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[apiphile]

Experimenting with talking about emotions while I have them and about their causes, rather than treating them as forces of nature that roll out of nowhere, control everything, and then recede like the tide. Also experimenting with the idea of talking about fear in the present tense rather than persistently behaving as if "being afraid" is something

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[miscellanny]

That sounds like good plans.

[miscellanny]

Additional: that is an awesome and eloquent blog post and I agree entirely.

[apiphile]

You would think it is a reasonably-balanced post and that there is not much to argue with there, but I anticipate a certain amount of you-know-where-based yelling. LE SIGH.

How is writing going?

[redcountess]

Sounds very positive, and remember, baby steps.

[wolfy_writing]

Trying is good. Trying is the beginning of doing. (If my grammar was more precise, I could be like the anti-Yoda.)

I like the blog post.

[coniferous_you]

Yeah, I pretty much agree with all of this. I think Nihilism is the most positive position a person can take, but probably you said that implicitly.

Also, can I just say that the people who love religion the most are atheists? The only people I know who've read this or that religious text are atheist. So yeah, it's not all old white guys thinking they can know everything in claiming not to know everything!

[apiphile]

Well I wouldn't want to impose it as "the best" for everyone, some people need there to be meaning in their actions for them to be able to carry on doing things.

Hah! Certainly the people who seem to be most interested in the foundations of religion are atheists.

[coniferous_you]

I don't know too many religious folks who can name saints many non-biblical saints (aside from the really famous ones), nor do I know all that many religious people who have actually read the bible.

I know lots of atheists who can claim both, though.