Posts by JamesThomas

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The Way, a way of reason that generates a way of Life

by Traveler in

i'm looking for those who have found the path/way of reason.

i include a few notes to those i have approached so far.

these past attempts seem too slow.

JamesThomas

Dear Traveler,

I have a question for you which is totally sincere because I honestly would like to hear what you have to say.

What is it like for you as a profit of God, or someone who has intellectually found the “Way”? Someone who has diligently worked their way through the puzzle and maze that the Divine put in place to filter out the masses from those like yourself who trudged on?

How have you changed? What is the paramount difference in how you now feel and think? In what ways has knowing God's mind changed you?

Again – I'm not joking here, or mean any insult to you. I honestly would appreciate hearing more about you and your journey (if you are willing to share), I bet that many here would be interested as well.

So far you have been pretty cryptic; how about some simple and honest speak?

If you had only a few moments left to live -- what is it really -- that you would want to share?

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The Way, a way of reason that generates a way of Life

by Traveler in

i'm looking for those who have found the path/way of reason.

i include a few notes to those i have approached so far.

these past attempts seem too slow.

JamesThomas

Perplexing how you proudly proclaim that you are the only one that you know of who has discovered and can explain the path of reason, the direct Way to God that was lost, and yet you search the Internet for something or someone more?

What of real value has all your precious ideas, beliefs and concepts given you that do not amount to absolutely nothing when you are fast asleep?

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Why Do Theist Struggle So Much For A God Who Supposedly Exists?

by Coded Logic in

a theist made this casual statement on another thread,.

from ancient accounts hostile to christinity, we can learn about (jesus).

as a theist, how could they possibly trust the source to suggest this to himself?

JamesThomas

We all struggle, each and everyone as we identify as “self” the thoughts and beliefs of the mind.

Many, many have killed and died protecting these precious illusions.

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What is truth?

by Heisenberg in

jw
friends

well, i have been lurking on this site for several months and i recently decided to join as a member.

i have made several observations and would like to make a few comments.. first, i am perplexed by the attitude of many on this site that are either former or active (but apostate) jws.

they seem to have a strong hatred for the wts and also for rank and file jws.

JamesThomas

Welcome Heisenberg.

It's obvious you have a healthy uncertainty ;)

What is truth? In the last sentence you made (IMHO) a wise observation towards realizing truth by seeing what it is not: “Don’t believe everything you think. The brain is just as treacherous as the heart.” The rest of your post was just the “treacherous” play of thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Do you see that?

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would interpret what you are saying as: we will not find truth in thoughts and emotions. The reason for this is that we can simply not find a stable foundational TRUTH in the ever-changing turmoil of mental and emotional activity. Which is why we have kept asking the same questions and getting nowhere throughout our history.

So, perhaps, the remaining question is: is there that which is still and unchanging?

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YOU 'THINK' YOU ARE FREE when you leave the Org. . . but it can be an ILLUSION

by Terry in

jw
friends

did you know there is nothing more insane than being partly indoctrinated and partly free?.

the level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous!.

i have told this story before, so i'll shorten it to cut to the chase.. in 1987, i was dating a professional psychotherapist with a view to marriage.

JamesThomas

Terry, rereading my comments to you this morning, they appear pretty insulting. But please know that there was absolutely know sense within me of a personal attack on you. Rather, just a feeble attempt at trying to make – what I consider to be – a very important point. A dynamics that is likely responsible for all man's inhumanity against man and the destruction of our environment. I was just kinda yelling at the whole world to wake the hell up! before we self-destruct.

You are one of the few people who I feel a connection to and feel free to talk to in this way.

Keep up the good work.

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YOU 'THINK' YOU ARE FREE when you leave the Org. . . but it can be an ILLUSION

by Terry in

jw
friends

did you know there is nothing more insane than being partly indoctrinated and partly free?.

the level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous!.

i have told this story before, so i'll shorten it to cut to the chase.. in 1987, i was dating a professional psychotherapist with a view to marriage.

JamesThomas

YOU 'THINK' YOU ARE FREE . . . but it can be an ILLUSION

That's all I'm saying.

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YOU 'THINK' YOU ARE FREE when you leave the Org. . . but it can be an ILLUSION

by Terry in

jw
friends

did you know there is nothing more insane than being partly indoctrinated and partly free?.

the level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous!.

i have told this story before, so i'll shorten it to cut to the chase.. in 1987, i was dating a professional psychotherapist with a view to marriage.

JamesThomas

“How about false information and disinformation, then James?”

Ya, what about it?

You clearly know that the mind can not even begin to grasp the genuine aliveness and reality of a tree; and at best can only reduce it down to conceptual words and thoughts a million light-years distant from reality. And yet, you unquestionably accept as valid and real what it says about who you and the rest of the universe is??? There, there is your “false information and disinformation,” Terry. As clear as clear can be. You see it don't you.

“You” were embarrassed, because you whole-heartedly accept the mind's definition of “self” as a flaccid-little-shit being drug around by the monkey-mind like a puppy with a chain around its neck.

There is only one way out of this insanity -- and it ain't Jesus -- it's you.

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Why Do Atheists Struggle So Much Against God Who Supposedly Doesn't Exist?

by Perry in

an athist made this casual statememt on another thread:.

this would suggest to me that there are at least some atheists that do have consistant beliefs.. .

as an atheist, how could he possibly trust the reason that suggests this to himself?

JamesThomas

In my view, what Terry said on page 2 of this thread was paramount.

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Changing profile picture

by Jeannette in

how does one change the avatar picture to a snapshot from your desktop?.

JamesThomas

I thought that was a snapshot.

You look a lot like my x-wife.

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YOU 'THINK' YOU ARE FREE when you leave the Org. . . but it can be an ILLUSION

by Terry in

jw
friends

did you know there is nothing more insane than being partly indoctrinated and partly free?.

the level of cognitive dissonance is ridiculous!.

i have told this story before, so i'll shorten it to cut to the chase.. in 1987, i was dating a professional psychotherapist with a view to marriage.

JamesThomas

Programming? What is programming? Isn't it an unquestionably accepting of what the monkey-mind believes and says is real to be our “reality”?

As long as the mind is in the drivers-seat there is no such thing as “deprogramming”. There is only a change of illusory patterns, beliefs, concepts and ideas weaved by the mind (programs).

We were pretty much all once JW's, and now not. Everything may seem to radically change, but we still live the same dream. We only think that we are evolving and becoming smarter and wiser, while all the time unquestionably accepting a group of electro-chemical firings in the brain as the actual subject or self of who and what we are. It's all smoke and mirrors – except for the one undeniably true thing (which is not a thing) in-which we all equally share. But the ruling monkey-mind sees this as silly, unimportant, or crazy. So we won't go there. Only a true and rare revolutionary willing to pull the entire rug out from under their “life” is so willing.