i was leafing through a diet and exercisie magazine my wife subscribes to and noticed (not for the first time) that the female fitness models don't look like women at all.
--they look like anorexic teenaged boys with long hair.. skinny to the point of emaciation is not fit.
i would be willing to bet that not one of these models could even run a 10k.
People come in all sizes. Look hard enough long enough, and by damn, someone is bound to find you sexy.
My husband would go apeshit over that big gal in the black and white lingerie...that's his idea of hot stuff. He drools over Just My Size lingerie catalogs.
I've never been thin...I'd like to be a bit smaller than I am now, but I'm happy being a willing victim of chubby chasing.
Laughing at farts was one of the best things about meetings...it's so naughty to fart in public. It's Satan that makes us fart at the meetings, thereby polluting the spiritual atmosphere!
The funniest farting story I have wasn't about an actual fart... I remember there was an elder giving a talk about the evils of the holidays out of one of those school brochures, and he meant to read, "The Pilgrims started to feast" out of it, but it came out, "The Pilgrims farted to cease".
One of the funniest Malapropisms I've ever heard. The whole congo was just rolling with laughter, the first one to give out a loud "guffaw" after an initial embarrassed silent moment of "OMG, did he say that?" was the Presiding Overseer at the time.
I think the meeting just pretty much went to hell after that...small congo, only about 30 people were there.
i'm trying to fade away, but i sometimes find myself in discussions or arguments with jw family/friends/white haired virgin elders.
now, i usually have them beat on things but i'm not very experienced, so i was thinking if you guys could help me put together a list of completely unanswerable questions to pose to my jw friends/family/elders so they can stop bugging me.
if i keep asking them questions they simply cannot answer, then they might leave them alone.
I'm sure that Abraham was overjoyed at the thought of killing his only remaining heir, that meant nothing to people in those times. *eye roll*
Oh, man, I think we're safe in assuming that Isaac meant something to Abraham or it wouldn't have been a "sacrifice". It's inherent in the word sacrifice that it means giving something of value!
The whole point of the Abraham Isaac thing is that it wasn't the sacrifice that God wanted, he wanted to be listened to in the sense of listening and obeying. It was always about listening to God.
I mean, he only had to tell the Jews that a thousand times in a thousand different ways before they never got it!
The whole meaning of sacrifice for sin was to show that it was rather pointless as to actually fixing anything about being just a dumb old human being. The giving up of something of value only meant anything to humans, God is a divine being on a non material plane, what does he need with a dead sheep?
what a load of crap this stupid belief was.
i'll give you a couple of examples.
i was the sign language interpreter for our congregation and there was about 15-20 deaf who regularly showed up.
Oh, I think the elders always had their eye on me as one of them there female rebels.
Nice to just be a ball buster like God meant me to be now...(just kidding...I do like men a lot...when they behave!)
after reading this internet link below about the profoundly shocking, sadening and traumatic account of mary aguilar, an ex-jw woman's systematic treatment and abuse, what do you think regarding the action her jw abusive husband, the congregational elders, and finally, the wts attitude when she finally reported the accident to them?
is there any related experienes that you might have come across?.
http://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/blogs/view/306.
If you're a Witness, you cannot just walk away from marriage without some congregational consequence. They don't allow it because they monitor your marriage and your sexual behavior constantly.
No matter how abusive it is, if you walk away, you will constantly be scrutinized as a potential adulterer. Witnesses cannot accept that they have almost as high of a divorce rate as "the world" and will do anything not to "bring reproach upon Jehovah and the congregation" translated as, "Cover this up, it's making us look bad and Jehovah and the elders don't like it when we look bad."
That mentality permeates the Witness universe because they have to give the appearance that all is wonderful in the touted spiritual paradise of Witness land. It's a terrible pressure I've seen a good many Witnesses burn out or crack entirely over.
Its the same bullshit mentality that causes them to cover up pedophile elders, domestic abuse, alcoholism and depression and god knows what else.
some atheists like to use the analogy of religion being like a "crutch.".
dr. david eller suggests, below, that this is a poor analogy.
in my own, limited experience, his words ring true.
I hate that illustration of a crutch. Psychologically speaking, no one does better without support of some sort. To label that weak or like using a crutch is rather arrogant. It's assuming that you don't have any weaknesses and have no need for any sort of support system.
i've noticed that when something bad happens, the religious right tends to have a knee jerk reaction of saying that god is punishing a certain group because that group did something that god doesn't like.. .
on april 15th (tax day), all of the tea party people got together and had rallies in a lot of the major cities.. on april 17th & 18th, the days that the nascar was supposed to happen, it rained... and rained... and rained... and the races had to be canceled.. .
now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to conclude that a disproportionately large number of nascar fans are affiliated with the tea party movement.
I have yet to find one Tea Party supporter who has a sense of humor about anything political.
Reason 979 not to become a Republican. *sigh*
Hey, my husband likes Nascar and he's a Democrat and has a 137 IQ. How dare you slur NASCAR like that!
i was just wondering about the jw concept of lifeforce v. spirit.. now i'm a big fan of stargate sg-1/atlantis and, to a lesser degree, star trek.
and the question i always had about the whole dematerialization and rematerialization process used in wormhole travel and beaming and such is this: if i understand it correctly, ever time you dematerialize, you're effectively killed, or cease to exist.
the version of "you" that steps onto the transporter or jumps into the wormhole gets completely zapped and the one that reappears on the other side is simply a perfect copy, with all the memories, feelings and so forth.
Oh, I've had Witnesses tell me that my "obsession" with Science fiction was unChristian and that my Star Trek novels were demonizing me. LOL
And, I've known Witnesses far more obsessed with Star Trek than I ever was, so I guess it's one of those things. But, yes, I've read WTS literature warning about the "supernatural" or demonic connotations in some Scifi, like paranormal abilities and such or it encouraging Witnesses to put their hope in science saving the world.
i'm trying to fade away, but i sometimes find myself in discussions or arguments with jw family/friends/white haired virgin elders.
now, i usually have them beat on things but i'm not very experienced, so i was thinking if you guys could help me put together a list of completely unanswerable questions to pose to my jw friends/family/elders so they can stop bugging me.
if i keep asking them questions they simply cannot answer, then they might leave them alone.
Well, fortunately Christians aren't asked to even pretend to bind up their children and offer them on an altar to God.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
Can we talk about the power of a metaphor for Messianic sacrifice here? Nah, I thought not.
Not everything in the Bible has to be literal for it to have powerful meaning.
after reading this internet link below about the profoundly shocking, sadening and traumatic account of mary aguilar, an ex-jw woman's systematic treatment and abuse, what do you think regarding the action her jw abusive husband, the congregational elders, and finally, the wts attitude when she finally reported the accident to them?
is there any related experienes that you might have come across?.
http://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/blogs/view/306.
There's a reason that there are safe houses where battered women can go to get away from an abuser. If they just gave up and let you go with no retaliation, well...who'd need those?
When you hear, "If you leave, I'll hunt you down and kill you" constantly, why wouldn't you believe it if you know the person is capable of violence?
