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The
Painful Truth
10th Anniversary
1997 - 2007
Painful
Observations
by Viking
For me, the value of this Painful Truth forum has
been the VALIDATION that it brings ---
It really happened!
I don’t see anyone from the church
anymore, with minor exceptions --- the existence of this forum reminds
me that there are real people that really experienced this, although of
course the experiences are not 100% percent the same.
Now that I am “free” of WWCoG, I have
determined that I will decide the course of own life, no man/woman will
do it for me. We can discuss beliefs, and throw ideas around, but
ultimately I have to decide.
This “freedom”, is also relative,
depending in what part of the world you live in. I also think that we
can make decisions independent of “god”, for there is very little
evidence that there is a plan, or will, or a specific path that one must
follow. I believe that a ROOT CAUSE of many problems is the belief that
there is a “will” or a path that you must take --- in the WWCoG, this
caused a lot of frustration, because when things did not work out, one
assumed that it must not be god’s will. After a few years of noticing
how nothing seems to be god’s will, one could end up a mental case ---
if things go wrong in your life, you assume you must be out of synch
with god, and this causes a great spiral of self-doubt ---
--- of course, such concepts as
the true church, god’s work, god’s commission, god’s government and so
on all re-inforce the idea of “god’s will”.
Much later, I realized that if these
concepts were wrong in the first place, then the INTERPRETATION of god’s
will becomes a personal delusion. Later, I realized that many of
my problems stemmed from bad ideas, advice and doctrine of the church.
Which brings me to next subject:
NEGLECT
There is this idea that Christians
must be martyrs, to the point of unreasonable sacrifice. After much
reflection, I realized that this sacrifice resulted in major neglect.
There are a FEW things that one can do
in modern life to have a reasonable existence:
1) get educated
2) use the education to get a job
3) use the income of the job to invest
4) use the income to buy a house
5) use the income to have a RELIABLE
motor vehicle
6) continue to educate with extra
courses (part time?) to re-enforce the career cycle
7) the rest will pretty much follow
Looking back, I believe that one’s
education and career experience pretty much causes one’s life to
unfold; depending on where the job takes you, you will make
friends and have other experiences.
One can then BUILD on other options,
one should save a portion of one’s income every month, and should add
other long-term savings such as retirement annuities, and one could also
start a business on the side.
I think the above is quite a simple
outline, BUT note how religion COULD DEMOLISH such a simple outline!!!
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Tithes could kill this outline.
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Refusing to be educated could kill this outline (worldly
knowledge etc)
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Giving up jobs and careers could kill this outline.
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Never investing in a house could kill this outline.
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Never making friends or networking could kill this
outline.
You get the idea.
Basically, the church KILLED normal
life by influencing its members to NEGLECT their responsibility to
themselves. And I haven’t mentioned the responsibility to be healthy;
many members SUFFERED the consequences of not seeing a doctor at
CRITICAL points in their lives; some have therefore suffered the
consequences for the rest of their lives; some are in wheel chairs, some
have mental problems.
I know a woman who suffered a stroke
at 28; she had been in the prime of her life. Still today, I don’t know
the whole story, but her father was bitter about church involvement in
some medical decision. Recently, she had one of her legs amputated by
her condition --- my question is --- where are the benefits of faith?
Where is god? Does god give her some consolation --- even if some
decisions were dumb --- does god honor that “worship”?
No, there is very little evidence that
god gives a stuff. I have NEVER seen any intervention by god. That
contradicts what’s in the new testament at least --- where are the
miracles? Where is god’s power?
Whatever I have witnessed is not the
power of any god. If there is a god, he’s gone into hiding.
--9/01/2007
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