Posts by Berean

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Should Tiger Woods apologize publicly to the woman he had an affair with?

by journey-on in

leave it to gloria allred to grab the limelight.

she and her client, the ex-porn star, want tiger to apologize to her.

do you think he should?

Berean

She knew he was married! She should appoligize to Tigers wife and then shut up!

51

Everything About Being An Elder is Weird (my misc rambling memories of being an elder)

by AllTimeJeff in

for any brother who is a jehovah's witness, the goal is put before them to reach out for the privilege of being an elder.

i can only speak for myself, but being born into the religion, i wanted to be an elder since i was 5. i would have much rather wanted to be a doctor or engineer, but those are the breaks..... i'll skip the part about what it takes to reach out, all the crap you have to put up with as a ministerial servant to get appointed, and go straight to the reality.. i know many elders who sincerely just wanted to be shepherds.

i did want the spotlight.

Berean

After being out of the cult for several years and getting back in I advanced up the ladder quickly... best thing that ever happened to me, I realied how the "Society" lied out their a$$ to the rank and file, how they covered up wrongdoing to make it appear that JWs were "the happiest people on the earth", how there was unity in the congregations.... RIGHT!

It is so sad to see people still falling for the cult propaganda.

17

Is The WT A Religion Or a Business?

by Bangalore in

jw
friends

many claim that the watchtower organization is a business disguised as a religion?

is this the most accurate way to describe it?

or would you say it is a religious institution with some corporate or business strategies thrown in?.

Berean

I beleive it started out as a religion, but has become purely a business. When I realized that fact I got out.

11

Any fans of 'The Mentalist' or 'Lie to Me'?

by AK - Jeff in

besides ncis, these two are about all the tv i watch.

well, except for pga and nfl events.. jeff.

Berean

I am a huge fan of Lie to Me. Now that I have said that it will probably be cancelled, lots of shows that I like do that, for example Life on Mars.

I have always been interested in body language.

I also like The Mentalist but not as much as Lie to Me. Right now my favorite is Big Bang Theory.

18

Wii fit

by John Doe in

jw
friends

well, call me an effiminate girly man, but i bought a wii and a wii fit this week.

i must say after firing this program up that it looks pretty impressive.

i don't think it could be made any easier to keep track of your exercise times and weights and goals.

Berean

I've been a fan of Wii Fit since seeing this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31qxrXsxv0&feature=channel_page

79

Take the Beliefnet test... and post your results!

by Awakened at Gilead in

an atheist friend (never a jw) sent me a link to this fun test:.

http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx.

turns out i am 100% secular humanist, but unfortunately i am still 5% jw!.

Berean

1.	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%)
2.	Liberal Quakers (95%)
3.	Reform Judaism (92%)
4.	Unitarian Universalism (88%)
5.	Sikhism (88%)
6.	Orthodox Quaker (83%)
7.	Orthodox Judaism (79%)
8.	Eastern Orthodox (76%)
9.	Roman Catholic (76%)
10.	Baha'i Faith (73%)
11.	Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (70%)
12.	Seventh Day Adventist (67%)
13.	Neo-Pagan (66%)
14.	Islam (63%)
15.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (62%)
16.	Hinduism (60%)
17.	New Age (52%)
18.	Secular Humanism (52%)
19.	Theravada Buddhism (49%)
20.	Mahayana Buddhism (44%)
21.	Jainism (44%)
22.	Jehovah's Witness (41%)
23.	New Thought (39%)
24.	Nontheist (35%)
25.	Taoism (35%)
26.	Scientology (31%)
27.	Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (22%)