i needed a place to come vent.
i went to a yoga class last sunday and loved it!!
i am going again tonight with my hubby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga
This appears to disagree with you on the subject. Of course, I think the JWs take it much more seriously than the majority of American practitioners, but there is definitely a spiritual element involved with meditation and such.
EDIT: Should probably mention that I think the whole anti-yoga/meditation/hypnosis/anything else stance the JWs take is silly. Have fun at Yoga. ^_^ I wish I could do it, but I am too busy with school.
a lawyer was cited for criminal contempt of court because he did not say the pledge of allegiance.
he stood up but was silent.
apparently he had done this before and the judge was put out with him.
The pledge is one of the only old hangups I have leftover from The Lie™. At this point I would probably pick the go to jail option as well. LoL
The article doesn't say anything about WHY he refuses, interestingly enough.
what if a person is thought to be possessed and nothing suspicious is found in their home, ie books, yard sale stuff, smurfs, etc..., will the elders perform an exorcism?
have any of you ever heard of a person getting exorcised?.
Speaking on behalf of my friend... He personally knows a JW girl with mental issues who her parents had the elders attempt to exorcise... Of course, that could just be that particular body of elders. <_<
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/25/charles-darwin-studies-the-evolution-of-pokemon/.
this t-shirt design makes me happy on so many levels... unfortunately, the only print run of it is sold out so i'm doomed never to get it.
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http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/25/charles-darwin-studies-the-evolution-of-pokemon/
This t-shirt design makes me happy on so many levels... Unfortunately, the only print run of it is sold out so I'm doomed never to get it.
i have recently been playing a number of interesting boardgames, most often agricola although le havre, pandemic, ticket to ride, carcassonne and space hulk have been popular too.. there are some very interesting card games out as well such as dominion and race for the galaxy.. i am looking forward to playing the great fire of london and merchants & marauders whenever i can get hold of them.. i particularly like agricola because it isn't very confrontational as a game, obviously there is a winner but you can have fun playing even if you come last.
some games you only win by destroying the other players ability to do anything interesting when playing the game, risk or monopoly for example.
anybody else have any particular favourite boardgame?
Hmmm... Monopoly. It takes forever, but when you start bidding wars, back room deals, etc (which I didn't know were allowed in the rules until like a year ago), it can be a lot of fun. Usually play with a time limit, though, to keep it manageable.
anyone who deeply believes in a "free press" is very naive in my opinion.
for example, consider how stories about scandal suddenly appear out of nowhere after candidates actually start running.
i am also aware of how surprizing revelations appear in european newspapers about figures in the us - while little or nothing is reported in the american press.
Assuming that life is possible on other worlds, and that sentient life could evolve (2 rather large suppositions), what are the odds that the timing of that other world's evolution closely matches our own?
The first supposition is probably more likely than most people give credit for just because of the number of planets and stars in the Universe... I think probably a bigger problem is that aliens, if they are visiting us currently, would most likely have to have left their home planet long before we would have evolved or, alternatively, have appeared to evolved (the second assuming they had developed faster than light travel)...
And the "life on mars" stories refer to organic compounds, not sentient complex life. If you have other, more recent sources (from the mainstream media), please give links.
EDIT: @leavingwt Of course... especially depending on how you define primate. As far as alternative alien possibilities, I'm slightly attached to the intelligent amorphous blob, myself... Uses tools by extending itself around the item... How would we talk to it, though?
anyone who deeply believes in a "free press" is very naive in my opinion.
for example, consider how stories about scandal suddenly appear out of nowhere after candidates actually start running.
i am also aware of how surprizing revelations appear in european newspapers about figures in the us - while little or nothing is reported in the american press.
UFO is a misnomer. If there is a great Government conspiracy to hide aliens, then by definition there are no UFOs. Get your facts straight.
for instance: in the matter of 'shunning' - are individual jehovah's witnesses evil?.
due to our previous 'training' it is still difficult for many of us to accept that jehovah's witnesses are actually evil.
i don't mean the organization - an 'organization' is just a term to describe people who unite for a common goal or purpose.
Oooh... Lets not get on to 12-step programs. >_<
I don't think that JWs are evil... It's the "new personality" that is evil. I consider the self and brainwashed self to be two (relatively) distinct entities... though I'm not sure how accurate that is, and it's liable to change in the future.
so, i recently finished reading "the god delusion" by richard dawkins.
i read it with a certain amount of hesitation.
after all, i am still recovering from my disappointment at realizing that the wts is not god's organization.
If I wrote a book called, "Why Unicorns are fake"...then yes I would show what unicorn believers believed and I would show how they are most likely wrong due to my own belief and experience.
Fair enough.
Do you have faith in the quantum singularity? You have not beheld that. Do you have faith in dark matter? Do you have faith that there is not a God? Again, something not beheld. But you've seen proofs that these things could exist or not exist. Religious faith is the same. I have seen proof that God exists.
In the end, it comes down to what constitutes proof for you... assuming you don't try to thrust it down other peoples throats... Then its GO TIME.
I really wasn't trying to turn this into a atheist vs theist debate. It was supposed to be more like a friendly game of Dawkins bashing.
We should at least debate whether he needs bashing or not.
so, i recently finished reading "the god delusion" by richard dawkins.
i read it with a certain amount of hesitation.
after all, i am still recovering from my disappointment at realizing that the wts is not god's organization.
Edit: Sorry. Double Post.
