i have started a new religion and this is your personal invitation to join it.
i got the idea from romans 2:14-15:.
"for whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves.
Good post.
I think a lot of beliefs start out this way then someone decides they need clarify what it means to follow your conscience so they write "The Ten Steps to Following Your Consciense". Then there is the seminar. Then the super star speaker on the subject. The weekly meetings etc.... and before you know it its a religion or even worse a cult.
i'm on my own for a week while my wife is in utah.
i have some wild and crazy things planned but i need help with my movie selection.
last night i watched "in darknes" a very good move.
I'm on my own for a week while my wife is in Utah. I have some wild and crazy things planned but I need help with my movie selection. Last night I watched "In Darknes" a very good move. It is base on a true story. I found it to be both depressing and uplifting.
in another thread, socrateswannebe shared district convention notes:.
a kinder, gentler jehovah emerges at the 2012 dc?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/227660/1/a-kinder-gentler-jehovah-emerges-at-the-2012-dc.
but homosexuals can be held to the same standard as heterosexual single persons: they can choose not to act upon their urges.
So what are they saying? That single homsexuals shouldn't have sex till they are married? So will they marry them? More pointless double talk.
there must be a reason jws stay or people join..
Oh, Hi Dagney
there must be a reason jws stay or people join..
Not much but it was nice when I moved. There was always lots of help.
"why do they stay or join?"
They join because they are lied to. If anyone knew what being a JW was up front hardly anyone would join. If the Watchtower magazine carried a warning label listing all the problems like a pack of cigarettes no one would sign up
They stay because they are brainwashed. If they ever do wake up they find that it isn't easy to leave. I could cost them their friends, their family and in some cases their means of support.
what i'd like to know....do you care if there is a god or not?
do you care if you have found a religion and others haven't?
how serious is it if people don't agree with your spiritual agenda?
The older I get the less I know and that doesn't bother me.
Gladiator is right about heated debates. It is all about ego. It's not "this is right" it's "I am right". If something is right it doesn't need us to defend it. It's just right no matter what.
ok, today i was invited to go my favorite local radio station (94.7 sacramento) and record some stuff about my favorite playlist.
i had submitted this list about a month ago and got the call on monday to come on down to the radio station.
i took my hubby, got to meet the dj (a very cool and nice guy indeed) and just had a very nice time.
You're so 80's and new wave MrsJones.
I'd add Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Cure - The Kiss
Maybe go a little further back in time and add Neil Young's Cinnomon Girl and Hey Hey My My
I didn't believe it while I was a JW. I practiced some yoga the whole time I was in the Watchtower. I even did the Sun Salute...OMG! My wife who is still a JW bought me a new yoga mat about a year ago so I don't think they all believe that way. When I left the Watchtower and went to a fundamentalist church I found some of the same fearful attitudes that a lot of JWs had to things like yoga. Crazy isn't a Watchtower exclusive.
I agree with what Skeeter1 said about it building more strength than weight training. I can go to the gym 3 or 4 days in a row and work out pretty hard and feel fine then go to a vigorous vinyasa yoga glass and find my stomach, arms, and legs all soar the next day.
How much emphasis is placed on the spiritual aspects of yoga can vary from instuctor to intructor and from class to class. My friend who instructs at the church I attend places a lot of emphasis on meditation and chanting other classes I've been to can are mostly just the physical aspects of yoga. As usually religious fear superstition can keep someone ignorant about something that is good for them and that they may really enjoy.
i had two new positions open up out of the blue recently and as luck would have it...for some reason i know a helluva lotta ex-jws lol!
especially with two young and popular dfd sons who also hang with a lot of ex dubs...but that maybe is another thread....we are drawn to those with similarities very often and being an exjw is a pretty small club....and we left a true brotherhood to many and a network for sure to everyone else.
so at work none of the non jws care for the jws and some have asked them to stop giving them paper crap and leave them alone...when one of them acted pissed that i had told some of the guys he would not ride with me to a jobsite lmao....of course they thought a new level of insanity had overtaken one of my normally great employees...so i told her "why would i not mention that to the shop guy/friends...im not ashamed of anything???".
I'm glad you are doing so well and are not being vendictive.
good evening jwn!!...
i just upgraded my firefox but can`t cut and paste like i normally do... i need some feed back... .
can you see the picture i`m posting and mutley laughing his ass off...
Mutley's not laughing. He's flipping me off. I reporting him. The cat is ok.
