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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Believe what you choose to and remember that hope, faith and belief are not necessarily bad things.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  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.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  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.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  So thanks for that link FlyingHighNow.

  You're welcome.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  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.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Purrpurr, I have written you a PM. I wish you a wonderful time, reading, thinking and discovering.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  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

  http://www.amazon.com/Jehovah-Unmasked-Nathaniel-J-Merritt/dp/1411651472/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407684877&sr=8-1&keywords=jehovah+unmasked
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  For me, the WTBTS robbed me of the magic and wonder of life. They reduced this universe and our earth down to nearly nothing. You'll find a lot of atheists on this site. I am not one of them. They say they are happy with no belief in God or god(s). Then there are those of us who have never lost our belief that there is some kind of god.

  I was a Universalist, even as a small child. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. Unfortunately, JWs commandeered my life and brainwashed me for a a few years. They robbed me of my joy and sensibility. Now, my sensibility has returned and I am a universalist, once again. There are universalists in nearly every faith.

  This is an easy read, that you could benefit from reading. It is written by a former hell fire and damnation preacher, who began to realize how ludicrous it was for God to be so exclusive and murderous. I'm not telling you to read it to adopt his views. I am suggesting you read it to find gentler alternatives to the WT doctrines to have as a comparison and contrast. The book is uplifting and shoots holes in the claim that the God is about destroying or torturing any of his creatures.

  If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

  http://www.amazon.com/If-Grace-True-Every-Person/dp/0062517058
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  FlyingHighNow

  You are on your own, wonderful journey. A whole big world is out there waiting to be discovered.
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  I FINALLY found a car I like & brought it home tonight = )

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. friends

  after nearly seven months of bus rides and asking for rides, i have purchased a car.. for all of you who made helpful suggestions & contributions to my car buying thread, especially zed is dead, thank you so much.. my thread asking for advice on car buying:.

  suggestions for car buying23.

  i bought a 2009, pontiac g 6. my reasons for choosing a g 6: this car gets great miles per gallon.

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  FlyingHighNow

  This car will last fore more than 70,000 miles. I hear from some that if it's taken care of, it can last well over 200,000 miles. It took me 10 years to drive my last car 70,000 miles. I took some very long road trips in it and it still tooke me that long to drive 70,000.

  There are a lot of reasons I finally chose the G6. MPG. I work with the New York Yankee pitcher Matt Thornton's mom. She told me today that her husband drives a G6 and loves it.