I've heard the comparison of God as the husband and us humans as his battered wife referenced before, but with all the parallels written down like that it's quite amazing all the similarities.
pixiesticks
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Is religion a form of abuse? Does superstition imprison the mind and keep us from living a rich, fulfilling life?
by whereami inset yourself free .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgnpukowhu.
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"Deaden, therefore your body members...as respects fornication [through the free and frequent use of pornography]
by gubberningbody in...col. 3:5 (the apostate edition).... .
but seriously, i do remember years ago prior to entering in on the borg estate that a certain professor asked me to assist a grad student with her research.
she'd decided that the pornography-promotes-rape hypothesis was right and would i help her find the data.
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pixiesticks
You know what they say, "Watch pornography for five minutes and you'll want to have sex, watch it for five hours and you'll never want to have sex again." :D
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Do You Believe that God Wrote the Ten Commandments?
by cameo-d inwas this an invisible god?.
any opinion on who wrote the big ten?.
(i got a sneakin' suspicion it was moses father-in-law).
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NO. I think it's pretty well proven that they weren't written by God. They weren't even written by Moses. I highly recommend the book 'Who Wrote the Bible' by Richard Elliott Friedman. It's one of the most interesting books written on the Documentary Hypothosis. Really facinating.
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VIDEO - Russia JW Convention in Russia Disrupted and Canceled
by Albert Einstein inthats not a new video, but this is still happening in russia.. do you thing its good if authorities try to slow down jw, or should they just let them do what they want?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8btgy51o2w.
albert.
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pixiesticks
That's the thing with freedom, it has to be all, or potentially there could be nothing. People should have the right to believe in whatever they want, no matter how weird. However, for destructive cults I think the way they behave and the things that they are allowed to do should be observed and restricted as nessisary so that no human rights are breached.
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A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
by cofty inmany years ago i came across this painting in the national museum of scotland in edinburgh.
simply called "hagar" it was painted by andrew geddes in the early 19th c.. i was touched by the sadness of the subject.
at the time i was a loyal jw and my ability to read the bible through a filter that could justify anything was at its peak.. for the first time i was forced to face up to the scandal of how abraham and sarah treated their young slave girl.
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pixiesticks
Thank you for the scan! It's such a beautiful painting. So simple, but full of so much emotion. I'm going to print it out.
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"Upon Your Belly You Will Go and Dust You Will Eat"...
by AGuest into the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you have peace!.
a little while ago i was directed to share with you the true appearance and composite of spirit beings, including our lord.
finally, at one point, i said to him, "how long have you been living?
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Why would you be afraid of us? This is an Internet forum, what's going to happen? (Might want to add 'paranoia' to your list of symptoms when you go see that doctor...)
Anyways, I do know one person in real life that had visions too. She believed in God. She had a 'vision' that Satan was trying to drag her down the stairs into hell by her legs... but she did have the mother of all feverish flus at the time and was pretty well dosed-up!
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" Are you Good Without God ? " Billboards Saying this Attacked in California
by flipper ina couple weeks ago in the news in the sacramento, california area several billboards advertising atheism were spray painted and ripped apart with graffiti scribbled on the advertising.
things like " jesus died for you !
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Secular Humanist here! And I'm proud to be 'Good Without God'! I'm more good without God than I was with him that's for sure!
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How to Hear and See Christ...
by AGuest into the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you have peace!.
for some time now i have come here exhorting all with ears to hear the master.
lately, i have shared even seeing him... as he is.
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To be able to actually "see" Christ...? Simple. Take a lot of drugs. Or stop taking the ones you're pescribed. Either one, depending on your state of mind.
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"Upon Your Belly You Will Go and Dust You Will Eat"...
by AGuest into the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you have peace!.
a little while ago i was directed to share with you the true appearance and composite of spirit beings, including our lord.
finally, at one point, i said to him, "how long have you been living?
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pixiesticks
Reading this post AGuest I'm very concerned about your mental health. I'm no doctor, but if you're experiencing these kinds of vivid hallucinations, I would definately recommend getting yourself to one pronto!
What you're describing sounds like you're suffering from some kind of psychosis, which can cause extremely vivid 'visions' and cause you to hear voices."Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false ideas about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
There are many possible causes:- Alcohol and certain drugs
- Brain tumors
- Dementia (including Alzheimer's)
- Epilepsy
- Manic depression (bipolar disorder)
- Psychotic depression
- Schizophrenia
- Stroke
- Medhelp.org
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Did you suffer from self hatred in the borg?
by highdose iniwill be the first to say that i did.
not surprising considering how they treated me all my life.
i had conseling for it ( wordly counselor) but between us neither one could work out where this issue came from.
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Much of my self loathing disappeared, yes. Because I realised that being a bad Witness actually made me a good person, not a bad one! I wasn't wrong about all the things I thought like people had been telling me, trying to make me feel like I was the black-sheep. I felt the way I did because I actually cared about people and I cared about their lives and their freedoms over my own reward. If felt great!