i’ve noticed many people posting on this site seem to have completely given up on religion/spirituality.. but some have attended services at another religion, or just follow their own heart regarding what to believe.. my question is how does anyone deal after leaving with all of the witness crap that we believed about babylon the great, the great harlot, spiritual prostitute, etc., etc.
i’m finding out that i seem to have built myself a pretty solid wall regarding religion.. some people can just chuck all beliefs into one basket saying that they are all basically garbage,,, and that is ok, no problem i respect that.. but for myself there is a certain part of my personality that needs a spiritual belief not like the witnesses in any way, but something to meditate on, and contemplate.. being a witness taught me how bad it is to actually think of god in any other way besides what the jw’s believe.
and now when i attend any other service, the dark jw side seems to pop out and seriously makes me believe that everything i see/do/say is wrong.
I got it a bit backwards, but my process went something like...
Well, now I know JWs aren't the correct religion, so I need to find the right one...
Which Christian religion is is?.....
Is it a Christian religion?...
Is there a "one true religion"?
Does God even want and/or need to be worshiped?
Does God even exist?
I would have saved myself years if I asked the last question first.
if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..
It's hilarious to me that Jeb Bush spent 100 million dollars on opposition research during the primaries, and his dimwit cousin Billy Bush is the guy on the bus with Trump in that tape.
if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..
Ted Cruz is getting exactly what he deserves.
https://twitter.com/YayImOnline/status/784500681679908864
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if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..
James Mixon - The movie "How we pulled the wool over the American public".
Mel Brooks made this movie 45 years ago. "The Producers" is about two play producers who plan to drastically oversell a play, with plans for it to flop, and run off with the backers' money. Despite their best efforts, the play is a huge success.
this is the one thing that i have struggled with since leaving the organization.
i recognize the need and value of belonging somewhere, being a part of something, showing up weekly to a community where me and my husband and children are loved and utilized and incorporated and cared for.
a place where are my kids qualities are nurtured and encouraged , and then reigned in and developed when needed.
I've never gone to one of their services, but many people I've spoken to recommend Unitarian Universalism for non-religious people looking for spirituality and/or community.
a recent o.p origins of the universe bought home to me with ovbious clarity that i have no scientific background.
this realization was rather embarrassing for myself to admit, particularly as my child of 11 has began asking some rather intersting questions on scientific matters.
anyway i have subscribed to " scientific america" because i find it a great magazine for those with no scientific background.
+1 for Khan Academy. Anyone with school-aged children should have it as their homepage. Or at least bookmarked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/technological_singularity.
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for other uses, see singularity (disambiguation).the technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity)[1][2] is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.
computer simulation universes like ours
I like how this is now just an accepted fact.
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
Fisherman - IF God does not exist then Justice is on the same scale as fecal matter; love and other human virtues mean nothing, they don't matter. Their attempt to modify human conduct is a mere ploy used by the mechanics that drive the universe to achieve its means.The purpose of life then is to find [the means] to be god
Without going into much philosophical detail, one problem immediately jumps out. When we talk about whether something matters, we're talking about whether it matters to someone. So if God does not exist then justice, love, and virtue can't matter to God, obviously, but they can still matter to humans.
mr odgarrd refused to rent the quaint site to two gay men for a wedding.
he told them "i can't take your money, and we don't do anything for free.the men filed a civil rights complaint and won, awarded $5,000.
the odgaards had built their church over 13 years into an art gallery,bistro,flower shop and a framing service.
Well... it was a long time coming, it just felt faster to them because they weren't paying attention. If this is the article I read recently, part of the story is that they feel abandoned by conservatives. They were courted and paraded by Cruz, and named to some evangelical martyr council in his campaign or something. When that faded away they feel abandoned because they're not in the evangelical spotlight anymore. Calling their bistro a "church" is new to me, but I shed no tears for bigots, even if they're only bigots because they hear voices in their heads.
very interesting lecture and q&a session by professor eric smith of the santa fe institute.
in his discussion of the primacy of energy there is a lot of overlap with the ideas of nick lane of university college london.
if you still think abiogenesis had something to do with "primordial soup" you should invest half an hour to watch this.. ....
The rest of us have to watch it multiple times at half speed and cofty critiques the makeup of early proton pumps as background noise while he braises the lamb.
