i would appreciate your opinion on this historian and his explination for the birth of christianity.. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwuzozn-9dc.
please watch all of it before you comment.
i found it very interesting,.
Sorry I cannot listen to clip because my stupid computer's speakers don't work and the closed captions speak word salad.
I will say this though.
I suppose he is going to suggest that Brian from "The Life of Brian" didn't really exist either.
Some people are just soo blasphemous.
( BTW, just joking).
i've been out for 20+ years so i'm a little out date.
i've been df'd, reinstated and finally disassociated.
my parents and siblings are still in.
The shunning policy as I know it is-
"We shall shun them in the KH
We shall shun them in the street.
We shall shun them in the shopping malls.
We shall shun them at school.
We shall shun them in the trenches."
We shall shun those apostate or suspected apostate bastards every opportunity we get."
the watchtower publishing house has been going strong now for over 100 years, publishing numerous.
books and magazines, many which are now out of circulation.
many of the doctrines created by this.
Ooh this is a tough one....ah let me see.
Would a creator choose a bunch of highly entrenched men who run
their organization like their own private fiefdom, to be his PR firm? ...... aahh....NO!
Men who are in the grips of some mighty powerful biases against anything logical or reasonable... aahh....NO!
But that goes for all organized religion.
how many people, shown in this 1914 grade three school picture, do you think may still be alive ?.
birch school.
group iii.
Are these the kids from village of the damned?
Bloody 1914 generation can't kill em with a stick.
how educated are you?
and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.
do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.
To many people in this world higher education or even basic lteracy, is a luxury they will never experience, for women, and the poor in particular.
So anybody that is able to access education on any level I say do it!
i have two more dates this week.
keeping track of who is who and showing them a "genuine" interest has been fun to say the least.
i can prepare for each "return visit" in advance and take notes after each date.. so is this ethical?.
Let's just say I am Gen X.
My favourite decade would be the eighties. (that's when I did my partaying).
Sorry for the ambiguity but I live in very small town and do not want to be outed by possible lurkers.
how educated are you?
and how great is your vocabularly ect ....?.
do you think ir right to judge people by how intelligent/ educated they are and how much vocabulary they use???.
I do not like education snobs or intellectual bullies.
I grew up in a very poor family, my parents were not educated (not JWs) and I experienced first hand
how it handicapped them and their children.
I envied those that had the opportunity to get a decent education, still do.
I do believe though that intelligence and talent comes in many forms, and I try not judge people based
on education or IQ because I know how much it hurts.
I try to treat people as human beings first, even the dull or the ignorant (I include myself there).
i have two more dates this week.
keeping track of who is who and showing them a "genuine" interest has been fun to say the least.
i can prepare for each "return visit" in advance and take notes after each date.. so is this ethical?.
Good to see all those "JW stalking 101" classes (pioneer schools) have come in handy.lol.
Seriously though, If you have not made a committment to any one person you should have as many dates as you feel comfortable with.
You don't owe anyone exclusivity until mutually agreed upon. Otherwise just have fun getting to know people in a relaxed be yourself kind of way.
Trouble with being exclusive too soon it places too much pressure on yourself and other the person before you are ready.IMO.
Good luck with the note taking BTW.
... you felt what you did was great.
ahh yes.
preaching in foreign lands....in english.
Yeah, a couple from my cong moved to Ecuador, they meet with a small english speaking group
and ask specifically for english speaking people in the D2D work.
Seems stupid to me but there you have it.
Tell you what though, it is possible that they (GB/WT) think english will be the language spoken in "new system."
robert j ingersoll on the great voltaire:.
"it has been claimed by the christian critics that voltaire was irreverent; that he examined sacred things without solemnity; that he refused to remove his shoes in the presence of the burning bush; that he smiled at the geology of moses, the astronomical ideas of joshua, and that the biography of jonah filled him with laughter.
they say that these stories, these sacred impossibilities, these inspired falsehoods, should be read and studied with a believing mind in humbleness of spirit; that they should be examined prayerfully, asking god at the same time to give us strength to triumph over the conclusions of our reason.
Mocking and ridicule can help the healing process.
Id prefer to laugh than cry.
Plus, I think the WT/BORG have a big enough legal department, they can handle it.
I won't lose sleep over hurting their feelings.
