i did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here.
but some reasons to love texas and its unique character... .
here are some little known, very interesting facts about texas... .
brig
Fair enough, baby, but give your Ft. Worth girl a little props
Actually, I think Playboy had some sort of voting not too long ago regarding which state had the most beautiful women and it was Texas.
Guys, if you don't think that's true, visit D/FW or Austin sometime and you will see.
(Hon, you know you get all the props!)
so many of the former jws here have embraced a religion that differs little from the jehovah's witnesses.
worse yet, that fact reveals the basic wiring flaws of many fundies and evangelicals who post here.. .
first off, they embrace an even nastier god.
I'm not going to address the rest of your post. It seems a bit too generalized, though I get your point. This, however:
So many of the former JWs here have embraced a religion that differs little from the Jehovah's Witnesses.
This is common. Even people who leave Christianity entirely seem to retain the same value system, just without the authorizing God. They call it secular humanism. Christianity without God is all it amounts to.
i did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here.
but some reasons to love texas and its unique character... .
here are some little known, very interesting facts about texas... .
kid-A
Yes, the music scene in Austin is pretty cool. They have something called South by Southwest (http://2007.sxsw.com/) every year and a ton of musicians show up for that. I hear it's fantastic.
The hill country down there is very beautiful. Also, IMO, they have some of the most beautiful women in the world in Austin. Very eco-aware as well.
ok, lets have a discussion about where we all came from, evolution or creation?
(or whatever you beleive in of course) every one put down there main reasons, along with reasonable facts and backup as to why.. .
hopefully this doesnt start to many arguments, lol.. .
"I believe in creation purely and simply for the fact that human beings are too complex to `just happen`."
To add to Kid-A's post, this argument is also due to a lack of understanding of simple and complex systems. Complex systems can and do "just happen" as you put it.
Very simple mathematical equations have shown very complex results.
http://www.complex-systems.com/
this past weekend i rented the brian flemming film, the god who wasn't there.
it's a film about christianity in particular and religion in general, and focuses on the key factor of christianity - whether jesus ever existed or not.
i watched it several times, and listened to the commentaries.. interviewed in the film and the special features on the dvd are some of my favorite thinkers: sam harris and richard dawkins especially.. the premise of the film was a well-defended hypothesis that christianity is really the off-shoot of pagan mythology, and jesus was just another in a long line of mythological "sons of god(s)" who had virgin births attended by wise men and shepherds, who's childhood's were essentially unknown, who developed followers, were eventually killed by their people and who were raised back to life.
I didn't much care for the smarmy, confrontational tone of it. It reminded me too much of Michael Moore's style, which I utterly detest.
I was also already familiar with much of the material he touched upon, so no big shockers there.
But for someone not familiar with it, a good place to start.
I'm sure there are more scholarly works of literature out there on the subject though. Such as this or this. (In part, at least. I've read part of the first and none, yet, of the second.)
i did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here.
but some reasons to love texas and its unique character... .
here are some little known, very interesting facts about texas... .
Ok, Ok, but I'm sure he didn't learn to talk that way in Boston.
Ok, but this is about Texas, not some jerk who just happens to have been raised here.
Believe it or not, we're not all a bunch of uneducated $hit-kickers.
growing up, i remember hearing stories from my own parents and others in the congregation about experiences with demons.
sister x wore a t-shirt that she purchased at a second hand store and the demons attached themselves to the shirt and gave her problems.
certain movies and/or cds would give a family problems.
Schism
You would probably very much enjoy reading Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
name few words or expressions a normal person can say, but not a jw.. when someone sneezes, you can't say bless ya !.
if you want to surprise a jw, you can't say boo !!!
http://www.prankcallsunlimited.com/pcu/booecho.mp3.
I wasn't allowed to say "Geeze".
I could say "crap" or "shoot" or "dangit!", regarding "cuss" words. But just about nothing else of that sort.
Silly bureaucracy... Can't say good luck, but don't have a problem singing, listening to, or playing music, even though the word music comes from the Greek Muses, nine goddesses, water nymphs... so inconsistent...
so, i had just woke up, and i was sitting on my couch.
i'm wearing a pair of worn khaki shorts, and a tshirt.. there is a subtle knock on the door.
so, i walk over to the door.
Bwahhahahhahhaaa!! That's just awesome... I had long-ass hair and piercings to scare 'em away, but you definitely trump that!
i did not write this, and am not correcting spelling or grammar here.
but some reasons to love texas and its unique character... .
here are some little known, very interesting facts about texas... .
George W. Bush learned to talk in west Texas.
Must you make this into a f***ing Bush thing?
