Terry, suppose that what's handed down in the Bible is just revisionist history written in the style of magical realism.
Why would I use it to reason out anything?
have you ever gone shopping in a department store for shoes or clothes?.
do you just walk over to the rack or shelf and select what you want without trying anything on to see if it fits?.
no.. what good would that do?
Terry, suppose that what's handed down in the Bible is just revisionist history written in the style of magical realism.
Why would I use it to reason out anything?
sadly another rock star has fallen, sadly missed r.i.p jon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18864409.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4GFxRDZFek
If you have two hours and you really want to see a time when there were real musicians....
it's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant jws really are.. .
you finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the borg one way or another.. .
this said after almost four years..
It's clear we're all different, but as a person who was a pioneer for 15 years, a servant for ten and an elder for 16 years who started out as Catholic, then atheist, then JW, then agnostic-JW, then agnostic-I-think-I'll never-know, I feel I've moved past the squabble of JW's recognizing this one to be personal, but then again just another in an endless series of squabbles that different people according to the experience, experience.
BTW the reason anyone continues visiting or revisiting a web site is a function of how much of themselves they've poured into the site. I suspect a bit of loss avoidance, rather than gain.
With this site, for me on further reflection at 3:14 am, it has to do with the unique experiences we as JW's had that are simply not relatable to anyone who's not had a similar experience.
i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.
legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!
my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.
Let's see....My "apostate videos" have been up for years now.
No problem.
it's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant jws really are.. .
you finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the borg one way or another.. .
this said after almost four years..
Curiosity. You don't have to care if you watch a commercial. The investment involved in perusing a web site is trivial.
it's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant jws really are.. .
you finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the borg one way or another.. .
this said after almost four years..
It's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant JWs really are.
You finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the Borg one way or another.
This said after almost four years.
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This book isn't really directly applicable to the cult experience, but it is informative because everyone is affected by the observations.
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It was Daniel Kahneman. I'm about half-way through the book right now and the archetypes of System I and System II are developed to ease the reader into appreciating more complex psychological processes. What I'm getting out of all this is that expertise which is not tied in to direct causal relationships has attenuated value as the distance increases. At a certain distance, it becomes worthless. For example, the business of stock picking is predicated to be an expert business, however the systems themselves are so far removed from cause-effect relationships in time that the expert fares no better than chance. What was really, really interesting is how the experts themselves become inured to appreciating the uselessness of their expertise in certain situations even WHEN it is all explained very carefully to them.
the blood issue is not a medical issue.. if blood transfusions were 100% guaranteed to be safe, jw's would still refuse them.. it is all about their interpretation of certain scriptures concerning blood.. you can make every reference known to medicine in mankinds history, and it doesn't make a bit of a difference.. it is a religious issue.. nightowl.
It's not a scriptural issue.
If it were, there'd be a scriptural explanation regarding why some fractions are acceptable, while others get you disfellowshipped.
jumping [back] in... for a sec.... greetings to you all, the household of god, israel... those who go with... and all others here!
the greatest of love and peace to you all!.
i'm just sticking my head in to say (because several have asked and it's not fair of me to make them have to answer for me, so):.
You, aguest are without any doubt, mentally ill.