Age and Religion

[Maurepas]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

The majority of the ones that make their age known seem to think that their ideas are doubly impressive considering their age.

Yeah, I think you're right about that one.

It's one of my pet peeves. Ok, wow, you're a thirteen year old Communist. And your age paired with your preferred economic system is indicative of your intelligence...how?

Because, the old people are just cramping our style,

[Buffett and Colbert]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

The majority of the ones that make their age known seem to think that their ideas are doubly impressive considering their age.

Yeah, I think you're right about that one.

It's one of my pet peeves. Ok, wow, you're a thirteen year old Communist. And your age paired with your preferred economic system is indicative of your intelligence...how?

Because, the old people are just cramping our style,

True, that.

[Plains Nations]

Most Christians are hypocrites. Once at a Marilyn Manson concert they protested telling him he's going to he'll yet at the sane time Christians aren't supposed to pass judgement or hate thy neighbor

[Aglorea]

I'll be 18 in January.

As for the actual topic, though, I was raised on some form of protestant Christianity (don't care which). As a little kid I found Jesus right around when I found Santa Claus. I then dropped the whole Santa Claus thing, as it obviously is just a story.

A little less than a year ago I picked up a copy of the Bible and started reading. It was around this time that I found Jesus again. Upon doing so I realized he was just in my head and promptly got rid of him. So I would say that it was shortly after my seventeenth birthday that I became an atheist.

[Cecilia Penifader]

I try to have some sympathy for the kiddies. I remember feeling pretty damn superior in high school because none of my friends were interested in discussing politics or religion. Just me. Then I went to college and started discovering how much I didn't know. (When I was 14, I had no idea how much I didn't know.) I was briefly re-impressed with myself a year later when I began learning more and more of what I didn't know, but by the end of college and the start of my real adult life, I came to the renewed and humbling realization that I still don't know as much as I think I do.

And I think, for most people, that realization just comes with age. But when you're a teenager, you're hellbent on figuring out who you are, who everyone else is, and how you fit into the world, but you just don't have the knowledge, reason or maturity to do anything with it.

[Maurepas]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

I'll be 21 on the 11th,

Happy b-day. I feel so old.

lol, thanx, the Sesame Street thread made me feel old, born 1995?

[Cecilia Penifader]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

I'll be 21 on the 11th,

Happy b-day. I feel so old.

lol, thanx, the Sesame Street thread made me feel old, born 1995?

I know, it's so funny. I still think people born in 1995 should be in elementary school or something.

[Buffett and Colbert]

I try to have some sympathy for the kiddies. I remember feeling pretty damn superior in high school because none of my friends were interested in discussing politics or religion. Just me. Then I went to college and started discovering how much I didn't know. (When I was 14, I had no idea how much I didn't know.) I was briefly re-impressed with myself a year later when I began learning more and more of what I didn't know, but by the end of college and the start of my real adult life, I came to the renewed and humbling realization that I still don't know as much as I think I do.

I try to expose myself to situations that show me that there's always someone better than you, as much as possible. It keeps my ego at bay and it (gasp) helps me learn something new.

And I think, for most people, that realization just comes with age. But when you're a teenager, you're hellbent on figuring out who you are, who everyone else is, and how you fit into the world, but you just don't have the knowledge, reason or maturity to do anything with it.

Great, now I'm depressed.

I think maintaining some humility is a good thing while trying to accomplish this, however.

[Buffett and Colbert]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

I'll be 21 on the 11th,

Happy b-day. I feel so old.

lol, thanx, the Sesame Street thread made me feel old, born 1995?

I know, it's so funny. I still think people born in 1995 should be in elementary school or something.

Really?

[Plains Nations]

Most Christians are hypocrites. Once at a Marilyn Manson concert they protested telling him he's going to he'll yet at the sane time Christians aren't supposed to pass judgement or hate thy neighbor

[Mad hatters in jeans]

Really?

look just pretend you're 25, you could easily pass for that age. you're smarter than me when i was younger that i can tell you with certainty.

[Cecilia Penifader]

I try to expose myself to situations that show me that there's always someone better than you, as much as possible. It keeps my ego at bay and it (gasp) helps me learn something new.

I think it's good to have that mindset instilled at an early age. For example, and I'm about to ruthlessly mock a friend of mine, but she didn't go to middle school or high school. Her mother home-schooled her and she lived in this remote mountain town on five acres of land, far removed from neighbors and other people her age. As a result, she just has way too much confidence, most of it misplaced. When you don't go to school, you don't meet people who are smarter and better than you, and then you never realize how much you suck at something. You never get embarrassed in front of your peers, so you never learn that you shouldn't wear certain things or make rude and mean comments. She clearly never learned any of these painful lessons. I won't go into the details, but let's just say she's wasting time in school pursuing a difficult major that she can't seem to get better than 'Cs' in and that she's been working on the same degree in community college for six years.

[Cecilia Penifader]

How old are most people on here? It seems like half the threads in this section start with "I'm 13/14/15/16 and..."

I'll be 21 on the 11th,

Happy b-day. I feel so old.

lol, thanx, the Sesame Street thread made me feel old, born 1995?

I know, it's so funny. I still think people born in 1995 should be in elementary school or something.

Really?

I was born in 1982. So, yeah.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Really?

look just pretend you're 25, you could easily pass for that age. you're smarter than me when i was younger that i can tell you with certainty.

Well that's a day brightener.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Really?

I was born in 1982. So, yeah.

Ew, you're such an old person.

[Dyelli Beybi]

I made a rational decision about my own religious beliefs when I was 23 and I am quite happy now.

[Mad hatters in jeans]

I made a rational decision about my own religious beliefs when I was 23 and I am quite happy now.

that's what they want you to think.

[Cecilia Penifader]

Really?

I was born in 1982. So, yeah.

Ew, you're such an old person.

*cry*

I know, I know. Well, I've gotta go vote, buy alcohol and cigarettes, enlist in the military, and have sex with someone over 18.

[Maurepas]

Really?

look just pretend you're 25, you could easily pass for that age. you're smarter than me when i was younger that i can tell you with certainty.

Well that's a day brightener.

Id never believe you though,

[Maurepas]

Really?

I was born in 1982. So, yeah.

Ew, you're such an old person.

*cry*

I know, I know. Well, I've gotta go vote, buy alcohol and cigarettes, enlist in the military, and have sex with someone over 18.

The trick is being able to do those things and still be considered young,

[Iniika]

Understanding something as complex as the meaning of existance and in particular one's own existance doens't come at just one point of life. Understanding comes through living the entirety of one's life, and at death, one is lucky if one comes to some solid conclusion.

I don't believe it is productive to have someone else tell you someone else's version of the meaning of existance and its final destination, especially if that opinion has been circulating for several thousands of years. One's individual spiritual desitiny, I think, is best discovered on ones own.

That said, one cannot grow entirely in solitude. It is good to gather experience and see the man different ways that people have come into their own spirituality, but ultimately, your path should be created by you, not walking in another's footsteps.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Really?

I was born in 1982. So, yeah.

Ew, you're such an old person.

*cry*

I know, I know. Well, I've gotta go vote, buy alcohol and cigarettes, enlist in the military, and have sex with someone over 18.

The political incorrectness of doing these things underage make it all the more exhilarating.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Really?

look just pretend you're 25, you could easily pass for that age. you're smarter than me when i was younger that i can tell you with certainty.

Well that's a day brightener.

Id never believe you though,

Aw...

*day dims*

[Friendly Mutton Chops]

I'm 17, and an Existential Nihilist.

[Mad hatters in jeans]

I'm 17, and an Existential Nihilist.

you'd like the film "the big lebowski"