i mean, i don't want to be miserable or anything, but what's the bloody point of it all?.
since i left the watchtower cult, i have come to realise that god cannot possibly exist...and if a god exists...god is indifferent to humankind as the least.. in 100 years time i'll be gone.
kaput.
What is the point? The point is you - live your life, make your own successes & failures, find your own path regardless of other people's opinions, so you have no regrets- you own it all. Celebrate life, and keep marching on when you can't.
I always liked that song by Seal, 'Crazy', and as I get older I think being totally rational can be overrated,.
Maybe it is best to be a little crazy.
was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?
would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?
how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?
Interesting thread. I was raised by my JW mum & non-JW dad, who was anti-war for personal reasons; so I grew up believing that war & the military were wrong. But now I've read many books about war, and come to my own conclusion - which is that its a very complex issue, beyond the ability of any one person to explain. For me it is entirely theoretical - I have no connection to the military, and never will have. We are moving into an age of greater human rights for all, and where people will value their lives, and the lives of others more highly than in the past; so maybe the huge loss of life, and wars between countries will no longer happen, and the 'hawks' and others who support military action will be seen as dinosaurs. But this could be 100 - 200 years into the future, too.
hey all.
i haven't posted in forever and a day, but i feel like this is a great place to ask this question because of so many people who are unsure of their beliefs.
my mom was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer about four years ago.
i miss you.
you were supposed to be a hope in bad times.
when i was in my darkest hour you weren't there.
It's a good book - funny clever & incisive. Another good book is:
http://www.amazon.com/Misery-Christianity-Pelican-Joachim-Kahl/dp/0140213244
Sometimes it just takes the right person to say 'It's a complete crock...' and then you realise that it is a crock, and always will be, so then you chuck it all away and move on. Not just knowing the facts, but being emotionally able to come to a decision - that's where the anger of these 2 authors
i miss you.
you were supposed to be a hope in bad times.
when i was in my darkest hour you weren't there.
LOL, this book will explain it all:
http://www.amazon.com/God-Interview-books-Terry-Lane/dp/0733302424
i was listening to beyond belief yesterday, a radio 4 programme that treats religious ideas as worthy of consideration and discussion.
yesterday they were talking about belief in the afterlife.
they mentioned something i'd never heard of before.
Yeah, but what about this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov
He believed that people could live forever and the dead could be resurrected.
C. T. Russell jumped onto a very popular bandwagon; complete with ideas that seemed plausible in his
from when a jw, it was at least always told to me how catholics took on christmas, and all the other pagan celebrations etc.
recently i met a russian who said they are catholic and in russia they don't really celebrate christmas.
it's more an american thing and that new years is the bigger deal and the closest thing to christmas to them is something on like jan 7th.
LOL, you do realise that everything you want to know is at Wikipedia?
The Russkies didn't celebrate Christmas when they were commies, so that might explain something there.
But who really cares what its origins are? Only a sicko dead-beat r would ban Christmas, lol.
it has just turned 12 o'clock in n.s.w, australia, is i am just saying merry christmas to all you on the forum & i hope you all happy a happy new year.
big hugs all round.
sabin.
Merry Christmas you crazy mofos!
Ho ho ho.
TH68 in the land of Oxz.
how far / deep was your research on the origins of the bible or religions or most importantly the concepts (heaven -gods - immortality-etc)today many millions of people believe as the truth?.
why did these concepts existed ?.
why so many people today still believe in these concepts ?.
we are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
LOL. Syria is a media black hole- it's impossible to know what is really happening there, and we are just being fed propaganda. But as I see it, the West needs ISIL - they are the only ones who can stop an alliance of Assad, Hezbollah,Iran & Russia from controlling a huge portion of the Middle East; and controlling oil production, and so prices. Ask yourself, who does ISIL sell it's oil to? It's going to our ally and NATO partner Turkey, who are allowing arms to be shipped to ISIL in return. It's a fake war- put on by Western politicians to increase their own popularity. In a year or two ISIL will change their name like the PLO did, and we will all love them. This war is a scam and will make the West look very foolish, especially as all this chaos was started by George W's ill-advised invasion of Iraq in 2003. ISIL in Iraq are the Sunni ex-Ba'ath party army, who were dismissed without pay by Paul Bremer. ISIL is just an ideology - it can't be beaten militarily anyway.
Well, that's my opinion,
