I enjoyed your post hmike. It would be great if everybody would work together in harmony and I feel that it's everybody's personal duty to help in some way shape or form in their own way to see to this. However, uniting in culture just won't happen. There's too many cultural differences. By everybody going into one culture it would take years of dismantling people's cultures and origin, and nobody wants this at all. So let's try to work together to think of a course of action to reach this goal.
Throughout history people have been known to not "accept" things all too well. Millions if not billions of individuals have lost their lives because they refuse to accept another person's ideology. I propose that we keep our innate cultural customs but accept the possibility that we can be wrong and other people can be right and they have the freedom to choose this right or wrong without undue persecution to them. Reason and Logic breeds this habitually however, worldwide most people will not critically question their original belief systems or even consider the possibility that it is wrong. Therefore it brings me to my main proposal to the solution of this problem... Education.
Education even in developed countries are somewhat sub-par in my opinion. They put knowing the quadratic equation over understanding how to critically think about whether this person is indirectly (or directly) controlling you physically, mentally and even spiritually. They teach the spin of an atom and never even think about understanding the nature of human sexuality. It is fine that they are teaching academic solutions to these problems but we are pushing out many individuals who can not critically think for themselves without some looming authority forcibly suggesting their viewpoints. I feel that true world understanding (World peace is a little farfetch, some people view heated debates as not being peace, and I would hate aworld without debate) rather than imagining a world outside of our means and not even actively working towards that solution using real life experiments and study to see that it happens.
Our educational system should be the foremost asset to all of us, because that educational system is what makes us, it's what makes our future. Future diplomacy issues means nothing if a future populace can not critically think of a reasonable solution to things (rather than "God" told me so. I'm talking to you Bush). This irrational way of thought has put us through heck and back in a circular repetition of what the generations before us did. If we would stop making the same claims as before and work towards a goal worldwide then we can finally think about solving the real problems that's hindering humanity from being great. And all this can only come from the education of the youth.
Posts by Daunt
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37Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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Forget the 10 Commandments Follow the book of Tao instead....
by EvilForce inas another thread rages on and on over whether we'd be better off following the 10 commandments i would posit that we would be better off following the tao te ching (the holy book for taoists) rather than the bible or 10 commandments.
how many holy wars have been carried on by christians.
how many christians are engaged in war right now?
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I'd propose Buddha's basic ideaology more than anything. But Toaism is nice.
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From the mouths of kids....
by Lilycurly inconversation between my little 10 years old brother and my dub-dad before he departs for the meeting:.
little bro: daddy...why do you have to go to kingdom hall?.
dub-dad: well, because jehovah wants us too.
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Ha Out of the mouth of babes. That's excellent Lily.
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Ah thanks guys. I never really "believed" in this religion, I always wanted to have a life outside of it since most of the people in my congo were over 60. Mom always tried to encourage me to make friends with the JW kids but I would go years without even seeing a Jw person outside of the congregation. I was a "loner" when I didn't want to be a loner. Just couldn't stand all the JW talk and the not so original jokes that they're forced to say since they can't step over the line over even look in the line's direction. Just bore me, I loved the exciting life of the "worldlies and wicked ones", they still were in lines with the rules that were given and took even more responsibility than I or any other witness I met would have taken yet still kept their somewhat rebellious nature. I kind of step over the line when my parents were stepping over the line with me but overall I just have the "I wanna live" attitude.
But the thing that still shocked me though even after all of this, was how hard it was to accept that this wasn't the truth. I have NEVER felt that bad about anything, and I've went through month long fits of depression at times. I was numb for about a week after I learned it (from this site also) but I couldn't resist learning more.
I kind of wish I actually learned about the Truth about the troof earlier (Ha I was about 13-14 when I learned about it) so I could have started working on my life earlier, But, thanks again guys I have more conviction in leaving than ever before. Already have a bud that agreed to room with me. And partying will be happening, believe me. Turned down too many party opportunities in the past, need to make up time. But I will be sensible (to an extent) about it. -
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Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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Oh I know LittleToe. When I say that I do not mean it objectively, my arguement would be just as good as a person saying it helps prove religion's affectiveness. Mostly just my opinion with a few personal experiences bunched up with them. Should not be taken as litterally as say gravity eh.
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Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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There's millions of folk tales in history. Some complicated some not so complicated. Many folk tales in the bible are duplicates of other folk tales (ie flood story). If you accept these folk stories it would only be logical to accept the other ones since they have the same possibility of existing in the world of a mystic.
And just to extend on Tetra's statement about no evidence in God. In reality, there's good evidence not to believe in God (mankind in general) from the easy manipulation that comes from irrational religious thought, to the black and white world it seems to paste on many of it's members. Just doesn't seem good for humanity imo. -
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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I want to mainly become a Concept Artist and a Matte Painter. Concept artist designs the vehicles, environments, and characters for movies and games and a Matte painter paints realistic environments for movies and stuff (You would be surprised how many movies use these folks even when there aren't a whole lot of them, see www.dylancolestudio.com). But for now mostly I just do life drawings of nudes and my own thing. Planning on trying to sell portraits for a side-job when I get a little bit more practice in.
And Im hopefully going to this School called Watts Atelier in Cali. I'm having doubts about going there since california cost your firstborn and a leg to live there, but I'm going to try. But the school is somewhat cheap and have excellent well-known instructors and Cali's the place for jobs. -
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Thanks a ton folks. I'm taking all of you guys' advice very personally. I need to work on myself financially better first so I can truly know where im going to stand when i get out. And about my parent's wellbeing, I've thought about this a lot and came to pretty much the same conclusion as you guys. I've been tearing down my own beliefs and dreams to keep them happy and it's just not worth my happiness over. I'll report to you guys on how my life is going. Thanks so much, would still be lost without this site.
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A Good Escape Plan.
by Daunt ini'm planning on moving out from my jw parents house in about 7 months.
i'm trying to start a job and i already have a little money going into it (bout 2500 dollars little) however, mainly i just wanted to really know if this was the best course of action.
my parents are the usual jw's but i do love them, however, the pressure is just building up from all their jw reasoning and pressure and guilt trips and all that mess.
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Thanks Everybody. I have more confidence in moving out now thanks to you guys. But, I'm mostly worried about the emotional toll it'll take on my parents. Them constantly worrying about me in their JW ways. Thinking im having gay sex with a dog while beating up babies since now im in this world at whatnot. But I still worry about how they'll take it. I do love them.
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Would acceptance of the gospel change the world?
by greendawn inwhat do you think would happen if the world or at least a large powerful nation accepted and practised the gospel as it is without watering it down?
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So the people who support this gospel message was "intended" to be, do you think your interpretation of it is better than say, the Jehovah's Witnesses? It seems to be anybody's guess as to what they REALLY intended. And that's where the problem comes in. Everybody's interpretation is the REAL interpretation that they intended it to be. That's why we've been in this intellectual stinker for so long.