An unresolvable contradiction.
Perhaps that's why we were mis-lead.
Can YOU solve the following Paradox??
by Terry 39 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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JeffT
Terry
Try developing a religious frame of reference not based on modern American Protestantism (or what modern American Protestants tell you about other religions). There are plenty of other possibilities out there.
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brinjen
I'm with FlyingHighNow... don't believe neither religion or science can hold all the answers (though to be fair... the scientific community do admit they are still learning).
It perplexes me how someone can believe in an all powerful, perfect being who spends so much time hung up on the minor issues (ie morality, whether we believe in said being or not) when surely this perfect being would see the much bigger picture (ie war, people starving etc) and would surely be more focused on those issues instead... I think if there is a God and he is half as vindictive as many religions would like to have us believe... none of us currently living would have ever had the chance to be born in the first place. Just my view.
I do also get what you're saying as well Tec.
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Satanus
Good point terry. Likewise, someone who does get a spiritual insight, as soon as her attempts to write it, speak it or transmit it, it becomes corrupted. Language can't succeed in transmitting the spiritual. 'Course, materialists will say 'duh'. For the spiritual, direct experience is the only way. That's why i say that atheist should be the default position for a person growing up. I have heard that sanskrit is a language sprung from experience. Apparently, they do have words that attempt to explain their experience. That's why, if you read the eastern stuff, they generally resort to using sanskrit words - there are no english equivalents.
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ziddina
That's why I"m not religious - or "spiritual"...
The whole ball-o-wax sounds like a semi-permanent state of being out-of-contact with reality.
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tec
Thanks Brin. I see what you're saying as well. I would suggest that big things change if we change within. So some of those small issues being focused upon could naturally lead to fixing big issues. Just as a natural consequence. however, I am not talking about rules and regulations and such, by any means. I mean more along the lines of changing how we think, how we feel about others, how selfish or selfless we are, etc. If God was as vindictive as some religions make him out to be, then i'd say most of us wouldn't have a prayer ;)
peace,
tammy
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Captain Obvious
Easy.
Lead was found by a human process. Not invented by man. Pipes, however, were invented by man.
Religion, invented by man.
God, also invented by man.
We now have pipes that don't make us sick, but we still have religion.
Just give it some time, and man can find a healthier alternative to god and religion.
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trillaz
Well lead may be poisonous but taking small amounts of it will not kill you.
Vaccinations are virii injected into us to make us better able to withstand a full virus.
As a kid, I worshiped demons like Santa Clause and the tooth fairy without knowing what I was doing. I saw hypocrisy in the Church as well.
As a college bound adult, I threw away my old protestant religion because I had a taste of it and knew it was wrong.
I was later (much later) fooled by the WTB&TS thinking they were on the same line of thinking as I but I found the same bad taste with them
I do not consider myself dying because of the poisons I took in. I am better able to see through each group now and am better for it.
So in my personal religion, I have beliefs, and still seek the way to either higher conciousness or the creator, even if it is not based on anyone else's notions.
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brinjen
I hear ya Tec.
I've been wondering lately... is God the problem or is it religion? If a God does exist does he even care what we think of him? If we are required to believe in him (which doesn't make sense to me) how specific do you have to get? There's so many variations of God just within the Christian religions... kinda says to me he doesn't. I also can't see how religion would be a priority of any kind to him either... I think he'd be more concerned about how we treat others. I do like your God Tec.
Those are just some of the questions/issues buzzing around in my head lately.
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rather be in hades
Well, in answer to your paradox question (why trust man with a message, etc)... we shouldn't. We should drink our water directly from the source... no need for lead pipes at all.
that was smooth. i still don't believe, but that was smooth lol.
how do you know you're drinking water? ;)
