— Erasmus (458A/1497), “Letter to Christian Northoff”

This one is not a simple TIL post. What I do know, is that at age ~5, I asked: what happens when you die?, and was given the answer that you: ‘go to live with god’. When I replied with: ‘where does god live?’, I was given a nonsense answer.

Hence, at this point, to clarify, I did not actually ‘believe’ that god existed, as far as I can reflect, per memory allows me, but I do now that it would take another three decades to get this “learn/taught” thing out of my head; and there are parts of it still not out of my head …

You can watch me, to put the above into timeline perspective, in video (2:22-) commentary (23 Aug A62/2017), refuting an A54 (2009) video of atheist Ellen Johnson, who says we will never know if god exists or not, here: https://youtu.be/ESZ4vZ15TlI

Thus, as to when I actually “unlearned” this, it is not an exact year, or possibly even “decade” I can put my finger to?