hi guys,.
i was raised as a jw and was baptised when i was 16. i am now 35 and have finally realised that "the truth" is actually the opposite.. my family has a long history of mental illness and i am "lucky" to only suffer deppression and panic attacks.i believe what i was taught as truth has effected me adversely.
e.g " you won't have to go to school son, armageddon will be here before then.
freedomfighter, welcome.
i too suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, mostly related to growing up a jw. baptized at 16 as well.
as said by other replies, if smoking is drugs and drugs is spiritism, then anti-depressants are also spiritism. it's a joke. the wtbts applies what's convenient without even considering the big picture.
when i was a pioneer i used to get the comment a lot, as i am sure most here have.. my stock answer was the analogy.... wt 2002 10/1 page 7 as an example.
imagine a father allowing his child to go thru a painful operation in-order to get better...hence why god permits suffering.
anyway i used to trot this out without any counter arguments.. even when i left, it still seemed a reasonable explanations, then something clicked.
great rant and thanks for posting yet another idiotic illustration by the wtbts writers.
better illustration, 'we're being sodomized down here and God looks on, hoping we learn our lesson, as any loving, abusive, drunk father would'.
a friend commited suicide on thursday, her body was found monday, just reinforcing in my mind of how far i need to stay away from the wtbts and their pathetic excuses for this being "allowed" to happen.
ok. i used to believe in creationism even after i left the dubs.
i was a braindead window washer at the time.
i don't believe in creationism now, but i do believe in a creator and that is different.
i wouldn't call christians or those who believe in creation stupid, even though i do love the song 'christianity is stupid' by negativland.
also consider the continued "studies" of marijuana by "scientists". that it's a gateway drug. it's classification is up there as a controlled substance. isn't heroin and marijuana just as punishable by law?
all studies and research needs to be financed. finance for marijuana studies come from people with an agenda. anyone can say it's a gateway drug if someone is predisposed to addiction. if it was legalized, the whole scoring aspect of it, which is also part of the high, would be lost. so, it works for some and doesn't work for others and whoever needs the spin for their personal gain uses it as such.
just like interpreting the bible. (turn your head and cough, wtbts)
just like politician smear campaigns.
so anyone who says they have the answers, whether creationists, evolutionists, scientologists, politicians...for the most part, they're all the same to me and blood letting by leaches was a miracle cure semi recently in human history.
we've made some great advances, but as humans, we still don't know wtf we're doing and what exactly is going on in this world of $h*t.
personally i respect people who have faith in what they have faith in, except when they try to push it on me.
my skepticism is high and for all i know we're the product of some demon hershey squirt.
"all i know is that i don't know nothin'"
"shop as usual / and avoid panic buying"
i can't remember if it was discussed here, but michael porter, a witness in good standing in london, england, pled guilty to being a pedophile and was originally given a conditional sentence which outraged many.. anyway, his leniant sentence was just overturned, and it looks like he better not drop the soap in the communial shower for the next 18 months: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7094591.stm.
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actually dropping the soap in prison isn't too bad, it's the bending down to pick it up that might get you in trouble.
someone just spoke of angels in another discussion and it reminded me of the film "wings of desire" by wim wenders..
i remember when i came out in the late 80's and how people were saying what a horrible film it was b/c it was about angels wanting to be human and then they'd quote, what, was it noah's day.
(the former things are passing away from my mind, yay!
i couldn't bring myself to see the remake. definitely see the wenders' film before considering city of angels.
wings of desire has a couple of nick cave songs and the bad seeds as well as crime and the city solution perform live in it. it was such a moment of time b/c it kind of captured the music scene of berlin during those years as well.
someone just spoke of angels in another discussion and it reminded me of the film "wings of desire" by wim wenders..
i remember when i came out in the late 80's and how people were saying what a horrible film it was b/c it was about angels wanting to be human and then they'd quote, what, was it noah's day.
(the former things are passing away from my mind, yay!
oops, missing "t" and it means something a whole lot different. when it came out in the 80's...
my laptop has a way of skipping letters and adding letters on its own sometimes.
i came out in 90's.
not in any sexual way, but as no longer being a jw. :)
someone just spoke of angels in another discussion and it reminded me of the film "wings of desire" by wim wenders..
i remember when i came out in the late 80's and how people were saying what a horrible film it was b/c it was about angels wanting to be human and then they'd quote, what, was it noah's day.
(the former things are passing away from my mind, yay!
yeah, for some reason i have conversations with my cat and speak his parts in english, but in a mexican accent. it's really weird, b/c when i start speaking in the mexican accent he starts purring right away....he knows i'm giving him attention or something.
plus, when he gets all whacked out, like many cats do, i always say 'i see dead people' just like from .....ugh, what's that film?
yes, i've tried to get my wife to watch films like 'constantine' etc. and i tell her my "demo-meter" is relied on the bible, if it's scarier than the stories in the bible, aka, the 'i am legend' story and jesus casts the demons to the pigs who hurl themselves off a cliff, then i won't watch the film.....it's my little dig that the bible is more "demonized" than any film that hollywood could come up with.
someone just spoke of angels in another discussion and it reminded me of the film "wings of desire" by wim wenders..
i remember when i came out in the late 80's and how people were saying what a horrible film it was b/c it was about angels wanting to be human and then they'd quote, what, was it noah's day.
(the former things are passing away from my mind, yay!
someone just spoke of angels in another discussion and it reminded me of the film "Wings of Desire" by Wim Wenders.
i remember when i came out in the late 80's and how people were saying what a horrible film it was b/c it was about angels wanting to be human and then they'd quote, what, was it noah's day. (the former things are passing away from my mind, yay!).
anyway, it's a beautiful film and i highly recommend it.
yet these same people are ok with "Hamlet" b/c its a classic, yet it's all about the dead haunting the living.
on another note, i was talking to the cat tonite and my wife said, 'what' and i said, 'the cat's talking to me' and she said, 'oh, is he speaking english again' and i said, 'yes, he's saying "i am legend"' and she got pissed and i replied, 'just reading the bible outloud honey'.
i'm babbling b/c i've worked eight hours straight without a break and now about to tackle a glass of sapphire on the rocks and some zone out tv.
i love you until the end of the world,
mono
my sister said yesterday:.
"isn't it amazing how the watchtower and awake are so good that really we would only have to read them to know everything that's going on in the world!".
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i remember people saying that as well back in the day, my dark ages.
if i actually heard it come from someone's mouth now and they were being serious, i would probably have a seizure.
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none. spirituality and religion are two completely different things. i do believe religion is good for some people and don't disrespect their decision as long as they respect mine not to be religious....unfortunately, that's not the majority.
