..i speak to my mother about any type of current event she tells me how the end of the world is coming.
she always says that people do not care for one another anymore and tells me that is how the end has been described as b eing.
it is driveing me crazy!!
Here are some more sunny-side-up sites for you to talk back to negativity with:
http://www.globalgoodnews.com/
http://goodnewsindia.com/index.php/gni
And to really blow her mind, you might share some overwhelmingly good news on philanthropy and its historic trends:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_48/b3810158.htm
And if you really want to distract her, offer her the opportunity to make some good news of her own:
..i speak to my mother about any type of current event she tells me how the end of the world is coming.
she always says that people do not care for one another anymore and tells me that is how the end has been described as b eing.
it is driveing me crazy!!
Without arguing, simply counter every single negative story with a positive story you have come across in places like these:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
Subscribe to positivist thinking sites for positive quotes, ideas, beliefs:
it's like, i have to have food as it's like, a physiological need and it's proven by science n stuff... .
but then i feel i want men too, but like, sometimes, i don't eat before a date... .
can these two arenas of my life coexist??
Kudra - Haven't you heard already?
We can have a man and eat him too.
Slurp
Go to the Memorial:
Eat, Drink, Man.
i decided to do a search of the watchtower library cd on the phrase 'independent thinking'.
only three times is it ever spoken of as being a good thing.
and those three instances are quite telling about the insidiousness of all of the other times that jw publications consider independent thinking to be such a bad thing.. .
Thanks for that post, Doc Bob.
It is interesting to note that one of the articles you quoted is called,"Intellectual Freedom or Captivity to the Christ?"
As if captivity to the WT publishing empire would be better?
i decided to do a search of the watchtower library cd on the phrase 'independent thinking'.
only three times is it ever spoken of as being a good thing.
and those three instances are quite telling about the insidiousness of all of the other times that jw publications consider independent thinking to be such a bad thing.. .
Because they're afraid it might lead to dancing.
i decided to do a search of the watchtower library cd on the phrase 'independent thinking'.
only three times is it ever spoken of as being a good thing.
and those three instances are quite telling about the insidiousness of all of the other times that jw publications consider independent thinking to be such a bad thing.. .
Statements like this (from the WT Society of JWs) clearly show (even to those of us with the vaguest sense of world politics and social movements) what f@cktards the WTS writers really are:
*** w58 8/1 p. 460 Dawns a New Era for the Irish ***
... the Irish people do very little independent thinking. They are victims of the clergy and fear."
They must not be familiar with great Irish leaders, writers and thinkers like:
Jonathan Swift (Anglo-Irish)
James Connoly (Marxist Irish, daresay independent thinker-writer, labor activist)
Michael Collins http://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm
Very nice point, you make, Gumby:
"Did they actually ever stop to think that if it hadn't been for independent thinking there wouldn't have been a Watchtower Society? Russell certainly was an independent thinker when it came to religion. Of course, they applaud converts from other religions for their independent thinking when (as they see it) it leads them into the WTS, but not when it leads them out!"
Thanks, Jeffro for all these WT quotes, esp:
" . . . Allow No Place for theDevil . . ." and add to that, 'Be sure to allow a place for pedophiles (see www.silentlambs.org) and don't worry about reporting their abuse to the authorities because jehobo will take care of everything.' They do have some kind of independent thinking, huh?
Jeffro, quotes like this from WT lit always remind me of a joke (incidentally heard in some irish-scot movie):
"God’s organization has from time to time given warnings about listening to certain types of immoral and suggestive music, and about frequenting discos and other types of worldly dance halls where such music is played and people are known to engage in immoral conduct." The joke from the movie goes:
Why do Calvinists not shag standing up?
i dare to say science and religion are two different animals.
they may try to explain similar things but in different ways.
i don't believe man will ever live without either religion or science nor would i want us too.
bavman said:
I assume Sir Thomas that by 'another way' you would mean (if I understand your' posts somewhat correctly) simply 'letting be' and being in tune with 'what is'. I would agree this is a 'good way'. I would also argue that religion does teach this same thing if not taken too literally and if you don't get stuck on the rituals, sacred writings, and hierarchal hoopla."
And if you don't get stuck in some kind of religious mindset that causes indifference or a laissez-faire attitude about human suffering, inequity and depravity. Such "letting go" can be taken way too far, on an individual and collective level, as the JW organization most profoundly demonstrates.
James, "so in a way, whichever we choose," it's not the same. Our choices determing our future.
Choosing ignorance or superstition over knowledge and science is definitely NOT the same in any way, shape or form. Otherwise, we would all still live in the Dark Ages.
"blizzard targets northeast".
"record snow falls for date in chicago".
"hearing on 'warming of planet' cancelled because of ice storms".
This looks really good. And it has NUMBERS, Warlock. Let me know what you think about this discussion on the topic "Deniers Vs. (Climate Change) Believers:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=22003a0d-37cc-4399-8bcc-39cd20bed2f6&k=0
Unfortunately, as I read, I find few actual numbers, but I do notice that the people herein who are the heaviest deniers of global climate change are financial analysts, including the author of the articles on deniers v. believers.
I can't help but question how financial analysis relates or applies to scientific statistical analysis of geophysical trends over millions of years.
Also, I do not see the numbers/statistics I expected to see.
"blizzard targets northeast".
"record snow falls for date in chicago".
"hearing on 'warming of planet' cancelled because of ice storms".
Thanks so much, Kudra.
Check this out. There is a discussion of what the recent discovery of great lakes means for this climatology research:
i have to give her credit that at least she is willing to discuss the misgivings i have with the wts.
up to this point i have not.
openly stated my disbelief in the jw theology and thinks some of my attitude is just the libertarian streak in me.
Why would they tell you to submit to a UFO? That's what the FDS is. Only it doesn't fly. (Pun intended).
No doubt, the ark of that "Greater Noah Jesus Christ" will look just like this:
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