Having meaning in your life is a result - of living a purposeful life - or a life with purpose. What your purpose is, is up to you. It could be said that the meaning of life is to search for the meaning of life - or search for wisdom - which will make life easier. It's a very important question, which can be answered simply -or not, as life is a paradox. You just don't want to discover your real purpose when you're sitting in a nursing home dribbling down your chin ... so it is an important question - but the answer is something only you can discover.
transhuman68
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Anyone struggle to find meaning in life?
by Good JW injust wondering if this is a common thing for you guys and girls?
when i left the jws it was hard to make a connection with people, much of the time i felt that whatever they wanted to talk about just didn't seem relevant/deep/meaningful.
i find myself filtering my mind to get to a level with others (small talk mostly).
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What is life?
by punkofnice inwhen i was a jobo, i used to thing of 'life without end at laaaasssssst'.. having been on my journey out of the wbt$ slaveholdery, i have found that something that makes sense is that life doesn't owe us a meaning.
psalms 146:4 was actually bangeth on the money-eth 'his breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.'.
although i am now very atheist, and really do not even think there is the remotest possibility of a god, that bible passage is correct.
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transhuman68
LOL, I'll tell you the only thing my grandmother said that I know of (she died the year I was born) - 'Life is all anticipation'. And that's it - humans are goal-setting creatures, always working towards and looking forwards towards some new thing again and again, until they eventually drop dead.
Crazy, but there is no other way.
We are just pawns on a chessboard, playing for a while until its game over, and we get thrown back into the box, lol. Enjoy i
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why would God and Jesus hate the united nations?
by nowwhat? inshouldn't they say thanks for" holding down the fort" until we take over?.
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transhuman68
Probably every JW outside of the US has wondered why the UN is supposedly so evil.... probably the Watchtower were just playing on the American distrust of the UN that existed due to the inclusion of the Soviet Union & Red China. A cold war slogan was 'UN is two letters in the word communism'.
Just silly really, as the UN does a lot of good
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Aussie exJW Comedienne on BBC (Limited Time)
by berrygerry inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3srd.
deborah frances-white - online.. .
spot on - and funny..
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transhuman68
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/
And on the Aussie ABC - 50 Mb podcast - broadcast today 8 May 2016. Get it while it's hot, lol.
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My sister who is still in is going to Costa Rica as a missionary
by time2keepmoving ini left the organization in 2011 and never look back.
i left behind my sister and her two daughters by mid 2015 both her daughters (both are in their early twenties) were disfellowshipped and left the organization.
she has decided to go to costa rica as a missionary (i guess that's what they are still calling them, unless that has changed, been gone so long i don't know if they came up with a new term for it).
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transhuman68
Sometimes I think the JWs do exactly what they want; but just find a 'theocratic' reason for doing it - could just be a mid-life crisis thing. My sister & her husband are in Ecuador - supposedly for holier than thou witnessing, but now my sister is making soap - bringing cleanliness to the unwashed masses of Sth Americans! Too funny. It's a cheap place to live, anyway... -
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If God is all powerful why did it take six days
by James Mixon inif god is omnipotent (all powerful) why did he take six days (or six thousand years jw.org) to.
crete everything.
why not speak everything into existence all at once?
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transhuman68
When Genesis was written the Jews were already observing the Sabbath, based on some Babylonian worship of the 7 visible planets giving every week 7 days or something like that , so god was written in as observing the Sabbath too. Very convenient. Some BS like that anyway IIRC, lol. -
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Am l the only one.?The older l become the more hostile l become towards god.
by atomant inthey say you mellow out with age.maybe so but not in my case.l feel its an insult and degrading to us humans to have to live the way we do if there is a god.deep down l guess l do believe theres a god but lm having great difficulty trying to understand why things are the way they are.l dont need a bible bashing from anyone l just feel frustrated and helpless.l just battle on like everyone else but l get the feeling theres a whole lot more to our existence.
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transhuman68
Nup. There is no god - never was, never will be. 'God' is just your conciseness, or maybe a group conciseness- but that's it. Why life seems so hard is that this religion stunts people's development - ordinary people have more willpower, competitiveness, and sense of meaning in their lives. Sounds selfish... blah blah blah but you need to find the strength from within yourself to make the best of a world that is far from perfect. -
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What's the point?
by punkofnice ini 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.
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transhuman68
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.
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how do most of you now feel about the military?
by sowhatnow inwas 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?
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transhuman68
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.
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Death of a loved one and faith
by ilikecheese inhey 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.
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transhuman68
It's extremely tough when a parent dies - you have my sympathy. You are in the ironic situation of wanting to be a person of faith like your mum; but her passing has somehow lessened your faith. You just have to let yourself grieve, and accept your feelings - life is a journey - it does get tough, and a lot of ideas & beliefs to get thrown away on the trip. You will find out what you want to know in time.