i am not mocking a thread with the same words in the title.
i liked that thread question and am imitating it.. anyway, some people on jwn have decided that words have absolute definitions and others recognize common usage.. some have decided that everyone must have "beliefs" that go beyond "i don't know.
" others feel that it is okay to not know.. some feel that beliefs fall into generalities such as "atheists believe in evolution and the big bang" or "believers in the [god of the] bible believe in the literal history of the bible.
but in the end everyone ends up in the corner they came out of and no one is awarded the champions belt.
Except for that time a poster revealed a pro-JW troll for having a demonic sexy witch picture for an avatar. That poster RULED and the troll was OWNED!!!
occassionally the mr will say that "some visitors are shocked because we will talk about sex, even with children in attendance.
" what exactly are they talking about in these meetings.
things like "don't masturbate" or things like if you position yourself like this, and your woman like this while having sex, then you're fornicating?.
Strangely, though, I have never heard of a discussion of child sexual abuse - which actually IS a real problem in their organization.
i have been watching glenn beck for over a year and i like him...he says what most americans are thinking and feeling.
there is no doubt he has a love for our creator.
btw i was a jw for 10 years and left that religion for good...i have no desire to belong to another religion but i do consider myself a christian.. just wanted to know what your opinion is of glenn beck.
Sylvia sounds jealous that Beck took down her fantasy boyfriend - Van Jones.
i have been watching glenn beck for over a year and i like him...he says what most americans are thinking and feeling.
there is no doubt he has a love for our creator.
btw i was a jw for 10 years and left that religion for good...i have no desire to belong to another religion but i do consider myself a christian.. just wanted to know what your opinion is of glenn beck.
miseryloveselders somehow sounds jealous that Beck pulled a MUCH larger crowd than Sharpton.
pondering over this dilemma:.
lets just say, for arguments sake, the report in genesis about the first humans is not an allegory, but a true event:.
watchtower teaches, that adam sinned, because he used his free will to disobey.. god grants free will to his human creation, because he wants them to serve him out of love.. ok, good, but i give an example: i meet a girl, tell her, she is free to love me, but if not, i kill her.. would you call this free will ?.
I just almost mentioned on my post above that Terry made a long, long, thread several weeks ago on free will.
As I recall - Terry does not believe in free will.
i have been watching glenn beck for over a year and i like him...he says what most americans are thinking and feeling.
there is no doubt he has a love for our creator.
btw i was a jw for 10 years and left that religion for good...i have no desire to belong to another religion but i do consider myself a christian.. just wanted to know what your opinion is of glenn beck.
sonwbird...why so nasty and ugly?
It is all kind of an insiders joke, Ri - Snowbird hardly ever posts anything political here, except to point out racial imbalance issues. She is also really one of the nicest people here.
So tell me JWoods.... you lean conservative, though not rabid right... do you like Glenn Beck? Do you see him as a good thing for America?
I kind of like him as far as politics. Remember, he was up front in taking down ACORN and Van Jones. I think he has taken himself way too seriously lately on the religious "get back to God" issues. I have to say that having known a few - I feel about the same things toward Mormons as I do toward JWs - that they are at the roots an opressive religious cult. I think that Glenn Beck is getting dangerously close to proving that to everyone. In all - I think Beck is really just an entertainment-media figure; sort of like a modern day new age Will Rogers.
my opinion is that atheism is not a belief.
it is a belief in no belief..
I think the current "epidemic" is partly epiphenomenal because there were many in earlier generations who never were labelled.
I think the current "epidemic" may have occurred because there are now expensive drugs to sell in order treat it.
BTW - you are right - this thread is certainly not about the meaning of the word Atheism any more and so this is not hijacking it.
i have been watching glenn beck for over a year and i like him...he says what most americans are thinking and feeling.
there is no doubt he has a love for our creator.
btw i was a jw for 10 years and left that religion for good...i have no desire to belong to another religion but i do consider myself a christian.. just wanted to know what your opinion is of glenn beck.
And Snowbird is one of the nice ones, Ri -
just for shits n giggles.... remember when the wandering in the desert israelites finally pissed off god enough that he declared that they would not get to enter the land of milk and honey?.
notice how it's worded in deutoronomy 1:34,35:.
all the while jehovah heard the voice of your words.
So I guess the JW would think Freddy Franz, Rutherford, and Russell were the collectively overlapped Moses generation in this sense?
Yes, that was stupid too - and I got the idea from the same place.
i have been watching glenn beck for over a year and i like him...he says what most americans are thinking and feeling.
there is no doubt he has a love for our creator.
btw i was a jw for 10 years and left that religion for good...i have no desire to belong to another religion but i do consider myself a christian.. just wanted to know what your opinion is of glenn beck.
there are a lot of people on the board that have VERY strong feelings about him.
We may even be to the point now where he is more hated than Sarah Palin.
This board is VERY liberal, Ri - only a few of us ex-JW conservatives here.
