Current Events > Why the fuck would anyone consider becoming Jehovahs Witness? Serious question

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@Dragon239 Sorry, forgot to answer this:

Dragon239 posted...

OrangeWizard posted...

I don't know how to answer this question. What is a metric of Truth?

Ehh...fair enough. Let's see.

How do you personally determine truthiness in a thing (religion) that inherently has almost no evidence to base on?

I consider it to have enough evidence to warrant my belief. I also have no one standard for what constitutes enough evidence. Some things I believe upon just being told, like if somebody were to tell me that they are sick. Other things that are unintuitive, I require greater evidence for, like someone with a flat stomach told me that they were 9 months pregnant.

Does it just feel like it most accurately describes the world? Is it the one that makes you feel the warmest inside? Is it the one that seems to have the least contradictions? Is it the newest religion that appears to take itself seriously? Is it simply the one that makes the light bulb in your head brightest, in understanding on the universe and meaning? Is it the one that mostly aligns with your code of ethics?

I feel that it most accurately describes the world, has the least contradictions, and has stronger arguments going for it than all the other religions that I know of. I find belief in an intelligent creator intuitive, also.

What would make you think something else is more true, given that it clearly won't be true in the sense of how we classically understand "truth" with verifiable facts and experimentation (...ignoring the philosophical question of "how can we know if anything we experience is true")?

Anything that is able to describe the world better, offer stronger arguments, or is able to show that the beliefs of my religion are false.

Why did you discard other religions as being less true?

I can't speak for religions that I don't know about, but for the ones that I do know about, though I am not an expert in them, I find them to have contradictions and weak arguments.
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