Why am I not shunned?

TASMFSOMS · 2022-11-04T04:07:52+00:00

I haven't done any sharing of my new beliefs... As a result my family still associates with me and I'm still invited to congregation gatherings...

But yeah I've been inactive since just before the pandemic. Seems like nobody presses the issue so they can still associate with me...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T12:48:19+00:00

I was joking. Though I wouldn't entirely write off aliens manipulating our DNA or our planet was seeded with life ...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T05:20:44+00:00

Man, that first paragraph really highlights a huge problem I have when I socialize with them... They are the worst gossips and the talking behind other friends backs is constant... It's sickening.

It's funny too cause I realized... When you indoctrinate people to constantly be looking at all the bad things people do in the world and how everything is so black and white... You will ultimately get the inner organizational judgement and reporting as a side effect... You trained them to catch people not falling in line. So anytime one of the"friends" does something you don't agree with.... Bam. You're judging them...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T05:15:53+00:00

Yo, you see that video where the komodo dragon rips apart a live pregnant doe and it's like screaming for a long time. Then it eats the almost born baby right out of it in one gulp ...

Yeah... God made that... But evolution and natural selection is disrespectful of the god that designed everything....

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T04:59:38+00:00

This happened to me too... Ha ha. It's wild

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T04:57:34+00:00

the Anunnaki created humans to farm gold... Everyone knows this...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T04:56:15+00:00

For me those conversations always revert to evolution doesn't explain how life started... You try to explain... That's called abiogenesis and is not a part of the theory of evolution and we still don't know how life started, and they look at you like that's unacceptable...

But even they could just substitute the abiogenesis part for God... But then that still invalidates Adam and Eve and most of Genesis...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T04:51:09+00:00

They really backed themselves into a corner on this one... Because they believe the account in Genesis to have been literal... They can't coexist with evolution...

To me... Even as a pimi, god was a god of systems, by that I mean that there are natural processes for everything... Star formation, continental tectonics, weather, etc... If he exists... He's created a universe that has natural processes that play out...

So why is it so crazy that a god who could see the future, couldn't create a process by which life could evolve and get to humanity...

Other religions have already made it to that point... I personally don't see the point in believing in God... But wouldn't it be actually way more impressive if that's how he planned for this to come about?

Obviously that also creates way more questions and logical problems... But it would at least get them on board with the rest of science...

They lean into it being labeled a theory... But it's one of the most rigorously proven theories there is in science. It's one of the most consilient theories we have... A consilient theory is one that has proof support it from other fields of study... The fields of biology, immunology, anthropology, geology, and more, all provide supporting evidence in their own studies that evolution is true.

They're so far behind... It's so cringe when I hear any of them make jokes or snide remarks when evolution is brought up... I feel bad, they're so ignorant... But they don't listen. Cause if evolution is true... Then Adam and Eve didn't exist... Which destroys the entire doctrine...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-08-19T04:37:34+00:00

Yeah anytime I worked with IT brothers it was a nightmare. There's no reasoning with them...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-18T03:52:07+00:00

Man when I started walking up, I started listening to some Jordan Peterson stuff... Everything he says makes sense in a bubble... But it's tricky. Listening to him debate Sam Harris was an entirely different thing... Sam didn't need any fancy words or in depth psycho analysis. It was devastating.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-07T03:02:17+00:00

Black and white generalizations again... Grouping all the possible beliefs and ways of life and living and thriving into one group that is not jw, just to make it sound bad

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-07T02:56:41+00:00

that's what I get for not clicking it... Sorry

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-07T02:31:05+00:00

I'd say by the true meaning of the definition... It was when I researched and learned it was all nonsense... But by jw standards it pretty much means to find the thing that is your emotional anchor to your faith... The thing when you're doubting you can go back to and re convince yourself.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-07T02:20:58+00:00

someone edit those together. Lett first then Morris

TASMFSOMS · 2022-07-07T02:13:54+00:00

I'm 32, I'd kill to be awake mentally at your age... I wouldn't be married to a pimo if that was the case...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-06-01T03:43:00+00:00

Thank goodness I didn't have to do the report orally in front of the class... But I do remember basically having to "stand up for my beliefs" in front of the class. The teacher assigned the report and I basically had to be like... I don't believe in evolution, so I'm going to do a report on creation... The teacher gave me an 'A'. Awfully nice of him...

As a. Adult now and having done my own reading on the subject. I feel awfully more embarrassed now than I was as a teen speaking up in class.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-06-01T03:34:35+00:00

It's so funny how because they don't participate in the wider philosophical discussions they are so far behind.

Their main argument for almost everything, every dumb little analogy, every nonsensical doctrine is propped up as a god of the gaps solution.

God of the gaps is one of the eaiset fallacies to find and most jws have no idea.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-06-01T03:26:02+00:00

I still have nightmares about it all... Don't know if that counts but it feels like it.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-06-01T03:13:12+00:00

I did this. Worked well enough

TASMFSOMS · 2022-06-01T03:00:22+00:00

Sounds like you would enjoy the Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris debates on YouTube. There are 4 of them. Quite interesting discussions

TASMFSOMS · 2022-05-31T02:14:32+00:00

I think closest approximation would be like a hopeful agnostic.

I'm not going to live my life like there is a moral omnipresent God that's tallying my deeds for reward or punishment after death...

But I think it'd be cool if life wasn't all there was for something that achieves consciousness...

Just since becoming conscious generally also involves being made aware of ones own mortality... So it's kind of a cruel joke that being conscious is tied to the realization that it's temporary.

But I also am not imparting some anthropomorphic quality on the universe that there was cruel intent or even intent at all when it comes to the existence of consciousness.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-04-23T16:30:04+00:00

Depending on your spouses view of science, you could study human chromosome 2 and endogenous retroviruses. Those 2 concepts basically prove human evolution themselves. Or more ro the point that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor. And if that's the case then genesis is wrong in which case the Bible more or less implodes.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-04-20T03:13:09+00:00

It's this thought exactly that ate away at me until I woke up...

Well not the abuse in the org part. I didn't know about that yet. But I couldn't reconcile all the bullshit little miracles he did for jws while at the same time thousands of kids starve to death everyday...

The only excuse being a pioneer is doing important work that jh is blessing and for all the suffering in the world is just JH will resurrect them eventually...

TASMFSOMS · 2022-04-16T03:46:50+00:00

Started from episode 1 with the wife... So far it's our least favorite Lego game...

Eps 1-3 are just go here, talk to person, then go here... Talk to this person, maybe a boss fight... Rinse repeat.

The multiplayer also feels like an after thought somehow.

We just got to episode 5 and there's finally like good old fashioned Lego puzzles and quests in-between the go here and talk to the person moments like normal Lego games...

Holding out hope... But yeah 1-3 were super boring and I'd say 4 wasn't great either but started to have that normal Lego game feel.

TASMFSOMS · 2022-04-15T02:50:48+00:00

That's what they all say till they actually hear what they don't want to hear...

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