Posts by found-my-way

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Were you a "Born-In", or were you "Converted"?

by Warlock in

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i was converted in the early 1980's.. warlock .

found-my-way

Born in (2rd generation), dunked in 1993 (17 yrs old), started to fade in 2002, last meeting was 2004. last memorial was 2006.

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reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

Perry?

You dont even know me

Who pissed on your cornflakes this morning?

You go on and on about my sins, of which you know nothing about...you dont even know what gender I am....I could be a VIRGINAL SWEET OLD LADY for all you know.

as for your comments that attack me personally....wow, I'm speechless...I have never ever been told I was going to burn in hell for crimes I have not even commited...

I couldn't help but notice that you offered "no contest" to the "lying, lusts, greed and selfishness" charges that I levied against you in my opening paragraph. It is not an attack to simply shine light upon something. Do you like being that kind of person FMW? What if God was prepared to give you a GIFT out of the kindness of his heart that would give YOU the victory over your lusts, lying, and thievery? Would you accept it? Or, has your sin advanced past simple denial into full blown enjoyment of your crimes.... even as you judge and would like to punish others for the same?

I offered NO COMMENT because I didnt deem your accusations WORTHY of ONE. I wont even go into what kind of person I am, because that will only further incite more of your uncalledfor attacks. I am not a liar, nor a greedy person, nor am I selfish, I may lust from time to time the person that is my mate, but, I think that's ok....

explain to me this gift? I do NOT JUDGE OTHERS, and I do not want to punish anyoneYOU ARE DESCRIBING YOURSELF, NOT ME.

you're the one who wants me to burn in hell, you're the one who wants to punish me for the crimes that you think I have commited...and you dont even know a single thing about me as a person.

what does that say about you as a person, Perry?

Tell me, as you are so perfect, does anyone love you? can anyone stand to be even in your presence? or is your bird your only companion in this world, and do you find some measure of comfort in the feathery bossom of its bird breast?

I cannot fathom how someone can just spit out venom and fire completely unprovoked and unattacked.

Go on your way, Perry, You now have Proved to everyone here that you are indeed a wonderful specimen of the human race...how the masses aren't falling at your feet and worshipping your perfect personality is truly a mystery....

I am just a lowly ....

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Did God ever Exist?

by found-my-way in

reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

Where did you get the idea that you are a child of God? You cannot stop sinning can you? Yet, you imagine that God has some sort of responsibility toward you don't you..... even as you are his enemy? Most people do this to comfort themselves in this fallen world. But, there is just one problem.... it isn't true. If, of course you could stop attacking God through your lying, lusts, greed and selfishness, then God, as any parent would care for you, beyond your wildest dreams.

Hi Perry,

Just wondering why you are attacking me?

I did not attack your God, nor did I attack you.

I did not call myself a child of God. I do not see myself as such.

Can you stop sinning Perry? Or have you become the only perfect human since Jesus?

I do not believe that God has any responsibility towards me personally.

So you are saying that God only loves those who do not sin? Nice conditional love there....just the kinda god I wanna believe in

So, why then do you judge God by a different standard than you judge your neighbor? Would you like the courts to make you eternally responsible for your various neighbors' kids or just your own? Just treat God the way you want to be treated and you'll get a lot more mileage out of your thinking.... and his blessing.

Where did I judge God anywhere in my post? I think you have sorely mistaken the idea I was presenting. I think you have completely misunderstood me.

I'm glad that you feel as though you are a perfect son of God.

If good and bad changes as social conditions change, then it is just a matter of time before what you say is good today will be what is bad tomorrow. When judging, how can you be sure your "present truth" won't be falsified tomorrow? If so, then are you qualified to judge anything? Are you qualified even to speak intelligently? Or, are you qualified to only speak unintelligently, thus imitating the atheist god

I dont judge. I hate judgementalness, I detest judgemental people, and would never want to be one. I guess I'll leave that job up to you, since you seem to be so good at it.

AS for you insulting my ability to speak intelligently, I won't even dignify that with a response.

As far as I'm concerned I only see a Pharisee's words. Jesus taught...to not judge others, for how you judge them is how you will be judged. I am not judging anyone. I merely presented a theory.

Did Jesus judge the sinners, the common people? He loved them, he ate with them, he fed them. I, will never claim to be anything other than a mortal, mistake-making sinner. and if God is up there, and He see's fit to strike me down dead, then He can do so. I can't stop him.

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Did God ever Exist?

by found-my-way in

reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

but why do we feel like we need an explanation or a story or something warm and fuzzy to cling to? why does there need to be a purpose? I don't think the universe owes us a purpose, a loving sky daddy that makes us feel like we're special.
I think it's more special that we are even here at all, considering all the possibilities down through the ages, and we survived to become what we are.
I don't know, but that works for me.
I can understand why people want to stick to religious explanations, though.

itsallgoodnow,

Thanks for your post. I lol'd at ''loving sky daddy''....

I laughed because my post was not about ''god'' per se, but about how we came to be. I do not need god to have a purpose in life, nor do I need one to make me feel special...

I am not religious at all, and I hope I didnt give the impression that I was... my ramblings were more about a creature that existed simply to create time and space and the universe...I am open minded to accept many realms of possibilites, one being that this tremedous beginning (and the universe does show evidence of having a beginning) was not an act of creation, but a random act of an explosion....

IMHO, both require a type of faith...since no one was there to see the actual birth of the cosmos.

Just because I believe in an intelligent designer/creator does not mean that I feel a need to worship it. and should science prove creationists wrong, and prove without a shadow of a doubt that there was no creator, then I will accept that...

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Some Alcohol Moments

by Amazing in

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set your goals ... get your degree ... but don't waste it all being so damn serious.

enjoy your partner, and take pleasure in her as a person and in her body.

found-my-way

You guys ROCK!

Loved reading this post!

made my night!

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Did God ever Exist?

by found-my-way in

reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

but really, in this view, it doesn't mean that god had to die for all to live. it just means that god is in all of us because all of nature/cosmos is god. since we are part of that, we also are god.
i would also venture that in this view it would not have to be an act of love, but only an act of becoming, which doesn't have to be a conscious act either.

Agreed 100%!

Hence why I did not call god by Him, but by It. Wether or not love came into play we cant know, I thought it was neat to ponder the idea.

Thank you for writing an awesome scientific explanation to my child-like ''thesis''! I mean that.

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Did God ever Exist?

by found-my-way in

reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

Gary,

Huge astronomy fan here......I am well aware of the relative scale of our solar system's planets. thanks for posting those pics

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Did God ever Exist?

by found-my-way in

reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.. if god is up there, why does he permit suffering?

if i were god, i wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would i let them suffer?

maybe i am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a jw, because i find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing.

found-my-way

Reading so many posts on atheism which is the belief that there is no god, and reading comments from creationists made me ponder if there was an alternate reason for our existence.

If God is up there, why does he permit suffering? If I were God, I wouldn't of let it happen in the first place, these are my children, why would I let them suffer?

Maybe I am influenced by my creationist upbringing and beliefs while a JW, because I find it hard to wrap my brain around the idea that everything came from nothing. That all of the awesome power of the universe simply came to be. I'm sure my theory is not new...but before I thought of it, I had never read about it anywhere...nor had ever thought about it before until now....

There was a very powerful intelligent being, and it was the source of all the power, all the elements, every micron and atom in our universe. Billions and billions of year ago, this creator explodes, giving all of it's power to space, creating the building blocks of life, creating time...life which took eons to develope...and here we are now, and that is why ''god'' isn't in the picture, That is why there is no answer to our prayers, no supreme being to show us IT EXISTS because It died the very day It created life...the greatest act of love..It's death was for our life...and that is why so many believe that god is within us all, within all the wonderful beautiful creation, in the stars we see at night, all the beauty and the ugliness that surrounds us...in a way, we are all made up of the fabric that was god...

just a random thought I had tonight that I wanted to share...

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How'd you pick your Avatar and/or Username? (Share a little bio?)

by Open mind in

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even though you might think it's painfully obvious, explain why you chose your avatar and/or username.

it could help us faceless "netizens" get to know each other a little better.

open mind.

found-my-way

I change my pics all the time...I get bored with the same one, not that I get bored if others keep theirs the same...

name was harder to choose....

it is pretty self explanatory

I was lost to the borg, then when I learned the truth about the 'troof' I found the path that is right for me...

by leaving that religion behind, I felt a huge weight lifted off, and for the first time I was able to see clearly where I was headed in life.

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Worst flatulence experience? Here is mine... Can you top it?

by What-A-Coincidence in

i had been having bad gas for a few days...when i mean bad, i mean clear the room bad and call in hazmat, it was so bad my dog left the room crying.. anyway, i was at the mall and i had to let one go and a man passed by and he said, "dam, they must be repairing the sewage pipes.

" i said, yeah, huh.

i was having a bad day but i just had to laugh.

found-my-way

or queen...