Just because you're born into a religion, or take on a religion's philosophies and your life improves, does not mean that this is the word of god, nor does it mean the religious text can be considered entirely the truth. Your life might improve having taken on e.g hindu philosophies, yet this does not mean you're guaranteed to get into heaven. Choosing your faith is important. Pascal's wager states that in the case of having 2 people, an atheist and a believer in God: the atheist will either just disappear at death, or will burn in hell. The believer will either just disappear at death, or will inherit the gift of heaven. The atheist will have a neutral outcome or a horrible one, meanwhile the believer will have a neutral outcome or a great one. The point of this concept is not to force you to believe in God, it's purpose is providing you one logical reason on why you should consider that there might be a god. If you believe that you were made in god's image with his conscience you should be able to apply skepticism to each religion and decide which one you think has the strongest case. This means looking for and fleshing out clear historical and moral contradictions, you don't need to study the philosophies inside and out for each one, you can get to that once you have good reason to believe a given religion does hold the truth of the universe.

Why I quit video games and focused on my future: As a child born into a family where most of my brothers were addicted to video games—an addiction that ruined their lives, making them live only for games and forget about real life—I think I now have a phobia of video games. Every time I enter my brother's room, I see someone who is nearly forty years old with no skills, no car, and no job, just playing. This is what made me hate video games. I don't want to be like that; I want to be successful and have a stable life. This is the reason behind my hatred for video games and why I quit them. I truly believe I have a phobia of them

I’m 19 and go to school for the electrical trade. Usually on weekends, I would work at a Mcdonald's near me but recently Ive been going through a lot of perspective and lifestyle changes due to various reasons. I don’t like my job and it has nothing to do with the people, but rather the fact that It doesn’t actually better me as a person. More importantly, I don’t like it because I don’t want to be apart of something actively poisoning society. I told my dad this and he laughs at me saying “They’re doing it to theirselves”. He’s a MAGA KJV Christian, so I wouldn’t expect anything less from him. But at the end of the day, it’s his house and I wouldn’t be going to school if it weren’t for him. He’s a “work isn’t easy”, “You’re not supposed to like your job” kind of guy. I feel stuck. Imprisoned by circumstance. I love nature and adventure, and hope that one day I will have the means to go off on my own and live a simple life nomadically exploring the world. But in times like these, you can’t do much without money and that's the hell of the material world that has been implemented onto us and basing our parents with their calcified pineal gland. I day dream about just leaving and traveling anywhere I please on foot, train hopping, hitchhiking, bus riding, etc. But how could I if i’m broke!?!? This might sound stupid but It’s all Ive been able to think about. My dad thinks I’m sitting here rotting away for not working more shifts at McDonalds or not studying for my “Electrical career”. But I already feel like i’m rotting away for Indulging in this slave like life. We were never meant to be this way. But we are and I don’t know what to do.

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