From: Clint O'Dell (clintodell@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 01 1999 - 19:59:44 MDT
Robert Bradbury wrote:
>Its fascinating to me to observe what happens in my mind when
>I enter a church. All kinds of old feelings, beliefs, memories
>come bubbling up from the basement of my mind. I normally
>rarely think about these things, but I have no doubt that
>many of my early beliefs (Catholic) are still part of my
>programming. As the years go by, probably because I don't
>think about them much, the memories do seem to fade.
The same things happen to me as well. Of course I go to churches sometimes
to bring out this effect. What I then do is acknowledge what it is as just
ignorance and the not wanting to know the truth for fear of loosing a
comfortable position of belief. I think bring up feelings of pity and
associate that with the feelings and memories brought up by being at the
church. What happens more and more is when I go to a church or talk with a
Christian who is trying to persuade me I just pity him the way he does me.
Eventually that will be my only reaction. Now you may bring up concerns
about suppression and its effects on the subconscious but I take care of
that too. I re-associate my original thoughts with piety to my parents who
didn't know any better. It's not denial. After all, they don't know any
better. :-)
I'm thinking about replacing pity with indefference....hmmmm.
That would be harder to do ofcourse. What do you think?
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