i just want to start by expressing gratitude toward all members of this forum.
i have been reading for the last month or so experiences and information that had not been available to me years ago when i was going through chronic depression and isolation.
i wish i could be more 'brave' and show some current little jws the way to this forum, but i am afraid of getting them in trouble :p we all know how sites like this are to them.. with that covered, first, a few things about me:.
Shouldn't it be a rebel without a.... Oh... I see what you did there. j/k lol
Welcome to the forum! I'll be back in a second to say more, but I have food in the oven.
EDIT: Sorry to hear about your rough time. Like they've already said before me, a lot of us have similar stories. You're not alone. Keep your head up and everything will be fine. Oh, and I know what you mean by being a little young... I feel SOOOO young sometimes on here.
may you all have peace!.
i know, i know... from body members: why is she going there, again??
but... i have what i believe are a couple/few valid questions, so i must ask that you indulge me, if you can.
I would like to add that even though humans are still evolving, as is logically necessary if you accept evolution, even of the animals, it is doubtful at this point that we would speciate(?), because that would require reproductive isolation. Had technology not progressed to where it is today, it would be likely that the Native Americans, Africans, and tribal peoples of Australia would have developed into different species separate from what we will eventually evolve into.
Its also possible that the human race may stagnate as far as evolution is concerned, or evolve randomly. Natural selection is not nearly as large of a factor as it used to be... We try as a species to limit it as much as possible because of fear of death. I sometimes wish I had a time machine so that I could go into the future and find out what we become.
...they were adolescents and they were just touched.
his writing is eerily reminiscent of jw apologists.. .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2fc%2fa%2f2011%2f04%2f12%2fddue1iuco1.dtl.
Thank you for grouping me in the "sick and twisted category"... Though you're probably right about both me and him. While his defense of the priests who sexually assaulted youths is despicable, he is technically accurate. In fact, he described the actions of the priests as "inexcusable"."Child rape" just sounds better than "sexual assault", and the news probably DID play it up just to make it worse... which only increases the damage that it does to the victims.
I'd like to see what he ACTUALLY wrote. This news article seems incredibly biased and I have a feeling there was some quote mining going on. The only paragraph they actually quoted was not nearly as bad as the rest of the article makes him sound.
tl;dr: I wouldn't judge the man based on this article. I want to see what he ACTUALLY wrote.
i just learned about this yesterday..i was amazed!.
i have a grown daughter that is a expert at this... .
dry begging:to ask for in an indirect and roundabout way.
I agree with Anne... but that may be because dry begging is reponsible for me having been able to eat the last couple of months. LoL. I think there's a line somewhere between dry begging and manipulating, though they use some of the same techniques. It might be, for example, that manipulating someone is getting them to do something that they don't want to do, while dry begging can refer to letting someone be aware of your situation and asking for help in a way that doesn't come off as presumptious... Though like I said, I'm a little biased because I've been very active at that lately.
http://pesn.com/2011/04/07/9501805_rossi_cold_fusion_validated_by_swedish_skeptics_society/.
the bone head media keep ignoring a continuing story that could change the world profoundly!
economics, politics, environmentalism, the middle east...... everything!.
The experiment is not replicatable. No paper has been published showing how and why it works, and there is no real reason for him to NOT do so. It would make him and all of his colleages INCREDIBLY rich with patents and the inevitable Nobel prize, which would guarantee at least half a million dollars. The fact that he hasn't published suggests fraud.
EDIT: Open Mouth, Insert Foot... From the Washington Times:
A nuclear physicist associated with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Giuseppe Levi, told reporters at the January demonstration that he was convinced the results were accurate. But peer-reviewed journals, exhibiting an abundance of caution, have so far refused to publish the findings.
Still, only time will tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfzitov1buo .
I see what you did there...
i for my part do not believe there is a satan the devil.
he does not exist.
there is a creator, but no oposite number, no satan.
I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in him or the big G. On the other hand, while I was in transition I thought that Satan was better than the alternative, and toyed with Theistic Satanism for a bit.
i was reviewing some of the topics 10yrs.
ago, notice most of.
topics were rater mild in regard to the witnesses..today, wow,.
To quote Simon: " Welcome to the newest Jehovah's Witness discussion forum on the Net. Please register so that you can post to the forum and turn this into a welcoming place for other brothers and sisters online" Once they started the discussions, though, it didn't take very long to go apostate. LoL.
i was reviewing some of the topics 10yrs.
ago, notice most of.
topics were rater mild in regard to the witnesses..today, wow,.
Sabastious! You ruined the patter! You were supposed to wait another 56 minutes!
i was reviewing some of the topics 10yrs.
ago, notice most of.
topics were rater mild in regard to the witnesses..today, wow,.
10 years ago this was a JW forum dedicated to coming to a better knowledge of the Truth. Then everyone became apostates. LoL. Unless you meant the posts after the change over...
Also... On this thread, people have been posting every hour. Weird.
