<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuOr2vlC-c" It is even funnier after seeing the vid LOL
OnTheWayOut " If he can't understand that person's desire to put religion and unproven belief behind him, then that God is not worth worshipping."
This what I am saying
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
Laika please tell me where you got that avataar it is freaking hilarious
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
On a sidenote can someone tell me how to change my avatar that monster thing is annoying
perhaps one of the strongest ways to deceive someone is to repeat only one feature of a particular issue over and over and to never to explore the other facets of the same issue.
mt.
24:14 was repeated into my head thousands of times while growing up as if it was the only good news (gospel).
Laika your freaking avataar makes everything you say make me laugh. ROFL
Everytime you post no matter how serious I look over at that picture and laugh. Just wanted to add that
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
" It all fits, no more mental gymnastics."
Exactly... there is a weird peace I have when I realize that maybe I don't have to worry about an ongoing tally of my sins. It feels real good. I don't have to force myself to accept something I can't understand or force myself to understand something that I can't understand. I mean it really really brings peace of mind.
For years if anything happened to me I thought it was because I did something write or wrong and that either god did it or satan did it.
Now I see that successes come because of hard work and a little being in the right place at the right time. Failure comes from me not trying hard enough or being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
a family member visited us this past weekend and said that my 80 years old mother was recently told she no longer has to meet the annual hour quota to remain on the pioneer list.
"what a loving provision from the brothers" were my sister's exact words.
"mom was so stressed out with having to get her hours in every month" are you freaking kidding me?
Sounds like she got on the infirm pioneer list... she is good now!
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
" I don't feel worse now that I am not worshiping a "god" in fact I am more at peace without that. I don't know if the JW's ruined it for me but I have no desire to read the bible or go to a church. "
This is exactly where I am at. A few days ago I sat in my backyard throwing a ball with mydog for nearly an hour... during this period I had a little WHiskey and a cigar. I fell asleep and my wife woke me and I realized i just had some fun. I didn't have to worry if God was gonna be mad because I was smoking. I didn't worry If I needed to pray that I dont become a drunk or that my neighbors saw me and I set a bad example. I didn't care that I wasted an hour doing nothing when I should have been reading the bible or preaching etc... Living life for the sake of living is frucking GREAT!
I no longer feel bad that I am making God mad somehow... it feels freaking GREAT.
My wife is pursuing things she never could before and she is so happy. I don't think she was in it as deep as I, but none the less she is so much happier. She never ever wants to discuss the bible or anything spiritual because she said it just doesn't provide her any real lasting peace or happiness. I CAN DIG THAT
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
"Can't you try and find the GOOD in the Bible, and reject the BAD in it? There is always a silver lining...
For example: Do to others as you would like them to do to you. Love your neighbour. Love even your enemies (try, at least, to feel pity for them... there are very few people who can be categorized as pure evil, most are just deceived people or their problems make them do bad things)... Go and find friends, nice people. Go to a gym, get into college, make some friends!! Try to discern if you can trust a person or not, if someone is not worthy of your trust, then don't trust them!! "
At this point to read the bible is a waste. I spent 30+ years doing so. There were indeed items within that are nice. But most of those same gems can be found elsewhere in books that don't necessarily have such contradictory messages.
What is worse why do I really need to read the Golden Rule over and over again. It's like, after the first time I got it chief. The repetition seems unnecessary. I just can't force myself anymore to try to make something out of nothing. It also seems common sense to love everyone. Such is the case with most things in the bible. Common Sense would lead me to believe the same things.
I currently have a gym in my home, I am far too busy with my business at this moment to go back to school again - but I do read plenty non-religious materials in my spare time while smoking and drinking. I am currently making more friends as well and that is helpful!
I will say this... I like the Song of Solomon plenty cuz its a book of "FREAKTION"
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
@Gio - I can stay home and listen to some Al Green while drinking coffee and be far better off LOL.
I do not need any religion at all in life. I am donezo
<rant>.
i know i have been rambling alot (feel free to delete my threads if so), but it appeas i am getting to the point where i see no use in the bible.
i feel very bad about this right now.
" I guess I too am kind of breakign into the agnostic catagory. I still believe in God, not so sure about the various holy books. "
I am definaitely at the point where I feel if there is a god he probably is not interested in my day to day activities. I am still confused as to wether there is a GOD although I lean heavily toward the fact that there is. Probably because so much of my life has been centered around this fact. As for the holy books I find them to be an enormous joke and waste of time. If any one group of people has a holy book that doesn't say the exact same thing as another then one is false. If god doesn't step up and say the other is correct then it is false as well as far as I am concerned.
