question for those who were raised as jws.....after you left, especially if as an adult, did you ever feel like you were "socially retarded"?
i was married twice to jws, yet when i was single again as an xjw, i really felt like i didn't know how to get to know someone of the opposite sex, how to date, what to do or not do, what to expect or not expect.
my ex-husband talked to me the other day and he stated the same thing.
Well yeah, but I think it has worked out for my benefit, I've gotten more of a clear head in the end, and being social doesn't exactly do that. But as far as dating and socializing in general, I've come to appreciate humor more, and chicks dig that - I mean uhh, it breaks the ice. Seriously though, people .. take themselves too seriously! It's like they're a poser for the TV show Blind Date or something.
"I'm we todd did, I'm so fun king we todd did.."
ever notice how the wts rarely ever makes a clear statement?
they tend to phrase things in the form of a question allowing the reader to infer the "correct" answer.. i wonder if this is to sidestep responsibility.. .
"as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible" - the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 .
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Who's the current drummer? I only listen to the "pre-poser" era Metallica, that being Master of Puppets and before..
now please bear with me on this.
i came across this information in a book.
i'm not trying to preach to anyone, but just wanted to share with you all what i learned (and some that i already knew).
That's an interesting quote. Gives some good points. Who was it?
That was from the movie Spinal Tap. In the movie, the band has amps made with volume that goes up to 11 instead of 10. Their rationale was that when they need a little extra, they crank it up to 11. When asked why they don't just make the 10 louder, they pause for a minute and simply says: "Ours goes to 11." I thought that resembled how witnesses responds to challenges at times.
But, you're probably asking about the other quote.
now please bear with me on this.
i came across this information in a book.
i'm not trying to preach to anyone, but just wanted to share with you all what i learned (and some that i already knew).
Yep. Funny enough, I actually thought of this when I was still a witness with the whole energy is matter stuff, though I didn't know much else. But yes I've come to the same conclusion, people tend to stick to their ideas about God more than God, it's about faith in what you think (your *beliefs* etc) rather than faith in God. A person that has no theology can have more faith in God than someone with elaborate ideas of what they think God is.
I think there's a more fundamental principle involved here, which is that people tend to focus on and stick to certain things to the exclusion of others. (which can be totally fictional and exist only in their mind) Now that's fine, in practical everyday life you have to be selective with your attention. But frankly it's just a matter of being narrow minded, if you don't consider new ideas as is the case with most JWs pretty soon your ability to think starts to collapse too. How many of us have seen how JWs just shut down when they can't answer what is basically a simple, logical question?
"Ours goes to 11."
the wts does not equate obesity with smoking.
here is the link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020312/hl_nm/obesity_smoking_1.
obesity harder on health than smoking .
I think there's a common denominator at work here. Whether we're talking about an excess of food, tobacco or whatever, it seems to me it's all a matter of conditioned response. Yes all other things being equal it may not be just a behavioral issue for some people, but considering the fact that the WTS basically conditions people to behave a certain way I think it's very significant. Instead of having a certain amount of awareness of your own behavior, if you tend to cruise on programming of some sort things are likely to get out of control.
if you ask a jw why does god allow suffering, more than likely you'll get the response that god has allowed satan and mankind to follow their own course to prove that only god has the right to govern over man.
for a long time i accepted that answer as being correct and i never even took the time to really think about what that meant.
now however when i reason on that logic i realize that it does'nt make sense.
Is it me, or does the folks on this board only think of the Judeo-Christian tradition (or Islam) when they talk about religion?
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/insane.html .
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You need to have sound..
am i the only one bothered by the way the jw's refer to the memorial as a celebration of the death of jesus?.
i understand that jesus said to keep the tradition of the last meal, but should it be referred to as a celebration?
this should be a solemn occasion and not one we would look forward to celebrating.
This reminds me of something from a Buddhist funnies site:
This morning, I received one of those rude mails. The person wrote me this one-line mail:The site is at:"budda is dead you moron move on with your life"
And I replied:
You are alive, friend, move on with Buddha's death.
- Tan Chade Meng
the compassionate toliet thread brought this frightening memory to mind.... the field service assignments!.
did you all have the same feeling of dread of being stuck with a particular person.. knowing that you would have to listen to their dribble throughout the day.. or listening to that poor sister's sinus condition where she would make that, for lack of a better way to describe it, hock-a-luegy sound with her nasal passages every 10 minutes.
then lets not forget the positive side.. how you wished with glee, and finally got to work with the car group that would goof off half of the day and the other day go to not-at-homes that would definitely still be not-at-homes.. *************************************.
When I heard the joke about the scripture describing pioneering in a VW bug:
"We are pressed in every way, but not cramped beyond movement. We are perplexed, but not absolutely with no way out." -2 Cor 4:8
