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Yeah, I used to be an atheist but I converted to Catholicism after a bad trip on shrooms
Can you tell me why? I have a friend who was atheist and one day converted simply so,to ultracatholicicm (he's not pushy about it, just very... definite), and I suspect that he had a sort of bad trip. I'm pretty sure he's hurting himself and his wife in the long term in the process, and he won't tell anyone what caused his sudden change.
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Yes. I think. It's becoming more difficult.
Of a sort.
I strongly believe that the universe we are in is one created and run by an intelligent 3rd party.
But unlike 99.9% of the people who share that belief, I happen to also believe that this 3rd party was itself created from evolutionary processes in a world that was not created.
It's a belief that seems to go back at least to the 3rd century CE, but centers around the notion that a chaotic universe where life evolved without design (an idea at least as old as Leucretius in 50 BCE) would eventually create life sophisticated enough to be able to create worlds itself, and that we are in the re-creation of such a universe at an earlier point in time.
One of the wildest aspects of that belief in antiquity was its focus on the notions of Greek atomism and matter being made up of indivisible parts as an indicator of its claim of being in a copy of a higher fidelity original. Especially given that a central component of my own belief in this topic relates to the similarity between quantum behaviors (indivisible parts of matter) and hacks we have started using in building procedurally generated voxel based virtual worlds.
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Yeah. Even if it intellectually makes no sense, I still do. I never discuss it and would never attempt to convert someone or anything, I really have better things to do. But despite the fact it isn't logical I still always do.
Yes, without a doubt. Been an Ordained Minister since 1987.
Just curious, but why? Which one, and why that one and not all the others? Any particular reason (like was it a choice) or was it just the one you were born into?
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Nope.
Yes, I believe I'm part of God, same as all it exists, we are God, we are energy, we are 1.
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I don't see any evidence for evolution creating new species. None