Are you talking about the Big A in Brooklyn? Gerrit Lösch? Is he planning a visit? I wonder if the other six A's will be with him?
Oh, you're talking about Armageddon! Gee, hope not. I really want to see Season 4 of Breaking Bad and it doesn't start until July.
Pathetic, childish, doomsday cult nonsense.
i'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
You're afraid because you have always believed that Jehovah's Witnesses have the truth or are the 'real deal'. They don't and they're not, and the evidence is overwhelming if you will only consider it. You believe it because you are afraid, and you are afraid because you have been told that believing otherwise means your death, that even questioning what you are told to believe means your death. I feel for you. My wife is the same, except that she has not made progress as you have. Be brave. Free yourselves.
first of all, i have severe arachnophobia.
rationally, i know most spiders are harmless, but something takes over my brain and my body when i see one........i totally freak out, i can't help it.
they are little pieces of death, wrapped in scarey...... .
I am not afraid of spiders but if one as big as what you describe was scurrying around in the space beneath my car seat, I'd be a little rattled, too. I wouldn't want to jump out of the car until it was stationary, and then I'd get a stick to push it outside. Thing is, the odds of this ever, ever happening again to you are very, very small. Be consoled that you are safe where you are now.
Fear of spiders is not uncommon. Same category as fear of snakes. It goes to how our brains are hard wired as part of our survival mechanism, and that is why rationalisation doesn't work. Therapy would be a good idea, if only to give you the courage to confront your phobia and defeat it forever. Then you can throw a party. I'll bring the dip.
for those that are still going to the meetings.what are they saying about eygpt, libya and tunisa and the labor protests in the united states and the increasing gas prices.are they all fired up with end times fodder.tell me your thoughts.
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I just love how they all say on their Facebook status how their thoughts are "with our brothers" "our spiritual brothers" etc etc. What happened to the rest of humanity?
Bird food.
it's not under mine - i just looked.
all i found were dust bunnies and some old pizza, which, miracle or miracles, was still quite tasty!.
mmmmm, pizza. I found some dry roasted peanuts in my armchair last night. A little fuzzy, but still delicious.
i'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
It's analogous to attaining escape velocity, headisspinning. If a rocket blasts off from the pad with a huge release of power but fails to attain about 25,000 mph, its speed will begin to slow, it will stall, and it will fall back to earth. The same is happening to you.
the recent earthquake in japan will be a tragedy for many hundreds of individuals and families and for the nation of japan as a whole,.
but, as the saying goes, "the end is not yet.
many people who were raised as jws, as i was, often find that unexpected claps of thunder or the distant roar of jet engines as planes come in for a landing cause them almost reflexively to think "armageddon?"..
yeah, my heart sinks whenever there's an earthquake because my wife invariably takes it as a sign, although she seems to deny it. She and her brother, also a Jehovah's witness, had an active conversation about recent Pacific rim earthquakes only yesterday and when news of the quake in Japan hit this morning she had this tiny inflection of excitement in her voice when she told me about it. It seems the greater the magnitude of the quakes, the greater the excitement. My fondest desire is to free her but she's been thoroughly enslaved by the WTBTS.
a few months ago i had a part in the service meeting about evolution.
it was based on the reasoning book's entire section on the topic.
my conscience bothered me because it was the scientific method and science in general that led me to doubt my beliefs in the first place.
You prefaced your hypothesis quite well, Vidiot, insofar as you are tentative in putting forward the supposition that evidence exists and concluded quite logically that the information age will pop the lid off the secret archives if the supposition is indeed true. But that in itself is a giant leap forward that requires at least partial suspension of disbelief in order to proceed with what follows.
Your reference to science fiction is revealing, particularly that you enjoy it so much. So do I. But enjoyment of science fiction requires the same facility as does enjoyment of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings, and that is complete suspension of disbelief. Stephen Hawking refers to science fiction as "space westerns" because they require bending the laws of physics to the point of breaking them, in particular relativity theory. For there to be extraterrestrials, even as close as alpha centauri, space travel would require decades. The fact that alpha centauri is a binary star system makes the probability of life quite low, particularly life sophisticated enough for space travel. Then we get into the planetary anthropic principle and exceedingly remote odds of the kind of goldilocks zone situation that our planet has existing elsewhere in the galaxy. That does not mean it doesn't. Even if the odds are one in a billion that might mean 50 earth-like planets in the galaxy, but if so they will be statistically thousands of light years away from us, all but ruling out the possibility of space travel within the bounds of relativity theory. The third thing is SETI, which has so far failed to detect any confirmed transmission indicating intelligent life - assuming that transmission of information would be a necessary prerequisite to develop the science of space travel, this alone is a pretty good indication that sophisticated civilisations, if they exist, are very, very far away from us.
Now, all that aside, your conclusions about how contact would rock the world's religious systems seem rational. And Hawking, hedging somewhat on the improbability of contact, has said that if it should ever happen, the probability would be high that exploitation would be top of the extraterrestrial agenda.
a few months ago i had a part in the service meeting about evolution.
it was based on the reasoning book's entire section on the topic.
my conscience bothered me because it was the scientific method and science in general that led me to doubt my beliefs in the first place.
Hey there, Vidiot. My take is that UFOs and extraterrestrial visits are a new modern superstition. All those reported sightings and all those reported encounters add up to aliens from another world who either aren't too adept or aren't too interested in keeping their presence secret, yet no irrefutable evidence exists that they exist. Yes, I am familiar with how conspiracy theory plays into the entire story, but until I see Klaatu and Gort standing there on the lawn of the White House, I'm not buying it. I'm a UFO agnostic.
while searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
found the Fifth Estate program. It's called "Spiritual Shepherds" (not "Silent Lambs") and is available for streaming here:
quality is not great, though.
