hey peeps!
any of you into video games?
seems there would be a few who are because they are some cool people here.
I'm a Halo dork. Also dig Star Wars Battlefront.
Star Wars Battlefront online (XBOX) is the greatest. I'm also a Halo 'dork'...lol. All of the Medal of Honor games, the GTA games.
My all time favorite game though is Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. I can't get into anything new because I can't stop playing it. If you haven't played it - GO TRY IT!
don't know if anyones mentioned this before, but i found it scary reading the site below about pol pots attempt to create an agrarian utopia.
scary because there are similarities between what dubs would need to do to create paradise and what he did.. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/pol_pot.htm.
from the link above:.
Pot Pot is an evil man. I am suprised and still shocked that the world stood by and watched while Pol Pot killed innocent people.
<allow me to make my political rant for the day>
Well, you see what happens when a country attempts to remove a murderous dictator. The leader of the 'good' country is accused of lying about his motives, of simply doing it to make more money for his oil cronies, or for a familial grudge. No one takes into consideration that, regardless of the motives, hundreds of millions of people don't have to worry about being picked up in the middle of the night, tortured, and killed. Women don't have to worry about the dictator's crazy sons grabbing them off the street and raping them, then killing thier husbands when they make a fuss.
People tend to be hypocritical. They want equal rights and fair treatment for every group at home, but are not willing to support that effort abroad. It's o.k., because it's happening somewhere else. You know the old quote, "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". It's very true, and because people don't want to get involved in overseas affairs, it will continue to be true. America shouldn't police the world? Tell that to the Iraqi who can sleep at night in peace now.
I've long felt that as a citizen of the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world, we owe something to others. As Peter Parker's uncle said, "With power comes great responsibility". FDR used devious (for lack of a better word) means to get the U.S. entered into WWII, because people at home said "No involvement in another European war". Yet FDR could see the big picture. How would the world look today if Hitler had won? How many people would not be here because their families would have been exterminated in the death camps? At that time, leaders pledged that there would never be another 'Holocaust'. So why should countries with the means to stop such a thing stand by while millions of people are murdered by a corrupt dictator? Are they not allowing another Holocaust to occur? Just because the victims are poor Iraqis and Kurds doesn't make their suffering any less real.
obviously some of you have been responsible for converting people to the jw religion.
now that youve left, do you ever feel responsible for these people in any way?
theres no reason why you should i suppose but im interested from a human angle.
I wonder if they will ever bother to hear my side of the story.
Uh...no. You'll just be another poor misguided soul who let Satan get his clutches in. As in typical JW fashion, they want you to hear their reasons for everything, but when you try to offer up your reasons they'll put their hands to their ears and go "la la la la la" because they are scared of the truth.
My friends know me to be an intelligent person, with good though rationale. They used to say (when I was inactive) "You don't go to the meetings anymore and still understand more about scripture than we do". But once they got a hint of the 'apostate-ness', I suddenly became an idiot who took at face value the lies of the 'evil slave'.....they do what they have to do in order to protect, as Cartman would say, their fragile little minds....
ha!
this one made me think of all those in the hall who have magazines piled up in their living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms with no where to go:
km: dec. 2005: make wise use of our bible-based literature
Those who are newly associated with the congregation may appreciate having these older publications for their personal theocratic library.
Just make sure they're not TOO old, or else they may have 'old light' in them and confuse the poor new converts. I recently went through an old briefcase in the attic and found some 1992 magazines.....
Old magazine make good coasters, coffee filters, shop rags, toilet paper, bird cage liners, puppy trainers.....
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david2002 and i discussed this issue a little bit in a previous thread and agreed to discuss is in another thread.. david2002 i have created the thread but i will leave the first post to you.. please explain your viewpoint on door to door preaching and its biblical foundation.
I think that topic is covered so well in "Christian Freedom" that there is no real need for further discussion.
In a nutshell - NO - unless you need to peddle massive amounts of literature....
this is the next phase of my coming-out.
here, described in detail, is all the drama of my involvement with the local kingdom hall.. kingdom hall diary, an outsider's perspective.
this is a diary of my experiences with a local kingdom hall that my husband, art, attends.
Which might explain why the local congregation has denied Art his deepest desire, to be allowed to go door-to-door in field service.
Do they not let people w/ unbelieving mates go in service now?
i had a chilling experience with a sister sneaky/deceptive this morning at the er where i went for some lab work and to get my eye infection treated.
sister sneaky/deceptive was the one who interviewed me to obtain info to put me in their computer system.
as she progressed with her questions, she asked:
Well, don't beat yourself up because you feel that you could have done a better job. It probably wouldn't have made any difference anyway. She still would have felt that you were simply a sad case of someone who turned away from the righteous fruitage and wonderful educational paradise of the Society. I'm sure she had a good laugh at your expense with her self-righteous friends. But, you're even with her...we're laughing at her expense.....
my mom arrives tomorrow for a week long visit.
i'm seriously debating having a conversation with her, not about doctrinal issues, but more of what bothers me in regards to the mind control aspect of it all.
i have been reading twisted scriptures, and the subtle power of spiritual abuse.
I think you should at least try and broach the subject. If you get shut down, then so be it. But it's just like going in service (well, except it's not that boring) - you never know what has happened since your last visit to change her receptiveness. I went through very similar things with some close family members, but one day they were receptive and now they have come to know the REAL 'truth'.
The problem with having family/friends in the truth when you are not is that you will never have a meaningful relationship with them unless you are at least honest. Then it is in their court. If they shun you, well, that's up to them. At least you know you tried. I'm facing very similar issues with some of my very best life-long friends who are on the verge of not speaking to me because of my 'apostasy'. If they choose that route, then I guess they weren't worth having as friends anyway....at least that's what I tell myself. :-)
after a century of preaching and selling literaturature what do people know about the jw's message.
they don't take blood transfusions.
they don't celebrate birthdays.
Well, it goes to show how effective the 30-second "Here, buy this magazine" presentations are. As Ray points out in Christian Freedom, it's a little hard to believe that God is going to judge someone based on their receptiveness to that....
what's up with texas?
they've never been shut out the first guarter?
commercial's over .
GO HORNS!!!!! Maybe that will help a little w/ the national East/West coast bias....what a game!
