for the born/raised ins, do you feel that you no longer have a spiritual heritage/background/traditions?
i was sitting at my desk absentmindedly humming a "kingdom melody" from the brown songbook, when i realized what i was doing and made myself stop.
there were songs that i really enjoyed.
May I suggest that you start a new "spiritual heritage", one worthy of the title.
Make a heritage of being present with life and being, now in this moment.
Be still and savor the beauty of what it is to be alive. Perhaps you could name it something like....ummmm...Serenity Now.
i'm a new member here but i have read this forum from about 6 months ago.. i was born in jw, all my family is jw.. one day i decide to make a research about the prophecies because i thought that would help me strengthen my faith.
i always like the prophecies.
i have started my research with jerusalem 607. hit the google page, start to search and whats up?
Welcome, faqs.
Keep questioning.
And then question some more.
after reading behemot's post on the article in the november awake i decided to do something i rarely ever do.
pick up a watchtower publication and thumb through it.
in the article a scientist frantisek vyskocil being interview by awake on how he came to his belief in god and became a jw.
@sabastious,
I find it amazing that you find it amazing that people still find it amazing.
You call it picking corn, we call it amazing.
after reading behemot's post on the article in the november awake i decided to do something i rarely ever do.
pick up a watchtower publication and thumb through it.
in the article a scientist frantisek vyskocil being interview by awake on how he came to his belief in god and became a jw.
I find it amazing that anyone in 2010 still believes that the earth was made in 6,000 years! They must have their head in a location void of anything remotely breathable. And a collage professor who believes this, most certainly has to go to a Proctologist to have their head examined.
@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.
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@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.
LOL@Gregor.
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.
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.
WonderWoman, can be fun.
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.
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.
