Any 30, 40, 50+ schizos in here?

I read your blog and some of your reddit posts, so I don't think I will answer that question.

I will tell you that atheism was a HUGE help to me for getting rid of religious delusions. It's hard to believe that a Norse god is your father when you don't believe in gods. I still see demons sometimes, but credit Netflix for their appearance, and not anything supernatural. It makes it a lot easier to rationalize your way out of those delusions.

Another big one for me was that I was going to start a new religion based on interconnection. I had what you called an epiphany in your blog. I saw all the world connected, and every religion was right, as long as you viewed them as water. Nothing conflicted as water. If you put a drop of water in a cup, it is in "heaven." The exact drop can never be taken out again, but a new one could be a soul reincarnated. Slightly different, but having given all of its previous experience to the collective and taking back with it only a fractured memory of that past. So heaven/eternity and rebirth/reincarnation were no longer opposites. Evil, like bacteria, could live within the water. The water would not become evil, but it could exist within it. So these were no longer opposites, either. The cup or cloud is one god. The droplets within were history's pantheons. It all made perfect sense. It also worked as shattered crystal. All the pieces could form a single whole, but no one piece could see the whole. It was an extremely well crafted delusion that I could "preach" for hours.

Atheism moved me away from all of that. It gave me solid ground on which to stand, and took away all of the connections I saw that weren't really there.

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