dang man, your site has seen a lot of traffic over the past few years .
nice.
http://www.angelfire.com/trek/littletoe/profile.html.
Thanks for the reminder. I enjoyed reading that over again. It's kind of a pity that Little Toe went to a different religion after the wtbts, but I don't think anyone has ever equalled his nerve in giving an exit talk like that.
I wonder what he's doing nowadays?
a bit rash but very necessary.i never really liked them anyway..
haven't worn hose or a bra in 30-some years. Woohoo!!!
as i hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.. john glenn.
when the white missionaries came to africa they had the bible and we had the land.
they said 'let us pray.
Thanks for the good laugh -- I hadn't heard most of those before.
i often see comments by ex-jws that would suggest some men still view themselves as "head of the house".
sometimes comments from women appear to support the idea as well.. how many still see things this way or have you completely got over it?.
It's typical of religion, isn't it? I don't know of any religions that consider men and women to be equal partners in a marriage. The more extreme the religion, the more women are suppressed/oppressed.
I recall sitting in a restaurant once with my husband, listening to several women at the next table (not JWs) talk about how "headship" was a test from god to teach women humility. They were very smug about the whole thing, topping one another with stories about how they subjected themselves to their husbands' rules. It was nauseating. I finally said, quite loudly, "why don't women learn to use the brains god gave them?"
My mother was the classic "let the man rule the house" type of JW. Once I asked her why she didn't get something repaired in her house. She said that her husband didn't want her to do it. I said, "but he has Alzheimer's. When are you going to start using the brain god gave you?" Her reply was classic: "when the elders tell me I can." Oh, lordy.
BTW, I don't believe in god, but I was speaking to/about people who do believe in god.
the mogao grottoes were an important stop on the trading network we call the silk road.. they are of interest to us, for the information they contain about the past.
left behind are wonderful images as well as text documents illustrating the transmission of buddhism across asia.. now a chinese institution in gansu province, where the mogao grottoes are located, has attempted to reconstruct both the musicval instruments pictured in some 4000 illustrations and the music that was played on them.. a video is included in the following report from chinese cctv;.
archaic music restored at mogao grottoes01-05-2014 09:32 bjt.
Thanks for sharing -- it would be interesting to hear more of the music, wouldn't it?
i've been here forever.... this site still gives us some of the most up to date info about jws .
it keeps evolving.
sometimes it is the place to be and i think that's especially true for newbies.
Seven years, almost daily I'm surprised to say.
had a nice long conversation with my "spiritual" neighbor, a little old lady who believes everything she hears.
she was telling me about emotional healing which you do with a chart that tells you what your emotions mean and how to heal them.
it wasn't very clear, i still don't understand what the treatment part of it is, and she couldn't explain it.
Reality is amazing enough. You don't really have to fantasize or believe in magic.
had a nice long conversation with my "spiritual" neighbor, a little old lady who believes everything she hears.
she was telling me about emotional healing which you do with a chart that tells you what your emotions mean and how to heal them.
it wasn't very clear, i still don't understand what the treatment part of it is, and she couldn't explain it.
I blame Deepak Chopra. He just uses the word quantum a lot and people think he's a scientist, but he's just waffling on about a bunch of twaddle. I swear, if I could think of something I could preach with a straight face I would start my own new age movement.
we and our unbaptised children have now been cut off by our last jw family members.
cowardly email at the bottom and my response just below.
sorry it's rambling and probably not the best thing to send, but we are upset and angry.
Yeah, I got one of those letters once, from someone who had been my closest friend. Screw them. Once you are no longer blinded by the wtbts you realize the enormity of rejecting close friends and relatives because they don't believe in an invisible skydaddy, or because they have changed their mind about the religion.
I know you are sad and angry, but you will feel better soon. I'm so glad your wife and kids are safe from that org.
had a nice long conversation with my "spiritual" neighbor, a little old lady who believes everything she hears.
she was telling me about emotional healing which you do with a chart that tells you what your emotions mean and how to heal them.
it wasn't very clear, i still don't understand what the treatment part of it is, and she couldn't explain it.
thanks -- off to read more about that!
