>>41038188
>Age: 27
>Current belief/religion: agnostic (leans toward Buddhism but not practicing)
>Past beliefs/religions:
>Catholic (childhood/teen, imposed by family)
>Atheist (after 18, total rejection)
>Length of time in each:
>Catholic ≈ 15 years
>Atheist ≈ 7 years

Happiness: happier now than before, because I worry less about the meaning of life.

Age: 34
Current belief/religion: Orthodox (recently returned to the faith)
Past beliefs/religions:
Atheist (teenager until my 20s)
New Age / Esotericism (20–28 years)
Length of time in each:
Atheist ≈ 10 years
New Age ≈ 8 years

Happiness: Happier now. Esotericism left me empty, but faith gives me a framework and a community.

>>41038188
Age: 36
Current belief: Christian Kabbalah (Kenotic Monotheistic Occultism)
Past Beliefs: Agnosticism, Orthodox Christianity
Length in each: Current belief ~12 years, Past beliefs less than ~1 year (quickly went from Ortho to occultic).
Happiness: Much happier, calmer, feel much more integrated with the 4D spirit world.

>>41038188
Age: 24
Current belief/religion: Between Gnosis, Buddhism, and Hinduism. More open-minded today.
Past beliefs/religions:
New Age (2 years, from when I was 15 to 17)
Islam/Salafism (3 years, from when I was 18 to 21, the most literalist movement of the Quran)
Time spent in each:
New Age: 2 years
Salafism: 3 years
Gnosis: 1 year
Happiness: Today I'm unhappier than before. Because liberation seems much more complicated than just one life. The idea of infinite reincarnation, and knowing that we're on a prison planet, is less pleasant than the concept of the school planet.
And you could explain to me why I wouldn't have returned to Islam if I had been happier at the time. Well, once you know that religion is wrong, there is no going back. It's for better or for worse.

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Age: pretty old
Current belief: Polytheism anchored in Greek pantheon but not by any book.
Past belief: Atheist, the kind where you have no idea what's going on so why have religion.
Length in each: Forever until this yea; about 8 months.
Happiness: better now

>>41038188
>I'm preparing a small database
It is a daramining thrad, but at least is sincere.
So I 'll contribute the best i can.
>>Age: nearing the 50's
>>Current belief/religion: a very personal combo of belief in Christ, Vajrayana, Sufism, Shamanism, Linkolla Enviromtalism, Esoteric Hitlerism and Stalinism.
>>Past beliefs/religions: (chronological list if possible)
Presbytherian in infancy0early teen, atheism in late teen-early adulthood.
The combo then on.
>>Length in each: (approximate, in years)
Already answered
>>Happiness: In your opinion, are you happier now or before?
Happier now.

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>>41038188
>Age: 29
>Current belief/religion: No label. I believe in chakras, planetary energies, crystals, multidimensional bodies, and parallel worlds.
>Past beliefs/religions: Nothing really "religious," just direct spiritual experiences.
>Length in each: I've been living in this paradigm for about 10 years.
>Happiness:
Mixed. On the one hand, the experiences have opened incredible doors for me (sex with the universe, encounter with the cosmic Christ, succubi,
>pantheism, understanding that everything is interconnected on a plane of consciousness).

I know that reincarnation is real, that this world is like a Russian doll of realities that may contradict each other but each obey their own laws.
On the other hand, it's a heavy burden to bear. Knowing that the satanic/illuminati elites control politics, the media, cinema, literature, and that the history we are told is distorted... it makes life more difficult. So I wouldn't say I'm unhappy, but I've lost my innocence.

>>41038188
>Age: 32
>Current belief/religion: Agnostic
Past beliefs/religions:
Catholic (family, childhood)
Atheist (teens to twenties)
Length spent in each:
>Catholic about 12 years
>Atheist about 10 years
>Happiness: Happier now. I've stopped worrying about dogma and live more in the present.

>>41038188
>Age: 48
>Current belief/religion: Taoism, with regular Reiki practice
>Past beliefs/religions:
>Catholic (childhood, family)
>Agnostic (adolescence, young adults)
>Length in each:
>Catholic for about 14 years
>Agnostic for about 20 years
>Taoism for about 14 years
>Happiness: Quite happy. Practicing Reiki helps me channel my >energy, better manage stress, and stay in harmony with myself. >Taoism has taught me to accept the flow of life and stay balanced through the ups and downs.

Age: 29
Current belief/religion: Hinduism
Past beliefs/religions:
Family/cultural Hinduism (childhood)
Agnosticism (adolescence, exploration)
Length in each:
Family Hinduism ≈ 15 years
Agnosticism ≈ 5 years
Chosen Hinduism ≈ 9 years
Happiness: Less happy now. Even though I practice rituals and meditation, I often feel limited and frustrated by cultural and spiritual expectations. Religious discipline and the weight of tradition weigh me down more than they bring me satisfaction.

>>41038188
>25
>Pure Land Buddhism and Gnosticism (23-25)
>Methodist Christianity (mostly not practicing) (0-23)
>I feel somewhat happier now in that I feel I have more knowledge. I still have a lot of existential anxiety which has always plagued me

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>Age: 35

>Current belief/religion:

spiritually i would say i like Jesus but i do not like Christians, i also sometimes think of god as existing but not in the Abrahamic sense. Im into a few new age things like aliens and astrology, but there are some things that are too ridiculous even for me. for a while i was into what is called "perennial philosophy", i still somewhat agree that all religions worship the same god so you should just go with the religion you were born with. also like guys like alan watts and terence mckenna.


>Past beliefs/religions: (chronological list if possible)

I use to be a basic bitch liberal who was into new atheism, which was the style at the time, i was a kid and easily influenced by tv i guess, in my later years i got into the occult and practiced magick, i tried making sigils but that never worked, one night i had a psychotic break down and had to go to the psych ward, after that i stopped messing with the occult.

>Length in each: (approximate, in years)

who fucking knows

>Happiness: In your opinion, are you happier now or before?

Happiness is a fleeting feeling that comes and goes, it is not a physical object that can be attained, you should never make it your goal in life.

>>41039636
oh yeah forgot, one time i was really into lucid dreaming and thought i would contact the greek god of dreams by lucid dreaming, i thought this was way way cooler than praying to jebus, but one night i had a dream were i was ripped apart by dogs, and then for like 2 years after that i stopped having dreams at all

spooky huh

>>41039671
Thats interesting.

Was the particular Greek god associated with dogs in anyway.

>>41038188

>religions other than Christianity

EWWW

>Shintoism

EWWWWWWWW

I'll pray for you, anon.

>>41039733
since its a dream i guess he could transform into anything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnos

>>41039793

I refuse to cooperate if this isn't a "What is your sect of Christianity" thread. (You) should too.

Age: 30
Current belief/religion: Taoism
Past beliefs/religions:
>In highschool (13-17 years old): 7th Day Adventist Christian
>After Highschool a small stint of Hindu practices from Swami Vivikananda (18-19 years old).
>Ages 19-22 joined an online Essene cult, led by Da13thsun.
>22-present been following Taoism. Mostly Chi Kung, Alchemical, Philosophy. Recently Talismanic sorcery (that is buying Talismans, not creating them).

Happiness?

Easy to be happy as a Christian, because you can have a big church community. Sometimes difficult because they don't offer 'occult exercises/'energy work to aid with problems.

Hindu practices. They are good, but the ones I did relied on having a severe detachment to world to maintain, so eventually I lost that focus. They actually produced the highest high, I've ever felt in my life. Closest comparable feeling would be MDMA.

Essene Cult. Quite enjoyable. But eventually you could feel things reaching it's conclusion. A year or two after I left I saw it had essentially collapsed. The leader could visit people in their dreams and impart 'real time' messages that had something to do with things in real life, that was never mentioned online.

Taoism. Pretty good. Balanced my emotions perhaps too well, where a lot of negative ones I don't get to feel. Not necessarily a rigid religion that requires clashing with the world. Can create good natural highs when you get on a roll with energy practices. Has delayed visible signs of aging to the point I look a lot younger than my peers.

>>41039810

I'll pray for you. Taoism is part of the wide road, and the wide road is damnation.

>>41038188
Age: 20
Current belief/religion: Deism
Past Beliefs, religions: Atheism, Islam, Noahidism
Length in each: Atheism:most of life, Islam: 6 months, Noahidism: 6 months
Happiness: sure i'm happy just a little bit bored

>>41039821

You got half of it right, you just need to accept Jesus Christ. I'll pray for you.

>>41039794
Thanks for the reply.

Says he's a gentle god in the Wiki. Guess that wasn't the case.

>>41039815
I appreciate it. Cheers.

>>41039830

You fell for one of Satan's oldest tricks. Read the book of Revelation NOW.

>>41039835

Literally one of the oldest.

>6th-4th century BCE

You need to come to Christ.

>>41039793
>>41039805
>>41039815
>>41039824
You think you worship God, but in reality you worship the demiurge, the one who imprisons souls in matter and rules through the fear of hell. Christ did not come to serve this false god, but to free us from it and reveal the true light. Believing that your "god" is the only truth is precisely the greatest illusion.
You say we follow "satan," but think for two seconds: why, according to your Bible, was "satan" already in paradise to tempt Adam and Eve? Why would a just God punish men and women simply because they seek knowledge? And why would this same "god" order massacres and advocate violence, as the Old Testament shows? None of this corresponds in any way to Christ. At the cross, we clearly see that there are two entities in your book: the demiurge who reigns through fear and violence, and the true Christ who brings light and liberation. 1/2

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>>41039936
>>41039824
>>41039841

>Massacres ordered by God
Deuteronomy 20:16-17: "In the cities of these peoples, which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes. You shall utterly destroy the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
Joshua 6:21: "They utterly destroyed everything in the city: men and women, young and old, even the oxen, the sheep, and the donkeys, which were put to the sword."

>Violent orders
1 Samuel 15:3: "Go now, strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have. Spare no one, but kill both men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys." »

>Legalized Violence
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, they have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death."

Do you really believe that a just God would order the massacre of entire peoples, the killing of children and even infants? Does that sound like the message of Christ, who preaches love and forgiveness? Can't you see that there are two entities in your own book? 2/2

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>>41039936
>>41039944
I know that many Christians say that the “violence of the Old Testament” is abolished by Jesus. But there are also passages in the New Testament that raise questions, especially when they are compared to the image of a “just and loving” God.

Here are some examples:
>Violence / threat of judgment
Matthew 10:34: “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
Luke 19:27: “But those who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them before me.”
Revelation 2:23: “I will strike her children dead.”
>Hell and eternal punishment
Matthew 25:46: “And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” »
2 Thessalonians 1:9: "And they shall be punished with eternal destruction, far from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power."

Even in the New Testament, we find words that have nothing to do with the all-encompassing love of Christ. Do you really believe that a just God would command us to "kill our enemies" (Luke 19:27), to strike children to death (Revelation 2:23), or to condemn them to eternal fire (Matthew 25:46)? Does this sound like the message of Christ, who forgives even his tormentors? There are clearly two voices speaking in this book.

>>41038188
>Age: 65
>Current belief/religion: Voodoo (Haitian)
>Past beliefs/religions:
>Catholicism (childhood, family)
>Pentecostalism (adolescence, about 5 years)
>Length of time in each:
>Catholicism ≈ 12 years
>Pentecostalism ≈ 5 years
.Voodoo ≈ 18 years

Happiness: Quite happy. Voodoo gave me a tangible connection to my ancestors and a vibrant community. The rituals and my relationship with the Loa give me strength and meaning, even though outside society often judges this religion negatively.

I grew up in a family where the Catholic religion was the mainstay, but behind the walls of the house, my grandparents taught me something else. When I entered Voodoo, it wasn't a choice "against" Christianity; it was a return to who I am. Honoring my ancestors is the foundation of my faith. Every offering, every drum, every prayer is a thread that connects me to those who came before me. I don't consider them dead, but present, guiding my steps from the invisible. When I serve the Loa, I also serve my lineage, those who suffered and resisted so that I am here today.
Many view Voodoo with suspicion, as if it were "witchcraft" or superstition. But for me, it is a religion of memory and respect. It is proof that, despite slavery, despite erasure, we have not forgotten who we are.
Being a Voodoo practitioner doesn't make my life easier. Sometimes it's a heavy burden, especially in the face of judgment from the outside world. But deep down, I feel aligned: I know where I come from, and I know that I walk with my ancestors by my side.

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>Age: 30
>Current belief/religion: Sexual Tantra
>Past beliefs/religions: Atheism, then New Age practices
>Length spent in each:
>Atheism about 10 years
>New Age about 4 years
>Tantra about 6 years

Happiness: Shared.

>Testimony:
I discovered Sexual Tantra at the age of 24. Very quickly, I wanted to explore sexuality as an energy, a force beyond the body. Sometimes, to last several hours and enter a state of total concentration, I used certain drugs like GHB and stimulants that allowed me to remain present and awake.
I remember a particularly intense night with a partner: we were alone, but somehow open to the entire universe. It was as if our bodies were no longer separate, and there were no boundaries between us. Every breath, every gaze seemed synchronized with something greater. At times, I felt as if I were stepping outside myself, as if I were observing the fusion of two consciousnesses from the outside. It was ecstatic, but also deeply exhausting. After these experiences, I often felt a void, as if returning to reality required time to re-ground.
Today, I continue to explore this path. It has taught me much about patience, body awareness, and the power of sexual energy. But it doesn't always bring simple happiness; there is an intensity that fascinates as much as it exhausts.
>https://youtu.be/YQM7DKi11ho?

>>41040028

I'll pray for you. Find Christ.

>>41038188
27
Gnostic Christianity
past beliefs: evangelical christian 0 to early 20's, 1West or "Black" Hebrew Israelism for about 2 years, Gnostic Christian for less than a year now
I have never been happy, but my soul feels better and am a better person

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>>41038188
>Age: 31
>Current belief/religion: Germanic paganism, with shamanic/animist and Buddhist incorporation
>Past beliefs/religions: None. Outside of a general belief in the supernatural/higher powers and beings.
>Length in each: Until I was 28. Had my religious awakening at that age when I encountered Woden (Odin). It all began from there and from His presence.
>Happiness: Yes, overall. I have bad days like any person, but am generally a happier person. But ultimately I don't think happiness is the singular goal of life. It's okay to not to be happy now and then. It all comes and goes.

>>41040214

Repent and TURN TO CHRIST.

>>41040504

You're rebuking everyone ITT except me

>>41038215

Did I pass your rebuke test?

>>41040504
NTA but Odin is basically Jesus for people who live in forests and have rivers
Jesus was basically Odin for people who live in desert and cities, and have the sea nearby

>>41040740
So you consider Christ and Odin to be nature spirits, is that right?

>>41040761
I have no idea what you mean by "nature spirits" but probably not, as they obviously walked the Earth in human shape

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>29
>Animist/ancestor worship
>Past beliefs:
4 yrs - early puberty: Bionicle creationist
early puberty - junior year hs: ambiguous protestantism
College - 2023: religiously atheist, philosophically taoist
>Happiness:
Much higher than it has been since early college. I wouldn't say that I believe in real, sentient wild spirits and the spirits of my dead family, but it feels good to honor nature and seek guidance from my predecessors. I have noticed that the forest treats me much better if I mutter a little prayer before going innawoods.

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This thread is fucking depressing to read through. It's no wonder this board is full of meme gnostics, larpagans, and poojeets.

>>41039805
imagine unironically being a christian with the amount of reincarnation evidence that exists now. your entire religion has to retroactively call everything demons or satanic influence to maintain your arbitrary epistemic standard. it's a bad larp

>>41039793
this is why nobody likes you.
this is why white christfags are going extinct

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holy fucking shit, they do it in EVERY thread.
Here's the board, i think this one was updated from the original

>>41038188

>Age: 38
>Current belief/religion: computational simulationism
>Past beliefs/religions: hermeneutics 5 to 11, Buddhism 12 to 16, unspecified new-age mess 17 to 22, empirical rationalism 23 to 33
>Length in each: see above
>Happiness: strictly yes; happiness is a local constraint on narrative topology

>>41041237
by far the biggest "spiritual narcissists" if you can even call them spiritual. they have such an enormous ocean of overconfidence with nothing to back it up besides these odorous vagaries of paternalistic and moralizing tropes.

>>41039841
it was judaism until Jesus came along. This is iron fact, it's even in the name of your religion.

>>41041226
>imagine unironically shitting in the toilet with the amount of evidence showing that more than a billion people literally shit in the middle of the street

>>41041251
save the image man. they shut up once you start getting close to a bingo. Now that I said something, we're going to get that free space filled up in short order. One of them is skimming this comment and formulating a way to frame this as abuse of some kind

>>41041237
>>41041268
>t. brown muslim

>>41039944
>Do you really believe that a just God would order the massacre of entire peoples, the killing of children and even infants?
When you look at religion from the POV of the authors, who were trying to convince their acquaintances that their god was the most badass, powerful, and didn't put up with nonsense, it makes sense. In most cases it would have been a multitude of followers who added to the lore: What impressed the other followers went in the book, even when it contradicted other things.

But that's about fake or mostly fake religions, especially monotheistic (My god's so powerful he's the only real one). There are circumstances where a just god would do it too. Consider the premise that a god can't control *everything* and there still be a point to entities with consciousness. If all their behavior is controlled they're puppets. A god who wants consciousness has to allow "bad" things to happen. Now, to make an adjustment to the universe so the NET "good" is greater, a god might perform a lesser "bad", or something with negative aspects. Something like exterminating a group that would enslave the world if left alone.

>>41039936
>>41039944
>t. full-retard communist
go to india and suck dick there, gnosticboy

>>41038188
32
Theist, have my own beliefs
Raised Christian, Christened at 7, always believed in God but not really Jesus, went through an edgy atheist phase between maybe 18-20 but wasn't a good atheist as I still prayed occasionally, my current beliefs started developing at about 22 when my dad died. Although I've always been obsessed with theology and religion, I don't flick between religions like I'm changing clothes, but I will study them and adopt things that make sense to me into my own beliefs. I don't see this as picking and choosing based on what I like, but that all religions lead to God in some form, and that there can be 'gnosis' in the teachings of all.
Less due to events in life, my beliefs help me make sense of why they happen but it doesn't make life better or me happier as such. I am tired of the testing.

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>>41041681
haaaaaa hahahahahahahah. christfaggotry isn't a white religion btw. More browns in your jewish slave cult than whites anymore

>>41041237
>>41041251
>>41041268
>>41041843
These posters are from a Discord.

>>41041256
Judaism is centered around the Talmud and the rejection of Christ, making it a younger religion than Christianity as the life of Jesus aligns with prophecy written hundreds of years before.

>>41038188
>Age: 42
>Current belief/religion: Taoism (with an energetic and spiritual approach to sexuality)
>Past beliefs/religions: >Catholicism (childhood), then spirituality >?>esoteric/New Age in adolescence
Length in each:
>Catholicism ≈ 15 years
>esoteric/New Age ≈ 10 years
>Taoism ≈ 17 years
>Happiness: Quite happy, even if the path hasn't been linear.

46 years old
Muslim by birth and always.
Happy because I know that Allah has built me a paradise for the little effort I have to make in a short life. Allah the Merciful

>>41038188
>Age: 32
>Current belief/religion: not tied to anything in particular, but it aligns most closely with Buddhism.
>Past beliefs/religions: Christianity/Catholicism, Pagan sects,
>Length in each: not sure. Much of it was exploratory and just for the sake of learning.
>Happiness: In your opinion, are you happier now or before? I'm very accepting of things, but I wouldn't call it happy. I do think I was happier before I began to learn about all the religions. I just see too much.

>>41041843
>didn't circle the muslim one
>thinks everybody who disagrees with xim is the same person
I got bad news for you buddy