my father the coboe and much loved member of the cult has ignored me and my children 17yrs and 8yrs old for much of my life and all of my kids lives.
i hate that religion for taking my father away and i hate him for being sucked in and putting all his love, time and kindness into the org and the stupid dubs and leaving himself too tired and uninterested in us.
my kids dont have grandparents, my mum is ok, she rings me once a month but kinda ignores my kids, just gives em $50 each a yr as a substitute for love and attention.. .
I don't blame the religion. You have to be a natural born asshole to do what they tell you.
There are natural born ass-holes. They have an authoritarian mindset. You can't change them.
There are also people who were raised by natural ass-holes. They might be be a little ass-holy because of their upbringing. They usually figure things out and become open-minded, tolerant, curious and fun in the second half of their life.
He allegedly had super intelligent beings by the millions already.
So he made humans and other animals that pee and poop. He wanted lots of carbon dioxide so his footstool would be nice and green.
No. Apparently in the big picture "Look! It was all good" Evening and a Morning and the 3 billionth day.
i had quite the fun time at my wedding reception with the jw family so worried that my non-jw aunt was going to do a toast.
unlike them, i do have regard for not offending the conscience of others, so of course i wasn't going to allow that under the circumstances.
i mean, if they really thought i was going to let them do that, why did they even come in the first place?
No. Because I hate social conventions. I avoid putting my arms around people, fist bumping, high fives and never shake hands with friends. I will give a strong business/sales handshake if I am closing a deal because there is money involved.
I don't kiss my wife good-bye because I intend to see her in a few hours and we already took care of what that leads to.
I'm not saying this is necessarily good. It's just my personal preference.
jw pro: easily established network of mutual friends con: easily established network of sociopathic busybodies, jw con bedroom laws and one sex position allowed worldly pro: positions in bedroom are only contained by the physical laws of nature.
JW marriage: Forced to feel guilty about masturbation and so you marry the first thing that's bigger and prettier than your hand and usually before the age of 20.
simply put, something is happening behind the scenes of world affairs that the mainstream media isn't reporting.. suddenly, there are secession petitions in nearly every us state, including texas, louisiana, alaska and hawaii.. there is a bizarre sex scandal at the highest levels of the us military - together with evidence that the exposure of the scandal was timed.
there have been us military leaders relieved of command together with specific rumors of a planned coup attempt against president obama.
there were rumors about threats made because he refused to initiate a preventive war with iran, together with israeli leaders.. europe is threatened with collapse and anarchy and there is a rumor about an emergency bilderberg meeting in rome tonight.
Conspiracy theories have become entertainment. They are rooted in the way our brains evolved. Our brains evolved to match patterns so that we can survive in an environment of cluttered information. You always see faces in clouds - NOT clouds in faces. One of the big problems in a troop of 120 roaming primates is trying to figure out what everyone is up to. A rich nutritional "find" might be kept secret from the troop by individual members so they can exploit it for themselves without having to fight for their food. These individuals might share their information with select allies who regularly reciprocate when they find a choice food source. Another "political" problem is access to mating opportunities. Men in power (often ugly) are desireable to females. Nature invests in eggs not sperm.
This is why people believe in Gods and Demons and Invisible souls that are in control. No one has much control because it is impossible to get the right information. There are conspiracies but they tend to form associations where they become each others own worst enemies. There is NO master plan. The master plan is in our own evolutionary heritage. It's called greed. And it fails because the higher you get the more you are a victim of your own hubris.
History is littered with dictators torn apart by their subjects.
Convergence of bad things is easy to explain. Shit happens. And sometimes a lot of shit happens.
Democracy has the right idea. Keep stirring the pot.
you always were cramming to get to the next assignment.
you had to personal study, read your daily text, read the bible daily, prepare for field service, prepare for meetings, get to them at the proper time, preach as much as possible, etc.
we never truly enjoyed life..
The idea that you have "forever" made me take time to smell the roses.
I am now in my 60's and I realize that I spent too much time smelling the roses.
I missed out on a whole different boquet of aromas.
Roses look great on cemetery plots.
whith this recent fds and gb debacle i cant think of one teaching that they have not altered since this org began?.
The idea that souls (animal as well as humans) consist of a physical body plus the breath of life.
This is a core doctrine that is consitent with the Hebraic concept of soul prior to the Greek influence.
Although the idea that your thoughts perish at death dominated the thinking of the Bible writers there were subtle indications that there were other influences. Witch of endor materializing Samuel stands out. The Christian scriptures have a lot of confusion with things like the rich man and lazarus.
The JW stance on "soul" is solid. It is also the one thing in the Bible that agrees with science.
We don't have an immortal soul.
The witnesses have stuck to that.
what reaction do you have--what ideas and responses to what socrates was trying to say?.
has the written word created a weakening in the human mind?.
does relying on books and the thoughts of others cripple our freedom and originality of thought?.
Nothing wrong with the written word.
There are just too damn many words.
Authors feel they have to write 400 pages of stuff to make it worth occupying a space on the book shelf.
I can read 50,000 words in a minute. I look at the title, and what people say about the book and decide it isn't worth the time.
The older I get the faster I can read.
Look into Squashed Philosophers. http://sqapo.com/index.htm
worship is man's natural reaction to an encounter with the living god.
for humans unacquainted with anything but a book or a prayer or a seat in an arena where "god" is spoken it is a 2nd level intellectual or emotional experience.
not reality.. idolatry becomes necessary.. what better way to serve an unknown and unknowable except by erecting a helpful worship aid: image?.
Ted lectures are my Kingdom Hall substitute.
i'm not sure where this thought came from (believers will no doubt say 'from satan'), but it has started to coalesce in my brain lately.
i've often referred to the bible and argued from it to debunk jw beliefs, and still tried to consider it as a great piece of literature at the very least.
but as my wife was listening to the meeting on a loud speaker phone at home this weekend, i just had this thought.
The Bible basically is not the book people want it to be.
