When I deconverted, I found the following readings helpful in orienting to a new worldview:
Eliezer’s Sequences. Many of these are explicitly about the problem of finding meaning in a godless world. But even the articles that are not about that demonstrate a hard-to-summarize way of orienting to the world that can be healthy and joyful. Particularly relevant sequences:
Luke’s old Common Sense Atheism blog. I liked following his journey from Christianity to atheism and beyond.
But most importantly, I benefited from talking with friends about the big questions (“How do we feel about death?”), the small questions (“Which religiously proscribed activities are fun, and how do I do them?”), and nonreligious questions that I needed to reexamine (history, politics, race, gender). I hung out with my college’s Atheism/Humanism/Agnosticism student group and the local Less Wrong meetup, where I met some newly-deconverted people.
When I deconverted, I found the following readings helpful in orienting to a new worldview:
Eliezer’s Sequences. Many of these are explicitly about the problem of finding meaning in a godless world. But even the articles that are not about that demonstrate a hard-to-summarize way of orienting to the world that can be healthy and joyful. Particularly relevant sequences:
Fake beliefs
Death spirals
Letting go
The simple math of evolution
Lawful truth
Reductionism 101
Joy in the merely real
Physicalism 201
Fake preferences
Metaethics sequence
Quantified humanism
Yudkowsky’s coming of age
Luke’s old Common Sense Atheism blog. I liked following his journey from Christianity to atheism and beyond.
But most importantly, I benefited from talking with friends about the big questions (“How do we feel about death?”), the small questions (“Which religiously proscribed activities are fun, and how do I do them?”), and nonreligious questions that I needed to reexamine (history, politics, race, gender). I hung out with my college’s Atheism/Humanism/Agnosticism student group and the local Less Wrong meetup, where I met some newly-deconverted people.
I was just reminded of this post of yours in the suggested posts section at the bottom of this page. Based on that, I especially recommend:
Reading Existential Angst Factory;
Focusing on solving the biggest practical problems in your everyday life;
Talking to your psychiatrist about experimenting with different medications, if appropriate;
Finding a good talk therapist, if you’re able.