The intellect is cleared but the emotions not

After becoming an atheist, you will suddenly enter into a state of intellectual clarity, but not necessarily into a state of emotional clarity.

For years and years, you had suppressed your emotions and feelings, believing all to be 'covered by the blood'.

You'll soon discover there's no such thing. There's a big fat bunch of feelings and emotions waiting for you to discover and to hopefully get over.

Good luck!

Religion is not a crutch

Christians tend to think many wrong things about atheists.

For example, they think we left because we wanted to sin more. When it's actually the contradictions in the bible that disturb us. And impossible commands too, of course, like stoning people who do not keep the sabbath, etc.

The other misconception is that they think we look down on them because they're using religion as a crutch. Then they'll say to their congregation, "So be it; indeed Jesus is our crutch. Let them look down on us. We know whom we have trusted, and He will not let us down. Let's see who laughs on judgment day." Or something like that. Thus portraying us as cold-hearted bastards. Which we are not at all.

We don't think they are emotionally weak. We just think they are wrong. Factually wrong.

Sometimes I think they're silly, in a certain way, in the way that all of us are susceptible to being at times. But at no time did I think of them as emotionally weak.

Carried to extremes

There was a time when I used to do everything to the extremes. I try not to do so anymore. I try to be more balanced. I like to think I've succeeded.

Maybe that's why I post less nowadays.

Only when the spirit leads.

PS Or have I now gone to the extreme of posting only rarely? :-D

Why We're Naked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwPoM7lGYHw

Yes! They can all be wrong!

I admire her guts, even if the aquatic theory should one day proved to be wrong (which I doubt).

Both Daniel Dennet and and David Attenborough agree with her.

Testing

Just trying out blogger on a cellphone at a café. Hmm... Seems to work.

Blogger.com is being attacked?

I don't get comment notification, and there's a lot of junk comments in foreign languages like Chinese and Tamil. Well, actually, Chinese isn't that foreign to me...

So just in case I miss any of your comments, you know why.

Thanks to all who have lent a listening ear.

You just know

There are times when you just know things without knowing how you came to know it.

Ever had those moments? It's so hard to explain yourself when that happens. When you're asked how you know this, and what made you decide that. The truth is, I really don't know. I just know that this or that is right for me. I don't know the whys of it.

Maybe it comes easily to people who are super-connected with themselves, the quiet type, who are often able think for themselves without any outside influence. Ha.