do atheists celebrate christmas, the celebration of christ's birth?.
if so, why?.
Christmas, like life, is what you make of it.
Fundy activists piss and moan that the rest of the world is ignoring their "special day" and not giving Christ his just props.
The rest of the world just enjoys what Christmas has come to mean for family and good tidings.
jw's reject christmas because of its pagan origins.
it's not what it meant to people in the distant past that matters but what it means to us living today.
does anyone today visit a person's house see a christmas tree and think oooh he must be a pagan.
No examples of anniversary celebrations in the Bible.
Witnesses ignore pagan aspects of typical wedding ceremonies.
Early witnesses (Bible Students) celebrated both Christmas and birthdays.
I think someone just didn't want to decorate a tree on year...
so i have been looking for a cd for honey bunny, and no one in town has it.
we don't have a music store, and i didn't feel like driving too far.
so i stopped in at wal-mart.
The important thing is to show your repentence...
i know some people who swear by it.
and i know that according to the jw's its meant to be one of the ultimate wicked things to do but now that i've debunked most of what they taught me i''m starting to wonder.. .
so does anyone have experiance with this?
No worries about hypnotherapy.
Hubbard scares me more than Xeno.
Female brains develop with certain areas left intact - particularly communication centers.
Male brains get a does of testosterone in utero that plays havoc with orderly brain development. (look it up)
We do get socialized differently after birth and tend to understand our own gender in general a little better than the opposite - but women tend towards much better, predictable, herding social interaction than men.
To the OP: *everyone* is hard to understand, sometimes. But in general I find women much easier to anticipate and get along with. Men tend to be wrapped up in their own world, their own agenda, running in a pack of one.
my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.
this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .
It's not like "elders' kids" ever had the same rules as the R/F.
I used to want to kill to carry a microphone. Otherwise I'd have nothing else to do but pay actual attention.
from the 21st century king james version (biblegateway).
2in my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, i would have told you.
i go to prepare a place for you.. for some reason this verse keeps coming into my mind.
Universal reconciliation...?
i know what the witness response is to this but what do you say now?.
The second-to-the-last refuge of someone against the ropes: "It all makes sense, it's just we can't understand it."
The last refuge of someone against the ropes: "You're a poopy-head!"
been out 13 years and even for research purposes, i find it way too painful to read this wt stuff.. and why?.
all the painful memories it brings back.
don't misread me, it has nothing to do with a guilty conscience.. it has to do with the real pain, the anger of being ripped off and lied too by the wts, the anger of seing how they have protected child molesters, sacrificed its followers by refusing blood transfusions, the treacherous way we and others were treated by the 'unloving brothers'.
I'm with Emma: Not painful but nauseating. Literally.
I started getting these feelings as a teenager, that some idiot could be so intentionally blind to write this stuff with a clear conscience.
The last commendable work put out by the WTS was the Aid book (and now, knowing Ray F did a lot of work on it, I understand why).
what are the ones that sound like fingernails on the blackboard, the ones that make you want to pull the gun out from under the seat and shoot the radio in your car?.
a few of mine:.
spirit in the sky.
AwSnap, you have totally harshed my buzz...!
How I love female vocalists, and hate "girly" singers (of either gender):
James Blunt - more like a knife wound deep into the liver than fingernails on chalkboard.
Whoever sings "Halo" (I sing along with that, "I can see your A-hole..."), which my SO has burned onto CD and therefore into my very soul (and not in a good way).
"Umbrella" - oh God, another repeated syllable ad nauseum tune. No matter who does it.
"Toxic" - is that Britney Spears? At least I can understand artistically where the other tunes want to go (I just despise that place) - but this one...WTF?
I'd have a longer list, but my car radio is tuned to NPR so I only hear any of it when I'm in someone else's car.
I actually love some of the songs nominated for eternal burning on this thread, but I'll enjoy them in the privacy of my own head out of respect for youse all.
