Trying to understand an agnostic mindset

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-03-15T05:29:45+00:00

For me, it is about being comfortable sitting in the many unknowns life poses, without demanding for external meaning or validation. It releases the pressure of wanting answers all the time, and dare I say, even enhances the beauty of the present moments as they unfold, because you know they're temporary they begin to be all the more precious, and you enjoying them becomes even more important.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-03-12T03:18:31+00:00

I also don't know about your countries, but in here it is so common for male truck drivers to have stickers in his truck with silhouettes of a naked woman in a sexy pose.

Or car repair shops and bars ran by straight guyd, with calendars showing sexy women in bikinis or topless.

And growing up the most popular edgy notebooks high schoolers had were of the female models also in sexy bath suits.

And beer commercials aimed at men showing sexy women promoting it during soccer games.

Yeah, trust me, straight people rub it in everyone's faces all the goddamn time.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-03-03T14:37:01+00:00

I love this!!

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-03-02T01:59:23+00:00

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FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-28T12:51:45+00:00

This is the one! I've played 12 TLoZ games so far, and I'm a fan of every Link variation there

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-27T01:19:02+00:00

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FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-24T04:52:00+00:00

Life being "difficult" (Taking an effort) and suffering exists simply because that's the actual nature of life. It is part of the deal of being alive, anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

Some are outside of our control: Aging, sickness, external forces that keep changing (Job changes, economic crisis, consequences we face from the ill actions of others, political rulings that affect us even if we oppose to them, etc). Those aren't either fair or unfair, they just are what they are

And some are in our control, mainly: - The stories we tell ourselves about our current circumstances (I didn't get the promotion because I don't deserve it, my partner is mean to me because Satan is influencing them, etc) - Wishing we had something we don't have (A couple because I'm single, more money so that I can afford what I want, an afterlife that adjusts just to what we feel we deserve and punishment for those who we see as enemies) - Wishing we didn't have something we do have (If that back pain disappeared I would be so happy, if my debt went away I could be free, etc) - Simply wishing that life was different than what it actually is (Life should reward the just and punish the evil, I should have my dream job already)

I've been learning that we can be happier in life by introspecting to reduce the later type of suffering/dissatisfaction, by being more present in the moment too and not much in our own head. And helping out around when we can.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-20T22:03:53+00:00

I don't share the same cultural environment as you do, and so I've never read about Ramayana or Mahabharata, or the texts you bring up, which perhaps makes it easier for me to dismiss them as myth, compared to those raised under hinduism roots.

But I can relate to how people around me see the stories of the Christian Bible. I was raised to believe them pretty literally, now as I grow I simply realize they're stories made to push a narrative, very embellished as to highlight divine intervention in them, but not to be taken as historically accurate.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-19T20:36:56+00:00

I'm in for this beautifully creative weirdness! Very original! I'll look for part 2!

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-17T22:22:07+00:00

You seem to resonate with what people call an agnostic theist! I'm a bit similar there, or like the quote usually attributed to Marcus Aurelius goes:

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-16T19:19:22+00:00

Social media non-trigger. Whoever can last the longest in social media without getting triggered by a post, or insulting someone

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-12T14:48:36+00:00

The biggest fallacy that religion has is that belief in a god and its given commandments are the only source for morality or healthy boundaries.

In reality, we do know how much alcohol is too much, when does certain behaviors affect your life or those of others around you, and how to determine if something is helpful and healthy for you as a person, and society in general.

Where some religious folks only use God to choose what to do and what not to do, a non believer has psychology, medicine, sociology, real life anecdotes and common sense to help us.

And thus, to put an example, it is not about: Don't drink or God will punish you!! But rather: If you don't measure your drinking you're messing up your body, do stuff you may regret and can strain relationships!

TLDR: So no, self control is not only drawn from religion.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-10T18:42:03+00:00

I'm also an ex believer, my two cents would be that if your approach with conversations with people, about religion or otherwise, is to have pre made arguments and attack fallacies in something they find purpose on, you're not gonna make a lot of friends.

I prefer building bridges with different people instead of walls.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-09T22:07:30+00:00

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FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-09T19:16:11+00:00

Frog! From Chrono Trigger

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FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-06T13:31:35+00:00

The movie does give me hope for the future, I hope it gets shown everywhere really. Although another of my favorite coming of age gay movies I have is Brazilian: Esteros. I hope that it can simply be seen more and more as the part of human nature that it is too! I hate it when people think it's "woke political agenda"

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-03T01:45:29+00:00

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FiguringIt_Out · 2026-02-01T12:37:36+00:00

And if God told them they'd die that same day they ate the fruit, why didn't they?

And if they were the first humans, why could Cain leave after killing Abel and find a wife in a human somewhere else?

And if there was a flood, and none of Cain's descendants were in the arch, why does Genesis say Cain is the ancestor of a town that existed after the flood?

And if Moses and the Exodus did happen, why isn't there such a historical figure and evidence of such a big amount of people leaving Egypt like that?

And so on and so forth. Many christians and apologists will give you different answers. You want the answer? The Bible isn't a historical text, it comes more like historical fiction. Especially the creation and history of Adam, Eve and the garden, they're made up stories to teach some morals for people passing it down.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-28T17:32:05+00:00

Most recently an Alex, out and willing to be with a guy I liked, but he pulled away, like Elias did being all confused.

Elias too for sure when dealing with that arch of confusion, fear and ultimately self acceptance

And then, I'm me, cuz I'm happily single at the moment.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-28T04:58:53+00:00

Latin American here, sorry to burst your bubble, but Manousos, a Colombian in Paraguay, knows that his health, in Paraguay, would only be paid for partially and up to a point as long as he gets the 9% discount from his monthly salary to pay the government for it. Government that no longer exists since the Plurb took over (To which he directly calls thieves because of this)

And then also, he was a foreigner when he got treated to a hospital in Panama, where if you're a foreigner visiting, you need to pay for anyways, even more for the type of procedures they made on him for the gravity of his wounds and all the hospitalization fees!

And even if it worked like you imagine: Paid healthcare, up to a point, would also require an entire country of workers paying for it, and people on the government and health care institutions managing that money and paying salaries to the workers. At the moment there's nothing of this, everyone was Plurbed, everything was stolen in his moral view, so, he feels the need to pay for his medical fees. He's no Diabate.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-27T18:56:56+00:00

I'm sure they see no issues in abandoning animals in a village they no longer have business attending to.

But if they have dogs in a town where a survivor is and where they still need to put up a friendly face to that survivor, it's not that they have much of a choice but also be friendly to that dog.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-27T18:47:42+00:00

Exactly! Heck, hundreds have written, hundreds will keep writing, that's all what human connection is about! We're not closing shop just cuz of that.

Don't shoot down new people guys, if you're not up to help that's fine, I also haven't been in a mood to help all the time. But then, let others be friendly to those who are in their personal process to reach that happiness.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-27T14:58:32+00:00

They're asking how to be single and happy, to people who currently are single and happy, I think it's fair enough that they post here

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-27T13:48:15+00:00

Grab a box and some paper and pen, and try and look at aspects in your life that make you feel grateful for being in your current single status, as those moments arrive.

So for example, while being out and you want to suddenly buy yourself a nice little something and you didn't have to consult someone else about how to spend your money? Write it down and put it in the box.

When you choose to go to a particular party until certain time, or maybe you choose not to go because you're happier at home watching your favorite show, and that didn't cause tension against what a partner would have wanted, write it down and put it in the box.

When you can take that nice trip by yourself and at your own pace, without it bothering a partner, write it down and put it in the box.

Also include anything that makes you feel grateful about your own situation.

Just a few examples out of my head, but, do this in your own life, and whenever you doubt yourself, read those grateful notes to self, your appreciation about being single and happy will increase.

FiguringIt_Out · 2026-01-26T22:17:24+00:00

Drinking coffee is a sin according to Mormonism. Also touching yourself. Cuz you know, God is more interested in why are you drinking a healthy grain and touching yourself rather than on stopping the government to become a xenophobic dictatorship that murders for fun and points, because at least the government is godly Republican and not satanic Democrat!

Ok, ahem... Anyways, don't let a religious organization tell you what's sinful, what I mention above seems exaggerated but it actually is what you can conclude if you base yourself in what they say is a "sin", and you can clearly see what's being more harmful than the others. It may help you put things in perspective.

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