i work the night shift in the silicon valley (60 miles south of san francisco) and as i took mission college blvd.
offramp on my way to work, i happened to glance across the road at a huge statue of the virgin mary that is in front of the church near where i work.. the statue is completly silver and was beautiful and peaceful looking as it stood there brightly lit by the floodlight from below.
as i was thinking to myself how beautiful the statue looked to me, the word demonized popped into my head.
Robyn- She wants a big fairy tale wedding in a Catholic church.
gumby- LOL, I love my profile pic. And thanks for the offer but I'll be the only one squirting Jeeteeh.
Paduan- I believe that you live, you die, and then the worms eat you. But I told my bride to be that I would attend church with her and raise our children Catholic. Who knows maybe I'll embrace Catholicism. I never say never.
-fin
i work the night shift in the silicon valley (60 miles south of san francisco) and as i took mission college blvd.
offramp on my way to work, i happened to glance across the road at a huge statue of the virgin mary that is in front of the church near where i work.. the statue is completly silver and was beautiful and peaceful looking as it stood there brightly lit by the floodlight from below.
as i was thinking to myself how beautiful the statue looked to me, the word demonized popped into my head.
Good info Paduan and Robdar. Thanks
i work the night shift in the silicon valley (60 miles south of san francisco) and as i took mission college blvd.
offramp on my way to work, i happened to glance across the road at a huge statue of the virgin mary that is in front of the church near where i work.. the statue is completly silver and was beautiful and peaceful looking as it stood there brightly lit by the floodlight from below.
as i was thinking to myself how beautiful the statue looked to me, the word demonized popped into my head.
Thanks for the info Celia. The Philippines seem to have taken to Catholicism like ducks to water in the last few hundred years, of course the rape and torture by the Spaniards helped speed up the conversion rate. The Philippines are nearly 90% Catholic. Of course Jeeteeh(my fiance) lives in Mindinao which is where the Muslim population reside. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the Abu Sayyaf has been known to kidnap and behead tourists. I've lost my heart to this girl but I really don't want to lose my head in the process.
-fin
i work the night shift in the silicon valley (60 miles south of san francisco) and as i took mission college blvd.
offramp on my way to work, i happened to glance across the road at a huge statue of the virgin mary that is in front of the church near where i work.. the statue is completly silver and was beautiful and peaceful looking as it stood there brightly lit by the floodlight from below.
as i was thinking to myself how beautiful the statue looked to me, the word demonized popped into my head.
I work the night shift in the silicon valley (60 miles south of San Francisco) and as I took Mission College Blvd. offramp on my way to work, I happened to glance across the road at a huge statue of the Virgin Mary that is in front of the church near where I work.
The statue is completly silver and was beautiful and peaceful looking as it stood there brightly lit by the floodlight from below. As I was thinking to myself how beautiful the statue looked to me, the word demonized popped into my head. Talk about programming, I'll never ger this witness shit out of my head. I left the "truth" after 1975 came and went with a whimper but all that programming is still firmly stuck somewhere in my brain.
By the way, it looks like I'll need to convert to Catholicism as soon as possible. My fiance in the Philippines has informed me that in order to marry her in a church that I have to be baptised as a Catholic. We were making plans to marry in May, but this throws a monkey wrench into it. Are there any Catholics or ex-Catholics out there that can tell me how long it takes to get baptised? Are there any tests or special requirements? Can I just to to my local Catholic church and get a quicky baptism?
-fin
when you get baptized, you are expected to swallow a multitude of beliefs that either you never really understood or simply didn't truly believe in.
when going over questions for baptism, almost nobody understood the concept of the"faithful and discreet slave".
yet after it was attempted to explain this mumbo-jumbo, every candidate meekly just went along with the explanation without ever truly understanding the fallacy.
Yes I'm sure Satan and Zeus and Popeye are all sitting around playing poker and plotting against God, and devising a way that they can live forever with you on a perfect earth. Reality is a bitch, catch it.
why did you become a jehovah witness ?
was it your parents who dragged you into it, or was it a friend, or maybe just a knock on your door from a stranger?
with all the religions out there, why did you choose that one?
seven006 you actually made me laugh out loud. You funny
when you get baptized, you are expected to swallow a multitude of beliefs that either you never really understood or simply didn't truly believe in.
when going over questions for baptism, almost nobody understood the concept of the"faithful and discreet slave".
yet after it was attempted to explain this mumbo-jumbo, every candidate meekly just went along with the explanation without ever truly understanding the fallacy.
Actually Yadirf the earth is finite. When the sun burns out it will get mighty cold here. Nothing lasts forever. God is dead.
-fin
i've done some reading about a d d lately.
i know that some young kids may be affected by this malady.
it seems to me, there are a number of older persons that are witnesses that seem to have a d d. you know those over-zealous elders, especially the service overseers?
Huh....what?
As a kid and well into my adulthood I had O.C.D. I have worked hard to stop the counting and related stuff. The only way to beat it is to just stop. After a while you learn that you were just occupying your mind to help you cope with or avoid other problems. I know that being raied a Witness played a large part in my having to cope with O.C.D. It took a while but I think I have O.C.D. completly under control.
-fin
when you get baptized, you are expected to swallow a multitude of beliefs that either you never really understood or simply didn't truly believe in.
when going over questions for baptism, almost nobody understood the concept of the"faithful and discreet slave".
yet after it was attempted to explain this mumbo-jumbo, every candidate meekly just went along with the explanation without ever truly understanding the fallacy.
Hello minimus, Even when I was a little kid, I didn't see how people were ever going to live on a paradise earth forever. I don't know if this qualifies as disagreeing with doctrine, but when I was a kid Jehovah seemed like a mean and spiteful God. It seemed to me somewhere along the line, somebody was going to piss Him off and he would wipe everybody out and start all over again. When you're a kid and you're taught that you're never going to die, the prospect of Jehovah getting pissed at somebody a thousand years down the line and killing you for it really scared the piss out of me. I wonder if any other J.W. kids thought this way? After 1975 I realized it was all bullshit and the party hasn't stopped.
-fin
the scifi (science fiction) channel here in the usa is running steven spielberg's mini-maxi-series (2 hours per night for 10 nights!
i watched the first episode last night - it was much better than i expected it to be - it's got hooks!.
often i find myself disappointed with scifi channel series, but not this time.. "science fiction, double feature...".
Yes I watched about 10 minutes of it. Lets see, how can I put it. Oh yes. BORING.
Give me LEXX any day of the week. Oh those lips on Xev.
-fin
