would a loving god instruct certain men to rape certain women?.
"everyone that is found will be pierced through, and every one that is caught in the sweep will fall by the sword; and their very children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes.
their houses will be pillaged, and their own wives will be raped.
St Paul discusses this sort of thing in Romans, saying that God makes those he wants stubborn or abandons them to kinky sex.
Then he says no one has the right to complain that God made him that way as that would be as silly as a pot complaining to the potter.
HB
"if you participate in activity x it will leave less time for spiritual activities"
this i think is a false "or" type of fallacy.
as if our choices are a matter of choosing between non-spiritual or spiritual activities exclusively.
Do unto others is a good one.
I am being spiritual by NOT doing the door to Bore Misery, because i don't want culties knocking me up on Saturday mornings trying to get me to talk Cult Crap.
HB
when the watchtower ask you to turn in your own family for wrong doing, and subject them to possible disfellowshipping.
by their own teaching, they are killing you.
throwing you into the ocean to drown while they sail away into the new system of things.
1984.
HB
a quote from a poster on another thread that i promised myself i wouldn't hijack:a portion of [posters on jwd are] antitheists which means they hold the view that science has already proved that god doesn't exist.
may i ask, who are these posters?
i don't read every post on jwd, i could buy that i just missed it.. atheists by and large have come to that point by realizing that things that can't be proven shouldn't be believed outright.
When science can provide data and clear scientific definitions of what a "GOD" actually is, someday we might verify the truth or falsity of such a belief.
Tetra: That scenery looks stupendous!! Is it really in Europe - I thought Lichtenstein was flat as a pancake.
HB (of the "Hating Bunkum" class)
just read a book "healing without freud or prozac" where people have been significantly helped with acupuncture.. i am tempted.
life can be so bleak and dreary without wt delusional fantasy to buoy you up.
not ready yet to .
Just read a book "Healing without Freud or Prozac" where people have been significantly helped with acupuncture.
I am tempted. Life can be so bleak and dreary without WT delusional fantasy to buoy you up. Not ready yet to
"know life for what it is, love it for what it is, then put it away"
Has anyone here tried it for depression or other mental problems. The theory is that it alters the energy system of the brain.
HB
review comments will be in red
wt material from todays wt will be in black
quotes from other sources will be blue
WHAT ANGERS ME is that in the study on education in the mid 90's - where they seemed to make a 180 degree turn - pioneers who left school to pioneer, without a high school diploma - who then were unable to support themselves and had to leave the "full time" misery were actually labeled as "PRESUMPTUOUS" in the same study!!!!
I betcha Blondie can provide that quote too!!
HB ( of the "Huggin' Blondie" class)
just curious.
i was 17 when i was last spanked.
it was the day of my high school graduation.
16 - I disagreed with my Mom, and she started screaming, so I shouted back and she smacked my face. I had already decided I'd had enough. I slapped the side of her arm as hard as I dared, and said "don't you EVER hit me again."
She never did but the verbal abuse and lashings continued.
HB
early this morning, at work, this doctor comes in bitchin' and moanin' about not being paged.
he starts throwing stuff around and really saying some nasty things about me and the staff's competency.
so, i got hot as a firecracker!
I hope tetragod is not as changable and double standarded as the god of the HABIRU.
HB
early this morning, at work, this doctor comes in bitchin' and moanin' about not being paged.
he starts throwing stuff around and really saying some nasty things about me and the staff's competency.
so, i got hot as a firecracker!
My father used it on a very go-getting with it estate agent when he was living in London Ontario.
Within a few weeks she was cracking up, had a nervous breakdown and had to give up her business.
She had tried to cheat him on a property deal. Don't worry - a deflection spell will only kill if that person is trying to kill you by witchcraft, or destroy your livelihood.
HB
q1 : do you recall how the golden age said there was no best time for breakfast?
eating before noon was claimed to be bad.
does anyone know if after that magazine breakfast was stopped at the bethels?
Q1 : Do you recall how the Golden Age said there was no best time for breakfast? Eating before noon was claimed to be bad.
Does anyone know if after that magazine breakfast was stopped at the Bethels? Do you think this was a way of getting the RF Dubs to eat less and contribute more?
Q2 : The Golden Age said ( with regard to dancing naked in the pre noon sun) : "The ultra violet rays are most health giving" Were bethelites encouraged to bounce their doodads naked in the sun after this pearl of wisdom? (yes yes I know a certain GB loved parading on the roof in practically nothing - I mean like 'Luftbaden')
Can you think of any other "directives" the Bethelites didn't follow?
HB ( of the those "Hypocritical Bastads" class)
