if i wanted to prove to a bunch of tribal ignoramuses that i'm the big boss i'd show them a few scientific tricks that would have dazzled them.
like electricity, how the brain really works, higher mathematics, tell them how a star is formed since he created them, set up a fusion reactor for eternal energy source.
he walked on water, see that might impress the odd shepherd or two back then but it leaves nothing for us to go on today as we can just reject it out of hand as a myth.
The problem with the E=MC2 reference is that, being the creator, He may know that E=MC2 isn't true at all the levels of the universe. But, knowing the human condition, He would know that we prefer drinking wine at a party to water.
LOL ----- excellent point(s).
i am allergic to beer...after about 15 i start to through up!
Pollen seems to be my only allergy, but a teacher when I was at school said in my report that I was allergic to hard work.
I do think I may be allergic to the Watchtower as well. While I was out the other day, a JW shoved one through my letterbox and seeing it on my hallway carpet did make me feel a bit sick.
the sixth sense, extra sensory perception, telepathic communication, psychic powers.
we were all taught from the wtb&ts, that these things were demonic in nature.
i've always had a sense of myself as being touched, gifted you might say, at perception, being able to sense when something was about to take place.
As a child I was definately clairvoyant and clairaudient. Coming under the influence of my elder JW sister, at about 15, I was convinced by her that this was demonic so shut it out. Then after leaving the JWs I got it back again. Coming from a science background I like to test everything, and I like to look at things from a skeptic's angle. But all said and done I can't deny what I see and hear, and btw thats not anything to do with mental illness or drugs, lol.
Over the past two years I've been part of a psychic development circle run by spiritualists, and we're now moving onto physical mediumship. It's an anathema to many religious people, but I'm about as interested in their opinions as I am in "converting" people.
my aunt is a lesbian.
i am no longer a witness but i wanted to see how bulletproof jw beliefs are.. so jehovah is against homosexuals and they will be destroyed at armaggedon but with his power homosexuals can go to meetings and stop sinning, was my mums explanation....erm.... people with a different genetic make-up who can't help being what they are will be able to stop these feelings before the new order, in that case its a miracle, jehovah doesn't do miracles right now....that's something alright.
ok now how on earth are they supposed to cut off physical emotions?
This makes me recall Drew Sagan's post yesterday about memory being wiped out in the new order.
Supposedly you will forget your sexuality too?
this is actually something that fascinates me and i'd like your own opinions on the subject.
i list here things i feel are quintessentially english (with apologies to the scots, welsh and irish as they have their own uniqueness).. first of all, it's got to be a cup of tea (yes, i know it wasn't originally made here, but it has become an integral part of 'englishness').. cup of tea.
cricket.
Slugga,
Maybe if the Scots got into a major football tournament then they might behave the same way as the English supporters and wind up the "foreigners". But we may never know. . .
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if i wanted to prove to a bunch of tribal ignoramuses that i'm the big boss i'd show them a few scientific tricks that would have dazzled them.
like electricity, how the brain really works, higher mathematics, tell them how a star is formed since he created them, set up a fusion reactor for eternal energy source.
he walked on water, see that might impress the odd shepherd or two back then but it leaves nothing for us to go on today as we can just reject it out of hand as a myth.
Good question Spectrum.
This has made me imagine Jesus as the central character in Mark Twain's A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. I wonder what those who think he was a visiting astronaut think about this? Were his mission instructions just to "go easy" on the miracles and education? Maybe if he had proven he was so powerful and knowledgable they would have been so impressed that they would have accepted him as the Messiah and not crucified him. Then of course he couldn't be the Messiah because he wouldn't have fulfilled the Hebrew prophecies. (scratches head).
Maybe the scribe who was following him around didn't have a Pitman short-hand equivalent of "Verily, verily, I say unto thee that thine energy is as thine mass times the speed of light multiplied unto itself.", and along with other countless gems he left it out of the final draft. ??
this has probably by far the hardest adjustment my husband and myself have had to make.
sometimes we feel like we just dont really belong anywhere.
sometimes we still act and think like jw s even though we are getting together a nice network of new friends.. my question is, does it get easier with time to feel like you belong somewhere?.
OH NO, my post number 666.
LOL. . .
I wonder sometimes if some JWs are so conditioned to think that the rest of "worldly" humanity is dangerous, that they have real issues with forming normal friendships after breaking out of the cult.The expression "there is good and bad in all" can be said for both the JW world and the real world. Just consider that you now have the freedom to meet and form friendships with whoever you like. A new "soul mate" may come into your life and you don't have to take a step back anymore and see them as a different species. There are loads of interesting, lovely, intelligent, giving, cool people in the world and opening up to them and their ideas will help wash out the narrow minded fungus that the WTS has cultivated in you. Your future can be very fun and rewarding now, and your anxiety I'm sure will be temporary.
have you ever seen a "ghost"?
if you did, were you scared, fascinated or straight to denial?.
if you did see one, were you a jw at the time and therefore did you believe it to be an apparition projected by the demons?
LOL Pete nice one. Mrs Clam is pretty keen on moving to NZ actually(with me of course!). They get much better pay over there apparently. I'm nuts about rugby so I'm not complaining.
Chris
I hope you're right minimus
since i discovered the 4th dimension, one of the conclusions i have reached is, the 4th dimension is an infinite access to the truth.
throughout this website, i use the term "i wish" - it is really a way to voice a person's desire - and from the work i have done - it really works.
from the saying: "ask and you shall receive", i have understood that any human being can make an infinity of "wishes" and receive the truth (the correct answer) to every question they may have, in the form of a dream - that same night.
4 Dimensions? Look at string theory. I think the quantum mathematicians have calculated about 25 so far.
