Stronger or weaker (page 2)

smack

Neither. I neither believe or disbelieve. There is no proof. There is no disproof. I don't need the rules and the guilt. As P Garret said, I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Steve

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR hates double posts

Paradise Found

Hi Aztec.

To quote "YOU" I belived in God for the longest time after leaving the JWs"..... "Now iam a weak athiest"

Its better to be weak.. Than so damn sure about ourselfs Our thinking is..... "I cant be influenced by anybody else.:That I have ALL the ANSWERS:. Know one has the ANSWERS but me (Bullshit):.....Aztec give me a weak athiest or a weak christian or a weak muslim .. But dot give me a strong athiest , christian or muslim.

Flowerpetal

As a current "Dub" for the past year or so I have been re-thinking how I believe in God. I believe there is a Creator--that is for sure,but what I have problems with is reading about a God in the OT (Hebrew scriptures) who always seems to get "hot with anger" when things aren't done the way he wants and then somehow he changes (?) to a God of love in the NT (Greek scriptures). What is missing here?

stillajwexelder

Initially stronger --now weaker as I now no longer know what to believe

Stacy Smith

Has yourJehovahs Witness experience made ypur belief in God stronger or weaker?

It made it go away.

talesin

Stacy

succinct

yer right - that, too

tal

Sassy

Weaker. Since the day I chose to never go back to the hall again and not live that life any more, I haven't said one prayer. I guess I am also afraid to. Or I feel like I will not be heard so it is a waste of energy and yet I know that is from the brainwashing of thinking if you don't do things the JW way, you aren't approved. I keep telling myself that if I let it go because I doubt the religion, and yet I still believe in God, what is stopping me from thinking I won't be heard, and yet here I am afraid to pray and definately not sure what to believe.

stillajwexelder

That is exactly how I feel -----sns

Panda

Was it Bacon who said "Knowledge is power." Or maybe Blake? Anyway, it was knowledge that opened my eyes to the WTS and knowledge that opened my eyes to the god myth and book of legends. Life and death are eternal. You and I are mortal. That tells me I should appreciate and show appreciation here and now. I should do good things here and now. I should recognise that I am both powerful and powerless. I guess it's the yin/yang philosophy --- never all strong never all weak. All of the positive and negative sharing bits of space in my mind and heart.

Nosferatu

It definately made my belief in God weaker. I still believe in God, but I have my own perception as to why he put me on this earth. I believe that I'm here to either make the best of my life, or the worst. My evaluation of my life will come when I'm on my deathbed. I don't bother thinking of any afterlife. If it exists, I'll find out after I'm gone. I can't prepare for it while I'm alive, so why bother meditating on it?

Lately, I've been finding problems with the bible. There's some stuff in there that really makes sense, but there's a chunk in there that is just retarded.

Prayer is a last resort for me. I don't do it very often, but when things seem to be out of my control, that's when I do it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I can accept the consequences.

As for religion, I've given up on it. It's all a pile of crap in my opinion. I've attended a few different churches, and the forms of worship I've seen are just as retarded as some of the stuff in the bible.

Good question BTW.

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