/lit/ - Literature

>>15448798
>>What event made you change your mind?
So my case is pretty weird, I'm white, but was raised almost exclusively by a Vietnamese family that adopted me when I was 6. They were hard core Christians, but I grew up around a bunch of other asian families. Eventually I took a liking to Buddhism in my late teens, it clicked with me almost immediately. My family supports it though and I've never caught shit for it because even though they are firmly Christian, my parents came here from Vietnam which is steeped in Buddhism.
>>When/how did you find out christianity is just pagan texts deformed by semitism?
Depends on how you're using the term pagan I guess.
>>Where you persecuted/spied upon after leaving?
Nope
>>Were you interested in another faith/philosophy?
See above. My brother's best friend was preparing to ordain as a Buddhist monk, got interested and haven't turned back.
>>What literature helped you overcome the desire for ignorance?
Began with the Tripitaka, but I wouldn't consider myself a hard core christian that was steeped in ignorance like most red neck bible belters. I was exposed to a lot due to my weird/diverse upbringing.
>>Do you know someone who got their life destroyed by christians after leaving the religion?
No, where I'm from Christians are quite tame. We don't really have a community of evangelicals or JWs

>this thread

jesus kek

its basically a bunch of unread non-practitioners and super angry secular nu-theravadin supremacists. i don't know what i expected considering this is 4chan

>>10845777
Wtf? I just want to understand how people can invest so much faith in something that they have only an old book as a frame of reference. Maybe it’s the fact that Jesus is supposed to be the perfect man, like a goal all of humanity should strive for that makes it appealing

I don’t always feel lonely, but when I see people in a relationship interact loving t feels as if some higher power is taunting me with something I could pursue like a madman but would never obtain no matter how long I crawl on my knees towards it. I don’t know if I will ever experience the love of a partner, and my families love for me dwindles as I become more irate with life, misdirecting my anger towards them

This thread has me in physical pain. Why was I born in this age? I don't want access to all this. Why am even in the position to be exposed to this? I just want a homestead on the frontier GODDAMMIT not this shit. When will it fucking end?

>>10011505
I don't want to live on this planet anymore

What's worse lads:

Guns, Goys and Steel or A Cuckold's History of the United States?

>>8559953
>genders are a spook

>anaximenes of miletus