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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

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  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  use your words there Mr. Kim.
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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  Based upon all of that, what conclusions have you come to regarding the nature of God?

  Why does the universe, existence, etc. look the way it does if God personifies "love"?

  Since I came here more than a year ago a lot has happened to me. I have done a great deal of thinking. The idea that God exists is a cop out to me. It removes responsibility so that the lazy can accept their realities as they are instead of attempting to augment them. "I'm waiting on God." It also removes the responsibility for growth outside of yourself. The idea of having absolute truth is crippling. It is the enemy of tolerance. Knowing that I can co-exist with all men because I accept them as they are instead of attempting to change them into who I am in my heart makes me a better person than I was when I was a Jehovah's Witness. For me that God does not exist.

  This will almost be a contridiction in terms but perhaps it is because of my own self-imposed limitations: I would like to think that God does exist, that order has an origin and that he is just letting us "work it all out". I want to believe that God set things in motion and in his imagination wants us to come to an understanding of cooperation and higher order. But in that statement I come back to the chicken and egg concrete value of what I aspire to be. Does the God create the aspirations in the man or do the aspirations in the man create the God?

  I cannot answer the questions I have with any concrete data. There is none. There is no "evident demonstration of reality though not beheld." So all I am left with is to live my life as a good man, not because I get the Cracker Jack prize but because I choose to. The answers will come in their own time as a result of my actions and my thoughts relative to those actions. That is the only way.

  When I remove God from my personal equation, the possibilities are limitless and I like that.

  Your question about God personifying love... I don't think he does. He personifies disconnect. JW's think that he gives them breezes in the afternoon so they can keep going out in service. But my friend in Iraq trying to survive a moment at a time prays every day for God to protect his remaining children. Sad, one of them got killed with an IED this morning. There is no God and I am not a fool.
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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  Wowzers! I loved that.

  Thanks. I think the viewpoint that we created God is how my mind leans these days. Our creation is dependant on what we seem to want to feel that day. Saying that we have the capacity for love and the good that comes with it therefore God must be love is ridiculous. What if I was an ax murderer or a nympho or a racist? Do the same rules apply?
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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  Hey Luke... Always love your work, dude. Still Krav-Maga-ing?

  Thanks ol buddy! Yeah. I'm still at it, loving it, getting better. You?
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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  I'm happy for the bump... I love this piece... and I love you, too, Brother CoolHand.
  
  Hugs,
  
  Baba.

  Love you too Baba. You are always supportive, kind and hilarioius.
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  Welcome Jehovah

  by coolhandluke in

  1. jw
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  jehovah, .

  oh how many times i've prayed to you and felt your scornful laugh from yonder skies, how you mock me and laugh at me.

  my creation is for your amusement obviously, kinda like the celestial version of the sunday comics, only i appear in technicolor everyday for you.

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  coolhandluke

  letters to god are all the rage, i figured i'd bump this one because it made me laugh when i wrote it... and who doesn't need some humor
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  October CAPTION COMPETITION

  by ballistic in

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  ok here's some new ones i found in a newspaper article here:.

  http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/11/floridian/the_other_side_of_the.shtml.

  "if you look here, the bible says always wear pantyhose when answering the door!".

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  coolhandluke

  "Right, so note to self: "Come back after Armageddon, 6 bedroom, 4 bath, den, rec room, basement with a bar, swimming pool and basketball goal."

  
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  October CAPTION COMPETITION

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
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  ok here's some new ones i found in a newspaper article here:.

  http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/11/floridian/the_other_side_of_the.shtml.

  "if you look here, the bible says always wear pantyhose when answering the door!".

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  coolhandluke

  "I wonder if he'll leave if I lift up this shirt and show him that I have no clothes on"

  
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  October CAPTION COMPETITION

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok here's some new ones i found in a newspaper article here:.

  http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/11/floridian/the_other_side_of_the.shtml.

  "if you look here, the bible says always wear pantyhose when answering the door!".

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  coolhandluke

  "You can call me Brother TheEmperor. If you don't take these magazines, I'll be forced to show you the true nature of the Dark Side"

  
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  I finally got the courage

  by hambeak in

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  i have been wanting to get the book crisis of conscience by ray franz for some time but for some reason have felt i might be commiting the unforgivable sin.

  so i ordered it on amazon will be here in about 5 days.

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  coolhandluke

  it made me feel empowered for having the guts to stay out. suddenly i felt not alone. one of the best decisions i have ever made was to order and read that book. there are parts that will make you naseous and i promise that you'll have to put the book down to mourn the little part of you that still hopes that this is the truth