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I was born an atheist. As a 1 day old baby I had no beliefs whatsoever.
Later I was raised as a christian.
In my teens I choosed to leave the church and form my own beliefs.
I had a choice, and I took it.
No JW can change this. Neither should they try to alter my choice.

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You said I should explain myself. I said start a thread and I will. You say no. I'm okay with that too.

Btw, I never said that 'mother' doesn't mean 'mother'.

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First, I don't claim what you claimed I claim.
Second, you don't know my reasons, so claiming my reasons are your reasons is not an answer to my question.

Look, you refuse to be honest, so drop it. But instead you want to play games. You're butthurt, I get it.

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lol

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At some point you have to leave a belief that you believe in and change this belief to another belief you didn't believe in before. In this very instant I choosed to believe in something I didn't believe in the second before this transition of belief.

This is a certain point in time when I changed one belief to another. Somewhere in this process I have to suppress one belief for the other one.

If this wasn't possible then it would not be possible in changing views about anything into anything else.

Originally posted by @fabianfnas
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This is a certain point in time when I changed one belief to another. Somewhere in this process I have to suppress one belief for the other one. ...

We can choose to change our beliefs, and you're right that it involves a process. Most types of changes are like that. Evolutionary changes for example.

Another example that makes a good analogy: a blank canvas is not a painting. The artist applies a brushstroke of paint, and now there is no blank canvas but there is also no painting. After hundreds or thousands of brushstrokes, we have a completed painting. Which brushstroke cause that change from a blank canvas to a nice painting? None of them!

Originally posted by @apathist
We can choose to change our beliefs, and you're right that it involves a process. Most types of changes are like that. Evolutionary changes for example.

Another example that makes a good analogy: a blank canvas is not a painting. The artist applies a brushstroke of paint, and now there is no blank canvas but there is also no painting. After hundreds or ...[text shortened]... nting. Which brushstroke cause that change from a blank canvas to a nice painting? None of them!

Exactly. Some creationists argues like there was a first human baby came out of a vomb of the last ape womb. That's of course not true. No first human existed. There was a gradual change from one stage of evolution to another, everyone knows that.