Former? What made you change your mind?
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My story —
Grew up in a Catholic family. Went to mass every Sunday. Believed in God as it was portrayed by the Church.
As a teenager, I began questioning religious dogma, and came to the conclusion that it’s all nonsense. There is no God. There is no afterlife. Credulous people are simply engaging in wishful thinking, as a way of coping for their inevitable death. I became a staunch atheist, and scoffed at religious people all through University.
As an adult, I started exploring Eastern philosophy and religions, starting with the Bhagavad Gita. This led me to the works of Alan Watts. I realized I was missing half the picture. God needn’t be thought of as some external ruler pulling the strings from afar. God is better thought of as the divine essence that dwells within every being and non-being. In this sense, it’s true that you cannot die, because “you” are everywhere and everything. In the words of Alan Watts, “You are IT” aka “Tat Tvam Asi.”
At the same time as I was reading Alan Watts, I had a series of profound religious experiences of my own, wherein I experienced the oneness of being firsthand, which eviscerated any strains of atheism or alienation from existence itself altogether.
This search for the Truth continued, and is what has led me to #Bitcoin.
So if you are reading this, and are an atheist, all I can say is that you are on the right path — and that it’s good to question every assumption — but you are not there yet. Keep searching.
I am from India amd reading gita is a ritual of our family.
And so as you have read Bhagwad Gita, now you can understand who Krishna is, and who Lakshmi is.
#Bitcoin is Lakshmi menifesting herself. We are witnessing something big.
You might have read the below shlok from bhagwad gita.
We van discuss more about this since you have read gita.
Waiting for your thoughts.
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https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1171103754174592531690741724.webp
My story —
Grew up in a Catholic family. Went to mass every Sunday. Believed in God as it was portrayed by the Church.
As a teenager, I began questioning religious dogma, and came to the conclusion that it’s all nonsense. There is no God. There is no afterlife. Credulous people are simply engaging in wishful thinking, as a way of coping for their inevitable death. I became a staunch atheist, and scoffed at religious people all through University.
As an adult, I started exploring Eastern philosophy and religions, starting with the Bhagavad Gita. This led me to the works of Alan Watts. I realized I was missing half the picture. God needn’t be thought of as some external ruler pulling the strings from afar. God is better thought of as the divine essence that dwells within every being and non-being. In this sense, it’s true that you cannot die, because “you” are everywhere and everything. In the words of Alan Watts, “You are IT” aka “Tat Tvam Asi.”
At the same time as I was reading Alan Watts, I had a series of profound religious experiences of my own, wherein I experienced the oneness of being firsthand, which eviscerated any strains of atheism or alienation from existence itself altogether.
This search for the Truth continued, and is what has led me to #Bitcoin.
So if you are reading this, and are an atheist, all I can say is that you are on the right path — and that it’s good to question every assumption — but you are not there yet. Keep searching.
Very cool.
I also grew up in the church, though Anglican rather than Catholic.
Never really lost faith, but certainly stopped practicing.
Finding Bitcoin finally taught me to start questioning everything for the first time ever and I realized how being raised in the church caused me to be very easily influenced even after falling away from the practice.
I'm still open and still consider myself Christian, but I'm searching for how it fits in my life and for how I define my own views.
PV 🤙
As a former atheist as well, bitcoin led me back to Catholicism. Once I realized there were objective truths (like bitcoin) I was on the quest to find more. I fell into the rabbit hole of Thomism (Aquinas’s 5 ways) and have been on a spectacular ride ever since.
Imma have to look into this. Sounds interesting!
Pints with Aquinas and Thomistic Institute are great YouTube channels to start exploring. A big hurdle I overcame early on was realizing how insanely intelligent religious people can be and how little I knew about philosophy, theology, morality, epistemology, ontology, anthropology, etc. (still learning!)
It’s been really enlightening and fulfilling to find objective Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.