Organized religion, no religion, agnostic

by cnn77 45 Replies latest jw friends

  • D wiltshire
    D wiltshire

    I'm a 3.

    I believe in the Bible and except Christ. I believe if you want to be a christian than just be a christian no organization needed. I'm not anti organization and I feel that there is a mixture of true and false christian in all the organized groups (Matt. 13). It's just easier to be a christian when your not an official member(you are not forced to believe what this or that group teaches) and some times forced to except teachings to retain membership. I except as my brothers in the faith, all that except Christ.

    Was Jw for 29 yrs.

  • Yerusalyim
    Yerusalyim

    I guess I'm an OTHER, Life long Catholic, never in the BOrg, never interested in joining, never believed their doctrines. My association comes through my wife, who is now a 2 I guess.

    Yeru

    YERUSALYIM
    "Vanity! It's my favorite sin!"
    [Al Pacino as Satan, in "DEVIL'S ADVOCATE"]

  • DCs Ghost
    DCs Ghost

    . . . .looking over the menu. . . .

    . . . i am gnostic. . . .

    dc

    "we do not see the world as it is,
    we see the world as we are. . ." Anais Nin

  • Introspection
    Introspection

    I guess either 3 or 6 for me, depending on what you meant by and include under 3. Oh, just call me an amorphous, bloated sac of protoplasm. (anyone remember Ren & Stimpy?) Oh wait, you were asking about my BELIEFS...

    "It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly--you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease." -Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

  • peaceloveharmony
    peaceloveharmony

    #5

    "Power doesn't mean you're acting like a man, or you're a bully or a bitch. It's that you don't let people step on you"
    -Sharon Monplaisir

  • dedalus
    dedalus

    4 on a good day, 5 on a bad day

    Joel--

    I believe that life is god, that is, that god is that which connects all life together.
    Unless I'm mistaken, this makes you a pantheist. Yeah?

    Dedalus

  • Free2Bme
    Free2Bme

    I'm a 6
    Ex-JW who now refuses to be pigeon-holed!
    I think religion is a racket and just another reason mankind has devised to hate and seek to destroy eachother.
    I believe in a God of creation but I don't believe the answers to questions such as 'Why are we here?' are found in a book written by men.
    I believe in living a good life and am open-minded about what happens after death. I'd like to believe in an after-life of sorts.
    More importantly I am still learning and absorbing information and open to ideas.

    Free

  • joelbear
    joelbear

    Dedalus,

    Yes, my beliefs are quite similar to pantheism.

    hugs

    Joel

  • nytelecom1
    nytelecom1

    a...oh the options were numbers..........mm...Ill stick with a

  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee

    I consider myself a spiritual person - probably moreso now than when I was in the Borg.
    My spirituality is a process in the making. I have no idea where it will take me and how or in what ways it will develop. I refuse to label it other than the word spirituality.

    I believe that I am most connected to my spiritual side when I am listening to my inner self and living in a manner that is in agreement with that inner self.

    I have learned that I cannot accept the ideas/teachings/theology of others as absolute. I can only know for sure what is inside of me - and living up to that is struggle enough for me. So I prefer to ignore the counsel of others when it comes to my spiritual life

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