my good lil jw wife received the following heartwarming e mail.
gag!....
experience: told by instructor in recent mts class graduation .
Wow what a story Isn't that great. What a mirricle.
Pity about all thouse starving africans and all those wars and stuff. And molested kids and horible car and train smashes and all. But isnt it great these people are getting the good news. That must realy be evidence of Gods blessing. I think I will personaly thank him when I get to heaven.
religion is superstition evolved.. that was an original thought (i think).
Religion is superstition evolved.
That was an original thought (I think).
my dad asked the co about this one.
mat 27:52-53. and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, .
and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
I suppose you know that Israel is waterd by a heavy Jew.
Please describe how Jesus came to be anointed by a dove
it is generally acknowledged, and confirmed by experience, that there is a significant gender imbalance in the organisation.. there are considerably more sisters than there are brothers.
that's great for the brothers, because a lot of the poor jw lasses get so desperate that even the most dorky of brothers can take his pick.. but why is there this imbalance?.
it's true that birth rates show slightly more females being born than males (mother nature's way of safeguarding the future?
We seem to have lost the thread a little. If I may relate an observation
During a service meeting recently the brother giving the talk asked all to raise there hands if they had personally experienced a miracle that had helped them get out on field service. It was interesting to note that 80% of those that raised their hands were “sisters”. That tells me that women have a more active imagination.
Ozziepost. I think the judicial process is a symptom rather than a cause
JanH.
Men usually come into sects through secondary conversion (that is, dragged in by their wives).
Those who build airplanes based on scientific ideas are actually able to make them fly. Those who use new age ideas about shakras and vibrations or higher dimensions or whatever you call it this week, they don't fly, except in their own heads.
Refer to my thread about the BS vacuum
why do so many substitute one type of bs for another.
as if there is a bullshit vacuum in the universe or something.
im referring to those that leave the jws and join or start something even more wacky.
JanH.
But we found that it would be dishonest to use critical analysis of JWdom and then refuse to expose our new beliefs to the same scrutiny. We discovered that Christianity at large is just an older, bigger version of the sham we had left.
So true one thing Jwdom has done is be critical of Religion. Too bad they didn’t pass their own criticisms
Francoise. How about a few quotes or a summary from that book you mentioned. It sounds interesting but I don’t get the time or have the money to read every book that’s recommended.
Battman
As for myself, maybe as for others, it wasn't
until a crisis came into my life that I realized that the
WT answer just could not be true
Same with me without the crises more a string of failures that made me realise that it just wasn’t working the way it was supposed to.
why do so many substitute one type of bs for another.
as if there is a bullshit vacuum in the universe or something.
im referring to those that leave the jws and join or start something even more wacky.
My point is that is you view this life as maybe all there is, you are more inclined to value it and use it to the best you can, since there is no "paradise" or "heaven" where you have forever.
So John Lennon was right all along. He must have been a prophet. Lets start a Dear John religion.
this happened out in door to door sales with me and another jw one morning.
we were in a run down neighborhood when we approached the door of a ramshackle house.
as we stepped up to the front door, i could smell a strong odor of garbage and urine.
TR
It was too hard
why do so many substitute one type of bs for another.
as if there is a bullshit vacuum in the universe or something.
im referring to those that leave the jws and join or start something even more wacky.
Had Enough: Yes you have some valid points. What is the spiritual void though? Perhaps it’s the right side of out brain looking for answers to the questions our left side raises. Questions that we don’t like the logical answers to. Personally I like to face the facts and not make up answers or seek answers that suit me better than that that is plainly evident. However I’m not trying to kick the crutches out from under anyone. Rather I’d like to see people be able to stand on there own two feet. And as COMF implied get of the magic roundabout.
Jimmy James: “As if atheism/agnosticism can only be the result of emotional trauma.”
“They now value evidence more than emotions.“
Good Points.
Out n Free: “all needs to be reexamined without lifelong prejudices” Agreed and we also have 2000 years of prejudices and peer pressure.
Comf: “Unconditional love. Christians talk about it... agnostics live it.” Bravo If we do have love its because we want to not because we are told to. (and if it doesn’t come from within its displayed it in a phoney way)
why do so many substitute one type of bs for another.
as if there is a bullshit vacuum in the universe or something.
im referring to those that leave the jws and join or start something even more wacky.
It’s the extremes I refer to. Or should I say much of the same with a twist.
