i don't know what eles to call it , i guess it is the user name....lol.......so what does yours mean?.
i think awhile back i might have asked this,,,,,,,but it was way back and so many new ones here that i am just getting to know, and ones who came in here while i was not here as much.
there may be a thread on this in the last recent months, i am not sure,,,,if so, if there are any new ones who want to tell why they choose their user names,,,,,please do.. i will tell you why my name is lyineyes,,,,,many have asked me that here lately.
A fictional child character from Salmon Rushtie's book 'Midnight's Children'. Obviously, he had an 'eyesliced' in an accident and became blind in it, hence the nick-name. He has some other great names Padma Mangroli, Shiva, Padma, Naasem, Rashid the rickshaw boy, Parvati-the-Witch, Uncle Puffs and Picture-Singh.
Chose Eyeslice because it fitted me; blinded to some extend by up bringing and years in the truth but still got one good eye to start seeing my way around.
eyeslice
i was just reading the thread "questions on the generation teaching", and someone mentioned the 1995 watchtower article where is said this:rather than provide a rule for measuring time, the term "generation" as used by jesus refers principally to contemporary people of a certain historical period, with their identifying characteristics.. .
what i'm wondering is, has the wts mentioned the word "generation" since this article?
are they sticking to this explanation in any way, shape, or form?
I believe not.
This generation isn't being spoken about any more.
Neither is the UN being the image of the wild beast who will destroy all false religion.
Neither is avoidance of blood being a safety measure (i.e. allow boold fractions from 'large pools of donors').
Doctrinally, they are extremely weak - no theologians more (if ever there were any).
eyeslice
ok, we know that field service, for the most part is unproductive.
that is, very few newly baptised jw's are from converts.
that means that most dubs make babies, indoctrinate them, and they become dubs.
The Society will continue to struggle in the west. Growth has been negative or zero at best.
Whilst, years ago a typical circuit of 1,500 publishers used to get approx 16 to 20 baptism candidates per circuit assembly, now it is more like 2 to 6, of which 2 thirds will be raised in the truth.
Agree with comments about third world countries - a target area for growth.
there is a thought-provoking article on religion in the latest issue of skeptical inquirer.
i thought i'd share this quote which bears on jw issues in an interesting way:.
"do people know what their religious concepts are?
Leolaia,
A thought provoking topic. I have met many whose "simple faith" must be by nature quite complex underneath.
eyeslice
do you have a nonhuman bf?
tell us about your best friend ...
We had a small female black cat who we lost just over a year ago. She was well over 20 years old. She was around when my eldest kids were very little and mothered around my other kids when they born and brought home from hospital.
She always slept at the bottom of our bed. Losing her was like losing one of the family.
since being out of the borg a little over a year now i suddenly realised how much more compassionate and caring i've become.
claire, my wife, said to me that i was never happy as a jw and she's absolutely right - and yet i persevered assuming jehovah would make things better.
he never did, of course.the point is, i've begun to realise just how much watchtower had its cultish hold over me - even right down to controlling my natural feelings!
Hi Dansk,
No I don't think it is just you. Many of us became increasingly frustrated at being dominated by petty, often unwritten rules and regulations. I am sure these 'hardened' us over time.
I have found I am more magnanimous in my prayers now. I no longer pray just for the 'brothers and sisters' under going persecution. I have a better understanding of "observe intently the birds of heaven .... still your father feeds them" and believe this must apply to all people everywhere, Witnesses or not.
I still consider myself a Christian, though I have done some reading about Buddhism on the web and one or two other books on spirituality generally. Not quite brave enough yet to attend a Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Hindu or Baha?i temple to actually share in worship yet, though I have visited many during my travels in the east
eyeslice
a sexual frustrated jehovah's witness carried out a sex attack on an 11-year-old schoolboy because he couldn?t find a girlfriend and was looking for a substitute.
read this story and 29 more articles about child abuse on watchtower information service.
rado vleugel
dustyb
that is abso-f**king-ridicoulously sick.
I find your sexually based expletive strange when referring to things such as this.
Grow up man!
eyeslice
in another thread today, stillajwexelder cites his passion as travel.
i would say that is one of my passions too.. one thing i have noticed, with myself when a witness and in other too, is that association with 'wordlings' is strictly taboo when at home but things are different when on vacation or traveling.
i have made a slight distinction between being on vacation and traveling, in that to me traveling, has the idea of backpacking and roughing it in exotic countries.
In another thread today, stillajwexelder cites his passion as travel. I would say that is one of my passions too.
One thing I have noticed, with myself when a Witness and in other too, is that association with 'wordlings' is strictly taboo when at home but things are different when on vacation or traveling. I have made a slight distinction between being on vacation and traveling, in that to me traveling, has the idea of backpacking and roughing it in exotic countries. Those of you have done it understand the sort of fraternity that can then build up between fellow travelers. All strictly against, Society's 'counsel' (i.e. law) not to associate with the world but nonetheless very enjoyable.
eyeslice
this is a spin-off thread to one posted today about bethel trips.
i find the idea of bethel, holocaust museum and broadway somewhat repugnant.
i have written before about the society's almost sickening bleating on about the concentration camps.
This is a spin-off thread to one posted today about Bethel trips. I find the idea of Bethel, Holocaust Museum and Broadway somewhat repugnant. I have written before about the Society's almost sickening bleating on about the concentration camps. I remember when Poland was 'opened up' and the Society arranged International Conventions there, that there was always an opportunity to visit a concentration camp as part of the 'package'.
I am only too aware that of the scale of atrocities and what went on in the concentration camps. I always try to remember to observe a few minutes silent contemplation on Holocaust Memorial day. But there is no way I would want to visit a concentration camp. I cannot even watch movies like Sophie's Choice, Shindler's List or the latest Hollywood one (can't remember the name; is it the Pianist or something?).
I know we should never forget, least we allow it to happen again (which it has; Stalinist Russia, the Killing Fields, Rowanda). But would you visit?
eyeslice
i believe they are "cultlike" but i don't think they are a "cult"........and you?
When in, we definitely did not regard ourselves as being in a cult. Now, I personally am not sure.
I was speaking to my son who left the truth a while back and now lives with his girl friend who is study psychology at college. She has never been 'in' so has a totally different perspective on the witnesses. Her conclusion is that the Witnesses are cult like.
Farkel
"By golly, if the Society told me this green book was black, then I'd believe it was black!"
How often I have heard that sort of statement, and it used to make me cringe, even when I was in! I cannot stand dogma. IMHO, religion should be about expressing doubts regarding the unknow as well as a search for spirituality certainty. That is why, many of here gave up in the end - guess weren't the cultish type.
eyeslice
