"everything in life has a purpose" is something a lot of (religious) people tend to say.
i used to believe that too... but i have always been wandering about animals, bacteria and everthing around us.
what purpose is there?
Well you should already know this, but bacteria serve a very important purpose in decomposition and digestion. Right now you have more bacteria living inside you than you can imagine. You need them there.
Animals? Well they're tasty, so there's that...
But purpose IS a human invention. There is no end goal or purpose. We just happen to be living in this time period right now.
when one goes deep into the science, there are things that suggest the existence of immortal soul or a caring supreme soul.
hence, the question is not about lack of proofs, but is all about whether one is willing to accept or not (mathew 11:14).
let us take some samples:.
How... HOW does someone wake up from their JW slumber, free themselves with all the cost involved... And just slide right into an even wackier cult?
everytime i hear jw's talking about free will, i either feel the urge to burst in laughter or feel sick.
each publication keeps talking about how wonderful jokehova is for giving us free will.
the only small thing is that he'll kill you if you don't do exactly what he says.
Are you a Sam Harris fan at all? He wrote a great short book on the subject.
what is it about the jws that draws them together?.
group think?.
ambient abuse?.
Hmm sneaky. Perhaps we become atheists because the same logic that brings us out of the religion brings us out of all religion. To just stop thinking after leaving JWs is to be willfully ignorant. If a person is to be willfully ignorant, they might as well stay with the JWs.
in the past year or so i've been completely evaluating whether i believe in god.
i studied marine biology at uni for the last 3 years and it completely change my view on evolution.
even when i was in i believed in evolution to a certain extent (ie the flood made no sense, the earth being 60000 odd years old etc etc) and this has made me question the existence of god.
So what will you do once abiogenesis is proven?
i noticed in a thread a day or 2 ago that someone mentioned a wt dated back in 1981 i believe where it stated that the policy of the jw's were that if anyone even thought a doubt about the jw's that they were infact apostates!!!
i downloaded the article in the 1980 8/1 pp17-22 and that was not the article.
can't find the thread, help anyone please!!!!!
Goof luck with your upcoming disfellowshipping!
Can anybody actually provide some "scriptural" evidence for this? What is the actual biblical basis for prohibiting the most natural thing?
as many of you know, whom have been in the org for a while.. the wt is hard coded into your mind.
sometimes, i will read a wt, to make sure that i hadn't imagined all of the ridiculousness... and then i read a wt like this : http://m.wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004168 (is linking to this legal?).
i especially enjoyed this section : .
They don't need to believe it, they just have to force you to
what did you imagine would happen?
did they react the way you expected?
how did you bring it up?.
Welcome TableForOne! Sorry to hear your domestic life is crap. Has she called down at all?
Jeff, your story is inspirational. Seriously a dream. But I've never heard the back story. What kind of JWs were you? What caused you both to start doubting and researching? Usually reading CoC comes after a while of all of that.
today we know that matter and energy are interchangeable, hence they are there always in either form, they are eternal, hence requires no creator.
hence atheism is right in rejecting a creator, but failed in providing any motivation for people to do good.
religions, in their effort to provide a motivating factor for humans to do good, introduced creation stories and other myths; hence they too are right (as far as their intention is concerned), yet failed in producing any worthy resultsworld was steadily moving from bad to worse and from worse to worst!.
