i just had an interesting conversation, though frustrating, with a student about the subject of faith.
i have never heard a definition for faith that i could understand.
every conversation i have had on the subject has only fallen short of establishing what it is.
Shawn, what are your feelings positive or negative regarding the future?
Whatever your answer, since there is no way to know concretely, that would be faith.
Either way, you probably have no trouble believing there will be a future.
Just a small, admittedly simple, comparison.
i don't like cigarettes all that much (even though i actually tried to take up the habit, i found out i don't have an addictive personality - same reason why i'm not a coffee person either) but i do enjoy a nice cigar.
notice i said a nice cigar, not those nasty chemically-flavored things that taste like froot loops and smell like a crotch fire.
i'm talking about a nice cuban monte cristo or a real leaf-wrapped cigarillo.
Brent R, wildman and tobacco farmer.
i'm tired of being an apostate, atheist, agnostic, take your pick.
i was going to start calling myself a heretic, but then i decided to look up apostate in the thesaurus.
look at all the lovely words we have to choose from:.
Infidel covers any radical religion that happens to be at hand or in your face at any given moment.
due to the lack of brothers did you marry down??.
i've seen it time and time again really lovely sister marry total dork..
I've seen it time and time again really lovely sister marry total dork.
I have seen this too. I didn't want to say anything and possibly offend any fmr. bros. who may secretly fear they were dorky (of course you weren't!), or anyone who married a dork either, for that matter.
One time, a very lovely sister was getting married to a very nice brother (uhhh, ....)? How do you put this gently? Well, they appeared to not be equally matched looks-wise, so to speak. And frankly, he was..........fairly slight of build, a good strong wind could've blown him away.
So, the group of sisters threw the betrothed sister a lingerie party. She recv'd lots of good stuff. Considering the group, I was surprised to see some rather racey items and kept wondering if that brother was gonna know what hit him. He looked pretty lost most of the time to begin with.
........that everything that you have ever written and posted online is there for an eternity and will be accessible for your great grandchildren to read.
"hey mom, listen to what great-grandad said about our great forefather vishnu mohammed bush - he called him a colon hole".
be careful what you write.
"HS - Closes the door to the Ward and catches the No.10 llama to the sanity of back streets Marseille."
SOUND THE ALARM, ONE GOT OUT!
october 24 is united nations day, the anniversary of the enactment of the un charter on october 24, 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_nations_day .
in honor of the watchtower society's affiliation as an ngo with the united nations from 1991-2002, we of jwd want to say "happy united nations day" to ciro aulicino and all those faithful slaves of the wt society who worked so hard to make sure the watchtower could get up and ride the "image of the beast".
and what a ride it was!
Thanks Gopher and Snowbird. You could safely bet your last dollar or euro that there was more involved than access to a library.
...my book crisis of conscience was finally delivered!!!
i know it is not really a thread subject.
but i am just too excited!!!
That's good. I could only read a few pages at a time, then would have to stop b/c a flood of memories would return.
Hope you enjoy it Summer.
are you careful about what you say?
do you make sure that you won't offend anyone?
do you care??
Who decides what is "correct"? This is why the the USA (not USSA!) has the first amendment...
Examples Of Denying Freedom Of Speech
Evidence of this effect is amply demonstrated by the Soviets, who embraced Political Correctness with the Communist Revolution. The lumbering, pompous, impoverished, humourless monster this Nation became is now History. And it should be remembered that in 1914 Tsarist Russia was considered by Edmund Cars, a French economist who then published a book about the subject, to be an economic giant set to overshadow Europe. The SBS television program "What Ever Happened To Russia", which was broadcast at 8.30 pm on 25th August 1994, detailed the terrible effect the Bolshevik's oppression had on their empire. And SBS further detailed the terrible crimes inflicted upon the Russians by their leader Stalin, in the series "Blood On The Snow" broadcast in March 1999.
From "OurCivilization.pc.htm"
october 24 is united nations day, the anniversary of the enactment of the un charter on october 24, 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_nations_day .
in honor of the watchtower society's affiliation as an ngo with the united nations from 1991-2002, we of jwd want to say "happy united nations day" to ciro aulicino and all those faithful slaves of the wt society who worked so hard to make sure the watchtower could get up and ride the "image of the beast".
and what a ride it was!
I have had this question since first hearing of their (wts) affiliation with the UN (or NGO blah blah). Other than library priviledes what else was involved?
Seems like there would've had to be more in it for them to join bunch of dictators/money grubbers, and risk having it become public.
i recently saw my jw brother and sil and listened to them talk about poor sister sick(o) who has been diagnosed with major mental problems.
she went to the doctor's and the doctor supposedly began to berate her out of the blue because she is a jehovah's witness.
now the family wants to have the doctor formally rebuked for his so called "discriminatory comments".
I don’t think that I could handle the way that it encroaches on your life, takes over your life, challenges your free choice, even takes away your own desires to the point that when you do finally leave you don’t even know what you want to do with your life and riddles you with guilt.
I'd crack up laughing the first time some elder made some inappropriate 'inquiry', or someone said, "I didn't see you at the mtg/assembly" . Besides that, everything everyone else here said. The control wouldn't work at all.
