7starz,
Welcome to freedom! There are a lot of ex-elders on this site who completely understand your journey. You will enjoy your freedom from the Borg more and more as time goes on. Again, welcome.
synchronicity - the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
today is the first day of the rest of my life.
freedom.
7starz,
Welcome to freedom! There are a lot of ex-elders on this site who completely understand your journey. You will enjoy your freedom from the Borg more and more as time goes on. Again, welcome.
well, it's finally happened!.
im no longer an ms.. as many would know from our chats via this forum, i've seen it coming for a while....and while the way it was done stinks, i'm really happy to finally be free!.
(would love to share more details...i will do in time...or perhaps a pm would be best).
Stuck,
Rear view mirror. That's where you need to put this ASAP. I 'stepped aside' a year or so before my exit; I couldn't take the Dark Lords and their draconian control any longer. We are all proud of you and looking forward to hearing more about your continuing exit out of the Borg.
hello all and happy new year!.
i don't post here often,but as the new year just started and my birthday is tomorrow, i am feeling extra reflective.
it has been several years since i was willingly disfellowshipped, and i say willingly because when the judicial committee asked me my thoughts on the organization i told them i thought it was not a god directed organization.
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
DocHouse,
I have read and re-read your response to me and I have no idea what you are trying to say. You set yourself up above and apart from the Borg's Dark Lords, from all other X-tians and without a doubt from all non-Xtians and non-believers. Others are being nice to you; I'm calling a spade a spade.
You are a delusional narcissist who came to this site for no other purpose than to show your amazingness and awesomeness. You and you alone, according to you and you alone, have special knowledge and the correct scriptural interpretation where all others before you have failed. All hail DocHouse and his amazingness and awesomeness.
We get a steady stream of people like you. In the words of the 21st Century philosopher, Justin Timberlake, go ahead be gone with it (you). Or better still, stick around and learn something.
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
I am breaking several of my prime directives, responding to trolls and having a theist conversation being two of them. But DocHouse, you have finally shown your true delusional, narcissistic colors. As if we didn't know already. The Dark Lords (aka FDS) are wrong. All other Christians are wrong. Certainly you have also ascribed to everlasting destruction the Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems, Jews, etc. of the world. And we poor atheists, well we don't have a chance.
That leaves, let me see. . . . ONE person with a direct conduit to the big girl in the sky and the correct interpretation of all things scripture.
You
Go away delusional narcissist.
apologies, clumsy fingers again.
but be patient, at some a point a real post may appear..
Thanks FTS,
Competition can only make things better in this arena. Given the recent issues in the aviation industry, that should be a good thing.
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.
Traveler,
You have insulted everyone on this site; if you return do so with some humility. You've set yourself up in your mumbo jumbo gobbligook of metaphors and bible sounding lingo to be a Jesus figure. You're looking for someone who is searching for the way, which you've found. You are the way, and the truth and the life. And you have the gall to mention ego?
Return with some humility or stay away.
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.
it's utterly amazing to me how religious belief in an omnipotent deity shapes some people's thinking.. one woman whose family missed the air asia flight which crashed stated that it was god's will to give her father hepatitis so that she canceled her family's vacation trip on that flight.
she says she believes god saved her family and protected them.
however, she later mourns the fact that she lost friends on the flight...so does she believe god deliberately planned for them to die?
Shortfuse,
You are preaching to the used-to-be-choir. We got it; we used to use those arguments. They are circular, specious, shallow, irrational, un-supported by the evidence and require a suspension of common sense and the use of one's brain cells, not to mention a large dose of credulity and burying one's head in the sand.
But we used to be you. We understand. Keep believing.
it's utterly amazing to me how religious belief in an omnipotent deity shapes some people's thinking.. one woman whose family missed the air asia flight which crashed stated that it was god's will to give her father hepatitis so that she canceled her family's vacation trip on that flight.
she says she believes god saved her family and protected them.
however, she later mourns the fact that she lost friends on the flight...so does she believe god deliberately planned for them to die?
Theists really have no rational, reasonable response to these types of incidents and the reactions of the believers. Other than simply feeling and believing. It is irrational to the highest degree, and there is no rational argument that can support it. Belief in a deity falls so far down the evolutionary scale that it shames me to think our species is so pathetic and weak and that I was one of them for so long.
And so it goes.