i'm atheist and not ashamed of it.
however, it is so politically incorrect, especially where i live.
i have a legitimate concern that being out of the closet too much will hurt my career or neighborly relations--i know for a fact it probably would.. i'm really cautious about who i tell.. how about you?
I'm atheist and not ashamed of it. However, it is so politically incorrect, especially where I live. I have a legitimate concern that being out of the closet too much will hurt my career or neighborly relations--I know for a fact it probably would.
I'm really cautious about who I tell.
How about you? Have you come out of the closet at work, etc.? How did it go?
99% of all funerals that i have attended have been the wt version, where they preach about the resurrection into paradise and say little about the person who passed other than they were loyal to jah.
the other 1% catholic for grandparents.. now that i consider myself an atheist, i got to wondering what do atheists plan for when they die?.
if you are a non-believer what are your plans for when you die?
I've put it in my will that I want a secular ceremony with readings and music. There are tons of nice things that could be done that do not involve the stink of religion. I want none of that on me in death--not that I will be aware of it.
aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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Imagine what these dumbasses could have walked in to had it been a US church with an active shooter/assault plan
Very good point! In the US they may face hate crime charges as well.
just learned today direct from my beloved daughter that she has been abused between 5 and 12 years old by 2 brothers (her own cousins) and 1 family "friend".
she has attempted suicide a few days ago.
luckily she is living and she is not physically injured.
very sorry
i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.
what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.
(by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).
No. I've treated real ones. They enjoy being violent and cruel to others for its own sake, and have no remorse. They view other people, animals and things as existing for them to abuse and destroy for their amusement. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something inside of them.
Sociopaths cannot be cured.
jws are brainwashed into being nonviolently cruel under specific circumstances because god will kill them if they don't. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something external to them.
jws can be cured.
Granted, dubs take advantage of that, which is the opposite of prosocial behavior. But it's still different from those who have Antisocial Personality Disorder (also called psychopaths, sociopaths).
daughter is 3 now, that's a little less than i've been on this forum.
you can find my life story in earlier posts.
enough to say that i have a generous amount of visitation with her.. i picked her up and was talking about the lights some of her neighbors had.
Keep presenting it as an eccentric belief of her mom's. "Mommy believes Christmas is bad, lights are bad, gifts are bad, singing Happy Birthday is bad, etc. Daddy does not." Or whatever...
http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html.
well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.. .
I added a jw recipe.
aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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Like you say, it's their choice. But let's not labor under the delusion that acting out angrily and illegally is a tool to help current jws wake up. It does the opposite.
It's designed for them to vent their anger, period. I can't even call this activism because it's designed to worsen the issue they claim to be fighting against. I just call it revenge.
Should they wish to help current jws, they could have modified the approach slightly and perhaps had an actual positive impact.
i just buried my beloved poddle, little brother.
he died suddenly.
i know to most people that is not an important event.
I'm sorry.
aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.
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donuthole...lol...Apostate Like it's 1978! (Sung to the tune of Prince's song 1999) ITA.
I think this could have been modified slightly and it would have been fine. (If it's your thang to try to convert current jws--I'm more interested in prevention, but to each, his own.)
For example, dress appropriately, enter the hall and strike up conversations with people politely, expressing concerns. Or leave flyers on cars quietly.
WTH was that weird thing at the end? I had to turn it off. So aggravating. Seemed like a lunatic. "Are you a lawyer?" What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Just a way to behave angrily like a bully--nothing else.
Believe me, I understand the anger. Fully. But we gotta take the high road. I don't think we should be doing things designed to scare questioning dubs back to the arms of Mommie Borg.
Full disclosure--I've posted lots of times about practical jokes. When I was a questioning teen, I did some. Here I've posted joke threads about what we could do, but I intend on doing none of them. Discussing practical jokes or other "activist" ideas can be therapeutic in itself, without carrrying them out. Like an unsent letter.
Again, to each, his own, but IMO this "bursting in", yelling, disrupting, and demanding to know the bro's attorney registration # is irrelevant and counterproductive.
