Having a belief system doesn't necessarily make a person nice. I know non-religious people who are more compassionate and caring than some religious fanatics. Genuine love comes from within.
Maddie
Posts by Maddie
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24Does your belief system make you nicer
by Satanus inor, does your nature help determine the belief system that you choose?
if you lose your belief system, do you become worse, better, stay the same, happier, sadder?
is it better to have a system imposed on you in order to control you, or is it better to be yourself?
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Have you come to grips with your mortality? Do Jw's ever?
by AK - Jeff inin post-jw life, it seems to me that acceptance of this basic fact of life, the reality that we will die, is a healthy thing to do.
yet, i believe that most jw's cling to a hope that armageddon will spare them death, even when they see death at the doors.
they have never prepared themselves for the reality, and when it becomes inevitable, the pain of that realization must be intense for some of them.
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Maddie
Most people have trouble in accepting death as the end of existence, so have various beliefs about an after-life. I know that I'm going to die so I accept my mortality, but I also have faith in the resurrection so does that mean I haven't accepted my mortality? Not sure I can answer that!
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I am trying to understand my cat
by Fisherman inlike i said on a previous thread, this is my first cat.
this cat always follows me around and demands to be petted all of the time.
he wants to be carried all of the time.
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Maddie
He sounds like a normal cat to be as the things you describe are all cat traits. I have two cats and they have very different personalities. They are both affectionate but one is more independent and spends time on her own. The other one likes to be round me much more and tends to follow me about the house. Have you got any cat toys for your cat to play with cos that might help?
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Is the world really getting worse?
by Wordly Andre ini don't have to tell you how jw's use the line about how the world is just getting worse and it's a sign that we are in the end times.
what is your thought on the world?
is it really getting worse, or does every generation say that?
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Maddie
I just don't think the good ole days were really that great, we are living better, living longer, no world wars, not saying it is perfect but drop anyone of us back 100 years ago and see if we could survive a week
It is true that every generation (the elderly) tend to look back to the "good old days" and see the present society as having degenerated. I think that in many areas such as technology and medicine there is huge advancement. In other ways I think the world has got worse because of the starvation in Africa and the AIDS epidemic there.
Maddie
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What if You Could See 10 Years Into The Future?
by new boy inisn't life crazy?
i just spent 30 days selling christmas trees.
i set there in the rain and cold playing christmas music helping people buy their tree...blessing each and every person who did.... i looked up into the sky and wondered where i will be 10 years from now.
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Maddie
No I wouldn't want to see 10 years into the future. I might not like what I see and then I've got to live with it. Not a good way of going on to my way of thinking.
Maddie
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Interesting article about religion
by Lo-ru-hamah inhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/reltrue.htm .
happened across this article and thought it was really neat.
sheri.
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Maddie
Thank you for the article, I enjoyed reading it. I agree that it is very doubtful, if not impossible, that any church has the absolute truth. I for one am certainly not looking for the "true church" anymore.
Maddie
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I'm back... and OFF of Paxil. But memory loss??
by Confucious inhey friends.... been a long time since i've posted.. some of you will remember me.. i still troll in from time to time.. one interesting thing, i'm finally off of paxil now.
my depression was real bad after a bad experience at the borg.
i was on about 40mg for about 5 years - which is a significante dossage.. about a year ago, i started weaing off and six months ago i went completely off of it.. i feel good and very refreshed.
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Maddie
I don't know whether Paxil could cause memory loss, only that my husband has been taking it for 10 years and hasn't experienced it. The mind does sometimes block things off that are traumatic to us, and depression can cause poor memory.
Just my thoughts but when we are believing JW's we are under mind control and have a cult personality. Its like being in the twilight zone or on a different planet apart from the rest of the human race.Perhaps the reason is that when our minds are freed from control we forget periods of time that the cult (false) personality was most dominant.
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I went to the doctor today and was told I'm going to hell!!!!!!!!!!
by changeling ini went to my gp today.
i go there quite often since he's also my parent's doctor and i bring them to all their appointments.. i take my dad there at least once a month for blood work since he is on blood thinners, so i'm very familiar with the lady who draws blood.. today i had to have blood drawn myself, and the lady inquired about my parents.
she asked if they had had a nice christmas.
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Maddie
God gives us every chance we need to accept him, if we don't, there has to be a pit!"
This isn't my idea of a loving God either and very sad that many people live under the fear of eternal damnation in hell.
Maddie
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What Is The Jehovah's Witness Religion To You?
by minimus into me, the witness religion is either a hardcore group of watchtower dogma believing "kool-aid" drinkers or a group of non-believing, mentally and spiritually lazy zombies who value their friendships and family over principle.. there are those in the middle who i believe are too fragile to even want to think about reality..
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Maddie
The JW religion itself is without doubt a cult. Most JW's are under mind control and believe they have the "Truth". The JW's that have doubts and those that know it is a deception stay in for various reasons. These reasons can be a) not knowing where else to go b) family are JW's so not wanting to lose them c) social life and work revolve around being a JW d) Having devoted life for many years to being a JW, cognitive dissonance overcomes any knowledge that it isn't the "Truth".
There are probably many reasons but these are the main ones IMO.
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Four years late. Just watched Passions of the Christ. I have a question
by shopaholic inas you know this movie was banned for jws.
any faithful witness would not watched a non-jw bible movie (even though they do it all the time but that's a different subject.
) i watched it this pass week over a couple of days.
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Maddie
I believe there were some accusations about Mel Gibson being anti-semetic, of which he denied. I too thought the film was extremely violent and found it disturbing,but that doesn't mean it wasn't a fair portrayal of what happened. I remember one Memorial talk I attended many years ago and the elder went into quite a graphic description about the brutality of the Romans.. Apparently quite a few of those sentenced to crucifiction died beforehand because of the the beatings, and birds did pluck at the eyes of those that were being crucified.
I agree with other posters that the WT make such an issue out of "the cross versus the stake", as a way of separating their members from everyone else again (cult control).
Maddie