What Is The Point Of Existance ?

[modeller]

Only we humans think we are special, and we have only existed for a few hundred thousand years.
All other organisms have an unaware finite existence.
Even the Universe has a finite existence. So what's the point ?

[dieseldick]

" We are all playing different strings on the guitar, but are playing the same chord."

exactly !! good reply !!

[anneasquith]

I rarely post in here M , best I stay away.

[Arksided]

Mamya's watching you lot... be careful.

[nailit]

Mamy, sometimes when you yourself have been involved in these things, then there is no other 'expletive' to describe it.
I was involved in a religious cult when I was in my teenage years and it still messes up my head to this day.

[Mamyalynne]

Arky , your post resonated strongly for me in many respects.

[Mamyalynne]

Nailit I know some have difficulty getting their point across without using such terms, doesn't mean I have to like it.

I can just tickle off elsewhere.

[nailit]

Mamy, if my choice of words offends you then I am genuinely sorry, please don't be offended but at the same time realise that there are things that are passionately felt, my own experiences are different than yours and when it comes to the dangers of religion it is something that I am passionately against.

[goodlife]

That all for today folk, if that what make you happy. :)

[nailit]

BTW
//I can just tickle off elsewhere//
never heard that b4, made me laugh, lol...

[nailit]

//That all for today folk,//
Nah, your just saying that to make us happy.....

[Mamyalynne]

I promise, I don't do offended - not in my nature.


Ah - 'Tickle off' is something I've always said lol.

[vulcan42]

how apt.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0FHEeG_uq5Y/maxresdefault.jpg

[Patsy33]

Bye bye goodlife. Be sure to put something in the collection box for JW.org corporation. They're getting short..

[Arksided]

Plying it smooth Mamya :-) I do think it was John Lennon I was quoting in the latter part. :-)

[Arksided]

*Playing... oops

[nailit]

not wrong there Vulcan.....

[cassa333]

Nailit, it is the overriding need for absolute and unconditional 'love' that God requires from us that is the sticking point.

God does not love us unconditionally. It is conditional. Conditional on total compliance. That is slavery dressed up as love.

The dear leader in North Korea demands pretty much the same. The only difference is that Jim Jung whatsit can't make the masses feel the way God does.

God dishes out not love but a drug so potent that you can never give it up. That drug may make you 'feel' good but it is a drug to keep you compliant non the less.

[goodlife]

Cassa333@ God does not love us unconditionally. It is conditional. Conditional on total compliance. That is slavery dressed up as love.
Christian slavery differs greatly from what many people think about the subject of slavery. In their minds, being a slave conjures up thoughts of being cruelly dominated, oppressed, and unjustly treated. But God’s inspired Word speaks of slavery that involves willing service to a loving Master.
Jesus said, love for God involves our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength. Such love emanates from the heart, involving our feelings, desires, and inmost thoughts, and we fervently desire to please Jehovah. We also love with our mind. Our devotion is not blind; we have come to know Jehovah—his qualities, standards, and purposes. We use our soul, our whole being and the life we possess, to serve and praise him. And we use our strength to that end as well. It is not slavery.
God loves all mankind as John 3 verse 16 tells us "16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life."
Pity more people in this world acknowledged the Bible definition of love. If they did, there would be no terrorism, crime, poverty, anger or famine. Man would love his neighbour and hence do no harm in any shape or form.
Racial discrimination and mistreatment of persons simply because of their national background are other problems that prevail because of failure to apply Bible principles.

[nailit]

For goodness sakes goodlife, cant you post anything that you thought of yourself, everything you post is copy and pasted from JW literature.
And Biblegods love is VERY conditional..(if you care to read the bible yourself)

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Jesus, I want to come in.
What do you want to come in for?
To save you.
To save me from what?
To save you from what I'll do to you if you don't let me in.

[Patsy33]

Swap Jehovah for JW.org.....