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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Realness[/quote]

OP. Thank you for this answer. That's a really interesting word. I am trying to understand, so if you're willing to answer: what about your faith makes things feel more real? Is it a sense of deeper truth in a world where so much feels manufactured or performative? Is it a deeper grounding in the real experience you are having, whatever that is? Is it a sense that you are somehow more real, more concrete as a result of your faith? What would be less real without your faith?

Again, thank you. No pressure to answer, but I am curious. [/quote]

Hello – I'm not the “real” poster, but I have something to say about it that the “real” poster and OP helped me to understand.

I realize that I feel more real since rejecting religion, because now I perceive the world without the false promise of an afterlife, which allows me to perceive this world as real and to realize how fortunate I am to be in it.

Sure, life could be better.  I could be rich and good looking and talented.  But still, life is pretty good.  I’m healthy and I survived into adulthood, which is something most people born into the world over time can’t say.
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