Posts by JamesThomas

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Why do people profess to be very religious but they do not really live by the bible?

by asilentone in

JamesThomas

@PSacramento,

"I know that there are many parts that are very hard to reconcile in the bible, many people spend their whole lives doing so.
If you were to read the NT and then read the OT through the teachings of Jesus, you get a very different and even contridictory picture of God, but what does this mean?"

Good question. If we look we find dualities within ourselves.We love and we hate, etc, etc. So it is not a huge leap to see that the Bible is not from "God", but simply reflects man's own musings and imagination, in that it reflects the same chaotic mind. Does this make sense? In other words, the Bible is but a mirror image of mortal man. Not Divine, Not special. Just human created stories with a human created god.

So, if the Bible holds no truth, then what does? That, this thread was not meant to address....but others may.

j

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Why do people profess to be very religious but they do not really live by the bible?

by asilentone in

JamesThomas

@PSacramento,

This is not an attach at you, just an observation around what you said.

It is likely that no "evil" can be found beyond the wholesale mass murder of millions of men, women and children (and also including domestic and wild animals).

The archaic Bible war god is recorded as doing such to various degrees on numerous occasions. Interestingly the Bible god is unquestionably accepted by billions of people as the most holy, righteous and loving creature in all existence.

We learn, perhaps subconsciously, that to be too good, would make us look better than our god. However, most everyone already looks more holy, more loving, more "Christ-like" than the god they worship -- as it is tremendously difficult to be so evil as to enact crimes on humanity that would be worse than what the Bible god has already done.

Now Jesus, is like sweet and buttery frosting on top of a rotten and putrid cake. He is the honey the lures many people in.

If this were not the way it actually is, it would be exceedingly unbelievable.

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Why do people profess to be very religious but they do not really live by the bible?

by asilentone in

JamesThomas

LOL@Gregor.

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Why do people profess to be very religious but they do not really live by the bible?

by asilentone in

JamesThomas

Do we truly lack our own basic intuitional wisdom that we need to be guided by some archaic book?

Why let something as silly and confusing as the Bible take away our own ability to think?

Some who say they are religious without the Bible, may be just intelligent and don't need it.

Others may use religion, as has already been mentioned, as a deceptive shield.

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My First Halloween! What should I wear?

by serenitynow! in

jw
friends

so i decided that i am going to give out candy this year.

it's important to me because in all the years that i went d2d, noone ever gave me candy!.

anyway, i was planning to wear one of my old nursing dresses (not a naughty nurse skanky one) with the old school white cap, and go as nurse rached.

JamesThomas

WonderWoman, can be fun.

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My First Halloween! What should I wear?

by serenitynow! in

jw
friends

so i decided that i am going to give out candy this year.

it's important to me because in all the years that i went d2d, noone ever gave me candy!.

anyway, i was planning to wear one of my old nursing dresses (not a naughty nurse skanky one) with the old school white cap, and go as nurse rached.

JamesThomas

When you lie down at night, and sometimes just let your mind go, what is your fantasy character???

That's what you may have the most fun dressing up as.

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Would you invite Jehovah to a party?

by JimmyPage in

jw
friends

i think he would be a real buzzkill.

for example, if someone were fornicating upstairs, he'd probably want to annihilate them with fire.

or if someone were tapping the keg too much he'd want to take them to the back room and give them some strong counsel.

JamesThomas

I'll answer by telling the truth: The strongest, most murderess, vile, fiery rage of hatred that I have ever felt was towards the god I was raised to believe in.

The image in my mind was him manifested as a fleshly person before me, and me armed with the sharpest of long knives. I literally screamed at the top of lungs as I slashed and stabbed, over, and over, and over...

Ya, I'd invite him to a party. One he would never leave.

I must say that this hatred erupted in me many times, and it gave me a new understanding of the blind rage that people experience where they may kill others. I don't condone their acts, but I understand what they felt at the time. I guess I have the JW religion to thank for that.

Also during one of these explosive moments was a first sense of a beautiful, totally nonjudgmental, stillness-of-consciousness that silently watched. That which was screaming and the silence upon which the scream needed for its existence, were one in the same. It's impossible to explain.

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What if JWs are right?!?

by brotherdan in

i know this is a pointless question, but what if this happened:.

you came home from work one day, sat down, and turned on the tv.

there is a sudden announcement that the un has banned all religion.

JamesThomas

It's quite alright to ask a hypothetical question.

If the JW's had it right, I would raise my hand and say: "Me! Me! Kill me first!!! As I could never ever worship such a murderous, vengeful, god-forsaken piece of excrement as the tribal war god Jehovah. EVER!

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Did being raised a JW give you a higher moral code?

by cantleave in

jw
friends

i have noticed something interesting at work recently.. i don't want to go into too much detail, but our new owners have introduced a customer contract that is so one sided that it is technically unethical although not legally.

i don't like it and won't sell it.. i asked the jw's where i work what they thought of this contract.. to my surprise only 2 are troubled by the nature of this contract (both young and quite wishy washy in the "truth").. the others didn't seem concrened at all and would be happy to tie customers into it, after it all secures the company's finances.. the interesting thing is almost all the "worldly" members of staff feel the same way as as me.. i thought my reservations were due to my jw upbringing - obviously not!.

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JamesThomas

By no means. Being raised to believe that the most high, most righteous, most holy and loving was a mass murderer, did in any way influence my morals.

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My dr's recommending counselling I think it may help....

by Lozhasleft in

jw
friends

i have a good life these days.

i have a wonderful new husband who shares his lovely family with me.

i have 'worldly' friends who i'm very fond of.

JamesThomas

Lozi,

May I suggest that you begin to take the time to just sit alone and be still. Concentrate on what it is to breath, on what it is to sit in a chair, on what it is to feel life around you. This may help ground you and open you, so that meeting with a good therapist will be extra beneficial for you had you not primed the pump.

You are loved and appreciated.

j