Are you recovering the knowledge that you lost?

by cyberjesus 15 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  cyberjesus

  When I was in school as young JW I would disregard any kind of knowledge that was against what I was taught by the WT.

  Things Evolution, the space, the age periods of the earth, the immnesity of the space, etc etc. Anything that would bring more questions was also disregarded as not important enough to dedicate our valuable time. We needed to study the WT publications.

  I remember longing for that knowledge but just learning the necessary things to pass the exams and as soon as the topic was over I would purposely forget everything as it was against my religion.

  Since last year I have been reading anything and everything that comes to my hands. It is as if I discover life. I feel I was born last year. Everything is new. I realized how much knowledge I disregarded and practically lost. I have realized that I spent most of the free time on the net reading and watching videos and I was wondering why am I obsessed with it.

  I love knowledge, and I lost 39 years of it. Now that I am reborn that big curiosity for things comes back again and I cant seem to be able to stop. I need to catch up with life.

  Our descendants will build upon what we discover now. and we need to know what was discovered by our ancestors as well

  So now that you are outside of the WT... are you recovering the knowledge that you lost? or you ok believing the simple explanations of religion?
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  cyberjesus

  And to think that I thought Darwin was deluded, how deluded was I.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjUHUGDk2Y&feature=related
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  Satanus

  I am slowly learning more about how the universe, the earth came to be, and the evolution of life on it, and how it all fits together, how it is all, basically one process. The more i learn about this, the more i see how it all fits together, w the same principles being repeated over and over, often in the macro and micro levels. Recycling, for instance: it happens continuously on the earth and out in space. Humans are getting back to it, again. Learn from nature.

  Another example is how high and low pressures like to equalize, coming to a resting state when equal. This is ongoing in many areas in nature, and it tends to work among human civilizations.

  S
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  designs

  We get to have our own personal Age of Enlightenment. Its like going from simple counting and measuring in math to rational science with postulations and arguments, minor conclusions and theorems.

  You feel your mind soaring again...........
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  oldlightnewshite

  I went to school as a J-Dub and was taught to be suspicious of history, which was my favourite subject. Many a time I used to tell the teacher that I couldn't do this subject or that, and she would find me something else to study. Right now I'm particularly interested in anthropology. The one and only thing that finally got me to get baptized was reading the 'is there a creator who cares about you' book. It took an attempt to answer a lot of science questions. What an absolute pack of lies. Their quote that there wasn't enough bones of early ape men to fill a coffin! I'm making a collection of documentaries and websites which debunk all the pseudo-science crap that comes out of the Watchtower, so that I can show my family. A recent interesting find on torrents was a series of lectures about myths and legends of early cultures, including sumerian,assyrian, Egyptian and Judean.

  My real education is only just starting...
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  cyberjesus

  Do post them.
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  The Oracle

  yes - although always interested in history and science I would routinely dismiss many of the facts I was reading about as "made up by scientists and historians who were influenced by the demons" - if it contradicted WT science and history.

  Since I discovered the WT was kooky-town I have revisited countless historical and scientific topics with renewed enthusiasm.

  It really has been a refreshing and enlightening period of time to be learning about the world and universe around me with an open and honest mind. Real truth really is fascinating!

  Good Question Cyber!

  The Oracle
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  StoneWall

  cyberjesus I'm just a few years older than you from what you posted above (if you're around 39) and also feel like I'm trying to catch up sometimes on what I missed out on in earlier life because of being raised a JW.

  I love learning new things and a seeking after knowledge. And going hand in hand with that is a search for truth.

  The sad part for me is with every year that passes, I can tell it is getting harder to absorb and retain the things I research. Unlike when I was young and my brain was much more like a sponge and able to absorb.
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  wasblind

  Wow cy,

  thank you for this post, I didn't realize how much i would have been depriving

  myself and child of, other than holidays. I knew they were against college education

  but to forget what you learn in elementary and secondary school, because it didn't

  jibe with WT teaching is ridiculous
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  OUTLAW

  School is a mess for most of us..

  You don`t need an education..Your not allowed to participate in anything..

  Your up late,at Shit for Brains Meetings 3 times a week..

  Field Service on the weekend..

  Watchtower World is no place for Children..

  ....................... ...OUTLAW