Dear Glet:
You wrote: “my father said the problem with me is that I am too smart and I constantly want to question things.”

I don’t think the problem is with you for being “too smart”- you have a brain, hence you ask questions.

I too believe there is no god, at least not the biblical god, not the traditional biblical god, the one made in the image of man- so the bible, for me has nice parts to it, but it does not at all expresses what there really is out there, beyond what we can see/hear, etc. There is nobody out there knowing my every thought, feeling, watching my every move, taking notes. Nobody out there hearing me when I cry for help (I did, for years, as a child- no reply). I am getting comfortable wtih my understanding that … my understading is limited and there are many things I will not be able to know for the rest of my life.

I don’t engage in fantasy just so to “know” what i cannot know.

There are plenty of things that I can know though, so I don’t focus on what i can never know.
anita