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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

  does anyone else out there experience this ?.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  I'll check it out, thanks for the links~
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  Why are the moms so attached to religion?

  by ILoveTTATT in

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  please don't take this the wrong way, i would love it for women to comment on this thread because i just can't understand something!!.

  here's the pattern i see:.

  mostly guys in here.. if the guys are married, their wives usually stay a jw, or it takes 3 times as much time to convince a woman to leave than a man.. if the guys have a jw father, the father is open-minded and can be more easily persuaded to leave.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  ILoveTTATT~

  I am a women, an INFP, and a mother.

  My emotions are what initially caused me to leave!

  Feelings of visceral, heavy stress to do with the constant theocratic schedule and expectations and social tedium left me emotionally drained.

  I asked my self why I felt this burdened, if this was necessary....

  Then I began thinking critically about the organization itself, stopped just swallowing everything that was spoonfed me. Instead, I took a good look around, stopped studying, commenting, going in field service, associating so much...and noticed that I felt much better! i found answers about doctrine, jw history, all the lies after the fact

  And this cycle of feeling discomfort > thinking about how to ease it > following that > and feeling better continued and eventually brought me to feeling totally convinced and relieved to walk away for good..

  My love for my children also contributed to me leaving! I didn't want them to grow up losing themselves in the mind-control. I choose that over the superficial comfort of social 'support'. I couldn't care less what 'other moms' do

  Maybe UBMs could encourage their (usually) wives to relax, see how it feels to focus on the moment, simple pleasures in life. That relief for them may leave a much greater impact initially on some...then, in time, maybe they will ask themselves why they are chasing their own tails

  (Narcissistic Supply, I hope you are joking.)

  By the way, my three brothers are all still 'in'...I'm the black ewe of the family ...hardy har har

  It's been hard as hell at times, lots and lots and lots of tears, lost relationships... but here I am living free
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  Great Balls of Fire-- Tonight and Tomorrow!!

  by rip van winkle in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  will you be watching the perseid meteor shower??.

  http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/26jul_perseids/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo83kp54yxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

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  It's been cloudy here the last several days! Drove a little out of the city, but didn't see anything with the naked eye

  Woke up before dawn this morning and went outside... clearer skies, but too much light pollution
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  Don't park like a Jerk

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. social
  2. humour

  if you haven't seen this video making the rounds, well... here you go.

  kinda long, but worth watching him try to get into his car.... video description:.

  published on jul 31, 2013. sick of a coworker parking his jaguar like a jerk and taking up two spots every day, youtube user crisp330 teaches him a lesson by parking in the space next to him.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  People have no business parking like jerks until they've at least acquired basic contortion skills...leave it to the pros
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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

  does anyone else out there experience this ?.

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  Good one, Glander lol!
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  Religious beards of Ministry

  by Terry in

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  2. beliefs

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  spurgeon remains highly influential among christians of different denominations, among whom he is known as the "prince of preachers"..

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Ha! That's awesome
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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

  does anyone else out there experience this ?.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  On the subject of religion/athiesm..it's all about intellectual honesty

  "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony" ~~Gandhi

  Some points that I liked in that video of those four:

  ~religious people have a 'constant crisis of faith' (having to incessantly reaffirm through mantra, prayers, acts of devotion..)

  They articulated what I was thinking as I left the religion: Why is holding onto this religion so damn hard?! Always having to learn how to reason from the scriptures defend the hogwash, always drilling the teachings into our heads. If it was all so true, there shouldn't be such fear that the faith could be so easily shaken

  ~ religious people can take on the attitude 'I believe it because its ridiculous...the iimpossibility of it is the thing that makes it more believable..'

  I felt that way too, as if who would question such fantastic stories and miracles...("you just can't make this s@#t up")

  ~'all religions are equally dangerous because belief in it is a surrender of the mind, casting aside a person's faculty of reason' and that 'if a religion doesn't seem to pose an actual threat to society (violent acts, ect), they equally hold potential threats because of their lack of reason

  ~ 'where the human race took its worst turn is when a few people...reestablished...the cult of yaweh over...philosophy etc (hellenistic progress..) and that christianity is a plagarism of that..'

  That inspires a history tangent
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  Do you believe in Love?

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  maybe you are an atheist.. maybe you are agnostic.. you have left a cult, left behind an entire belief system, complete with detailed instructions on how to live..rules to follow for every aspect of your very life.

  you know it was a big lie.. you are now naked, staring at your soul.

  just you, just your own thoughts, just your own voice, your own feelings.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Beautiful, beautiful song
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  Meteor shower tonight!

  by BrentR in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  tonight and into tomarrow morning is the annual perseids meteor shower.

  this year will be great viewing since the moon will not be up to drown out the meteors.

  the activity should start peeking around midnight and you want to be looking northeast.. early next month a very rare shower (the aurigids) that astronomers know very little about.. read more here:.

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  freeflyingfaerie

  nonjwspouse~ Happy Birthday to you!

  Bummer, it's cloudy out tonite....
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  Personal Paradigm Shifts

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you find yourself, since leaving the religion, having an exhorbitant amount of personal paradigm shifts?.

  sometimes i question my sanity.. i feel so open to ideas...don't know where to start sometimes.. don't feel dogmatic about too many things...maybe feel that it just 'isn't for me'...at least for right now (lol).... but in all of this, i never tire of these epiphanies and spontaneous feelings of gratefulness and love.. .

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  freeflyingfaerie

  Sweet. I will hear them out, thank you!

  Reading philosophers/scientists/psychologists/etc is mind-expanding over and over again