Life is ever changing,look at each day with an open mind.Right now you ..yes i mean you..are not in the box because you said you are questioning what you do , say, and believe, that is a healthy attitude.As long as you continue to question yourself..it means you are not stuck in one way of thinking(therefore I doubt you will ever get sucked into another cult)There is no black and white...just many shades of grey.
Have I Learned to Think Outside of My Box?
by IslandWoman 14 Replies latest jw friends
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IMA_PALLED
As i scrach my head this thought came to mind.
I know now what wasn't known then and what ever it was that i should have known i didn't
if i couldn't know what ever i didn't care to know should i have known it anyway ?
I just don't know.
Don't get me started about the box............
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Lee Elder
Unfortunately, we are always making choices with limited information. We do the best we can.
I think its important to educate yourself and consider both sides of an issue. Something JWs
rarely do. It's also not a bad idea to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism - it will serve you well
most of the time.Lee
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Larry
"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." ~ Chilling to see that in writing - Ouch!
"Growing up" at my age is a painful thing - Amen to that sister :)
Challenge everything - That's what I believe. IMO some ex-jw's step out of the JW box and stop there, but the 'box-er rebellion' applys to everything :)
Actually, your post just emphazies the fultility of many arguments. We may be passionate about something one day and the next day, year, decade, change our viewpoint. Circumstances changes and so does our position.
On the other hand, some people are very comforatable in 'the'box' - no responisbility, decisions are made for them, they could lose themselves inside the box, and justify their existence via a box.
Peace and Security - LL
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SYN
Sister, you need to ask yourself: How did you feel?
Did shunning feel right? It never felt right to me. In fact, I detested it and wouldn't shun.
Did recite and rephrase sessions, AKA studies, feel right? To me it never felt right that I couldn't ask questions of this supposedly Godly religion.