...did you also toss your Faith as well?
Not initially. It was a bit of a journey.
...did you also toss your Faith as well?
Not initially. It was a bit of a journey.
i know this has been talked about in the past but im new here..
As has been mentioned or alluded to, there is some good in everything. Not every person who believes in the jw faith is evil.
For those whom the world had forsaken from the beginning, it is a path to something where there was nothing.
It is not the only path, nor is it mine but it is for some.
And it is beyond my control
i'll start by saying, i'm a ministerial servant who is trapped in the religion.
my wife is hardcore...but i've slowly been getting her to lighten up, so i'll take it!
all my friends and family are jw's, and i am employed by a jw (who is actually a great boss).
Do you ever look back and wonder "what if"?
Sure, sometimes. Most people do.
What if the god of the bible is real?
If he/she/it is, it ain't a god worth worshipping IMO. Like most gods, they are a reflection of the writer and/or religious beliefs of the time.
What if there is a creator who is not the god of the bible?
Slightly more appealing but just as unlikely for the same reasons.
No afterlife? Did you have to get over this fact or was it pretty easy for you?
It was pretty easy to accept my mortality actually. Carpe diem.
apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.
they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
Does consciousness end with the death of the body?
Since consciousness is a function of the brain, it would follow that consciousness ends with brain death.
Anything more is unsubstantiated theory and/or belief in magic
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
yea, funny stuff, lmao
copy the URL/text in the address bar of the video, paste to the editor window here, select that text here, hit the link button under the Font size (Insert/Edit Link), paste the link again where it says Link URL, hit Insert and Submit. Easy as mud...
an elder in my cong.
test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.
i don't know if he had to enter to was just.
Makes me think of the Eddie Murphy sketch from SNL, Celebrity Hot Tub.
Ahh, the classics...
https://screen.yahoo.com/james-browns-celebrity-hot-tub-000000926.html
i wonder if anybody else has wondered about the differences between those 2 flights?
in the malaysian flight that crashed from 30,000 feet high, tons of wreckage, body parts, bodies, documents, etc, all over the place.
yet in the pa flight 93, just a crater in the ground, no bodies, everything supposedly vaporized.
Good thing the Bilderbegers, Rockefellers, Freemasons, and Lizard-eyed replicants all have deep pockets.
Indeed
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/.
lol puhleeze
nathan h. knorr was the third president of the watchtower society.
he was by mentality a clerk, with a fondness for instructing young male brooklyn bethel inductees as to what was the "right handling" of their genitalia.
it goes without saying he was a liar, a fraud, a hypocrite, a swindler, a conman and a thoroughly evil bastard, and let f.franz perpetrate the great 1975 hoax to boost membership, murdering the hopes of millions of elderly victims while so doing.. joseph f. "judge for 4 days" rutherford was the second president of the watchtower society.
What has Knorr just said to the other two Spiritual-Pedophiles?
I just sold a recipe for fried chicken to a mark from Kentucky. He thinks he's gonna be more famous than me!
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/.
Bravo Simon