choosing life
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Does Anyone Hate Titles?
by choosing life inno, i mean detest titles.
the borg.
experience has left me with a revulsion to titles.
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Accepting Destruction To Obtain Life
by choosing life inone of the major premises of most religions is to accept that some must be destroyed in order for others to obtain everlasting life.
of course, there are many platitudes that a person relies on to soothe the conscience and sanitize the mind.. the ones to be destroyed deserve it.
they refuse to do something, worship god, beg for forgiveness, live a clean life, whatever.they are selfish and nobody can change them but themselves.. but underneath the smug acceptance of salvation, while the others suffer destruction is probably the most selfish concept of all.
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Is Your Family Crazy?
by choosing life ini have been trying to reconnect with my fleshly family for over a year now, since i left the jws.
for some reason, i find it extremely difficult.
i don't find them to be very giving or caring people.
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Rutherford's Rainbow
by choosing life ini was on amazon.com today and noticed that they were selling a collection of rutherford's books on cd.
there was also the watchtower from 1920-1929 and a selection of yearbooks on cd.
they were all being sold under the name of research applications.
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Taking a Mental Vacation
by choosing life inlast evening, as i rested my body and mind while watching the sun set, i realized how important it is to take time for mental relaxation.
just to calm the mind and quiet all the constant noise that runs through my mind.. i have to keep reminding myself though, because it is so easy to fall back into the pattern of constantly thinking, planning and deciding.
i need to take time to just be still because i see a difference in my physical and mental health when i do.. i was so used to cramming as much as i could into each day for 30 years as a requirement for some future reward.
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The Eden Story
by choosing life inin the garden of eden, god supposedly didn't want adam and eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
he preferred they remain innocent and incapable of deciding for themselves what is right or wrong.. along comes satan who wants them to eat of this tree and says they will become like god, knowing good and bad for themselves.
he says they will be like god.. as we all know, they chose to eat and find out what they were missing.
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Universalism
by choosing life ini was talking to a friend who believes that everyone will acieve eternal life eventually.
she used some scriptures that make sense to me.. 1 cor.
15:22 -for as in adam all die, so also in christ, all will be made alive.. rom.8 :38,39- basically states that nothing can seperate us from god's love.. it was kind of refreshing to hear her talk about everyone being important and worthwhile to god.
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Intelligence of Witness Material
by choosing life inwhen i started attending the meetings, i was in college.
i would use any excuse i could to get out of the watchtower study.
i couldn't believe they wanted me to read the article at home and underline the answers and then i had to sit and listen to them read it aloud again and give the same exact answers they underlined in the magazine.
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Throwing Good Music Away
by choosing life ini went to a used cd store tonight.
i was like a kid in a candy store.
they had a lot of the old records that i threw away because of a cult, now on cd.
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Belief And Non-Belief-Are They The Same?
by choosing life inafter reading the frequent threads on atheism verses theism, i find that both are very passionate about one thing, their beliefs.
atheists may not believe in god, but they are firm believers in the abscence of a god and evolution.
theists, on the other hand, are just as firm in their belief in a god and usually creation.