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  Atheist- What will you do?

  by hannibal in

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  the other day i was watching a program on death row.

  inmates, and funny it seemed that most if not all seemed .

  to have "found god".they talked about jesus,and there at .

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  forgetmenot

  larc...about the "live your life like it was your last six months".
  In intercultural communication studies, the have actually categorized this type of living. If a culture exhibits this, it is called a "being" cultural. They live for the now. They tend to be relaxed and easygoing (simplified example: Mexico). The other pattern a culture can exhibit is the "doing" culture. This is largely what the US is on. We are always looking forward to the future. We have plans.
  When it boils down, someone from the "being culture" could be told that they are going to die tomorrow and be just fine. But some one from the "doing" culture would be freaking out.

  After taking a class in this class, I wonder how anyone could press their particular beliefs on people. (Example: You need to be a Christian in order to be saved.) You have to be joking if you think that God (this great, all pervasive being) can only be reached one way. I would think that it limits God as much as it does humans.

  Just some think'n.
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  Normal

  by forgetmenot in

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  today we had a kind of family and friends get together.

  we went to the hog trough (i.e.

  im normal (as normal as a kid who grew up as a jw can ever be).

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  Oh, she's took with the JW's. She opened the conversation with..."I was hoping the new system would be here before we had to worry about this." Yeash...ya know?
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  Normal

  by forgetmenot in

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  today we had a kind of family and friends get together.

  we went to the hog trough (i.e.

  im normal (as normal as a kid who grew up as a jw can ever be).

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  forgetmenot

  Today we had a kind of family and friends get together. We went to the hog trough (i.e. one of those huge buffet places). One of my uncles and his family (plus my grandma) is JW’s. I sat with his wife and she’s trying to decide if making her oldest son (my cousin) go into running start is a good thing. I’ve done running start and she was asking me if it was a good idea. She said, “I just really don’t know. I want J____ to have a normal life” (i.e. go to high school). I was flabbergasted because if going to running start makes you not normal (whatever normal is) than I’m not normal! That was so rude. I’m normal (as normal as a kid who grew up as a JW can ever be).

  Whatever that boy does, he will never be normal. The only thing I told her that was bad about running start is that it was harder to find people to go to dances with (‘cause you don’t know who is going and who isn’t) and that at football games you aren’t quite part of the crowd (partially due to your own self; high school people are kind of annoying!). But if J____ is a JW, he won’t ever do those things anyway. The kid has no change of ever being “normal.” The things you do in high school (dances, parties, sports) to get a “high school experience,” he will never do! He will not ever be normal. Even if he stays a JW or if he becomes a ex-JW, HE WILL NOT BE NORMAL!
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  Which came first, man or woman?

  by sleepy in

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  if men were created in the image of god , and women created for men , then why do all foetuses start off female?.

  according to the bible eve was created out of adam.. well i can't speak for adam but the basic body structure of a human it seams starts off as female , men branching off at a certain point of developement due to man making hormones.it doen't get rid of our nipples though.. if men came first or are in some way superior in gods eyes then why the need to develope as a female first , shouldn't it be the other way round?.

  so shouldn't have god made eve first?

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  Lydia, very nice! That's good.
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  Did God create humans in his own image?

  by Scully in

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  of course, we all know what genesis says.

  and god went on to say: "let us make man in our image, according to our likeness..." - genesis 1:26. but let's imagine for a moment that there really is no god, and that human curiosity about how things work and happen caused this writer and his contemporaries to "invent" the concept of "god".. the genesis quote, then, becomes a projection of the writer's own beliefs.

  rather than having god make man in his own image, mankind has created gods in their image.. we can look back on history and see the pantheon of various gods whose characteristics seem to mirror the culture and practices of those who worship them.

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  forgetmenot

  One of the first things you learn in when you study cultures in general is that we define our own reality. Why not define our own gods? We start with a core. A popular core seems to be love. And then according to what our culture tells us to we build up around our core. Christianity is very nice for the west because it focuses on the self (individualism is one of the most reverend values in western society). Something a little more inclusive and group oriented for collective cultures. Just saying that we define or describe our "God" does not mean we made him up, though...
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  train up a child...with a squeegee...

  by wheelwithinwheel in

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  while relaxing with my morning java at the local coffee joint i suddenly noticed window-washing equipment moving across the glassed surfaces of the restaurant.

  yes, there was one of the local j-dubs hard at it.

  the strange thing was the height of his helper ... about the height of an 8-year-old.

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  forgetmenot

  I've never been home schooled. Lately we've had a continuous wave of home schooling in our congregation. I guess it can work but it is hard to tell. You have to admit that a lot of JW's are schooling their children for "the new system". This will cause problems.

  On a side note, when I tell people I used to be a Jehovah's Witness, they tell me that "the saddest thing about the JW kids is that they didn't get to celebrated holidays." I say, "no" it was being alienated from having a real social life. The congregation setting basically gives you three to five (if you are lucky) people who have to be your closest and only friends. If you aren't compatible, so sorry, you still can't make friends with THOSE worldly people.

  I would guess that home schooling adds to these isolated feelings.
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  Falling in Love

  by forgetmenot in

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  okay, i have a question for all you who think you are in love.

  did you have to work really hard at capturing the person you in love with's attention or did it just happen?

  was it an actual thing you planned or what?

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  Okay, I have a question for all you who think you are in love. Did you have to work really hard at capturing the person you in love with's attention or did it just happen? Was it an actual thing you planned or what?

  I'm afraid that my background as a TRULY good, honest, and faithful JW has left me at a disadvantage in the flirting and the encouraging guy attention department. I just feel akward and embarassed.
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  A Little Car Fluff

  by forgetmenot in

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  what do you have hanging from your car's rear-view mirror?.

  i have two stuffed pandas hanging from my car's rear-view mirror.

  one of them was my first christmas present from my sister.

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  forgetmenot

  Hey, Mrs. Rocky...didn't you your husband say something about your clay sun being a pagan idol. He took it down when the PO was riding with him. But the next day he had a giant snowflake hanging from his pickup window. NOW that would make Ven claustrophobic!
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  A Little Car Fluff

  by forgetmenot in

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  what do you have hanging from your car's rear-view mirror?.

  i have two stuffed pandas hanging from my car's rear-view mirror.

  one of them was my first christmas present from my sister.

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  forgetmenot

  What do you have hanging from your car's rear-view mirror?

  I have two stuffed pandas hanging from my car's rear-view mirror. One of them was my first Christmas present from my sister. The other is from my mom. He is sitting on a futon at a table, drinking ocha (tea) or sake (alchol): I don't know which one. I also have a paper clip with a really pretty necklace pendent on it. The pendent happens to be a Christmas present my sister got from her co-worker, but she didn't like it, so she gave it to me. I also have some parking passes.
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  Save Me!

  by forgetmenot in

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  i've heard alot of jehovah's witnesses say that the won't say that a catholic person isn't going to be saved.

  their resoning is that a catholic person could be in the paradise.

  ok if a catholic person can inherit the earth and a jw can inherit the earth, what the hell does it matter?

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  I've heard alot of Jehovah's Witnesses say that the won't say that a Catholic person isn't going to be saved. Their resoning is that a Catholic person could be in the paradise. OK if a Catholic person can inherit the earth and a JW can inherit the earth, WHAT THE HELL DOES IT MATTER?