Posts by Shanagirl

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Anyone else see the movie, The Town?

by juni in

i thought it was a good movie.

good story.. .

Religion v. Spirituality

by Shanagirl in

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there is not one religion, but hundreds.

there is only one type of spirituality.

religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality.

Shanagirl

I feel having a sense of spirituality is far more better for me and my own "mental and emotional wellbeing" rather than being part of an organized religion and their community of believers.

Shana

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Religion v. Spirituality

by Shanagirl in

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friends

there is not one religion, but hundreds.

there is only one type of spirituality.

religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality.

Shanagirl

Religiosity - forcing belief in certain concepts and dogma on others, judging those as sinful and in a disapproved state.

Spirituality - comes from within ones heart and inner knowing, without an organizational agenda, but a divine agenda that is in service of others.

Shana

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Evil Spirits

by LizLA in

does anyone on this forum have knowledge about casting out demons or evil spirits?

there's at least two of them that have been harrasing me even before i was a jw.

i recently attended a deliverance church to find some help but it was apparent that the holy spirit was missing from that church.

Peace be with you and turn to the Christ and His Heavenly Ineffable, unnameable Father. Also read the book from the Apocryphon Of the Apostle john, which explains how these demon angels became interested in the modaled forms they created.

The Secret Book of John

Click here: The Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John)

(The Apocryphon of John)

Translated by Stevan Davies

Shana

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Religion v. Spirituality

by Shanagirl in

jw
friends

there is not one religion, but hundreds.

there is only one type of spirituality.

religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality.

Shanagirl

There is a difference between Religiosity and Spirituality. Religiosity is dogma, Religious ritual and law, judgement, not God, but Worship of God according to the rules of Religiosity. Religiosity is praciticing the law of obedience and punishment. Religiously directed acitivity repetively in behavior.

Spirituality is the Law of love, the practice of the principal of kindness, the inner knowledge that the light of the Divine is the All that is. Spirituality is when we bring our integrity and goodness into a church who demands Religiosity of it's members, to conform to the act of Religiosity. Spirituality is the longing to seek the Divine and how to connect to what is Divine on a personal level thru inner knowing.

Religiosity is believing we are separated from God. Spirituality gives you an awareness that spiritual light is within us and we are connected to the Divine Light and Love of God.

Religiosity is the rules fo the Ten commandemnts, given by an angry jelous god, then later telling to break those commandments for his worship.

Spirituality, and inner knowledge from the True God of light and Love, lets us know we don't need to be given these rules, it's within the spirit of us to know already what is right and what is wrong. We as spiritual beings know already not to kill even in the name of a jealous god, a crazy Yahweh, Jehovah God, demanding sacrifices of blood. Our inner spirit tells us this.

We are all a spark of the divine light that dwells within us the helps us to know these things. This was jesus greatest message. To do away with the LAW, and replace it with Love.

Shana

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Religion v. Spirituality

by Shanagirl in

jw
friends

there is not one religion, but hundreds.

there is only one type of spirituality.

religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality.

Shanagirl

There is not one religion, but hundreds
There is only one type of spirituality

Religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality
Spirituality is for those who want to reach the Spiritual Ascent without dogmas
Religion is for those who are asleep
Spirituality is for those who are awake

Religion is for those that require guidance from others
Spirituality is for those that lend ears to their inner voice

Religion has a dogmatic and unquestionable assembly of rules that need to be followed without question
Spirituality invites you to reason it all, to question it all and to decide your actions and assume the consequences

Religion threatens and terrifies
Spirituality gives you inner peace

Religion speaks of sin and of fault
Spirituality encourages "living in the present" and not to feel remorse for which has already passed - Lift your spirit and learn from errors

Religion represses humanity, and returns us to a false paradigm
Spirituality transcends it all and makes you true to yourself

Religion is instilled from childhood, like the soup you do not you want to take
Spirituality is the food that you you seek, that satisfies you and is pleasant to the senses

Religion is not God
Spirituality is infinite consciousness and all that is - It is God
Religion invents
Spirituality discovers

Religion does not investigate and does not question
Spirituality questions everything
Religion is based on humanity, an organization with rules
Spirituality is DIVINE, WITHOUT rules
Religion is cause for division
Spirituality is cause for union
Religion seeks you so that you create
Spirituality causes you to seek
Religion continues the teachings of a sacred book
Spirituality seeks the sacredness in all the books
Religion is fed fear
Spirituality is fed confidence
Religion lives you in your thoughts
Spirituality lives in your conscience
Religion is in charge of the "to do"
Spirituality is in charge of the "to BE"

Religion is a dialectic
Spirituality is logic
Religion feeds the ego
Spirituality makes you transcend
Religion makes you renounce yourself to the world
Spirituality makes you live with God, not to renounce him
Religion is adoration
Spirituality is meditation
Religion is to continue adapting to the psychology of a template
Spirituality is individuality.
Religion dreams of glory and paradise
Spirituality makes you live it here and now

Religion lives in the past and in the future
Spirituality lives in the present, in the here and now

Religion lives in the confinement of your memory
Spirituality is LIBERTY in AWARENESS.
Religion believes in the eternal life
Spirituality makes you conscious of all that is
Religion gives you promises for the after-life
Spirituality gives you the light to find God in your inner self, in this life, in the present, in the here and the now…

May peace, happiness and universal love continue growing in your heart.

You are All That Is.

Shana

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Can't believe people who were JWs with me as children are still in the religon.

by myusername in

so through the internet it's possible to see what people are doing from childhood without actually interacting.

i really imagined the majority people i knew who were born into the religon about the same time i was would have left when they matured and hopefully developed some logic???.

so do they really believe everything they were taught as children or are they just stuck and don't know how to leave?

Shanagirl

I've heard of some who left and lived with their boyfriend, then came back and got engaged to jw. I think these kids come back just to please the parents.

Shana

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Television: 'Homeland'

by leavingwt in

have any of you been watching the new showtime series, homeland?

the season finale will air next sunday.

i've really been enjoying it.

Shanagirl

I LOVE this show! I'm addicted to Homeland. Can't wait till next episode. I hate that the season finale is coming next week already.

Shana

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They all look alike now.

by AK - Jeff in

funny the way our minds unwind and refocus after leaving a high control religion.. when i first left the jdubs i saw them more closely to what the entire world sees them i suppose, but not truly clearly at those early stages.

they still looked to me to be 'good people' but misguided.

as time went on, though the misguided feature remained, the 'good people' supposition faded.

Shanagirl

Hi Jeff,

I do agree with a lot of what you said, Jeff. I've also come to the realization of the "imaginary" friend. But I do believe this fake imaginary god spoken of in the Bible asThe God, is nothing more than an illusion. Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, who is representative of all the "good" people and their own "true religion". I do beleive their is the True God of Light and myraids of emmanations of this True Source. I believe there is a light within all of us that can connect with our inner knowing of this True Light. God, the All. Our inner knowing tells us that shunning is wrong. Sacrificing our children to a tribal god of the desert is wrong. I believe a great messenger of that True Light, was the Christ, a light who came down to teach us to teach us that we are all of that Light. He told the Jews who condemned him that they came from the "father of the lie". He was the fake god they worshipped, Yahweh, who still misleads world religions of the earth. In islam the fake god is Allah, and in Christianity, he's Jehovah. But he's all one and the same dark force, of the dark world he created and wants sacrifice even blood sacrifice. He's the same old god of the old Israelites in the desert, and the same fake god later adopted into the Catholic Church by the early Church Fathers. He's the same fake god who was later adopted into all the denominations of Protestant Christianity and later Jehovah's Witness. He's the dark force of the universe of matter and chaos, our own universe, and the opposite of what the True God, the All and Source of the millions of other galaxies, and lights of the many heavens outside the realm of 3 dimensional matter that we live in. I believe our own light source within, connects with this True Source of Light and knowing, and is all about the message that was given to us from Christ, known as Jesus. That inner knowing does not teach law and blood sacrifice, ritualism. The thing that Christ brought to us was to Love and recognize that every human being has that light within them, whether or not they are aware of it or just connected to matter. The fake blind god of the Israelites, is a jealous war god who continues to demand sacrifice. Some religions take it more seriously than others but they all reflect their fake god of the Bible, Yahweh Jehovah, Allah, all from the god of Abraham.

I believe, that this inner knowing within us is what has let us see Jehovah's Witnesses and all other religions like them, is not of Love.

I'm still pondering all of this in my mind and heart, but I know one thing. I feel free of the Jehovah god, and no longer feel obligated in my heart to ever pray to the True God , by using any name.

Shana

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God will YET choose Israel ... In light of somethig I just read in another topic

by Bella15 in

sharing .... god will yet choose israelisaiah 14:1 says, "for the lord will have mercy on jacob, and will yet choose israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of jacob.".

many denominations hold to the view that god has forsaken the nation of israel forever.

they feel that because israel crucified their messiah, jesus christ, that god has taken away the promises he made to israel, and has applied those promises to the present day predominantly gentile church.

Shanagirl

So are you talking about "Yaheweh" the god of Abraham? The god of Israel, Christianity, and Islam? Yahweh, Jehovah , Allah?

Shana