during this new year i started to love boxing and i can only really do is shadowbox which is good training, but i really want to do more.
now you might be thinking ''why the heck would this kid take a likeing in boxing when he is in a jw family?
''well thats the point of this post it sucks that i cant do a sport that i like and i want to spend time doing because jw's dont let you do sports and dear god you wont be able to do something like boxing.. (i just made this because i just wanted to talk about this and some of you will understand if you wanted too do sports but you couldnt because you where a part of a jw family).
Smiddy3 -
I took Judo and college and loved it. I was still in at the time. If memory serves, there's a really old Watchtower article entitled "Try Judo". That blew me away.
Akid48 -
The whole Witness non-violence thing is all due to the misinterpretation of scripture. "They will learn war no more." When is the last time people put on gloves and boxed on the battlefield? Unfortunately boxing is a disfellowshipping offense.
i mean, the law about separating children from their fathers crossing southern us border have been in the books since before obama's era.
the thing is that enforcing that law it has become a public relations disaster for the trump administration.
there's also to much animosity in latin america too, remember the classic agitator "u.s. is the evil empire that treat us badly just to see always their own interests".
People in El Salvador put their children on the roof of a train which crosses into Guatemala and then Mexico before the child shows up at the U.S. border. The U.S. provides the child with food, clothing, shelter, medical attention, and an education until they can put the child on a flight back to El Salvador.
If I put my kid on the roof of a train in Texas which crosses into Mexico and then Guatemala before he shows up at the border of El Salvador I would be lucky if I wasn't sent to prison.
my husband is dfed but he is a prime example of someone who was a puppet for the watchtower.
i was able to wake him a little with the sex abuse scandal.
he was an elder and is very familiar with those rules.
Buy him a Bible that is not the New World Translation. Even my father who is a diehard Witness has stated that the NWT is not the best translation of the Bible.
since we were jws at one time, has it influenced your view as to where your dead loved ones are now?
i know many here do not believe in anything biblical but i’m curious as to whether you believe anyone is in heaven?
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In Valhalla, where the brave live forever.
i have talked about him before on this forum.
he is now a graduate from mit!.
it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.
That's wonderful news! Thank you for sharing. MIT is quite the prestigious school.
hey guys, so now that i’m pretty much atheist and i’m not scared of demons or supernatural things, or bring them into my house by watching movies or reading books about them lol, i defenitly want to watch a few scary movies.
i’ve always loved scary movies, but as witness, you don’t get to watch many since they need to be pg-13 and have no spiritism in it lol.
does anyone have any suggestions?
John Carpenter's The Thing
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
From Beyond
i like trump but i would be reticent wearing that hat.🤠.
I'm wearing one right now.
"President of what?" - Snake Plissken
the conservatives have won in ontario and the liberals who held power there for 15 years crashed so hard they didn't get enough seats to even retain official party status.
people are sick of them and the mess they make!.
hopefully this is the start of a wave across canada that will sweep the liberals from positions where they can do harm, ending with the king of the clowns, trudeau..
Trudeau prefers the gender-neutral title Royal Person of Clowns.
seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.
it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.
it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.
Simon hit the nail on the head -
The crux of the case is not that a baker refused to sell a gay couple a cake for their wedding. The baker refused to enter into a contract with a gay couple to make a wedding cake that celebrated gay marriage, which he is morally opposed to due to his religious beliefs.
seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.
it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.
it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.
Dozy -
The UK government being more secular has nothing to do with it. It's about statism vs living free and the concept of feeling morally superior. Morality is subjective, not objective.
