i don't know about you, but i can't stand it anymore.
is there no privacy for anyone?
is there no limit to the comments about divorce, affairs, death, wives, children, their homes, money earned, money squandred.
Cult of celebrity: it's some people's religion. I think we idolize our celebrities like some ancient cultures worshipped their very human but more than human gods.
It occurs to me that people feel that if they imitate a celebrity, they might have the same success.
he was abused by my dad really bad... i'm talking a broken nose, black eyes, black and blues all the time... my dad was a po for years and was one during the whole time he was abusing us.
of course, he was the worst with my brother.
my brother has always denied it and said it wasn't as bad as it was.
I have PTSD. The flashbacks he's having that are triggered by being around his abuser are typical of PTSD. It's often induced by ongoing abuse.
He needs to deal with this or he could really get in a bad way, even suicidal.
I think the best thing is just to let people come to these realizations themselves, that disillusionment is like a wake up call, as painful as it may be.
Just let him vent and nod a lot. Validate his pain, (and yours) that's the best thing you can do for someone in his situation. It was the elephant in the room that no one talked about, which is typical, but it has to come out one way or another.
someone else posted on another forum they heard on the radio michael jackson is dead.
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Poor guy. Same age as my husband. He's been in ill health for a while. What a terribly troubled soul.
i would like to speak with a jw or anyone here who believes in god, and i would like in fact i dare you to find a reason why humans shouldnt use cannabis.
<--(marijuana) actually i will give you one and it is the only one that i have found.
the only reason i found is because in most places it is illegal and god says to respect there laws but anything besides this i believe is bs so again i dare u to give me a reason besides what i stated..
It has some legitimate medical uses, but until the government and pharmaceutical companies can make a pile of money off it, they won't make it legal for those uses on a widespread basis.
Most of these questions that people believe are about morality or safety issues where the government is concerned are actually money issues. If it was purely about our health and safety, they would have outlawed growing tobacco a long time ago.
It's far more dangerous than marijuana and nicotine is considerably more addictive than many other drugs.
it's not as if i have questions that need resolving.
i know things would likely have been better if jehovah had been listened to.
i am also ready and willing to do what he wants me to do, however exactly what that is isn't so clear.. if we're just pawns and the world is just a chess game between jehovah and satan, then i'm not sure i can wrap my mind around the length of the match and the things that have happened during this time period.. surely we wouldn't consider it morally upright to use humans in this way to prove a point to satan and the angels?.
Well, if you think of it as being "pawns" in a big universal chess game between good and evil, of course you're' going to feel used.
Aren't there better reasons for choosing to do what's good for yourself and your fellow man?
I believe in God, but I don't see that as being "used" to prove anything. I just think when we choose to benefit others rather than harm, we also benefit ourselves. If that's advice from God or something he put in us, it's a good thing!
Nothing that tricky about it.
I mean, if you're going to be using someone to prove God is right, humans are a poor choice. We screw everything up. I think Christianity works opposite to that. We surrender ourselves and admit we're sinners...we can't be perfect in any way, and it's just easier that way. It relieves us of the burden of having to be anything but ourselves, a bunch of screw ups. You do your best, and let God take care of the rest.
Only religions of works make people feel they can do anything for God. That's not God you're working for...it's another person. He doesn't demand that we do anything but what we're motivated to do out of love for him. Very simple, although not always easy. It's very hard for most people to surrender to the idea that they can't handle or fix everything wrong with themselves and with the world.
what sort of entity requires the blood sacfrice of millions of animals and his own son to satiate his sense of justice.. .
The only reason we have rituals is because they mean something to us. I don't want to force belief in God on anyone, but I tend to think God does these things for our sake, not his.
He doesn't need any of it, but we do. We're the ones that need rituals and symbols of sacrifice.
The animals...they're going to die and give their bodies to nourish either other animals or the ground, eventually. The sacrifice of Christ was the sacrifice of God himself in our behalf. That has a powerful and meaningful symbolism for humans who believe in it.
Nothing religious or spiritual means an awful lot in the literal sense. It's just words and rituals acted out. It's the belief that the actions and words evoke that is powerful.
i have come to understand that people who are jehovahs witnesses are for the most part, good and honest people.
just like people in other religions or for that matter, people who dont practice any religion.
and, like those other people, they also have their minority of people who are selfish, deceptive and not very nice.
That's a very well written dissection of "what went very very wrong with Jehovah's Witnesses". I wish I'd written it! Even more so, I wish more of the rank and file would read something like this and believe it.
I prefer not to judge anyone as having evil intent, but it sure has turned into something amazingly harmful to those involved.
There are times when I wish it was all "good" and I believed it all again, just because in some small ways, life was so much easier when I was so certain everything was going to happen in a certain way, and I thought the Witnesses had it all figured out, and the New System of Things would just whisk away all my problems someday. Click your heels together three times, Dorothy and you can go home...Take the blue pill Nemo, and all will be as it was.
"Remember, all I'm offering you is the truth, and nothing more."
What is seen cannot be unseen, what is known cannot be unknown.
I took the red pill. The symbolism of that movie gets to me every time I watch it. Once or twice a week for a few seconds, I wish I'd taken the blue pill. But, mostly not. I'm hoping that urge will fade more and more as time goes on.
it might be an unpopular question.
but, does anyone here still believe in the end of the world through the hand of god?.
call it amageddon or whatever.. .
Not the "end of the world". I would hope maybe the end of some of the nastier stuff going on in the world like war will happen eventually.
i have read over and over that the false prophecies of the wts are really not false prophecies.
they where just folks who were over eager and were keeping oil in their lamps and so forth.
it occured to me today to wonder "eager for what?
To be honest, the "paradise" sounded best to me when I went through a terrible period of post partum depression and wanted to commit suicide.
I really thought at my worst point that if I killed myself and my children, we'd all wake up together in a perfect world.
I had people watching me really closely then so I didn't harm myself or my children. Mostly myself, though.
it's the 21st century mate!
there is no evidence for demons and ghosts!
people saying ouija boards really work because: "this one time...at band camp...." crap i say!
I'm open minded about most things, but I try hard not to be overly superstitious. I think it's normal to be a little that way, though. There's probably some really mundane explanation for most of the things we find "supernatural".
I have to say I believe in God, though. It's a stubborn thing that I can't seem to rid mysel of.
