as a little background - i was born-in to being a witness, back in '79, in detroit, in mostly black and poor congregations.
baptized when 10-ish, stayed around, was on the fast track to ms, but faded when i moved out at 24ish.. there was a combination of a few things that got me on the road to "freedom" from the cognitive dissonance that kept me "in the truth" for so long.
the main thing was, being an artist and studying marketing, my thinking was patterned to constantly question if i was doing something "correctly," as constant improvement and questioning is what facilitates artistic and mental growth.
One thing you need to realize that Watchtower Jesus is carefully bathed and groomed, unlike that scruffy old Bible Jesus.
http://watchtowerkarma.webs.com/haircut_and_shave.html
So you better get in line because one day he's going to get his lazy butt that's been parked on the throne for 100 years and do something about you.
on the service meeting there was a part covering a couple of pages from the tms guidebook chapter on warmth and feeling.
rather than coaching the r&f on how to make a school talk sound warm, it focused on the people that jws meet in their ministry.
basically, the part could have been labelled "how to fake warmth and feeling.
Many psychopaths are adept at mimicing feelings.
there are a few people who are fb friends that constantly brag about themselves, their looks, their accomplishments, their bodies, their job---etc.. one particular person is too close to ignore but it's never ending.
i am thisclose to telling her, to please stop it.. any thoughts?.
I have no problem with it.
People who are actually doing cool stuff are really intensely focused on it and are not tapping out the details on their phone or sitting at the pc.
Before FB there were always the 'look at me' sort of people around, and they just found a new place to crow about it.
for some reason my husband has picked this topic after months of non communication of anything related biblical at all.
( he believes he came up with the idea onhis own ( he was raised jw and left as a 18 year old...ugh...right).
so since this was his topic my own thoughts have been expressed as well.
The idea of Satan creating a star, which is really a supermassive burning globe like the sun, and much larger than the earth and all the planets combined, means Satan is a creator with immense power. This is blasphemy.
jw literature is racist as hell.
jesus looks like an american folk singer, the governing body look like a corrupt version of an enron luncheon.. the jw's literally print different magazines for africa with african pictures, black people instead of white, to make it 'more appealing' to them.... just to be clear that means they think the opposite is true too!.
....and then there is the lack of black angels..... .
This might take care of it some.
the gb for some reason is completely fixated on the roman catholic church (rcc).
they should just say that the rcc is babylon the great and get it over with.. the "world empire of false religion" ??
how often do they talk about muslims?
I dunno...projection maybe?
this 10 minute video follows a man and his problems as he attempts to deal with women in authority, much as a woman may experience in our own society.. maybe not a real stretch for the imagination.
there have been some matriachal soceities in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwxlvvt1a.
i sometimes join discussion groups.
the witnesses do get mentioned.
i try to make it humorous but some bitterness seeps through.
She's not entitled to know things about your past that you're not willing to share.
If you like her and are willing to invest the time, salt your conversations with her with questions that she can't answer from the playbook, that she has to investigate for herself to get an answer. You want to be sincere and get some real anwers from her.
michael dunn pulled into a convenience store parking lot next to a suv full of teenagers who were playing loud music.
he asked the teens to turn down the music, it is uncertain what words were exchanged at that point.
michael dunn then shot 4 times into the driver's side of the suv.
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in case some are interested and can't find it...... http://debatelive.org.
~mb.
Thanks to guys like Ken Ham, there's a long way to go to drag Americans into the 19th century.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/1-4-americans-think-sun-revolves-around-earth/ndQBb/
By Jasmine Bailey
Video transcript provided by Newsy.com
This one might be one of the most disturbing stories you'll hear all day. Does the sun revolve around the Earth, or does the Earth revolve around the sun?
The National Science Foundation posed this question to 2,200 Americans back in 2012. The results were published Friday and 26 percent of people surveyed believe the sun moves around the Earth. (Via Discovery)
"The foundation says that's frightening, claiming that is why this nation needs more money invested in teaching science in school." (Via KUSI)
