how does it FEEL living as a determinist, calvinist, eternalist,

>>9520378
you have to be a virgin with no friends to start so....

>>9520378
No one actually does. If they claim they do, they're just LARPing.

I'm a Calvinist. It doesn't really affect my life because I don't think about it a lot. I just remember it when I need to cope with suffering and unfortunate circumstances. I don't really know if there's much else to say on the subject. I'll answer more specific questions if you have any.

You should read Weber's Protestant Ethic immediately.

>>9520378
You either become stoic and lacking most passion, using fatalism as a coping mechanism for the great suffering in life, or you become a nervous wreck who questions everything about the Christian religion (if Calvinist) and goes through a serious emotional episode.

Source: Former Calvinist of the first type, and unfortunately I helped create a calvinist of the second type.

>>9520719
It's weird that you say this because I stated having serious questions about Christianity around the time I became a Calvinist. It wasn't due to the Calvinism though. It was more about how Paul seemed to extend the religion to gentiles only after the jew exclusive version, that Jesus taught, had started to fail. I still consider myself a Calvinist though. Why would you associate Calvinism with a loss of faith?

>>9520740
Mostly (for this person) it was the usual idea of God being loving and etc. creating cognitive dissonance with the thought of double predestination. I am kind of a sociopath so I never really cared about the emotional implications of double predestination.

The Lutherans only believe in single predestination, but I preferred (and formerly endorsed to others) the logically consistent double predestination formula.

For many, they grow up with being taught that God loves ALL people and wants ALL to be saved (1 Tim 2:4, he does) -- being told about double predestination and being shown biblical evidence of it causes faith crises because it creates an emotional and apparently logical contradiction in God's character, which is one of the foundations of Christianity. Being unable to resolve the associated cognitive dissonance, the individual gives up on the faith altogether.

>>9520827
Fair enough. I read the Bible, and more specifically Job, at 13. This early exposure probably set a realistic foundation for who God was before I moved on to the more sappy new testament. I can see why the concept of evil coming from God might throw someone off. I think modern churches might be partially to blame for that.

Thanks for your explanation.

>>9520827
>The Lutherans only believe in single predestination, but I preferred (and formerly endorsed to others) the logically consistent double predestination formula.
Could you explain what you mean by single vs. double predestination?

Calvinism is probably the most metal ideology out there desu.

>>9520999
Truth is not for the faint of heart.

>>9520378
No, because the determinist cosmology is exactly what "regular life" is.