Posted by:
Lucifer
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Date: October 28, 2017 09:35AM
I was an atheist for a long time before I could let go fear of the label.
I dislike fear, so if religion comes up, my atheist box is checked. Someone has be Luther-like in battling the status-quo of Rome. I may as well be one of them. I won't go all batsh## crazy or start a revolution, but I'm up to here with liars.
"None of the above" is thought or assumed to be apathy, and I'm about up to here with that as well. - I work with a woman on our team, who when challenged to do her job, will repeatedly say, "I don't care," in her attempts to push her work onto others. Of course, she won't say that to the Owner-gods, so others either do her work for her, or suffer the poor quality within the team effort. Her apathy extends to not giving a sh## how anyone else performs, and it's an infection. She is "nice" in extending that apathy to all manner of behaviors, so is viewed as 'the nice one."
I think it apparent that she cares a great deal how others view her, no matter her statements to the contrary. Mediocrity is her stock in trade. I quietly keep expecting standards of performance, and usually those standards are met to varying degrees. Some capitulate, and build their efforts on her lower standards.
Call me Luther, or Lucifer, or whatever you want, but I see this capitualtion as learned helplessness, and I have a daily "battle" against it.
Saying "I don't care about religion," - I would ask the source of one's knowledge of a "possible god(s)," if not a heavily indoctrinated society.
The alternative would be a personal god, a "god of one," and people are usually hospitalized for those claims, the caveat being, when they can garner a small follwing, most of whom usually wind up dead in that effort.
What are the actual, factual options?
a) A societal god (a god of many)*
b) A god of one, of which you harbor secret(s)*
c) No gods
How can "none of the above" now apply?
*It should be noted that a) nor b) are mutually exclusive, but the actual case is almost always a combination of the two.
Let the nurses wring their prayerful hands as they see me off to outer darkness, or hell, or whatever their caring hearts wish to believe. Now, THAT is apathy. I consider the greater risks to be in "not caring," all the while, caring very much.