maybe it's me but i see more males act less "manly".
i dunno..
I gotta say though--my oldest girl and her boyfriend had a contest to see who could bake the best pie. And I don't have a problem with a guy being in touch with his emotions as much as his pecker.
So, okay guys , what do YOU think has happened to "manliness"?
Mostly women have responded.
But has it been a drag for you?
Has the "man scene" changed??
it's true because it happened to me last night.
i knew it was trouble when she started looking at my kindle.
once she got to the short stories i wrote 3 years ago, autobiographical, some of it involving her, i knew i wouldn't be going to bed before 1:00 (it was 11:40 p.m. by then).
She pulled the ring off? Said she doesn't want to live under your headship?
Ask her to write an outline of what she expects---
she doesn't know.
This cult makes everyone go out of balance.
You'll go crazy if you get sucked in. You half way believe it, do you think?
Seriously figure out where you are with your faith--don't let her jerk you around by your guilty short hairs. She pulled the ring off--let her see what it is like --and you too. Give it a rest--and get some counseling.
maybe it's me but i see more males act less "manly".
i dunno..
They sure don't have the same work to do that defined men a couple of generations ago.
Like Syl says (I say that a lot-- she and I have been around the old country ways)coming of age in times past the activities of men had to do with physical strength, practical skill and having a slew of kids.
But nowadays, who thinks much of a guy if he can fix his own car now, kill and dress a hog, sire a half dozen kids? They wonder why he's driving a clunker, likes to kill animals and why he doesn't put a cap on it.
What's left? In the countryside around here there's more alcohol and drugs. There are single parents but no large families. Plenty of loose men roaming around kinda confused. It's tough on women too, but I think my sons are finding it harder to be men.
This is a pretty sensitive issue in my family. It's a painful subject for me too. If a husband is conflicted about how to act, it makes it hard for a wife to figure out what's going on and vice versa.
at the village church fate!!!!!.
also on saturday - i would have been a member of this board for a whole year.. to think a year ago i was an elder in the process of waking up, thinking about how to get my family out.
now i am fully awake and out, my wife is with me and the jw's are but a distant memory for my kids..
Great to hear this for you and everyone in your family.
these are not my words!
but again not my words; jehovah's words.
what about the words of ezekiel, jehovah gave him to pen for us today, to describe the battle of armageddon; once again not my words, jehovah's words:.
Sapphy
mrsjones----Cool! Thanks for the info... (I'm not too handy at that stuff)
these are not my words!
but again not my words; jehovah's words.
what about the words of ezekiel, jehovah gave him to pen for us today, to describe the battle of armageddon; once again not my words, jehovah's words:.
(Off topic for a minute, sorry)
How do you DO that, mrsjones?!! You put art work/commentary that I am amazed at-- Are you doing that, yourself?
these are not my words!
but again not my words; jehovah's words.
what about the words of ezekiel, jehovah gave him to pen for us today, to describe the battle of armageddon; once again not my words, jehovah's words:.
wannabe,
Every one who references Jesus has to use the Bible. That's where the Jesus story comes from. Jesus in turn references the OT but it is interesting that he discouraged his disciples from mimicking the judgmental retributions that everyone ascribes to his Father. There is no "eye-for-an-eye" with Jesus.
His disciples at Luke 9:54-56 (in many translations) has Jesus rebuking his disciples for wanting to call down fire from heaven to destroy a Samaritan village that is rude to them. Jesus instructs them:"Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is come not to destroy men's lives but to save them."
The value of the OT may be that we can see that we need to follow Jesus in the Spirit as he directed us.It may even be that we don't really enjoy spiritual brotherhood by designating ourselves as "children of Abraham"( so to speak) But we may individually listen to God even as Abraham did listen, really listen to God. The work of Abraham was not knowing but really listening.
It is interesting to think that this Father of faith, Abraham, had so little doctrine to pass on, so little in the way of warning or teaching. But in the way of remembering the names of OT patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, etc. they are notable to me for their solitary wrestlings with God.
We are not adequate to judge each other or direct one another in these wrestlings. There is great value in discussing these scriptures, but when I thing of the horror we felt in hearing 2 Tim. 3:6 "always learning but never coming to an accurate knowledge of the truth..." it was a misplaced horror in that it was not becoming proficient at a packaged religion.
No.
If Jesus was right about bringing healing with his life, teaching and death then we must pay attention to this:
"Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate. Do not judge and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon and you will be pardoned. Give and there will be gifts for you a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back." Luke 6:36-38
So don't worry, wannabe. You concern is best left to rest in Jesus' lap. Don't worry about missing the boat and just teach others what good things the Lord has done for you and the mercy he has shown to you. Is told that to Legion an that is all that I know to do myself.
May God give you peace and rest,
Maeve
"jesus did not die on the cross" .
a new doctoral dissertation in theology from gothenburg university claims that the bible has been misinterpreted when it comes to how jesus died.
gunnar samuelsson who wrote the dissertation has studied the original texts and sees no explicit references to crucifiction.
Others have said it, and I agree:
this is not pertinent to faith. It is hard to imagine that Jesus cares.
i am inactive and trying to fade as some of you know.
since my family in still in, i've been recieving "we me you" cards from the congo i was going to.
i have also recieved a few calls from the congo i move from that's out of the area.
Yeah--What they don't know won't hurt you.
If you run into one of them, and they want to know why you don't respond just say"I didn't know what to say."
If they want more info, you can tell them you STILL don't know what to say.
Short of driving bamboo under your finger nails, what can they do?
If they want to come see you, tell them that you have been avoiding contact with people until you feel like having company.
They can't call the police on you.
They will leave you alone--or, as one poster did last month
--SHE CALLED THE POLICE ON THEM!
consider this possibility.
what if jesus' contemporaries, hanger's on, entourage, posse, disciples and apostles never gave a single thought at all.
to his having been raised from the dead?
Jesus as I understand him from the Writings--and there are plenty of writings that aren't includied in the Bible that is printed today--has to be experienced to be known. To know if his teaching are true, Jesus said we have to want to do the will of God. That is what the Gospels say.
My desire to do the will of God recognizes that the Bible has been passing through the hands and the minds of fallible humans so I take care not to repeat concepts that I know are derived --not simply from God's mind---but distilled through the well educated minds of other humans.
I can read. But God will have to forgive me for this: I have no reason to trust my "betters" who have formed religious concepts for us from---the times before Christ. Jesus had to fight those traditional viepoints himself. And so do we.
If Jesus taught the sermon on the mount, and called us out to receive the Spirit, then I am satisfied that I can please God. I am too beleaguered to sort out the demands of life and the threads of Biblical scholarship--so I should quit?
No.
I ask God--not man--for the answer.
What price there is to pay for not knowing how Jesus came or how he was so wonderful or when he was resurrected? I can't say. I know how wonderful he is now. NOW.
That is what I know.
That is what I have to say.
Life has abundance in Jesus. And dignity.
I read the scriptures and trust no man. I hardly trust myself.
But that is between God and me.
