Moved to Clam Gulch, Ak.
carm
Moved to Clam Gulch, Ak.
carm
a relative of my wife, just got engaged to a "worldly guy".. the young lady is a baptized publisher, and i am shocked to hear that no one has made a negative comment about her future husband not being an dub.. even her mother who is a pioneer has not made an issue of the engagement.. has things changed?.
are the elders easing up a little on the rank and file?.
If her contributions to the society increase, all will be tolerated.
carm
i'm new to posting to this forum.
my husband and i have been reading it for a few months.
we have finally written, sealed, and stamped our da letter, and it's ready to go directly to the post office.
LDB, welcome to you and our mrswitlessness! You're the only Christmas song I ever liked!
carmel
i wondered how many abandoned going to any kind of church.
or, if there are some who go to a church now.
was it weird at first to go?
the only ones I go to are those that invite me as a speaker. Last one was over a year ago.
carmel
all of us were raised by someone and even though our cultures vary greatly as to what constitutes "good" and "evil", there's some pretty basic guidelines that people are generally raised to believe.. if there were no set guidelines as to how we should act, would humans grow up good or evil if there wasn't someone else telling them what to do?
what is our inherited nature?
to be like ghandi or hitler?
22. O SON OF SPIRIT!
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)
carmel
its occurs to one that the floof would have destroyed virtually all vegetation,so where does wt say post flood vegetation come from?
They all "evolved" from the water lillies that survived!
carmel
can you imagine a jw conference with speakers and subjects like this one?
http://news.bahai.org/story/474.
carmel.
Can you imagine a JW conference with speakers and subjects like this one? Not!
http://news.bahai.org/story/474
carmel
the witnesses say that everyone will be nice to each other in the new system.... .
ok, but why the change?.
what will change that people will all of a sudden like each other and hate no one?.
They will all brush there teeth three times a day!
carm
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i'm thinkinf of taking up kendo...... but lots of people have been advising karate, taekwondo, jujitsu, judo and aikido to me.... does anyone on this board do any of the oriental martial arts?
any suggestions on the benefits and disadvantages of the martial arts?
Lamb slaughtering! Blood splattering on thresholds!
caveman
i guess this is a wide-ranging topic, but as a starter for ten i wanted to ask about the issue of support and where we accept it from.. for those of us (most of us here) who have lost friends, family, beliefs, etc., probably one of the things we could most do with is a little support.
the flip side of the coin, however, is that we often have deeply implanted triggers and prejudices about what we will tolerate.
one of these surrounds religion (from the salvation army to the red cross) and another around mental health services.
The JW mantra that "Christianity is the only true religion, and we are the only True Christians" plays subtle games on ones mindset when is considering what possible alternative there might be to being a Jdub. I think most exdubs tend to consider all religion a "scam" or they jump into another christian sect feeling they have somehow stayed safely in the appropriate camp of God! Only when one challenges both those claims is there an opportunity to see new possible paradigms.
Support that comes unconditionally is a rare commodity, but it doesn't always come from the source you might expect.
carmel