if you are sure there is no god, do you then believe that we,our minds, are the highest intelligence?
not just of the universe, but the cosmos?.
All I know for sure is we all die in a few years here on earth.
No one knows what happens to what was life after that. The God of Christains will put us in a hell fire forever if we don't believe in him(according to some christains) others think we go back to dirt.
Life is a mystery and so is death is some ways.
Ken P.
they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.
how would you counter that belief?.
In my school my JW brother had the highest IQ in his class and I was second in my class, my best friend was first. I think the TMS and the meetings did help me learn to read a little early in my childhood. But later in life collage would have helped to get a better job.
Ken P.
i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.
anyone heard this yet?
supposed to start new service year.
They had food prepared at the assembly by us crazy voluntiers. I worked at about every assembly I went to washing dishes, emptying trash and about every thing else that needed done. I remember one assembly I went to and I didn't voluntier and it was so nice to be able to sit during the talks.
In NY we went out in fieldservice and the people there were so different than the NC folks. They asked why are you here ringing my door bell.
My main interest at the assembly was the young sisters. I met my first wife at NY. She was from NM.
Ken P.
i know for me it was soon after lurking here for awhile and reading some threads on the issue.
i remenber when i tore it into little tiny pieces.
it felt so liberating..
I don't remember when I got read of it. I did have a blood transfusion a few months ago and I didn't feel any guilt at all. My blood platelets went down to nearly 0 and I had to stay in ICU for a week. I'm OK now. They didn't find out why it got that way.
Ken P.
2013 was a record breaking year for firearm purchases.
2014 is supposed to be a record breaker for ammunition.. do you own a firearm?
but i support that right for others---if they are qualified..
Down south almost everyone has a gun. I had an uncle-in-law who had a 45 pistol that he had gotten from a German when fightimg in ww2. He was a drunk that got mean with his wife and once tried to shoot her with it. For some reason it didn't fire that time. Later my parents got him to go to the KH and he quit getting drunk and did well for several years. One day he was eating with his wife and just fell over dead on the table. So many memories I have from those days.
Ken P.
i'll start with my experiences during childhood up to high school years... i was raised in a typical catholic family (not very adherent, just keeping up with traditions but it was all that we knew).. just to let you know, i am alone in the "truth".. 1) short prayers with my mom before going to sleep.
it was short and i think that as a child, god was more real to me than when i became a jw.
i would say, "dear god.
I misunderstood the pre-JW years. I thought it ment before we left the JW cult.
Ken P.
i know this is one huge rant, but i want to put my own questions and doubts in writing.. i am a fading jw who has become agnostic... i still believe in "god" and "jesus," but i simply cannot explain to people why i believe in them.
i just do.. about the existence of god: it is an infinite regress.
"all things were created by someone"... well... who created god?
We will never know the answers since we will all be dead before life changes enough to prove it.
Ken P.
i'll start with my experiences during childhood up to high school years... i was raised in a typical catholic family (not very adherent, just keeping up with traditions but it was all that we knew).. just to let you know, i am alone in the "truth".. 1) short prayers with my mom before going to sleep.
it was short and i think that as a child, god was more real to me than when i became a jw.
i would say, "dear god.
My young days playing in the woods with my good worldy friend and family, brother and cousins. Back in the 40s it was a different cult, we could enjoy life as a young person. I played on the basket ball team at school, was in the senior play, in the band etc. Dated some worldly girls.
Ken P.
I was a MS for years when I was a teenager. Became an elder in my twenties and moved away to DC in my 30s. Never became a servant again. Moved back home in less than a year when my wife of 16 years left me. I didn't know why at the time, but later she told a relative that it was because she was feed up with the JW control of our lives.
When I got back home in NC I faded away and married a worldy woman with two kids and have been happy ever since 1974 when I got married.
When I first got married the second time I took her to the KH, but she was too smart to fall for the "truth". I went back to a few meetings but did it to please my mother who was a special pioneer. I later quit going at all. I actually learned the truth about the JWs on the internet.
Ken P.
i was always told it was satan and his demons making people think they exist.
not sure.
i always thought the guy that excavated king tutenkahmun had a curse on him though.. .
I have no idea what I believe now. I have so many questions that I'm not able to prove is true or false.
Ken P.
