as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.
however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.
i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
Anyone dismissing the ability of the mind in forming images is ironically the one being closed minded.
Once you know what the mind can do, the most probable explanation alters.....
http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds?language=en
as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.
however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.
i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
here is how I made a desicion on spirits and a few other things....
What have I seen myself?..........oh yeah nothing!
There are miracles and witnesses of them taking place all over the earth now, as always. You probably live a bus ride away from a UFO and alien witness. There is a court in Saudi that just allowed a man to divorce his wife as she was possessed by a genie but didn't warn him....
Believe half of what you see and NOTHING of what you hear.
so this weeks service meeting is so full of "crazy".
a whole 15 min part devoted to trying to indoctrinate everyone on how to "explain our beliefs on 1914".
then another 15 min part called "a tool to help us explain our beliefs about 1914".
A ridiculous doctrine that JW's cant explain and don't get, good luck convincing a wandering passerby with a smartphone....
that was a statement from my dyed-in-the-wool jw pioneer mother in trying to analyze why i faded and left the jws.
my answer was to say: "if i have to make something real to me, chances are it wasn't real to begin with.
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Far from it,
I wrote down who I thought Jehovah was, to summarise I pictured a fatherly, just, loving god awaiting the time to do good. I then re-read the bible with the one and only purpose of focusing on who god was.nI didn't find the god we had been sold. I found a vicious, jealous, petty, angry, unworthy charachter that was no god.
That version of jehovah we all imagined as we said prayers or felt vulnerable IS NOT IN the bible at all. I found a god that commanded genocide, infanticide, rape, slavery, sexism, rasicm, war......... This helped me with regard to guilt feelings and fear, I would never, ever bow to a human that behaved like this, much less defend one, worship one....give my life to one!
The REAL jehovah has not been made known to any of us..... because we would instantly reconsider our alliance with such a charachter.
Christopher Hitchens is irreplaceable, as he said. "If god asked me to sacrifice my oldest child to prove my faith, I would tell that god to f*** off and face the consequences!"
not only does it steal your time from earning a living and having personal time, it also costs you real $$$ in fuel vehicle costs and maintainance .
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then there is the financial implications to your future, not many businesses are interested in a door to door preacher with soapy water skills.
what is the perfect product to sell to a jw?.
cheap?.
exclusive?.
A unique payment scheme.
Pay now and some time SOON in the future, you will get your product......
100 years later.....
There are two overlapping payment schemes, if you paid into the earlier scheme, your offspring of the same generation will get the product......
talking about an article that makes you want to throw-up in your mouth- wt-study jan 15, 2015 the offered themselves willingly.. amazing the psych job of selling your business, moving your entire family, quiting your job to be a "temporary" worker at the new world headquarters!.
throw your livelyhood away only to get the "feeling" that jehovahs is blessing you!
i wish there was away to track the psych job during patterson and other major projects of what happened to all the "friends" that sold and got rid of their livelyhood then and where are they now.. did you ever sacrifce it all for a building project only to be left with nothing after your "spiritual high"?.
What a waste of time those years were in my life.
Do not waste your time, energy effort and most importantly......YOUR YOUTH......on a corporation you are forbidden to read negative material on.
You know your 'alarm bells' are ringing about the organisation, getting knee deep in its activities to distract yourself from your doubt will only delay your focus. When your attention returns on the inevitible contradictions and concerns, your youth will be gone and the possibility of painful regret will keep you willingly blind. There the vicious circle begins, next you marry a JW and have kids, now you are really stuck and the doubts have multiplied too.
Beware the trap.......
Do yourself a favour and take a weekend off from carrying bricks and do some research.
JW Facts
Crisis of Conscience
found this on youtube.
this is louise goode .
shes also on facebook.
So impressed with her. I wrote to the charity comission in 2012 about these issues and they were not interested. They have been forced to consider the issue now and sounds like they are shocked at what is going on with tax exempted funding.
i am applying to chemical engineering course in the uk through ucas (a lot of things changed since i've posted last time).. i have a lot of skills i developed while regular pioneering, like public speaking skills, ability to reason (even if it's bs), presentational skills etc.. i feel it would boost my personal statement a lot, but i'm also afraid they would say "this guy beleives in god, and loves science, he must be creationist.
away with him".. how could i mention that i gave interviews front of thousands of people and did voluntary work in my hometown without giving a bad impression?.
i don't want to go into details and start explaining myself that "however i don't beleive in god", or something like that.
have you decided yet?
the biblical archeological review journal is running a caption contest.
you have to submit your idea of a snappy caption for this image:.
it's based on proverbs 26:3 which says (in case you no longer own a bible-grin):.
The man holding tools "Now come on, you know I'm blind, which one of you is the ass?"
Fool "Well, I do vote republican..."
