according to this report, http://www.ptm.org/uni/resources/ptmupdate/042108/sin.html;.
most americans believe in sin.. specifically, 87% of americans believe there are certain actions that are "almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective.
" this is how sin was defined in a recent study by ellison research (a christian research firm) of phoenix arizona, which sampled over a thousand american adults.. .
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An' it harm none,
Do what ye will.
Blessed Be to thee."
I was struck when I ran across this. I can't find any situations this doesn't cover. And it's so simple. All our actions are either motivated by love or malice. We just have to choose which.
I was on a Bible study with another "sister" and she told the person there were NO dinosaurs. period. They were created by demons. I choked.
lets have a free for all .
i would say why dont you have a book study anymore but that one is done to death... we had a witness recently and i asked for the latest jw only mag (he didn't realise i used to be in his cong... have i done that good a job at fading?
) it was a laugh to see the two of them struggle to come up with an answer.... ok lets here the best you can come up with, there has to be some better than mine, what question will leave them stuck for an answer...... .
1. Do you celebrate weddings? How about wedding anniversaries (the annual commemoration of the original wedding)? These are not mentioned in the Bible, BTW.
2. Do you celebrate baby showers? Why not celebrate annually the birth?
lets have a free for all .
i would say why dont you have a book study anymore but that one is done to death... we had a witness recently and i asked for the latest jw only mag (he didn't realise i used to be in his cong... have i done that good a job at fading?
) it was a laugh to see the two of them struggle to come up with an answer.... ok lets here the best you can come up with, there has to be some better than mine, what question will leave them stuck for an answer...... .
1. Do you donate blood?
2. Would you accept blood fractions?
3. Why would you allow someone else to violate God's law for you? Would you not then be bloodguilty?
between yesterday and today i've hit two milestones in my life.. #1. i finally registered to vote!!
i just kept putting it off.
then yesterday a friend was talking to me on the phone and while we were talking, his 18-year-old son was filling out a voter registration form that was mailed to him.
Congratulations! You've been a light to me.
guys, for those who know me here, i apologize in advance for being such troublesome pain in the ass.
i have had some scary low spots these past two years, and was imo on way too many meds.
i really had a death wish for awhile, and do not want to revist that feeling.
Hi Oompa,
I was on medications for years as a JW. Zoloft, Prozac, too many to name. The side effects weren't worth it and it felt like I was lost.
After leaving the cult, things kind of cleared up. I replaced toxic people with incredible people. I learned integrity in all things; and had to face being true to myself in all things. I was very fearful that this would force people I loved away, but they respect me now more and are in my life on my terms. The people who can't deal with that are toxic to me. Life isn't worth that hatred and poison.
I just took bad things out and replaced them with good things. I read (positive things, Eckhart Tolle, etc.), meet people, just get out even when I had to force myself. I was raised in the Lie so had to discover, versus rediscover, who I am. What I like. Where I want to be.
This board has been an immense help. I also took a weekend course in getting rid of your baggage once and for all and made some very serious, liberating phone calls to those I've hurt and those who have hurt me. Sort of drawing my lines in the sand. Now no one can hurt me unless I let them. And I am more tolerant. Judging less makes me freer to love.
You can't see what we see in you right now...but it's there. You are loved and needed.
if the wts and jws were to dissolve, i'm sure many of us would have mixed emotions....elation that a destructive.
cult has finally lost its hold....joy at seeing family members embracing us as people once again...etc.. having been raised in it, i have so many little memories that have come to be like little collectibles on a shelf.. i'll give you one.
if anybody else remember these, i'll be surprised.
Changling,
I remember the magazine rolls and helping load them in the car....they used to come to our house. And we always worked the literature counter. I felt evil for sneaking peaks in the boxes of the new releases and would try to justify it by reading them before they were released at the breaks...sheesh. My mom would always to try to show her special her children were for working the book counter. Then I graduated to auditing. wow.
if the wts and jws were to dissolve, i'm sure many of us would have mixed emotions....elation that a destructive.
cult has finally lost its hold....joy at seeing family members embracing us as people once again...etc.. having been raised in it, i have so many little memories that have come to be like little collectibles on a shelf.. i'll give you one.
if anybody else remember these, i'll be surprised.
I'll add my saddle leather service bag. The one sturdy enough to hold 5 sets of mags, 3 books, my Bible and Reasoning books, and 10 NH mags. And my wore out heels that carried me on that useless mission.
I can't get the link to work? Is it me?
I've been doing my geneology for the past 4 months. I got totally engrossed in my family's lives....before the WT messed up everything. I would encourage anyone feeling the hole left by shunning to try it. It helps.
as i read jwd today am i eating a bowl of lucky charms cereal.
it's good gereal, given the fact that the first time i ate lucky charms cereal i was in my 30's.
as i eat it i feel like a bit of a rebel.
Weird. I'm sitting here eating a bowl and logged on to see your thread. Ya, my family only let us eat them if we called them.................."Fortunate Trinkets". That'll fool the demons.
