by The Rebel 52 Replies latest jw friends
Mine is Emperor Hirohito during WW2 sat astride a large gun barrel surrounded by his top brass. They all look confident and imposing and unassailable.
Pride goes before a crash. Pride hides inner weakness.
I hope that what appears to be unassailable is really rather weak.
Toesup
You could take it 2 ways. Dead at Armageddon (bird food according to JW's). Or, toes up at the beach, enjoying life to its fullest.
My Avatar is the symbol the Romulan Empire. Descendants of the Vulcans, they rejected Surak's teachings during the Time of the Awakening and marched under the banner of a bird of prey. Thus the raptor symbol.
Romulans are stubborn, emotional, and prone to profound arrogance.
Sound like anyone we know?
Mine is a photo I took in Lake Como, Italy. A symbol if you like of my first independent step, a holiday on my own. Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates. I don't agree with everything Plato said but he was my introduction to philosophy.
I started reading Plato before I left the JWs. I learnt that the Greeks were trying to work out how to be a good person 500 years before Jesus and none of them claimed to be the son of God, they just used logic. I told my mother what I was reading. She was worried and thought it would take me out of the religion. She was right.
Spending time sailing with my husband gave me time to breathe and experience life outside the control of the organization, time to unwind away from indoctrination. It was the catalyst for my waking up. I left a believer, because the cognition dissonance was literally killing me. I just wanted to love my family who left before I had in the time we had left together. I simply was unwilling to shun my DF'd son. If Jehovah wanted to kill me for that, so be it.
I learned TTATT a few months after I sailed away. Oh, and Emma is my little sailor dog.
Diane
Stan livedeath - ahaha! I love that license plate; must show my flatmate. And I am so bad at anagrams, that is gonna bug the hell out of me.
Great topic!
Mine is a photograph of me ;).
I am drinking espresso, because that's symbolic of me. Behind me is Niagara Falls, which is symbolic of where I'm from.
