just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?
(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).
with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.
It's crazy never to go back. - SBF
Take me with you! Are you going back to the meetings? I've been thinking about going back for good I have to admit it. Once you know the truth you can't shake it off. - SBF 14 days ago
What happened in the last fortnight?
about a type of cult - not religious.
just a movie.
however, about had several earmarks of a cult.
We go to the cinema quite frequently and I would have to say 'Get Out' was one of the most disappointing films of last year. It is basically a satirical commentary on the reverse-racism of liberal, middle-class America.
It was clearly going to get nominated by the virtue-signalling sycophants of the Academy.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
i attended my first jw meeting recently.
first, i would like to say what i agree with about the jehovah's witnesses beliefs and practices.. 1. they don't consider israeli's as "god's chosen people" and they don't worship israel as some holy land filled with righteous jews (although there are some there) as most so-called "christians" (christian zionists) erroneously believe they are instead of the "hypocrites" and "vipers" that it is actually filled with.. 2. they don't celebrate "holidays" like easter and christmas which are, in fact, remnants of earlier pagan practices.. 3. they don't put nation before god and christ.
they don't believe in war or going to war because of some crazy government/cia secret agenda.
I would like to say what I agree with about the Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs and practices
...and Mussolini made the trains run on time.
not being a witness has been a plus for my sex life.
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what about you!
Go Stan!
so, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.
for home-schooling of jw kids:.
http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.
Very fair comment ^^^
The website stresses that they are not about homeschooling. They pretend to be a real school where every child's home is a campus.
The standard of the information on the website is dreadful. It looks like the whole project is completely amateur.
so, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.
for home-schooling of jw kids:.
http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.
I browsed their website; it is appalling!
Here is a comment - I presume from one of the parents - who ironically calls themself 'top au writers'. What chance do these children have?
so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
There are different views about panpsychism. Some seriously suggest that rocks and chairs are conscious. That is not a strawman or an exaggeration. If you think that this version of panpsychism is bullshit then you are at opposition with leading voices in the movement.
Others posit that only complex aggregates of materials have conscious experience.
All of it is unscientific, untestable and unfalsifiable.
so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
It appears that you can only tolerate 'panpsychism lite'.
Full-blooded panpsychism pushes your bullshit meter off the scale does it?
so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
So you want to promote the article about panpsychism but you also want to dismiss the clearly stated views of the lead source.
Okay.
“Rocks will be conscious, spoons will be conscious, the Earth will be conscious. Any kind of aggregation gives you consciousness.” - David Chalmers, a philosophy of mind professor at New York University
