What are some convictions/beliefs Veeky Forums anons held in their adolescence that they discarded later on?

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Anime, video games, sports, and other children activities.

Coward.

I'm trying to give up video games, it's so tough.

Religion
Liberalism

I just stopped playing altogether one day. Even though I played for 10+ hours a day for years and had thousands of hours invested in certain games. One day I found myself bored of playing this one game not even two minutes in, then I just quit out and haven't played since.;

Atheism, socialism

That feminism was actually harmful in any way shape or form. I think most people eventually shed this as they grow up.

*winky face*

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Being libertarian with respect to economic justice, thinking that free will didn't exist, thinking that love and family were overrated, and being militantly and unphilosophically atheist. These were my most problematic delusions.

Can you describe your journey? All I lost growing up was my nationalism

My hymen metaphorically

>science will eventually explain everything
>emotions are weakness (yeah, I was kind of an edgy teenager)
>you can communicate any thought through language alone. There's no need for other forms of communication
>my perception of reality is flawless and isn't affected by the culture surrounding me
>being an atheist is the only reasonable and thoughtful thing there is considering the lack of evidence of the existence of god
I'm an agnostic now, so I didn't really changed much from that last one thought. Well, at least I'm not as edgy as I used to be about that subject.
Still, looking back I was a pretty stupid boy.

Neither my parents nor my grandparents were religious at all. The most I was exposed to that, family wise, was maybe just knowing that my grandmothers believed in God. I had a few experiences going to friends' churches once or twice, seeing God in pop culture, and that's about it.

I spent middle school and most of high school in a midwest small town. I don't think I was being necessarily contrarian, but if and whenever God was brought up or I thought about it, I figured he didn't exist. I figured with everything that I've known (which was then, sophistry) [evolution, galaxies, aliens], I figured how can a God exist if there's an endless universe. Being a lazy dope and choosing video games and girls over looking further into it, the most I ever read on God or Atheism was Dawkins's "The Greatest Show on Earth."

So only after graduating did I really start to get into literature, and within a couple years into college I considered myself agnostic. I never really thought about it too much, and maybe that's why.

Now, about two years ago, I had some serious lower back pain from scoliosis and poor hip alignment and awful posture, and for a year I was on pain meds. After a year of opiates, and then finally getting through physical therapy, I read The Bible. Straight through, front to back. Before this, during the worst nights of my pain, I would look up at the ceiling and say, "Why me?" And one of the biggest things that resonated with me was The Book of Job, which really tackles the whole, "If God exists, then how can we suffer?" Also, it was a very pivotal moment in my life where I was still spending the majority of my days at my computer playing video games, and ignoring schoolwork. I thought maybe fate was telling me to get up (I know, cheesy, right?)

I could talk about this for hours, and I have talked with friends about it, and it's lovely, but I always have to preface it, or warn them, that I feel weird and preachy. Because before in high school, where I considered myself adamantly atheist, I would almost entirely dismiss anyone's opinion on believing in a God, because of how phony or ignorant I thought they sounded. And I'll just say this:

When you start to believe, you start seeing beauty in things. There's arguments that hey, you're just seeing things more in a positive light because of a more uplifting attitude, but there's more to it than that. There's a great bit in G.K. Chesterton's "Everlasting Man" which I'm reading right now about a man riding a horse, and I really can't do it justice, but basically a man who is so far removed from being able to appreciate the beauty, will not see the beauty until he has seen the whole thing as a thing entirely unfamiliar and almost unearthly.

I digress. I'm not a practicing Christian, and since I've become, for the lack of a better word (because I really do feel the preachiness), since I've become "enlightened", I've only sincerely prayed once. What I recommend? Have an open mind.

>thinking that free will didn't exist
Can you point me to some literature, or other resources, that changed your opinion on this subject?

And my reading recs, of course:
>The Bible
>Mere Christianity
>Crime and Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
>East of Eden *Highly recommend
>Grapes of Wrath
>Meditations

>sports
>children's activity

Atheism

This desu

Thanks for sharing, user. It's nice to hear another voice about such matters.

conservatism, nationalism

I used to care about making money

I was sure atheism was true.

I'm now a Christian.

Christianism
conservatism
and then hedonism

I don't think It is particularly harmful just intellectually dishonest, and not very relevant to today's world.

The "American dream", that anyone has a fair shot as long as they work hard, that the free market works in everyone's best interest, etc. Turns out there really are Haves and Have-Nots. ;--;

How can topics of discussion become irrelevant. That's ridiculous, every and all avenues of discussion should be explored and held under scrutiny. I also fail to see how its intellectually dishonest.

nihilistic atheism, communism, romance

Atheism, socialism, and racial equality

So you managed to get past your edgy angsty phase to adopt another edgy angsty phase