Self Deceit and Faith.

by hillary_step 208 Replies latest jw friends

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  Vinny

  I was just kidding with you Burn. The silly atheists think you have less that two years before becoming one of them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  nvrgnbk

  We're all just trying to figure it all out.

  Amen!

  Jesus came to me tonight.

  He took the form of a flyer from the Assemblies of Yahweh warning of the pagan roots of the Chr-stmas celebration.

  Don't ask me, that's how they spell it.

  It was lovingly placed under my windshield wiper, the Holy Spirit works in wondrous ways.

  It quotes extensively from The Two Babylons and McClintock and Strong's Bible Cyclopedia.

  Where have I heard of those "works" before?

  LOL!

  Thank you, Jesus, I mean Yahshua the Messiah. Don't ask me, that's what they call Jesus.

  We're all just trying to figure it all out.

  Self-deceit is alive and well in America!
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  Vinny

  NVR says:..""Self-deceit is alive and well in America!"
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  hillary_step

  BA seems to be upset that I referred to him as a semi-educated, intellectually one-dimensional, sea cucumber.

  I need to apologize to all semi-educated, one dimensional sea-cumbers waddling around the Seven Seas - for obvious reasons. Sears needs you! ;)

  HS
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  hillary_step

  Vinny Bwaahhha...hhaaa..eerrr..eeeek,

  Yep, all amazing things surrounding us today; the entire universe, amazing earth and all varieties of life upon the earth, are all very simply the result of one unguided, intelligence-less, fortuitous process after process. That just so happened to result in a great variety of organized, complex, intricate and purposeful features and things.

  You are a scintillating nut-job but I have to say, that like Mr/Mrs Jcanon, there is something about you that is very endearing.

  HS
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  Satanus

  God has been really busy, up here in the great white north, as of late. There must be billions of snowflakes out there. Each one is beautiful and unique. I know that god makes each each one, as a random mindless process just couldn't be responsible for the intricate order of a snowflake. Could be santa, though. He flies around up there, around this time of yr. Anyways, merry saturnalia to all.
  
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  beksbks

  Faith, in my humble opinion, is actually fear. The fear that we are spiraling alone out here. I think some people find it far more comforting to think that there is a supreme being, with a master plan. Self deception, self preservation.
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  BurnTheShips

  Faith, in my humble opinion, is actually fear. The fear that we are spiraling alone out here.

  You got it bass ackwards.

  Faith is hope. Not fear.

  The fear that we are spiraling alone out here.

  Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
  red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
  lets me see.
  As we loathe, so above and beyond, I imagine
  drawn beyond the lines of reason.
  Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
  
  Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
  Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
  Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
  
  Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
  red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
  lets me see there is so much more
  and beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
  As we loathe, so above and beyond, I imagine
  drawn outside the lines of reason.
  Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
  
  Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
  Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
  
  Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
  Reaching out to embrace the random.
  Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
  
  I embrace my desire to
  feel the rhythm, to feel connected
  enough to step aside and weep like a widow
  to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
  to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
  to swing on the spiral
  of our divinity and still be a human.
  
  With my feet upon the ground I lose myself
  between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
  I feel it move across my skin.
  I'm reaching up and reaching out.
  I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
  And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
  We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
  
  Spiral out. Keep going...
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  Superfine Apostate

  > the Assemblies of Yahweh
  
  LOL! i've been on their forum a few years ago, when i tried to sort out my doubts. i somehow thought, i'd had to find another group using the tetragrammaton, don't ask ME why.. lol