the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.
she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.
the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.
Been very busy so haven't read the whole thread, just came in at the comment where Canadian Muslim women aren't allowed to divorce... not sur where this comes from, as I know several Muslim women who have divorced their husbands, and this is in a developing country.
I think the basic issue is, just as in Christianity,there are as many different versions of Islam as there are people....
i have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.
i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!
(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).
Burn it all like the poison it is, then walk away liberated is my two cents worth!
the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.
she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.
the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.
Steve2, I agree totally
i'm not sure if i believe in life after death but i thought of something that has me leaning toward that direction.
unlike other living beings, humans have a consciousness that is separate from our brain.
two prime examples of this are addiction and dieting.
There is none, sorry..
do you beleive our spirit lives on in other dimensions or are we really just dead?
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I can't answer the spirit question, but for me the life after death thing is easy really.
Before I was alive I wasn't here, after I won't be either...
Carpe Diem is my motto...
I have much loved dogs, they have more right to any afterlife than I ever would, and sadly I'm pretty sure they don't get anything....
she and my dad brought us to the u.s. from ireland in hopes of giving the 4 of us kids a better life with more opportunities.. mom went to school in her village where her mother (my grandmother) was the teacher and the bible was part of the curriculum.
they even used the name jehovah.
her father was a plymouth brethern (think amish or quaker) who was shunned for the rest of his life for marrying my grandmother who wasn't "in the lord"...she belonged to church of ireland.. when the witnesses came to the door after we arrived in the u.s, mom was a shoe-in candidate for their recruitment.
what a beautiful woman she was, you were lucky to have her....
the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.
she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.
the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.
Cofty, that isn't quite true. I spend a lot of my time I a predominately Muslim country, and count many good Muslims as close personal friends.
I personally am athiest, but the mainstream brance of Islam is no more extreme than mainstream christianity.
They are honesty hardworking decent people. Islam at least has obligations to donate to the poor and to support charity. None of the many people I know support calls to Jihad, or to murder infidels...
remember the bible also teaches that women are second class citizens, that non believers should be killed etc etc. the standard excuse for that is thats only the OT, but as an excuse that doesn't really hold water....
There are many things I don't like about religion, but after spending much time with moderate Muslims, I can't see it as any worse than moderate Christianity.
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just wondering since leaving jws, has anyone went tattoo and piercing crazy, so to speak??
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two tats and want another one...
had a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.
he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.
says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.
Beth, does it taste just like whale? lol!
this new tract being released by the jws sounds an alarm!!!
the tract at first glance does not look religious at all!!!
it looks like political information, you have to almost search for the one scripture cited.
DJS,
plus one!
