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Have I lost my soul? What is this?
Well, I'm M/15. I feel like I need a meaning. It feels like I'm lost. I think I need friends or people who understand me. But that seems impossible. I miss how I used to feel. I am not really religious but I believe there is a god. The things I like are sciencey and sometimes go against religions. But now I don't know what to believe. Do my feelings have to do with a soul or a god? but then theres the possibility that Its just in my head and theres some psychological problem in my head. Weather its what I breath and eat or hormones or anything of that nature. I find the scientific explanations easier to believe. They seem more "realistic" But I still hope there is a spiritual side to all of this. I'm lost :( for example: in reality I probably won't find the answers I really need here. But then I have a hope that somehow, someone sent from god will happen to find this and it would have some meaning. Please don't give me a jesus lecture. I have my parents for that.
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Maybe give some free advice about: Spirituality?
Your feelings have to do with you being a teenager. All the things you have been experiencing have beset all kids your age since time immemorial. Hell, James Dean made a career out of portraying that. Your brain is developing little by little each day and your thoughts, feelings, sensibility and preferences are evolving in the process.
So the takeaway for you on this is to just relax. If you have questions about certain ideas you can spend time exploring them. And btw, there is no obligation for you to arrive at any final answers within any given time frame. Some people go through their entire lives undecided about certain issues. That's not because they are flip floppers, but due to the complexity of certain grand concepts. This is exacerbated by the fact that no matter how educated anyone is, when you put what they know against everything there is to know, they (and I include myself in this) are still rather ignorant.
I'm a strong atheist, but you can go your whole life not having made a final judgment as to the validity of religion. Just keep an open mind, act and think rationally and be as in control of your life as you can without allowing others to interfere in or sabotage it.
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Being a teenager is tough, we all know this. I used to feel lost myself. I was always depressed and constantly emotional and crying. I suggest that you get out there! Get into new things, find new hobbies, try everything possible. We all get stuck in life but only for reason to break out of our rut. I say you do as much as you can and then perhaps you will find meaning. You only live once!
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Your 15 years old and going through what many 15 year olds' go through at this stage of life. You are learning to question that which you may not understand and that what may seem to be confusing.
There are times in life when two sides of something will appear to differ yet both sides for reasons of faith, science, math or a combination of them will make both sides appear to be true. As learned people these are the times we have attacks of faith or conscience as we want to believe in what we believe. When faith confuses learning we become confused.
I am not a very religious person. I believe there is a god. I believe god gave us the brain power we have so that we can question things. If we never questioned anything we would still live in the dark ages. We look at something and say how did that or does that happen and then we say how can we make it better.
For a modern example of this is just look at the airplane. Just 60 years ago the height and length of the Wright Brothers flight are now dwarf by the length and height of such planes as the 747, A380, C5A and C17. For the theory or questioning of flight you need to go all the way back to DaVinci and Newton.
In my view you can have your faith and still have your questions. You have been given your brains by god to figure out for yourself what is true, what is false and what is folk law. To help you find your answers you have your text books, the Internet, your Priest or Minister and your parents.
So no you have not I believe you have not lost your way, you have just learned to question.
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There's nothing wrong with you, you're a normal confused teenager. I think you're just a normal guy with normal feelings.
When it comes to religion and science, sometimes it feels like you have to pick one road. But the thing is, you don't. You don't have to KNOW that there is a god or spirituality to believe in it, even if you consider yourself a scientific thinker. Scientists are allowed to be christians/buddhists/jews/muslims etc too!
A lot of people will tell you that god doesn't exist and that Christianity or any religion is all nonsense. Just like a lot of people will tell you that god does completely and utterly exist. But really, no one can prove either side. No one can prove that a god or ultimate universal being doesn't exist, just like no one can prove that it does exist.
When I was your age, and even still now I'm confused about what I believe in. I was never forced into any religion and was allowed to believe in whatever I wanted to. I struggled a lot with the God vs. No God debate, and in the end I just decided that I was happy being open-minded to spirituality.
You don't need to believe wholly in one religion, or be wholly against religion to feel like you have a meaning as a human being. To me, a religion (or lack of) doesn't make a person who they are. It's how they treat other people and themselves, regardless of what they believe, and how they are open-minded and respectable about other people's beliefs that gives a person identity and meaning.
You can believe in science and feel like that's the more reasonable choice, but you can still have your own religious beliefs, even if they do contradict each other sometimes. You can believe in whatever you want to. I know it's hard when you can't pick one side, or believe completely in one thing, it is incredibly confusing.
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