Posts by Adalwolfa

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Does anyone play an instrument just for fun?

by keeshondgirl in

i like to play the piano, the drums, and i am teaching myself to play the flute.. i can play the trumpet too but i have to practice it more..

SPOOF news article . J W /Halloween

by BluesBrother in

read it to the end.

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/10/31/jehovah%e2%80%99s-witness-kept-talking-all-evening-after-making-mistake-of-opening-door-to-trick-or-treaters/.

Can dead people come back to affect lives of living?

by Adalwolfa in

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i'm not normally superstitious but i'm starting to wonder.

apparently, just about every civilization that ever existed believed in it.

in fact, belief was so real that people devised all sorts of things and rituals to appease souls of dead or ward them off in some way.

Thank you Blues Brother, I'm not saying that I believe it (yet) and I agree that emotioanlly tormented husband for example can wish to see his wife again so much that actually sees an apparition. But still why am I reading about such customes everywhere in every age and nation? Could all of that be explained by grief-stricken people wrongly judging what they are seeing?

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Can dead people come back to affect lives of living?

by Adalwolfa in

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i'm not normally superstitious but i'm starting to wonder.

apparently, just about every civilization that ever existed believed in it.

in fact, belief was so real that people devised all sorts of things and rituals to appease souls of dead or ward them off in some way.

Adalwolfa

I'm not normally superstitious but I'm starting to wonder. Apparently, just about every civilization that ever existed believed in it. In fact, belief was so real that people devised all sorts of things and rituals to appease souls of dead or ward them off in some way. These were normally sane people and very sophisticated in every other sense, just look at their art and you will see what I mean. Reports range from people just having creepy feeling of being observed by someone, feeling strange inclinations and desires, all the way to things, circumstance and even people being influenced, as crazy as it sounds, in a way that would favor dead person wishes and then there are those who reported seeing the deceased. No wonder people introduced, or tried to anyway, all sorts of things just to stop that from happening.
Even today, in the age of "enlightenment", people still report these kinds of things. So I'm wondering what you think about it now that you are no longer a witness. I mean as far as I know even Halloween was put in place for that same reason, wasn't it?

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social outcasts, or possible geniuses, is it really so bad to be 'different'? (Asperger's & Autism)

by Adalwolfa in

i've posted this already under another topic but thought to do it again and maybe open up an honest discussion.. my son has been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome or borderline autism.

since then i've read just about anything i could lay my hands on.

the thing is he is very bright but doesn't mix very well socially.

Adalwolfa

Morning, and thank you all for your lovely comments. I can't tell you how much it means to me to be able to discuss this openly. I think Black Sheep hit the nail on the head with "especially when the people surrounding them are members of high control groups" while he was probably mostly referring to JWs ;) I think it is a wider problem in our society.

I think it has been the case throughout the history that some people have been promoted and others degraded purely based on how much they 'fit' predetermined set of standards. In those rare instances where Aspareger's or Autism children were from either well off families or otherwise had enough of internal drive in their chosen passion that they actually suceeded. The thing is one would expect that in this day and age society has learned enough and moved on from just basic drives, impulses and prejudices. The thing is, and this is very unfortunate, the school system introduced way back during industrial revolution of 1800's has not changed much at all. It is still there in place trying to make 'useful citizens' compliant to the rules of the game. And the most basic rule of all is 'if you are not quick witted in your social interactions you are basically unfit to live (or at least if you are not quickly following such cues from others)' I guess, reason being, and that is my opinion, as such you are way harder to control, you are unpredictable and not abiding to social stimulus that everyone else is almost religiously responding to.

The thing is though, and I can't even begin to tell you how many people I've met who are very socially malleable and if their tongue was the only thing to judge them by, they all deserve Nobel Awards. Yet so many of those while being quick-witted in their public performances are almost completely inapt, useless when it finally comes down to actually DOING that work they were talking about - unless of course it is another sort of verbal performance like actors in a theater.
Unfortunately, it is somehow deeply rooted in our modern culture to judge people purely by how well or how quickly their tongue rolls.

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What is your favorite quote?

by asilentone in

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Adalwolfa

'People show their character by what they laugh at' (an old German saying)

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social outcasts, or possible geniuses, is it really so bad to be 'different'? (Asperger's & Autism)

by Adalwolfa in

i've posted this already under another topic but thought to do it again and maybe open up an honest discussion.. my son has been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome or borderline autism.

since then i've read just about anything i could lay my hands on.

the thing is he is very bright but doesn't mix very well socially.

Adalwolfa

Hi Lillith26 , thank you for welcome :), actually it has been widely reported that Einstein probably had Asperger's, and not only him but many many others. I think many people would be surprised to know just who some of those people are.

http://www.asperger-syndrome.me.uk/people.htm

http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/aspergersyndrome/a/041003.htm

http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2086.shtml

The funny thing is just how regularly these people are or have been rejected unitl they became 'famous' and recognized by wider public. And the sad part is it was often during their formative years that they've been rejected. Ironically, their 'anti-social' attitude might have been greately conditioned by the rejecting environment that couldn't cope with someone being different.

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social outcasts, or possible geniuses, is it really so bad to be 'different'? (Asperger's & Autism)

by Adalwolfa in

i've posted this already under another topic but thought to do it again and maybe open up an honest discussion.. my son has been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome or borderline autism.

since then i've read just about anything i could lay my hands on.

the thing is he is very bright but doesn't mix very well socially.

Adalwolfa

I've posted this already under another topic but thought to do it again and maybe open up an honest discussion.

My son has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome or borderline Autism. Since then I've read just about anything I could lay my hands on. The thing is he is very bright but doesn't mix very well socially. At first that was a major shock to me as a parent. But more I've read about it the more I've realized that what we consider as 'normal' might not be so normal after all. The thing that those kids lack is 'social glue' but not because of
them not wanting friends but because of 'being different' and not being accepted by the rest of the crowd.
In time I've learned that some of the greatest minds ever have had Aspareger's or Autism including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Newton, Benjaming Franklin, Abraham Linkoln, George Washington, Leonardo Da Vinci and so on and so on. So much so that some scholars are now calling it the genious gene. In fact, the bottom line premise that comes through is that what we consider normal is in fact another word for average.

In all honesty, and this is my conclusion, if someone is really a genius why would he even want to appease to the rest of the crowd just for an off chance of being 'accepted' as an average? To put it other way using a comparison, how many of 'normal people', once reaching the status of billionaire, would actually take their wealth and now distribute it equally among their less well off friends just to be accepted as 'equal' or 'normal'? I'm yet to meet one.

Maybe it is the time to review what we consier as 'normal' after all nobody is completely defect-free just that some are better at putting make up on to cower it than others.

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Has anyone got any experience of Autism ?

by judi8751 in

Adalwolfa

My son has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome or borderline Autism. Since then I've read just about anything I could lay my hands on. The thing is he is very bright but doesn't mix very well socially. At first that was a major shock to me as a parent. But more I've read about it the more I've realized that what we consider as 'normal' might not be so normal after all. The thing that those kids lack is 'social glue' but not because of them not wanting friends but because of 'being different' and not being accepted by the rest of the crowd.
In time I've learned that some of the greatest minds ever have had Aspareger's or Autism including Albert Einstein, Mozart, Newton, Benjaming Franklin, Abraham Linkoln, George Washington, Leonardo Da Vinci and so on and so on. So much so that some scholars are now calling it the genious gene. In fact, the bottom line premise that comes through is that what we consider normal is in fact another word for average.

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real fake friends

by diamondiiz in

i wondered how did your "best" jw friends react to when you told them you're leaving wts?.

after i found out all i needed to know i called up my old friend who i thought was a good friend but i knew he was a die hard dub and i told him to write down a book and read it.

i was refering to russell's thy kingdom come.

Adalwolfa

In words of my favorite song they showed their 'true colors shining through'