Have I Learned to Think Outside of My Box?

IslandWoman

I was thinking today ( as I have many times) of those days in the JW world.

Over and over I now find it incredible that I could have thought that shunning was "good", that the door to door work was "productive", that to plan on allowing my child to die rather than to take blood was "God's will", that "worldly" people cannot know God, etc. etc. etc.

It all seemed right, it all seemed good, it all seemed God approved. Yet now I know it wasn't!

I have a question: How do I know that what I do now, what I believe now, what I say now is reality? In other words, how do I check myself to see if I am really thinking outside the box or have only made a new box for myself where things again seem good and right?

I would put this question not only to myself but also to all those who are now making trouble for this discussion board. Are you sure you have not just made another box for yourself?

IW

minimus

you don't know...you don't know anything, really.

IslandWoman

you don't know...you don't know anything, really.

Oh.... OK!

IW

minimus

I W ...I didn't mean you , personally. I meant all of us.

IslandWoman

Minimus,

I know you meant all of us, just found your response amusing. I do think though that there is a way to know if we are thinking outside of ourselves.

IW

D wiltshire

IW,

I have a question: How do I know that what I do now, what I believe now, what I say now is reality? In other words, how do I check myself to see if I am really thinking outside the box or have only made a new box for myself where things again seem good and right?

Good Question, I ask myself that everyday. Life is full of uncertainty of what reality is. The need for us to pause and reflect on these question slows us down in insisting that our reality is the same as someone elses.

I don't like to fight anymore I'm getting too old to fight people, but I will fight the WT I think till the day I die, because they have my family. I don't even like fighting them, I get no real joy from it, mainly want them out of power over peoples lives thru lies.

Satanus

Question everything.

Question all the popular politically correct ideas, hollywood.

Question the truth of political leaders.

Question your own thoughts, beliefs and feelings.

Question who or what you are.

Try to be an observer, not getting pulled along w the current in anything.

Detatch a little bit from everything.

SS the detatching class

blondie

Trust No One

IslandWoman

D Wiltshire, SS, Blondie,

I will never completely trust anyone again. Sad but necessary.

"Growing up" at my age is a painful thing.

IW

tdogg

There is always a box. Just now its a lot bigger of a box.

The only thing that we know for certain is that we can know nothing for certain.

Now I'm sounding like that one guy on the movie "Mystery Men".

Heres one,

You know you can doubt but do you doubt that you can know?

Or, How can you find the meaning of life when you can't know the meaning of meaning?

and on and on and on and on

Have I Learned to Think Outside of My Box?

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