I have just finished reading 'Blood Meridian' in which he paints a very disturbing view of humanity, I should I say specifically men.
It begs the question of just how civilised we really are and easily any pretext on cilivilisation can be replaced with wanton violence.
Looking at the atrocities of the past it is hard to not share his views.
Can't edit my original post - but can this reply. Sorry.
i've been doing some research today on the quakers and so far i quite like what i see.. the main reason is the lack of dogma or creed and the freedom to have views of your own.
however, i am still researching and no way am i considering joining them - i just like what i see so far.. i wondered if anyone else - ex jw, has taken a look at this faith.
if so, what were your conclusions?.
I know very little about Quakers but like you found some of their ideas attractive.
They are know as pacifists and generally appear to be meek and mild people. Their meetings do sound strange, though I must admit much of what I know about them I got from reading 'Notes on an Exhibition' a few years back.
....then why do they not have the time of their services listed??.
so much for their boast about the preaching work in all lands.. .
I agree with kurtbethel. In may parts of the world the Watchtower's operational style doesn't work.
They have no charitable arm and therefore do nothing to attract the sort of people the claim to have an affinity for. In Africa numerous religious organisations are involved in the treatment of AIDs sufferers. These organisatiions often provide medicines and drugs. The Watchtower will offer them a magazine.
i made my way down to the kingdom hall this morning.
i have decided to stay in my own house.
just before armageddon, there were no more than 3 million publishers.. .
in the last few years that i served as an elder, and as i was discovering what the wts really was, the term "old school" would be used and it began to bother me more and more.
it was usually used to praise a person with a mean, unwaivering, dogmatism to an obselete policy.
a couple of times i would ask the person what he meant by the term.
the witnesses try to demonize the internet.
in your opinion is the internet the biggest problem for the watchtower organization?.
I am sure that it is hurting.
In the past if a person were disfellowshipped or simply found themselves at odds with the organisation, it must have been a very lonely existance. With the internet it is now easy to see you are not the only one who has been treated in the same manner or feels the same as you do.
i've been conditioned since childhood that i'm going to live forever.
i'm having a hard time contemplating the fact that i'm going to die.
i'm so afraid of death that i can't enjoy the life i have now.
Personally, I find the thought of my own death disturbing. But on the positive side I have had a great life and family, even the 50 years I spent as a JW were good, I can have no regrets.
What I find hard is the fact that it looks as if my son's girl friend is very ill with renal cell carcinoma. She is just 26 years old and the prospects don't look at all good.
Perhaps we need to take each day at a time and enjoy what we have left.
neither.. i have no affinity at all to the commercial christmas.
i do, however, think that the religious celebration is not as wicked as the society has made out.
ok, it maybe at the wrong time of the year but it is clear that the birth of christ was something to celebrate at the time and is still worth remembering today.. .
Me? Neither.
I have no affinity at all to the commercial Christmas. I do, however, think that the religious celebration is not as wicked as the society has made out. OK, it maybe at the wrong time of the year but it is clear that the birth of Christ was something to celebrate at the time and is still worth remembering today.
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love to his wife claire and their family and to all who loved and mourn ian.. blessings,.
marjorie.