i don't know about everyone else but i just want to get these stories of godly/demonic intervention out of my system.
hope it doesn't bore you but some are a good laugh now but i truly believed them and some i still believe.. 1. don't open that cabinet- one day my dear step mother was cleaning the kitchen and needed something out of a cabinet that was rarely used.
there was a plastic cake dish that makes this very audible noise when trying to close it(lil cheap cake from winn dixie).
I guess the only one I can remember was the urban legend about the smurfs. Here's the midwest version I remember.
A lady with a new born baby hung a picture of smurfs above the crib. One of the smurfs hopped out during nappy time and killed the baby with a nail studded club. Gross.
Try telling a 6 year old that story, and see if they ever watch cartoons again. I grew up pretty certain that Gargamel was Satan in cartoon form.
~Snap
seeing how i'm not going to meetings or considering myself to be a jw anymore...& i'm 1 step from being da'd(unless they decided last night to do it).....i'm taking the mask off.
this really is me in the avatar.
(i hope i don't lose my special powers).. bavman
Ha ha Random!
Bav- You do look butt neked!
Anyway, congrats on the step. I hope your family treats you well. How's that goin?
~Snap
ok, i admit it...as a jehovah's witness, i burned a book.
when i was about 10 years old, a sister gave my mother a box of books.
i had been baptized for over a year and was quite the "little witness.
Sort of along these lines........
I emptied out my service bag 2 weeks ago. I had no idea what to do with all of the stuff. So I filled my fire pit out back and burned them. This included my first copy of the NWT. Its so surreal. I don't even know what I'm supposed to feel, but I didn't feel anything. Wierd, huh?
~Snapdragon
this information is taken from my daughters college philosophy text book, "the story of philosophy" by bryan magee; .
(this group) tended to regard their beliefs not just as personal opinions but as scientific knowledge, and therefore as "known" with absolute certainty.
this gave them enormous confidence and made them famously intolerant of all alternative views and opinions; and whenever they got into power they forbade the publication or teaching of any ideas that were incompatible with theirs.
Careful who you're stepping up to Maverick. There's more than just one ball of fire girl on this board. And I'd have to agree with Fe, Sirona being a woman and a cutie relates to what?
Men and their small roosters.
~Snapdragon
(Sorry girls, I know you didn't request the backup, just feeling a bit protective.)
occasionally the subject of mormonism comes up here, and there may be those who have family in the lds church.
mormonism vs. the bible
conference of the church, april, 1844 (continued)?the king follett sermon?the character of god?religious freedom?god an exalted man?eternal life to know god and jesus christ?everlasting burnings?meaning of the hebrew scriptures?a council of the gods?meaning of the word create?the immortal intelligence?the relation of man to god?our greatest responsibility?the unpardonable sin?the forgiveness of sin?the second death.
Half my family is LDS....what are you comparing?
Outta curiosity.
~Snapdragon
even if one accepts that the bible is the word of god - one of the most stupid lines is "you must make her pregnant with semen" err what the hell else can a woman be made pregnant with ?
milk?.
have you all any stupid lines in the bible that come to mind?
You've got a great point there Stilla, any time the bible starts to get all romantic like....its just bizarre and uncomfortable. Almost like listening to your grandparents talk about all the hot sex they had/have. They don't even use the right words for stuff......"necking", "petting", "make her pregnant with semen"....
all things being being equal, is the feminine gender endowed with more trancendent beauty than the masculine?
before sending any stock replies like, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," let me just say that i acknowledge some degree of relative beauty insofar as man and woman bear their own distinctive perfections.
but consider specifically which sex seems to bear more inherent grace to the end that it inspires our sense of harmony and desire to be more perfect ourselves.
I've wondered about your question many times. I am completely hetersexual, however, I find many, many women amazingly beautiful. I am very comfortable openly admiring a woman's form. I guess being an artist I've always had a preference for the fluid, curving forms. Cubism is IMO one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Now,allow me to say, that there are many mighty fine morsels of maleness out there. But that form is more hard and angular, not my favorite visual.
Think of your favorite form of architecture: Mine always revolves around ones with circular and curving structures. Moscow, India, Morocco.....to name a few.
~Snapdragon
for those that no longer go to the kh --i was curious as to what you have done with your field service bookbag?.
for a long time i could not look at it without feeling guilty, then a couple of times i looked at with contempt.... after awhile it mysteriously ended up in the dumpster including... the books, tracts, wt's, awakes, and return visits slips that was in it.. where is your bookbag right now?.
pb
It is crazy to me that you posted this thread just this morning. I was contemplating starting an identical one. The reason being is that I burned almost all of my remaining books and tracts last night.
I was cleaning out my hobby room and there were my two extremely dusty book bags. I sat down and started filing through them.....My "Young People Ask", "The Greatest Man Whoever Lived", my highly inspirational "Praises to Jehovah", and uncomfortably enough my first NWT. My girlfriend called me while I was outside starting the fire with the tracts. I told her what I was doing and she asked me if I was okay. While she was never a Witness, she knows that it was my life for so long. She is such a wonderful friend.
I can't really tell you how I feel about what I've done. I do not harbor any malice towards them so I don't feel "TRUIMPHANT" by any means. I just feel quiet and confused. The day my burden was lifted was long ago. It was the day Harley got up on stage and announced that I was an unapproved association. I felt physically free. Thank god I never got baptised!
So now I don't feel free, because I've been free for a long time. So maybe I'm not going to feel anything about what I've done???
Anyway, thanks for asking. I really needed to spill.
~Snapdragon
Okay this isn't blood related, but really cool in the soap opera sense....
My second father (1st stepdad) moved in with my aunt (Mom's baby sister) about 9 months into his stint as my dad. Then he divorced Mom and married my aunt. So my dad became my uncle. Ooops.
That has lead to beautiful family relations! No one talks to eachother.
~Snapdragon
i'm amazed this is not all over the papers!
this is great news for the coalition forces!.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiraq0707,0,5220149.story?coll=ny-top-headlines.
Hurray!
My brother is in the Army and has been in Iraq for over a year. He was supposed to come home in April, but was caught in the stop loss. Anyway he's been saying this needed to happen for months. I am sooo happy to hear that the Iraqi's are losing some of their fear. I think that they'd been oppressed for so long they'd forgotten how to defend their own rights. Only extremists like that jack-@ss al-Zarqawi were motivated.
I'm also glad to say that "supposedly" my baby bro SFC. Matt Johnson will be coming home on August 1st. I hate this war, but I am honored that my brother was able to join a long line of brave American soldiers. You can't be proud of a lot of things the American military has done, but there has been too much noble blood spilled in the name of tolerance and freedom to shun our boys and girls in the forces. I proud to say my brother is in the same ranks as our grandfathers/mothers from the world wars. Here's to you Matt.
Thanks for letting me blather. I miss my bro so much. I just want the world to know that I love him.
~Snapdragon
*stepping off her soapbox*
ps. anyone else lose it when they heard the John Michael Montgomery song "Letters to a soldier" ?? Just me, huh.
