I have replaced "religion" with an attempt at truly spiritual life. LIFE being the most important word because that's what we are here to do. We can be predominently spiritual when we are in spirit form.
Sirona
What have you replaced religion with?
by logansrun 51 Replies latest jw friends
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expatbrit
Bradley:
When one has a tumour removed, it is not necessary to replace it. Nor is there a law that there must exist a reason for being. Along those paths lie emotional and "spiritual" delusion, the silt in the clear waters of reality.
Expatbrit
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Dansk
Animistic pantheism
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expatbrit
Animistic pantheism
You like cartoons about underwear?
Expatbrit
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undercover
I have replaced the JW religion(doing what someone else tells me to do) with my own religion(doing what I want to do). Sundays are for watching NFL football or enjoying the outdoors. The time spent at the hall on the two meeting nights are now spent at the local bar with my neighbors drinking a few beers and watching a ballgame on the bar TV. Saturday morning, I sleep late. When I eventually get up, we go out for breakfast with our newspaper.
Invariably about the time we get to our favorite breakfast spot on Saturday morning, the service group is just getting there to take a break.
My religion is superior, especially on that day, because I didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn, dress up for a funeral, sit in a cold hall while some FE(future elder) admonishes everyone on how to keep a not-at-home record, go knock on doors where either no one answers or they are rude and unreceptive. By the time that the people from my former religion have arrived at break and by the time that I have arrived for breakfast in the same place, we have both accomplished the same thing; nothing. I, though, got at least two extra hours of sleep and I didn't have to shave and get all dressed up.
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ignored_one
Life.
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Ignored One.
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Abaddon
To me this question is like asking an adult what they have replaced Santa Claus with.
I don't feel a need to have 'something' to replace what I now see as an imaginary construction.
I guess I do 'have' something, as I get bugged when people equate godlessness with pointlessness. I feel the fact there is no god or divine plan means that we have to make the best we can of things, to ourselves and those we touch in our lives.
Defining the meaning of our individual existence is a powerful and heady thing compared to the 'off-the-shelf' versions of meaning supplied by religion and pseudoreligion.
But meaning is over-rated too. The Wasteland by T.S.Eliot is FULL of meaning, and best used as toilet paper.
Fun is also important.
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logansrun
i was thinking of going door to door to the jw's i know $ preach. i do have advantage the dont know me but i know 80% of there kh would be fun at christmas
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franklin J
secular education and positive thinking.
I have no interest in religious beliefs of any kind ( unless it is philosophical)
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Netty
THis is funny because my mother, sarcastically said to me the other day "You're Line Dancing is your religion" She's right it is, I line dance two times a week, 3 hours a day, then prepare for class during the week. There's the whole ritual and group dynamic thing to it. But it is WAY different for one reason, I LOVE doing it.