Posts by Phaedra

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A list of top You tubers out there worth visiting, please add yours.
by pleaseresearch in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i'm an unbelieving but baptised jw.

i woke up to ttatt around 4 years ago.

i haven't been regular to meetings for nearly 10 years.
Phaedra

JT and Lady C from this site
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpHhWSPtMDTSa8dzapmzo5A
ExJW Critical Thinker
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What's the point?
by punkofnice in
1. jw
2. friends
i mean, i don't want to be miserable or anything, but what's the bloody point of it all?.

since i left the watchtower cult, i have come to realise that god cannot possibly exist...and if a god exists...god is indifferent to humankind as the least.. in 100 years time i'll be gone.

kaput.
Phaedra

Punk,
Sorry, my last post was bleak. Your posts always touch me where it hurts. Then I leak. Sorry for that.
I used to be wide-eyed and full of wonder. Now each day is a challenge to find reasons to go on. It's hard. So hard I shouldn't comment in suicide threads. Sorry to you and anyone else that I've added pain to.
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What's the point?
by punkofnice in
1. jw
2. friends
i mean, i don't want to be miserable or anything, but what's the bloody point of it all?.

since i left the watchtower cult, i have come to realise that god cannot possibly exist...and if a god exists...god is indifferent to humankind as the least.. in 100 years time i'll be gone.

kaput.
Phaedra

I couldn't commit suicide (although, I've tried before), I don't wanna die.................what's the bloody point to anything? It's all so futile. Transient. Always ends in tears.
I'm fine with going to sleep and not waking up. no tears.
When you start learning about how worse it is in other countries who don't give a fuck about running over people with cars, and backing up to be sure they're dead because it's better in the "justice" system to kill instead of maim (China) and human trafficking of children for sex, it's easy to get in the line for a ticket out. I don't want anything to do with this world. Fuck it.
My first world comforts don't make up for the 8-yearod sold off in some third-world country who never has a chance at anything. I'd rather not be here. You with your money and smartphones and high-paying jobs on the backs of others yeah, you got yours. Kill me now so I don't have to turn my head anymore to the suffering of other human beings and beautiful creatures that exist and get in the way of profiteers.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

Ok. Let me find that book and I'll revisit this after.
Thanks Cofty and others for your thoughts on this.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

In the West for most of us, life isn't a struggle. Sure, we have tough times - trying to find a job, pay the bills, escape from the WT, etc. but we don't starve or die of exposure. We have cheap food, heating, running water, shelter, etc.
And then, with intelligence and human consciousness, some sensitive souls wrestle with the idea of "surviving" or trying to heal *whatever* is in their baggage is so against the odds and decide isn't worth it to pass along genes. Those who chose to opt--out and suicide... Is that intelligent decision to "throw in the towel" to concede to the fittest another way biology makes its dominance (or not) its way to the top to survive? Survive to what?
Is reality then that weak people don't belong and they should just shuttle off? Damn, that's depressing.
I'm looking up that book. Gotta find the author through amazon.
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What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?
by Terry in
1. social
2. family
ever hear somebody say, "trust your gut..."?.

or, like obe wan kenobe: "trust your feelings...."?.

have you ever followed that "little voice" that whispers to you that you should or should not do something?.
Phaedra

What is your "INTUITION" about THE SECRET "law of attraction"?
That slick repackaging of old ideas can snag newbies at every turn.
...To the making of books there is no end....
I do believe that effort and focus = results. But not in the magic, Ronda Byrne (Abraham-Hicks, and all other guest stars on the DVD) sort of way.
The marketing and CULTure of The Secret and all its related branches of experts was a great learning phase for me.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

I will look into "The Selfish Gene." It sounds like a good read to help explain the new territory I'm exploring. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

Cofty, but what makes them successful? Why do they exist and have a seeming mission to survive.
Real, authentic wonderings.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

Sorry 2+2. I originally had agenda and changed it to mission.
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Evolution, fine. Still a missiion....
by Phaedra in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i buy into the theory of evolution.. where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?.
Phaedra

I buy into the theory of evolution.
Where does it's "mission" to do what it does (programming) come from?