I'm curious.
Looking Back, Do You Think You Ever Really "Loved" Jehovah?
by minimus 26 Replies latest jw friends
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nvrgnbk
Is He even there to be "loved"?
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fullofdoubtnow
I thought I did, but I think it was more fear than love, looking back
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minimus
It's hard to "love" someone you can't see, never talks back to you, and possibly never gives a sh*t.
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nvrgnbk
It's hard to "love" someone you can't see, never talks back to you, and possibly never gives a sh*t.
Is He even there to be "loved"?
My point exactly Sir minimus!
Nvr
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liquidsky
I thought I did. He just never loved me back.
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Tyrone van leyen
No, I never did, cuz he's as useless as bull tits. He's got about as much love, caring and justice as his phycho followers. What a Joke!
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PrimateDave
I was always told that I should love Jehovah.
Fact is that I was never really taught what "love" is.
I was taught duty, morality, and the suppression of my true feelings.
If you amputate your legs, you can still get around in a wheelchair,
but you'll never feel the grass under your feet.
In other words, when we were children, many of us were taught to hide, suppress, or be ashamed of our true feelings.
Later, we were told that God is Love, but we never saw him or heard from him.
We could talk to him, we were told, but he never dignified us with a direct response.
Our parents said that they loved us, and then they spanked us and silenced us.
As emotional amputees, we were victimized by the Watchtower Society.
They told us that loving Jehovah meant attending meetings and distributing literature.
It was our duty to love Jehovah. There was no feeling in it.
We followed Jehovah's morality. There was no feeling in it.
Blood can never flow through prosthetic limbs.
They told us that loving Jehovah meant being afraid of him, fearing him.
Jehovah was like our own fathers. He was big and silent and could give you a whipping if you didn't behave.
Now that I'm grown up, I really do love my parents, but Jehovah is, to me, just the imaginary authoritarian
Sky Father invented by patriarchal priesthood a long time ago.
I guess you could say that I'm in recovery from Jehovah's "love".
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FlyingHighNow
No, because he never seemed real and he felt like a crazed serial killer or nazi just waiting to off me and almost everyone else.
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jaguarbass
When I was a witness which was back in the 60's and 70's, I feared Jehovah, I didnt want to be destroyed, so I behaved according to my understanding of what Jehovah wanted. When I left the tower in 83, I began to recover and grow and part of that recovery was having an attitude of gratitude and I was grateful to a god I called Jehovah. Then as I studied the bible and studied life, I came to question if there is a God to love or be thankful to. That's where I am today. Sort of an agnostic condition of not knowing. And wondering if its possible to know. Do I love the unknown? I dont know.
If I could comprhend a loving benevolent God, then I think I would love him. Right now, no comprende.