The general question I suppose is why I have this weird conviction or premonition which is nearly supernatural based when I am usually very rational minded and logical (although I suffer from anxiety in general). No amount of reason has affected my fear and repression. This might relate to anyone leaving a strict religious experience behind and still feeling paranoid about the strictures they no longer believe. — Andrew4Handel
I found the pleasure I got from self pleasure was conflicting with my religious beliefs in a way because the religion was so forbidding but this was like free pleasure. — Andrew4Handel
I left Christianity and stopped believing in it. I became atheist then agnostic. But I have never recovered from my "superstitious" or paranoid attitude towards sexual release. — Andrew4Handel
I think I would feel less guilty having sexual experiences mutually and in a loving relationship. — Andrew4Handel
sometimes I find an exquisite attraction to a person you find beautiful/handsome/lustful can be very painful and unfulfilled desires can make one consider death. But I don't know how widespread this is. — Andrew4Handel
What I was interested in here though is analyzing the nature of what seems irrational and superstitious and why I have just this one superstition and no others. — Andrew4Handel
people still claim religion is the solution — Andrew4Handel
I am a supporter of medication however but I don't know if there is a pill to banish paranoia and guilt. — Andrew4Handel
I think we as people and societies probably don't know what the source of our sexual dynamics is and how much of it is cultural or subconscious or inherited from religion or caused by capitalist commodification etc — Andrew4Handel
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