Topics Started by Daunt
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Hard Headed.
by Daunt insince i've opened up to my parents more about how i really feel and think, i feel that it has become somewhat easier in some areas yet harder in others.
now that i've totally said that i do not believe in their religion and their pressuring me to be a part of it, they have been somewhat afraid to make me too angry at them.
i have stayed out late a few times with friends (not that they know i was with friends) and have come home to nervous grins and standoffish gestures.
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Study in the Creator book.
by Daunt inafter my whole little ordeal with my parent's hearing about how i am atheist and the truth about how i feel about the truth, my dad suggested that we study later on the creator book ("is there a creator who cares about you?
") he has told me a few times that if i have any objections to it i can freely point them out.
well, at first i saw this to be the opportunity to do research, back track the numerable names that they drop in this book, and show the logical fallacies used to support the prevailing theme of intelligent design in the book.
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Have to think something through, wish I could use some of your advice.
by Daunt ini'm in a pretty tough pickle at the moment.
i was on this site before under another username but i haven't been here for a long time.
i am fully convinced that this religion isn't what it's cracked up to be.
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Emotional Tug of War
by Daunt inthe one thing i hate most about the whole idealogy of the jw's is the ransom for your love they like to play on you.
many times you will find the greatest people you will ever meet being a jw but they will only love you and you can only love them as long as you're current condition or title is a jw.
i can garrentee you that this is one big reason why a lot of people do not leave.
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Handling atrocities.
by Daunt inas we all know one of the main reasons why the org has so much control over its members is because of it's use of fear.
today a co was doing the usual craptacular talk about "the scene of this world is changing".
of course talking about different atrocities people of the world (meaning whoevers not a witness does all these things and are not better than them) do.
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Appealing to our Fears.
by Daunt inappealing to fear is a classic logical fallacy that has been used to justify things from killing jews to preaching door to door.
an appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for their idea by playing on existing fears and prejudices.
(from wikipedia).
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The Ressurection Hope.
by Daunt inok, i never understood this.
ok so the jw's believe that we should try to get all the people we can into the force so they can go to the new world.
but, there was a series of talks about the ressurection about a month ago, saying right after armeggedon we're going to be ressurected and continue living through the thousand year rain where people's scrolls will be wiped clean and satan and his demons won't be able to tempt us anymore.
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Houstonians being affected by the Hurricane.
by Daunt infrom the different houstonians i talk to, many of them are showing some hostility towards the new orleans refugees.
many of my associates say that many businesses are being bought out and being replaced with new orlean ran businesses, and many other people worry about new orlean's crime history and how that would affect houston.
i'm trying to volunteer at the astrodome hopefully (parents are jws so everything volunteering for a group is terrible) but i was just wondering how other people felt about the raised emotions of the refugees from new orleans and how that will affect other people.
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The Lucipher's Principle.
by Daunt ini have just begun reading this book by howard k. bloom and i have to say that just the first few pages are giving me a totally new way to look at things.
it's mostly a book about the evolution of human morals and politics and religion but it goes a lot deeper.
it concretely explains how we came to be who we are, personality wise, within society all using aspects of evolution to rationally explain itself.
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Texas Hold em'
by Daunt inhttp://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html#4524 .
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not trying to get into deep politics, but i do not know if many people know about this.