which is pretty bad, and can't do it on their own.
I used to think everyone should have to claw their way through college like I did, but I would like to see the US provide taxpayer supported trade or university education at state schools like we do primary education.
I used to think that taxes on business caused higher unemployment. Now I know that corporations will abuse the tax system to increase profit while still cutting jobs.
I still believe that personal initiative is important and that the system should reward success, but only if your accomplishments merit the reward. You should be able to enjoy the fruits of hard work. But not at the direct expense of others.
I used to think everyone should have to claw their way through college like I did, but I would like to see the US provide taxpayer supported trade or university education at state schools like we do primary education.
I used to think that taxes on business caused higher unemployment. Now I know that corporations will abuse the tax system to increase profit while still cutting jobs.
I still believe that personal initiative is important and that the system should reward success, but only if your accomplishments merit the reward. You should be able to enjoy the fruits of hard work. But not at the direct expense of others.
Angry Fork
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he asked me why I said his was the worst one so far, I was explaining.toxicgonzo said:
Angry Fork
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There will be imo, I don't know if it'll happen in our lifetime but nanotechnology will be among humanities greatest efforts once it starts being used to repair organs and the like. It may not be forever either but I definitely think we'll be able to extend our years in the future.Shanadeus said:
edit - my bad I meant to edit this in my previous post but posted accidentally -_-
Shanadeus said:
Living forever is a tough call given how long 'forever' is.
But ratcheting dramatic life extension that would allow for a magnitude increase in life span... is the 'immortality' that most would be seeking.
i.e. cessation of death through natural internal biological causes
I'm still pretty confident in the exponential growth of computing interacting with various branches of medical sciences will help to push the boundary of life extension ever further - so that it'll be the crest of a wave that we can't quite catch up to... for a long time.
But I'm not heavily read up on the field.
Captain Sparrow
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- Catholic -> Athiest
- Believes people earned the jobs they have -> Omg, everyone is retarded, and not just politicians.
- Marriage was a good idea for everyone -> Marriage is a terrible idea for 90% of society
- College guaranteed you a job -> lol
- Against universal health care -> We need it. No one deserves to lose everything they have because of the cost of health care.
- Taxes -> We need more.
- Death penalty -> Jk, we still need it. It just shouldn't take 25 years and 3 million dollars to execute a clear repeat offender
- I would never find a job I'm good at -> Holy shit I'm a big deal
- Believes people earned the jobs they have -> Omg, everyone is retarded, and not just politicians.
- Marriage was a good idea for everyone -> Marriage is a terrible idea for 90% of society
- College guaranteed you a job -> lol
- Against universal health care -> We need it. No one deserves to lose everything they have because of the cost of health care.
- Taxes -> We need more.
- Death penalty -> Jk, we still need it. It just shouldn't take 25 years and 3 million dollars to execute a clear repeat offender
- I would never find a job I'm good at -> Holy shit I'm a big deal
I'm just thinking on too big of a scale.Zaptruder said:
Immortality is impossible while there is entropy, as continued and changing (otherwise you'd be nothing more than a snapshot) existence (whether it's as in a physical form or a virtual one) requires an ever increasing amount of storage for your memories (which can be circumvented by deleting older memories) and more importantly - a continuous use of energy.
Then you have the short-term problems such as life-extension technology being available too late, civilizational collapses, astronomical disasters, forceful absorption into an omega-point/transcendent collective consciousness, etc.
AppleSmack
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Santa Claus for me
Terrascape
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When I was 12 I was both racist, and a libertarian.
TacticalFox88
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When I read the 'lol' part, I practically busted a gut laughing. Thank you good sir.Captain Sparrow said:
acheron_xl
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I never thought I would live forever, but I honestly thought I'd live to be 150. Now I realize that only the wealthy are going to be able to afford that kind of care and I'm probably finished by age 60.
Raitosaito
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I thought Kotaku and IGN were great sites.
Oh how things change.
Oh how things change.
Electric Brain
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I used to believe that having a dream was worthwhile.
As a kid I used to believe that most or all fat people were fat because of something that was not in their control. But then I realized that 99% of fat people eat way too much or too much of the wrong stuff.
When it's someone's birthday at the workplace and we're treated to pies or whatever I usually skip because I'm a picky eater when it comes to pastries. But often I jokingly say "no thanks, I'm on a diet
" to which they laugh and say "but you're so thin!" Meanwhile I'm thinking: "yes, fatty, I'm so thin... I wonder why?"
When it's someone's birthday at the workplace and we're treated to pies or whatever I usually skip because I'm a picky eater when it comes to pastries. But often I jokingly say "no thanks, I'm on a diet
" to which they laugh and say "but you're so thin!" Meanwhile I'm thinking: "yes, fatty, I'm so thin... I wonder why?"I was a Christian. Went to church(not every sunday though), was baptized, had communion and conformation. Went to 2 catholic schools where I had religion as a subject. But at around 13 I realized it was stupid and stopped being one. My parents were fine with it and after a while they stopped following it too. At least my mum has, not sure about my dad but safe to say no one is religious in this house anymore.
NotebookJ2
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I used to believe that being an adult meant that you were mature and meant that you were able to think things like not rely on stereotypes that may or may not have any basis in reality to judge an entire population.
Now I know that was a really silly thing to think.
For that matter, I am very, very cautious around 99% of people who describes themselves as mature, as most of the time they're using it as some sort of social status to make themselves feel better about themselves for some reason.
Also, when I was younger I believed myself to be a PC gamer. These days? I apparently don't have the right skin color to be one.
Now I know that was a really silly thing to think.
For that matter, I am very, very cautious around 99% of people who describes themselves as mature, as most of the time they're using it as some sort of social status to make themselves feel better about themselves for some reason.
Also, when I was younger I believed myself to be a PC gamer. These days? I apparently don't have the right skin color to be one.
cutmeamango
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I had an adamant belief that there were no aliens and ghosts, now I believe. Thank you Scully and Mulder.
cutmeamango
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Zaptruder said:
Sorta, but it's not because of X-Files.
Aliens (not necessarily intelligent or developed forms) changed when I was 13 (I thought it was made up like Santa
) because of a Discovery documentary that showed the known universe and the amount of systems like ours, capable of hosting life as we know. And the possibility of life with different basis makes it even more astounding. So yes, I believe in alien forms of life.Ghosts are my ignorant belief, I don't believe in them as forms of after-life, conscious beings. But rather traces of who knows what (brain chemicals and eletromagnetism, particle echoes, overlapping dimensions, radiation) that may be noticed. I know that it is ignorant because there is no way for me to prove even to myself that my experiences were not brain farts, but there are not studies enough to rule it out for me either, so I just kinda believe it.
cutmeamango said:Sorta, but it's not because of X-Files.
Aliens (not necessarily intelligent or developed forms) changed when I was 13 (I thought it was made up like Santa
Ghosts are my ignorant belief, I don't believe in them as forms of after-life, conscious beings. But rather traces of who knows what (brain chemicals and eletromagnetism, particle echoes, overlapping dimensions, radiation) that may be noticed. I know that it is ignorant because there is no way for me to prove even to myself that my experiences were not brain farts, but there are not studies enough to rule it out for me either, so I just kinda believe it.
This is a reasonable explanation. At least you're man enough to admit if you're likely been a spaz (about ghosts).
I believe in ghosts in the same manner I believe in space teapots.
demosthenes
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Was raised in a 'lazy' Catholic family. Was never really into it though, but now the only time religion comes up in my life is if someone wants to discuss it, it's just not there anymore and that's how I like it.
edit: Read thread title again and it says deep seated, so I guess this wouldn't qualify
edit: Read thread title again and it says deep seated, so I guess this wouldn't qualify
Atramental
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Well that and if I told my 14 year-old self that I no longer believed in god he would freak out because he would still have the belief that people who don't believe in god go to hell.ReBurn said:
Souldriver
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PflargBlarg
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Deified Data said:
Just an fyi, these 2 things are not on the same scale and are not exclusive at all.
You are probably an agnostic atheist just because I've never heard religious agnostics describe themselves as agnostic.
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