like jw are crap is there any religon dat is atally conneced to god?.
Imagine an alien flying around the earth observing people worshipping and willingly dying for an unseen, unheard, unknown god. Year in year out decades, centuries of worship to the invisible, putting up with repetative mindless meetings and a soul crushing hierarchy.
Seems kind of primitive doesn't it?
1) in conscious level, everyone agrees with the principle of cause and effect that says a cause precedes every effect, and every effect is the cause for another effect/s.
in subconscious level, everyone knows that if there is a cause for everything, then there a cause (or a designer) for the principle of causation also.
and this cause is more real than the principle of causation itself, just like source is more real than the resources!.
besides it being pseudoscience, what interests me about this is that even though it's something to do with the "qi" energy flowing in our bodies, that wasn't a problem for some members of my family or a special pioneer i knew.. new study exposes acupuncture as pseudoscience.
Not sure if this link from the University of Melbourne will work (Firefox). I lived in Hong Kong in the early 80's and was introduced to acupuncture and Chinese medicine (yes that's what it is universally called). I have used it on and off since, mainly for sinusitus and lower back pain. I don't care about double blind studies (despite the results from above link) as I know it works. Placebo? Who knows? More likely the power of our amazing brains to self heal. I am amazed at the back lash here as from a quick search on the 'net shows most Western countries medical insurance companies cover acupuncture.
Have any of the naysayers actually tried it for a reasonable time period?
when i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
From the same comment you quoted from...
"Sure some witnesses will preach to anyone"
Don't cherry pick
do you think you would be just going thru the motions?
would you be an elder, ms, or pioneer?.
i think there are many that stay in the religion simply because of family/friends considerations.
I would definitely be dead, not from suicide but from the stress of pretending to be someone I'm not. By the time I left my health was fading and I felt an old man at 40ish. Now that I am my genuine self, my health is near perfect. No medications, no mental/emotional issues and I am much more relaxed, unless I have an extra espresso in the morning!
when i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
Maybe these type of people never get the chance to be jws because they are not on a territory map (homeless) and let's face it, jws are judgemental. Who's going to "witness" to the wino in the park, people living on the fringes of society. Sure some witnesses will preach to anyone but the majority don't want to return visit to a hovel or bush camp. Jws are a very middle class attempt at religion.
lots of jw's lead a double life.
many are young people that simply go through the motions until they can free themselves .
others have relatives or family still trapped .
There was a guy who became a jw around the time I did. We became fast friends via surfing etc. Over the years we both got married and had kids. I was always amazed how he had a such a comfortable lifestyle. Money was never an issue. I also wondered why he knocked back" privileges" as the elders seeing he was such a good business man would make a great ms or elder..... We lost contact.
20 yrs go past and we both also end up out and so does the (real) truth. He was growing massive amounts of hydro marijuana the whole time!! Marketing via family connections. Legend!!
i've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
LOL!
i've seen brothers related or who are friends of elders who get appointed after only 6-12 months as an m.s.
while they were other brothers slaving away for years.
elders also who promote their sons and basically say to other young brothers "to heck with everyone else".
That's correct Julia but the jws are god's holy appointed (only true) source of truth.
i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.
i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.
today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.
I hate suits they repulse me!. You don't see them where I work. Oh and I cringe when I see old people wearing them, trying to look young, embarrassing...Suits are a sign of class distinction and corporate criminals which reminds me of prison gangs. operating out of jails.
Of course I don't believe this. It's just to indicate the judgements that we carry especially as exjws.
The same could be said for dying your hair, beards and on...
