To some extent, but you don't consider your computer just the raw materials it's made of.
Do you know who you are?
by cyberjesus 62 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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brotherdan
I am...nothing. I don't exist.
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OnTheWayOut
I do not need to find out exactly what I am made of, chemically.
I am interested in how man and life came to be. I am interested in the fact that nothing has been proven to show that an awareness or an energy or a "spirit" survives after the death of the body. So, I abide by the notion that this life is all that there is. It is an unproveable fact, a theory. But electricity is just a theory and we use it just fine despite the fact that it is unproveable.
I am very interested in who I am, as a unique awareness in the universe while I am alive. WTS interferes with anyone's search for their own knowledge of who they are. WTS discourages education in general, and certainly discourages a search for personal meaning in life. Besides, they take all of a person's time to do that search, encouraging a stupid door-to-door imposition on others' time.
But now I have been able to explore "who I am" and I had to start with "why I chose the course I chose" that included worshipping according to WTS practices. I love the freedom to self-educate without getting my time in. I love the library and the internet sites and my ex-JW friends who are part of my self-education.
Who am I? I really understand much more about that question than when I was a JW.
Thanks for your latest several threads addressing these questions about reality and "being" and knowing who we are.
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Quirky1
90% Beer & 10% Crazy
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Joshnaz
As a individual I know who I am, but its easier to know the family, history of family, and blood-line to understand who we are first. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. No one knows who they truly are because theirs so much influence by other people. The only true way to know is to isolate yourself from all influences and discover for yourself who you are. Unfortunately that's impossible unless you live on a deserted island.
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brotherdan
Seriously though...since I was raised a JW, I never knew WHO I was. I remember first getting married and telling my wife, "You know, I don't really know WHO I am..."
She said, "That's a load of crap and it makes no sense." I just stopped talking to her about it. But it's only been recently, since questioning the WT, that I know that I am:
1. A good person
2. I love good people
3. I screw up ALOT
4. But I feel sorry when I hurt people due to my screw ups
5. I love God with all my heart
6. I love to have a good time and be happy
7. Sometimes I like to be depressed. I've written some of my best songs when I'm at my lowest
8. I love life
9. I hate life
10. I am ME and I am not a number in a corrupt organization.
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tec
its already discovered.
Its probably not fully discovered. I mean, there are probably things about atoms and our chemical/physical makeup that we don't have the tools to discern yet.
Tammy
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Mad Sweeney
what happened to your zinc and iron?
They're in my blood, which belongs to Jehovah, not to me, I've been told.
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Markfromcali
Be careful around Magneto.
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Joshnaz
I spent almost a year isolated from society and found out: I'm half my mom, and half my dad.