So how can you better explain what you are holding onto, you said God or Creator. What about creators? How would you describe this person, is it a person or a thing? What did it actually do? Where does the creation part begin and end? What are you holding onto exactly?
freemindfade
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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freemindfade
I saw that on Netflix. I will check it out now, you made it sound interesting.
I would suggest a couple things based on things you said.
- Take a closer look at evolution. Not as the source of everything but as the progress of it.
- Then explore the real reasons you feel the source had to be a creator of any kind. What do you solidly found that on. If our explanation for needing a creator is the complexity, beauty etc then by that very thought a creator would also need a creator endlessly...
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4 Dirty Psychological "Tricks" Used by Bad Leaders
by onightdivine inhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201510/4-dirty-psychological-tricks-used-bad-leaders.
1. in-group/out-group bias.
2. demanding unquestioning obedience to authority.
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No longer wanting to attend meetings
by breezy inhello everyone.. first post here.
long time follower of this website, probably 4 years now.
i've known about ttatt since ive been 18, im now 22 going on 23 but still go to meetings because of parents.
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freemindfade
Hello and welcome. So fortunate you never got baptized. You are in a good position. Maybe check out the July 2009 awake I think it was. That is the one that talks about not having to choose between your family and religion. It's written for non witnesses who are being challenged by their family for studying with the cult. But flip it around. Apply the principles to you.
Edit. Looks like bonsai beat me to it :)
Guess I should read everyone's comments before not after. :p
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We discovered a Dyson Sphere! . . . maybe
by Coded Logic inokay, okay, okay - i know we're not supposed to jump to conclusions.
but the odds this is a "naturally occurring event" are pretty low.
and it's just the sort of megastructure we would expect an advanced alien civilization (type 2) to build.
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Hey! Wanted to say Hi!
by Miss Worldly inhey!
i've been hanging around her for a while.
this is the third attempt at my 'hello'.
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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?
by John Aquila inhow many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.
how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.
how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.
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freemindfade
My journey had to start on my own doubt and cracks in cognitive dissonance, but I have to say reading stories of ones like cedars really got me moving faster to a full wake up. I know some have certain feelings about the guy, and I do too now sometimes, but his story was still meaningful and powerful to read. The more similar stories made me personally start to feel less like such an "apostate" and just someone who was stuck in a cult. -
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How many of us are 'perfectionists'?
by FayeDunaway ini made a medium level mistake at work today, and when i make mistakes it really shakes me up and takes me a long time to recover.
it completely rattles me, makes me feel awful about myself.
my mind keeps going back to the mistake reliving how i could have let it happen.
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freemindfade
Measuring things by perfection is a deep jw mentality but also in general I think people fall into this.
Some of the people we consider the best on this planet past and present, failed regularly and often. But they had the courage to keep going, To improve, to keep failing their way to greatness. Sure failing is disappointing, but shift the focus to your next success instead and get to work on that.
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Light Getting Brighter
by awokenjw inhello, maybe someone on here can make some sense out of this:.
one of the reasons why jws are so quick to believe any changes from the gb is that they believe the light is getting brighter.
now there have been some teachings that to my knowledge changed at one point but then were reverted back to the original teaching.
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freemindfade
The answer is none of the above. They misuse the light brighter scripture out of context bending it into their own idea. Prophecy or knowledge is not revealed progressively and that scripture was taking about the ways and paths of a righteous person. Not a publishing companies failed stabs at understand bronze age foundation myths and the desert god.