Posts by El blanko

if you think about it, what happens if one of the persons in a marriage gets converted to the jw religion, while the other one chooses not to believe?

or the husband is at work, and the wife gets to meet the jw at the door, has bible studies with them, gets converted, and then the husband wakes up one day and finds he is living with a jw mate.

what happens if a jw couple is out in the field service, and one gets converted to another religion, precisely as a result of doing the kingdom field service work.. in all of these instances, it results in a religiously divided home.

El blanko

Change should be more gradual, more natural. As people see the benefits of a thing, they naturally adopt it. Evangelism often creates a need where there is none and then fills it. People end up w something that they generally don't need.

Life is not always that straight forward. We have a short period of time on the earth and if the society I am living in has convinced me of bogus ethics, then I appreciate a person from the outside presenting good, rational information to me.

For instance, I might feel it is ok to be a Nazi (an extreme example) and need re-educating. How will this happen within my short life if another force for good does not interact with me and show me a better and fairer way to live?

Do you know what I am getting at here?

Preaching is fine in my books. I have the ability to sift the information and take from it what I choose.

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When is the world going to end?

by Davidson_73 in

El blanko

Well, the Mayan calander runs until 2012, sooooo.....

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Are You Still Stuck In The Moral Panic trap?

by Englishman in

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just curious..now that you're an exjw, do you think that the world is a good place or an evil place to be?.

or are you screwed up about asylum seekers and other perceived threats to your security?.

i tend to always err towards optimism generally.

El blanko

Life is good..it's great to just be alive..why worry?

Well, I believe that is true in a way and all very well and good if you aren't suffering from extreme poverty or living in a war zone.

I think the experience of life and being conscious is beautiful, aside from that, the world I see through the news & media outlets looks pretty screwed up to me.

1000s starving, 1000s dying in war, violence on our streets, disgusting diseases spreading, natural disasters - you know what I mean

I try to balance this by walking in the park, taking in the air, listening to nature and in a way wrap a bandage around the fear & hurt I feel within my heart.

But, that bandage is only temporary and soon I see the blood pressing through the fibres again.

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what to say to when someone says happy bday?

by tsunami_rid3r in

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whenever people tell me happy birthday tomorrow what do i say?

and the girl i took to prom well im still having some feelings for her and we seem to be getting along good.

id like to hang out with her because shes fun, but she has a bf now.

El blanko

Still don't do the birthday thing myself and doubt I ever will, but I just say thanks for the thought and avoid confrontation over this ritual.

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Has your relationship with Jesus changed?

by Honesty in

since you either left the organisation or started to objectively examine wts doctrine.

El blanko

That's a superb picture.

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Evolution of Man

by bavman in

here's a question for all you who have been studying evoluition much longer than me.

i have read in a few places that man has all but stopped evolving.

is this what is really being taught by science and why?

El blanko

I have read in a few places that man has all but stopped evolving.

Yep - I read something similar myself in a science and technology report a few months back. If I remember correctly, scientists involved in the study were theorizing that the size of the human brain meant that it had reached its potential and was operating to it's fullest capacity, or some other junk line of reasoning.

The theory was, that the next leap in human evolution would be through the introduction of drugs and tech-implants to the human organism.

All very "Ghost in a Shell" I thought.

I believe that the vision put forth is certainly one that those pesky scientists are working towards

Expect more useless junk to clutter the earth over the next few years - including designer chip implants for the frankly insane.

Thinking about it, I have read that in certain parts of Europe chips are already being implanted for use within clubland.

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Do world events preoccupy you?

by JH in

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when you read the news on the net or tv or in the news paper, do you get worried about war, oil prices, ozone depletion, species dying, and the list could go on and on, or are you just numb about it?

i found these 2 forums, and they really think that the end is close, and they aren't jw's !!!!

http://pub15.ezboard.com/fthefinalphasefrm18.

El blanko

The Bible is very clear that the world will be in complete shambles when Jesus returns and that he will be the reason why anybody is saved . I expect more natural disasters and more nations fighting it out , perhaps even a nuclear exchange but also feel that things will get better afterward.

I feel the same way.

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Has your relationship with Jesus changed?

by Honesty in

since you either left the organisation or started to objectively examine wts doctrine.

El blanko

Am I to take it, from your pic, that you've climbed out from under the rock, now?

LT:

Yep, I thought, what the hell. Shoot me you swines, just shoot me