Posts by transhuman68

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Coping with becoming an atheist?

by Crazyguy in

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its been a very eye opening experience for me to find out that the god of the bible is as real as thor or ra.

i still believe a higher power created life but can see now how it doesn't really care about us.

so with this in mind realizing one has only 70-80 years to live and that may be just it, is very stunning..

transhuman68

IDK. All these questions seemed really important when I first discovered them... but the questions of god, the afterlife, and the meaning of life on Earth really don't have any concrete answers, so I think it's best to just concetrate on living life- while it's there.

It's like the guys in a firing squad- one of them has a blank bullet in his gun- but they never find out who, so they can never be absolutely sure that they were the one who killed the condemned man. Likewise, there might be a god who is a really nice guy with a beard who says 'Welcome to Heaven'... but the odds of that are pretty remote.

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'Peace and Security' - What do you think?

by startingover13 in

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woke up this morning to my cnn app alerting me that popel francis has called for peace in the middle east, and is making arrangements to meet with leaders in that region to promote tolerance and acceptance.

i've been out for almost a year now, inactive for almost two, but in that moment all of the jw teachings about the signs on the end, the cry of peace and security, and what would happen to those that aren't serving jehovah returned to me.

24 years of teachings are hard to forget, and reading the story on cnn.com didn't help the situation.

transhuman68

LOL, the Pope is just grandstanding- seeking publicity. Since when have the Jews & Muslims ever paid any attention to what Christians say? It might happen when Hell freezes over... and since there is no Hell either it will never happen, lol. Everything in the Bible was written for the people of those times- not for us. Check out the two Roman goddesses- Pax & Securitus.

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What would this world be like today , if their was never , ever , any concept of a GOD or a Creator .?

by smiddy in

given the fact that religion has been such a divisive force throughout history amongst all nations and tribes of the earth , i wonder how things might have been different had their been no god / creator / religion in the mix.. of course religion alone has not been the cause of all mankinds troubles & conflicts with each other , nationalism , polotics , racism , to name a few are also guilty of these problems.. but it seems to me that religion , beleif in a creator / god and its consequences of such a beleif are the cheif causes of mankinds troubles.. remember this is your thoughts if a creator , god , religion didnt exist in human conscience .. what are your thoughts ?.

smiddy.

transhuman68

but did not stop deists/ believers to greatly contribute to progress.

Yes, but not because they were believers... but in spite of it. It took the Catholic Church until 1992 to admit that Galileo had, in fact, been correct; and the Earth did orbit around the Sun- in spite of what the Bible said! And scientists used to believe that the centre of the Earth was composed of water- because the Bible said so. Religion has been a disaster for humans.

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What would this world be like today , if their was never , ever , any concept of a GOD or a Creator .?

by smiddy in

given the fact that religion has been such a divisive force throughout history amongst all nations and tribes of the earth , i wonder how things might have been different had their been no god / creator / religion in the mix.. of course religion alone has not been the cause of all mankinds troubles & conflicts with each other , nationalism , polotics , racism , to name a few are also guilty of these problems.. but it seems to me that religion , beleif in a creator / god and its consequences of such a beleif are the cheif causes of mankinds troubles.. remember this is your thoughts if a creator , god , religion didnt exist in human conscience .. what are your thoughts ?.

smiddy.

transhuman68

LOL, I don't think that makes much sense, prologos! What if there was a god/creator, but nobody knew? Whichever way... the forgetful, resentful, and totally childish god of the OT certainly didn't create the universe!

Without religion we probably would have had computers hundreds of years before we did. Christianity has always held back science.

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WHY NOT fire Jehovah and hire a BETTER God?

by Terry in

what kind of god are you looking for?.

the one i want to hire has to fill these requirements:.

1. kind to a fault without being a namby-pampy hippy.

transhuman68

LOL, we are all gods already. All you need is in your head- where god has always existed anyway, lol.

Man has a symbolic identity that brings him sharply out of nature. He is a symbolic self, a creature with a name, a life history. He is a creator with a mind that soars out to speculate about atoms and infinity, who can place himself imaginatively at a point in space and contemplate bemusedly his own planet. This immense expansion, this dexterity, this ethereality, this self-consciousness gives to man literally the status of a small god in nature, as the Renaissance thinkers knew. -Ernest Becker.

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Relationship with Jehovah?

by Batman89 in

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when you were a devout jw.

did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.

or that this was actually even possible deep down?.

transhuman68

To the OP: if you click on the 'search' box in the blue banner at the top of the screen, and type in 'relationship with jehovah' or 'relationship with god' you will find many threads on this topic. It is one of the puzzling things about this religion. I never got baptised because I couldn't make Jehovah 'real'- and as I found out later, there is a good reason why this is so difficult...

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What song or line from a song bests describes your time as a JW?????

by karter in

waisted days and waisted nites.. freddy fender..

transhuman68

Shattersphere- Lost In The Flames:

No God can save you now

My God, I have no faith
I'm stuck in this f****d up place
(My son, I'm right here next to you)
I try to live and learn
But I still feel the burn
(My son, I'm here for you...)

I've spread my love and all my faith
I've done it all in seven days
I never thought it would be this way
And I'm still bleeding

So I fall down to pray
But I think I've lost my page
(My son, it's lost in the flames)

Lost in the hands of time

Hands of time take me away to where I want to be
Lead the way because I can't see the life in me
I was lost in the flames as I screamed

My God, I've failed again
I wait for your crushing hand
(My son, I'm afraid it's too late)

Is this for real?

Save me now

Life's tough when you're young and trapped in a KH with a bunch of fools, lol...

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"But the Basics haven't changed"

by Phizzy in

a couple of days ago in town i met a jw guy i have known since he was a kid in diapers, he is now an elder and must be 40 yrs old, still a kid to me, though.. he gave me the spiel about "we would love to see you come back " , i said that i could not come back to the religion i had left as it no longer existed (a line i got from my friend bill), this elder replied that there "had been changes, but the basics remain the same".. i just was not quick enough with this one, i just sort of nodded at that and went on about what i simply could not swallow as "truth".

overlapping generation etc etc.. what he was meaning by the basics being the same is that nothing has changed on the "what jw's don't believe in" front, i.e trinity, immortal soul etc.

the reality it is that the basics of jw/wt teachings about what they do believe in have all changed !.

transhuman68

Well, they are still waiting for Armageddon... no change there, lol ...

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Bible Atrocities

by Trapped in JW land in

i really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?

what was their response?

i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.

transhuman68

Mormons don't mind a good massacre...

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One thing about this site that bothers me

by keyser soze in

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the constant references to 'window washers' as something derogatory.. i understand the context of it-that most jws are uneducated, and unqualified to do much more.

but sometimes the references seem snobbish, almost mean-spirited.

one poster, on another thread, essentially referred to window washers as 'losers'.

transhuman68

I don't see anything wrong with jokes about window cleaners. It's a fact of life about JWs- the congregations really are usually made up of working-class people. The real joke is that the elders are no more 'spiritual' than my cat, and they probably spend most of the meeting thinking about the jobs they will be doing in the next few days. It's just the blind leading the blind. At least in a real church, they clergy may have some years of theological training- and although they really don't have any answers, at least they understand the questions.