jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Yes, it is what it is. True.
They (JW) KNOW and you don´t know I recognize it very well. Another thing I have notised is that they are extremly curious, not about the truth, but about the one they talk to. "-Do you believe in the Bible? -Do you have been in the arny? -How old are you? -Are you married? etc etc"
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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The possibility that the earth is not flat is high. I didn´t looked flat when I looked at the horizon high up in an airplane. Pictures taken on Earth from space confirm this. There is a very high chance that the earth is round according to the evidences.
The possibilty that the Watchtower is a deluded cult is also very high because they rely their information from believing, not from facts.
We maybe think our so called wisdom is higher than others. What about this parable:
Cofty, your latest statement, is it humble to indirect write that I´m not humble? (even if I´m not)
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Yeah...at least I realize how foolish I am. I hope it´s a good first step.....just let me find out.
A clarifying about what I mean to stay opened. It doesn´t mean that the open minded person pathetically sucks upp everything that is introduced. It´s the opposite, or else it would be impossible to retain the opened mind.
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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My experience of "opened mind" and "humility" is that they are at least close relaled. Can one stay humble with a closed mind?
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Haha, Cofty, you´re testing me hard
It´s very hard to stay humble and very easy to look at their belief with arrogance. I have done it and still struggle with it. I didn´t even knew what you´re telling me about their governing. I wish I could stay open and aware for whatever they will tell me, but sadly for me I know that I´m full of pride. There is a possibility that I will fail in my humble quest (assuming their belief is screwed up)
It´s not surprsising though, I´m not a humble person, I only wish I would.
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Thanks for all replies
"A humble man may have strong beliefs but is willing to listen......"
Which means that he is ready to change his already strong belief to another.....?
I have a few more quotes about humility:
jesus said: .
verily i say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: but he that shall blaspheme against the holy ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
(mark 3:28-29).
"There is no spirit world, no afterlife, no judgement to come."
Don´t take this wrong, but I´m curious who you KNOW this. Have you ever had an OBE? According to your statement, probably not.
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Hortensia, that can be the case.
LisaRose, I see what you mean. There is no evidence of a afterlife, but there is no evidence to the opposite either. About the odds, even the most beautiful logical statement can be wrong.
What about this statement: I KNOW that UKU (out of body experience) exist. The experience that my mind leave my physical body when it is sleeping, visit locations with consciousness. The experience when I, with extraordinary awareness, looked back on my own psycial body asleep in the bed, it´s unforgetable. I have proven this for myself many times. I don´t care and I don´t even want people to believe or desbelieve me. I thought I´m awake here, but I´m not, far from. I have experienced moments where I´m much more aware then I´m here in this physical world, but I cannot prove it for others. Only for myself. The funny thing when it comes to the part when someone shall explain the phenomena, the diffrent explanations from the so called "experts" show me with their answers that they have no idea of how this kind of experience really are. But again, I cannot prove anything to anyone. But what I have learnt is that there are more behind what we normally experience in this physical world. This experience is an experience, not an opinion. Again, I have only proven it for myself.
Sorry if I have bored anyone with my foolish writing
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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If I never shall know anything, that I have no idea about. Maybe you have right, maybe not. I cannot answer correctly because I don´t know.
From what I have seen on tv, peoples experiences in the space and what I have seen with my own eyes when I have looked through a window high up in an airplane, I presume that the earth is not flat, but I can never be 100% sure.
jw should put humility high on their list.
therefore i will let them do this test after a small talk:.
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Does it matter if it´s a 50/50 question or not? Is the question about the possibility of existing intelligent life on other planets in the universe a 50/50 case? Or is it more than 50%? Or less? How much more or how much less?
I have asked a few persons (among them a close relative of mine) claiming they have had NDE (near death experiences). They say they KNOW that there is an afterlife (much more real than this life) but they can only prove it for themselves. I don´t claim they have right nor that they have wrong. But what I have experienced is that when I started to believe in something, I mentally blocked myself. If I believe in an afterlife or believe that an afterlife doesn´t exist, I indirect mean that people who don´t share my point of view, have wrong. For me, that is not what humility is about.
Excuse me for putting up another quote here: "If you stay open and aware, free from opinions, no one and nothing can ever mislead you"
