what is your level of tolerance for ambiguity?.
ambiguity is a clunky, uncomfortable word, imho.. .
ambiguity means "open to more than one interpretation".
Perry - That is a silly semantic trick. It's like that game where you choose a number, double it, add another number, multiply it by something else etc etc and the result is always the same. It's only impressive if you don't understand algebra.
Your version depends on equivocation about the word 'absolute'.
Interesting OP Terry.
my name is jacobi, i am a born-in but mentally out for more or less a decade at this point (although it was cradual) and about 40yo.
i don't want to say a lot about my family, but it is a mix of going-through-the-motions, semi-actives (but mentally in), some who have left for a few reasons and one really depressed pioneer.
because people fade in and out i have managed to slide under the radar and i keep up apperances of not being all-out apostate but i completed my fade about years ago (it also helped i moved to another part of the country).. i might rub some of you the wrong way because of my views on different things like politics.. i am not a trump supporter at all and neither are most people in my country.
Welcome to the forum Jacobi. You paint a picture of a lot of JWs whose heart isn't in it anymore.
Why do you think they don't just leave?
conversation with my 3yo this morning:.
me: hey, it's <friend in her nursery> birthday in a few days.
her: jehovah doesn't like birthdays.
Priceless!
curious what the canadian take is on all this .
i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?
that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.
Never trust a man who sits with his knees together.
so my cousin phoned and told me my jw sister was taken to hospital with chest pains and it may have been a slight heart attack or possibly she's starting with angina.
now as some of you know my sisters and brother have had little to do with me for 29 years.
we've met at funerals, or arranged them, but i just thought today what if she did die?
Good outcome, thanks for the update.
i was doing a shearch on physicist alain aspect, and came across this :.
http://home.elp.rr.com/osiris/newpage1.htm.
the universe as a hologramdoes objective reality exist, or is the universe a phantasm?.
believing in God in some sense is an acknowledgement of the limits of human understanding.
Which makes the word 'god' utterly devoid of substance.
i was doing a shearch on physicist alain aspect, and came across this :.
http://home.elp.rr.com/osiris/newpage1.htm.
the universe as a hologramdoes objective reality exist, or is the universe a phantasm?.
it all boils down to the idea that the universe springs from the mind of God - SBF
'God' is a placeholder for 'I don't have a clue'.
if somebody knocks on your door and wants to enter your home (for whatever reason) you are faced with a decision process based, in part, on your ability to suss out why you do or do not allow entrance.. agreed?example:.
"i'm being stalked by a madman--please let me hide inside" would be a strong emotional reason.
""i'm with a group of jehovah's witnesses, we want to brainwash you.
'Our history of genocide'?
What did I do or what did my parents or my children do so that we owe a debt to the rest of the world?
Self-loathing is a plague that threatens our way of life.
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.
