Who are the A/As on the board?

by starfish422 87 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Mulan

  Btw, see ya at Joy's

  Wow!! You are coming too??? No one told me that. Great..............can't wait to meet you.
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  willy_think

  i wish i could answer this one. mostly i believe in God, never do i believe i can know for sure if there is or is not a God and some times i laugh at my self for buying into one set of old myths over another.

  in all honsty i would have to answer yes to all at different times of the day.
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  codeblue

  Hey LittleToe and Mulan:

  Wish I could see ya in Florida at Joy's....I can't be in till November 3rd...how long are you guys gonna be in Panama City Beach?

  Would be great to meet both of you.

  LittleToe....Mr. Codeblue would enjoy meeting and having some discussions with ya too!

  And yes, I believe in God----the wonders of creation are proof to me---I live in one of the most absolute beautiful places a person can live, living testimony that there is a Creator.

  Codeblue
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  Aztec

  You can put me down as an atheist.

  ~Aztec
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  LittleToe

  CB:
  Darn - I'd love to meet you both, too, but I fly out again early on the Monday morning
  Maybe another time though.

  Expat:

  Subjective experiences? I'm doing my best to try and give them up.

  Me too, but they are addictive. I hope all the government warnings are wrong, coz I don't want a nasty experience later in life
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  closer2fine

  sign me up for the atheist side

  closer
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  AlanF

  I'm an agnostic. I lean towards atheism but because I can't actually disprove the existence of some "God", I can't take the "strong atheist" position.

  I no more believe in the existence of a biblical "God" than I do in the Muslim Allah, Greek or Roman or Norse gods, the pantheon of Hindu gods, or the fuzzy goddish notions of Buddhism and other religions. I find absolutely no evidence for them, and a huge amount against them. I leave open the possibility of some sort of "creator" of life on earth, but it's not necessarily a "god" in a supernatural sense.

  Believers in the supernatural often wonder why I and other agnostics/atheists take their positions. It's because they haven't seen any real evidence of the existence of any "god". Some years ago, at the behest of a couple of very nice and sincere JWs, I gave prayer to the Christian God one more try. Let it suffice to say that if my prayers were answered -- which "answer" I can't distinguish from none at all -- it went completely against the Bible principles I had been taught as a JW, and after that things worked out entirely for my benefit and happiness. And of course, during many previous years I had tried and tried to get responses from "God", entirely without success. So if this God exists, he obviously wants nothing to do with me nor I with him. This is indistinguishable from his non-existence.

  AlanF
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  sandy

  This is interesting, I was just about to post this topic and then I came across it.

  I am leaning toward agnostic. I just cannot completely drop the feeling of there being something out there. Some kind of superior power that created everything.

  I would like to hear some of the atheists arguments. Is there a thread on here where I can find them?
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  maxwell

  I'm agnostic. I still believe that there are some things that suggest there might be a supernatural force. Life on this planet, this planet, physical forces, etc. But these things could just as well have ended up here as explained in the evolution theory. I don't see conclusive proof for the God theory or the evolution theory. I don't know that there's ever been a proper poll of people on this site, but I find it interesting that it seems that here there is a higher proportion of atheist/agnostics here than in the general population. The vast majority of humans do believe in some type of god. I suppose when you leave JW, it causes you to question many things that some people take for granted. I told someone I met about my beliefs. She could hardly believe it. She was 38 years old and acted as if she had never met anyone who did not believe in God and she wasn't a JW. And she refused to consider the idea that there might not be a God. It was not a concept she was able to grasp, so we didn't stay on that subject long.
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  logansrun

  I'm an agnostic with a penchant for mystical pantheism.

  B.