here's a few-------jws are not "the happiest people on earth".
they are not the "most educated people on earth" in spite of their enrollment in the theocratic ministry school.. witnesses are not the best neighbors because they won't involve themselves with you unless they can preach to you.. .
any others to make up the list??
1. What they think they are
2. Out in bad weather
3. Always paying attention at the meetings.
4. In tune
5. Respectful of people having a lazy Saturday morning.
6. Bad at sitting still for long periods of time.
7. Roman Catholics
8. Keen on black pudding.
9.The postman.
10. Adverse to changing their minds about their doctrines.
11. And I just got to say this because I am feeling a little lary......they are also not Cats.
Dont ask me where it came from.......I havent got a clue
i was prompted to think further about this today when i was reading the following in a book called "headhunters":.
"e-mails are a love of mine.
i prefer them to communicating by word of mouth.
PIGEON.................USUALLY
i am interested in getting solid and sound refutations from athiests, agnostics, and critically thinking christians on the following.. take a sheet of paper.
on that sheet draw a circle.
in the middle of the circle, place a dot.
Does it confuse matters to say that someone had to put the dot and the G there...............mad ramblings...........
we are having a boy and can't decide on names.
we want something a little different, not in 'the top 10'.
it also has to be english or german orgin.
Jez
Respectfully please please please dont call your son Blaze, over her it is a name you would give to a pet (horse or possibly dog)
No offence meant............but please dont do it!!!!
Fifi
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
Unique 1 - I like a drink as well, that was not the point of this thread but do you have a cut off point when you know you have had enough?
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
BR25 - ok I think I get you. It is my opinion that all folk are at different stages in their lives, different levels of understanding and have different ways of handling things. I was raised as a JW for instance and in some ways miss the 'false comfort' that being part of that religion gave me. But I am not blind to its teachings anymore. I agree with you that some of what the JWs teach is not bad and if the paradise hope were real, or i believed it to be real I would go for it. But I have concluded it is not.
It is only by discussion and debate that we learn anything, so if someone seems opinionated to you whats the problem, by putting your view forward one of you might learn something or reconsider their way of reasoning.
Try to be patient, the world is a mixed bag of all sorts.
Fifi
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
BR25 I dont really get your point can you be a bit clearer. Are you peed off that I am saying some people use drugs and alcohol as a means of escapism; that over abuse leads to problems, or that my lack of comfort with people doing this may stem from an upbringing which viewed these types of over indulgence as wrong?
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
Myelaine ????? Not sure I am with you, humble apologies
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
Anti christ - What did God have to say.....
to fill you in and explain my post....... i was raised as a jw but left (not baptised) at 16. i started studying again at 24ish and was quickly baptised and got disfellowshipped aged about 32ish.
whilst i was active as a jw i socialised plenty, but it did not involve copious amounts of drink or drugs.
during my times out i have very very occasionally smoked a little dope and have been drunk more often but by no means frequently.
Found My Way - you stand no chance with my lot then....... Hic lol
But I have to say I am agreeing with you.
