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Posted by: Lost Mystic ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:15AM
Atheism has caused me to love deeper and experience true gratitude

I took everything for granted before.

I look at my children and my wife and I realize that once one of us dies, there is a strong possibility I will never see "them" again.

I'm not afraid of that now. I'm absorbing each moment with them with an increasing rate of gratitude.

My experiences with them and with life are real and can never be undone. They happened.

I want to make the most of each moment. These moments are truly sacred. I don't want to procrastinate being a better father or husband.

I used to take it all for granted, thinking that I would have them forever.

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Posted by: Calypso ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:16AM
Re: Atheism has caused me to love deeper and experience true gratitude

Wow...I really, really like this post.
Thanks LM:)

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Posted by: Lost Mystic ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:23AM
Re: Atheism has caused me to love deeper and experience true gratitude

:)

Thank you for being a part of my experience!

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Posted by: archaeologymatters ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:30AM
Re: Atheism has caused me to love deeper and experience true gratitude

Yep, it also makes you appreciate life more.

I have had some health problems that really depressed me. I wondered why God would punish me like he was doing. As I grew out of religion I learned to appreciate life, and be greatful. Not greatful to a God, but just greatful. I looked around the world and realized I was extremely lucky. I was born into a good country where I can believe as I choose. Although my family is full of mormons and that can sometimes be a problem, they are good people. Not because of their mormonism, but in spite of it.

Without religion I treat every day as a gift. I know I have problems and will always have them, but I am unlucky in some regards but much luckier than many people born who had zero shot at having the opportunities in life I have had. There is no afterlife. This is all we have. That is why it is up to us to do everything in our own power to do good for ourselves and the world around us. You do good because it helps others, not because of a point system in the hereafter.

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Posted by: Raptor Jesus ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:39AM
Christianity has caused me to love deeper and be more grateful and @#$%&

Because I know when someone else dies, they are going to burn in hell forever.

Got to make every moment count.

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Posted by: archaeologymatters ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:40AM
Re: Christianity has caused me to love deeper and be more grateful and @#$%&

Yep it is great to know that because someone who does not believe as I do gets to burn forever.

The mormon church is the path to happiness unless you leave it than you are a Son of Perdition deemed to purgatory.

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Posted by: Lost Mystic ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:41AM
Re: Christianity has caused me to love deeper and be more grateful and @#$%&

Yeah, but they deserved it right? ;)

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Posted by: Raptor Jesus ( )
Date: April 16, 2012 01:50AM
They sure did, Lost Mystic. They sure did. (n/t)


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