by RichieRich 49 Replies latest jw friends
I would often zone out during talks and all I could remember afterwards was a weird honking noise coming from the platform...
Some meetings I pay no attention.
Some meetings I relentlessly look up scriptures and make mental notes of fallcies and phrases used. I think of myself as Blondie's young, american, male counterpart.
yuhuh... a phalussy IS a blow-job.
LOL!
i have to give credit to Abaddon for that saying. is why i "quoted" it. but i think it holds that many witnesses would not know how to define fallacy, or cognitive dissonance for that matter.
incidentally and ironically, it was the WTS idiot-science that was the first seed of doubt in my mind. from one of their own publications! the Creator book, ch.1, pg.9, par.3. i realized after reading that, that i had not been intellectually honest about my own belief system. so, i set out trying to prove it. the best mistake i ever made!
Creator book, ch.1, pg.9, par.3.
Dang it... what does it say?
Us Jerry Springer watchin types NEED to know...
u/d (of the repulsed by daytime TV, cuz it reminds me of the "mmetings" class)
incidentally and ironically, it was the WTS idiot-science that was the first seed of doubt in my mind. from one of their own publications! the Creator book, ch.1, pg.9, par.3. i realized after reading that, that i had not been intellectually honest about my own belief system. so, i set out trying to prove it. the best mistake i ever made!
Interesting, what is the point there?
Sometimes it is so worse. Somebody in a talk wanted to prove that evolution was stupid. His reasoning: I went to the zoo last year and saw the apes, I went this year too. They were still apes and not humans. So this proves evolution is false.
Danny
ct p. 9 par. 3
We invite all who have an open mind to consider this subject. The book Belief in God and Intellectual Honesty notes that one who possesses "intellectual honesty" is characterized by a "readiness to scrutinize what one believes to be true" and "to pay sufficient attention to other evidence available."
I believe this is the one. Aren't you glad you paid more than the usual attention, TS? (lol)
oh, duh! sorry guys. i forgot to say what the paragraph was about! i don't have the exact quote. but the paragraph went off about how people should be intellectually honest with themselves about the issues at hand in the book. something to the effect that intellectual honesty will give both sides a fair chance. and i realized that i had NEVER given evolution a fair chance. the only stuff i had ever read about it was from the WTS.
i know that the writer did not intend for the vise versa application of what he was writing (it was directed at worldly people reading the book), i decided to apply the same logic to my life and belief system. after all, the society recommended it! they could never be intellectually dishonest! they had the truth! WRONG. i set out trying to prove creationism to myself to strengthen my faith. in the process of only following the facts wherever they led me in an honest fashion, i destroyed my faith.
and here i am today!
I believe this is the one. Aren't you glad you paid more than the usual attention, TS? (lol)
oldsoul,
yes! so glad. with the greatest irony, i thank the apostle paul for that one!
(it was paul, right?) lol
DannyB said...His reasoning: I went to the zoo last year and saw the apes, I went this year too. They were still apes and not humans. So this proves evolution is false.
ROTFLMAO! That is way too funny. No wonder I learned to just send my brain on vacation.
The best is when you hear Witnesses try to refute evolution by saying "Well they still havent found the missing link" or " Then why arent there prehistoric ape-men walking around today? That's so dumb." Cue the laughter, crack another beer.. and drift into the mass of empty hope inside your brains..
GBL
One Guy said...Lawyers are idiots and they are a bunch of lairs!...I got up and laughed all the way in the back....People were staring at me as I was walking down. Hellloooooo?????? The Society has a ton of Lawyers.
One Lady gave an answer and said....My Doctor was Back!.....Brown Skin....Mischievous looking!!!!!!!....I was in the front turned around and said "Oh my GOD!" Out loud!....People my age that I grew up with were dying with laughter in the back row. Yeah I know I never kept my mouth shut...I was a time bomb! You never knew what was going to come out of my mouth!
One time it was during a Book study...There was this know it all loser giving a answer....He was all mixed up because he was looking at all the hot sisters there trying to impress them...His answer went like this.......Satan is a wonderful God and he give us what we need. With out him we would have nothing. I raised my hand with out being called on I said...Uhhh I think that was Jehovah!
Brooke
