while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
We should all be skeptics.
A dose of healthy skepticism is a good thing. When it is taken to extremes, not so much. Guard against being negatively affected by extremist thinking. You are leaving an extreme, be careful not to swing to other extremes. Be aware that some of the Watchtower extremes can be a challenge to shed. When it comes to your newly developing beliefs, the WT stance on things like science and religion can be hard to recognize in yourself.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
Relax, enjoy your journey. Don't ever allow the sceptics to steal your hope.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
Faith is your enemy.
This is extreme opinion.
Everything else is a self-indulgent delusion. "Choosing" your beliefs makes no sense.
Also extreme opinion.
Read, study, absorb information. Test the evidence.
Be aware that what is strong, very real evidence to you, might be scoffed at by others.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
Believe what you choose to and remember that hope, faith and belief are not necessarily bad things.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
Here's something to add a little magic back into your life. National Public Radio. This is a link to the station that I listen to:
http://streaming.michiganradio.org/
Right now Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is playing. There are so many wonderful, wonder filled programs and news programs from around the world. When I am home on the weekends, I love their daytime programs. When I'm out driving and not in the mood for music, I listen to NPR on my car radio.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
You are like the fly that has lived in the vinegar jar and thought it was the sweetest place ever because you'd never tasted honey. Get out there and taste the honey!
I love this.
I really recommend that you read Steve Hassan's 3 books dealing with how organizations such as Jehovah's Witnesses use mind control to capture us and make us have low self esteem so we feel there is no hope in anything else BUT the organization. It's a psychological thing in which we re-train our minds to feel GOOD about ourselves asbwe have been so beaten down by the JW organization.
Good recommendation, Flipper.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
So thanks for that link FlyingHighNow.
You're welcome.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
FHN - In what way do you think the superstitious, esoteric ramblings of gnostics add any clarity to life in the 21st century?
I'm not interested ramblings, but found this ex jw's writings about the gnostic view of Jehovah to be quite an eye opener. I don't adopt their belief that Jehovah is an undergod. I do find it interesting what they believed about him. The thing is, the book is only a commentary on what they believed and how it helped this former brother, Cofty. If you haven't read the book, then you can hardly comment on the book.
Purrpurr, I hope your thread doesn't become hijacked.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
Purrpurr, I have written you a PM. I wish you a wonderful time, reading, thinking and discovering.
while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.
i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.
this has left a huge hole in my soul.
This book is written by an ex JW and also an easy, informative read. I recommend it to all exiting JWs. It's encouraging and shows what the early, Gnostic Christians believed about Jehovah, that he was an undergod, responsible the suffering here on Earth.
Jehovah Unmasked
