Posts by Daunt

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An End To Shunning

by Sunspot in

well, in my case anyway.

for those of you that may recall my posts about my family and that after i left the wts, how i wrote long (and painful) letters to my nonjw children among others.

i had tried to explain why i had shunned them and how very sorry i was, and for all the mistakes i had made throughout their childhoods as a jw mother.

Daunt

Your story seriously made my eyes water. I'm so happy that you have a section of your power back. Love is always more powerful than control.

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Reality TV: Venus & Serena Williams

by myself in

jw
friends

it's almost time for their new show tonight 9pm cst.

i wonder if they will mention their ties to the jw's?

I saw a commercial for this show and I just kinda laughed. I wouldn't mind more information on what you guys thought about the show though. Yoga? Materialistic? Ah yes the book (and it's organization) that can change hearts is strong.

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Better to Burn Out or Rust?

by Big Dog in

is it better to live life hard treating your body like an amusement park and doing things like partying hard, hang gliding, skydiving, extreme sports, etc.

or to pace yourself eating all the right foods, avoiding dangerous pastimes, watching your cholesterol, etc.

for a long and possibly duller life?

Daunt

Right now physically im a total Rust. Most dangerous thing I've done was to smoke a little plant that made you laugh a lot. But when I can hopefully physically I'd be around 50/50. However mentally I'm a Rust Bucket and always will be.

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The next cover-up or scandal?

by kwintestal in

my personal thoughts are this.

with the population aging and with jw's becomming incresingly poor, there will be a lot more elder abuse, and i don't mean congregation elders, but elderly people.. does anyone know of this taking place in the congregations?.

kwin

Daunt

It's all about the pop culture. Mostlikely there has been stories of Roman Catholic preists molesting individuals for years, but some influx of popularity brung the story to life and more and more people talked about it. In media it's usually not about something happening. It's about how entertaining or how popular something can be.

But I can't give a good answer as to why JW's aren't being in the news. JW's are an easy target to folks like poking fun at them knocking on doors.

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The Morality of the Future!

by Daunt in

i've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.

however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.

how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?

Daunt

Sorry Daystar that link isn't working the best for me.

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The Morality of the Future!

by Daunt in

i've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.

however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.

how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?

Daunt

Ah I love that aspect of science. People like to bring down human reasoning and science all the time but they would never believe ALL the things that they use in their everyday life that has scientific aspects. Even in the days science was outlawed as the devil's work most of their lives had science intregrated into it. Quite funny when folks bring down science that help them live longer than 30 years.

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The Morality of the Future!

by Daunt in

i've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.

however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.

how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?

Daunt

Ahh green that's something i've been advocating to a few of my online buds for a while. I feel that true freedom and human advancement and power can only come from anarchy with an educated populace. Our natural selves will show through and we will work together to get the job done. Cause really, reasonable folks just seem to want to get things done, only time i don't see this happening is when some authoritative force is prohibiting them from advancement. From a gang, to a religious group to an Government all the way to an idea. This is debatable but I feel that educated humans that really can personally identify human nature as a whole and their own individualistic nature can make a good world and extend themselves throughout the universe in a reasonable way.

(should make a sci fi show)

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at a pioneer's birthday party... YEAH THAT'S RIGHT!

by in a new york bethel minute in

a few days ago i had the privilege of being invited to a regular pioneer's birthday party.

i met her a couple of weeks ago, and even though she knows i am inactive and have serious doubts, we hit it off on a social level.

so that's why i was invited... .

Daunt

My sister's "boyfriend"'s birthday was a few days ago. I don't know whether he did or anything or not but he visited our convention a few days before it. Anyways a friend of mine's birthday was also on the same day as his. Then my sister's "boyfriend" asked, "is he having a birthday party". Then he sorta kept stressing it and then when we all gave him the patented JW look he acted like he was kidding. I've always been isolated voluntarily from most JW's but that was just a taste of what some folks may have done.

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The Morality of the Future!

by Daunt in

i've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.

however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.

how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?

Daunt

AHH excellent tetra. I always love hearing your post. You can vocalize your standpoint intelligently and user-friendly I could say eh. I agree with you, people need to look more towards nature for their moral judgement rather than set principles that they feel obligated to follow even when proven wrong. This only creates opposition which we see in most parts. I feel that globally we should really start harping on irrationalities that are held as fact or good judgement. Like many laws in government or beliefs held in modern people. I'm surprised as heck that this many skeptical folks exist when the most you see in the media and in everyday talk is control and conformity especially a few decades ago. All it can do is grow, just needs some good direction.

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The Morality of the Future!

by Daunt in

i've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.

however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.

how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?

Daunt

I've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do. However, every time I do this I can't help but think of the future. How do you guys view the general moral bases of the future? Do you think this new age make your own morality idealogy will hold up against the billions who still look for their morality through older (or new eh) religions? Will the current democratic republic mentality of the world leaders hold up to an independent populace?

Me personally it's hard to see an independent mindset coinciding with government. Many individuals are finding more and more things to find wrong with current politics, and the idealogy of conformity has really gone down which I feel government needs to keep people in order. So I feel that the future will be more of a humanistic and individualistic view than a strict national patriotism, status quo, and prejudice sort of viewpoint.

I mainly just want to know what you folks think will greatly help humanity as a whole. Preferably in the area of morality or education. I'm getting a lot of negative views (mostly from my JW parents eh, but it's hard not to agree with them on some things) and I just wanted to know a few things that would help humanity as a whole. And sorry if my post is jumbled up a bit, I get kind of tongue tied when I type (don't think that's possible though).