social isolation.
unloving shunning..
This shouldn't really be all that surprising.
There's a reason banishment was a common form of punishment for violent crimes amongst ancient people...
...most of us nowadays don't realize that to those selfsame people, banishment was - for all intents and purposes - a death sentence.
my wife has been off the rails lately.
she is not really a loving mom or wife.
she is upset that me and the boys don't believe the same crap as her.
What Pete said.
Also, be a way better husband as an XJW then you ever were as an active Witness.
while the word "satan" appears in many translations of the old and new testament, it is much more common in the n.t., with only a few mentions in the o.t.
the word "devil" seems almost exclusively used in the n.t., at least in the few versions i checked.
this may have something to do with the word origin, satan v devil.
FFGhost - “Imagine, building a religion whose entire raison d'etre literally hangs on accepting 2 obvious metaphorical legends as absolutely true.”
Don’t kid yourself.
It’s not just 2.
ha ha whats good for goose good for gander..
MyName is right...
...for most of their history in the US, organized religions have been trusted to essentially police themselves.
Which, of course, almost guarantees the likelihood of monumental fuckups down the line...
...because they are all - at their core - man-made institutions who, when corrupt individuals are in the driver’s seat, inevitably buy into their own rhetoric and propaganda, and thusly make increasingly stupid-ass decisions.
recently, some scientists modeled one of the simplest known cells - that of a bacteria.
it took an army of 128 computers running for 10 hours to process the data required in the 25 categories of molecules that are involved in this "simple cells'" life processes.
think about that for a moment - 128 computers running for 10 hours just to compute the data, not actually do it mind you; but just to model the known processes in one of the simplest known cells, which is many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell.
I keep telling everyone here...
...no matter what they may say, any creationists’ objections to evolution are - at their core - ideology-based...
...not science-based.
Intellectual honesty... creationism’s biggest problem.
since covid, our lives have all been affected.
do you think people will ever get back to normal, pre-covid?
are masks, vaccinations and social distancing the “new normal “?.
Interesting.
One of the conclusions I came to during the course of my WTexit was that - like “perfection” - “normal” is subjective.
my wife has been off the rails lately.
she is not really a loving mom or wife.
she is upset that me and the boys don't believe the same crap as her.
The biggest doubters are often the staunchest holdouts.
It’s an instinctive fear-based response.
let me follow the trial.
in 1931 rutherford started jehovah's witnesses.
be before that.. bible student and they merged before 1917 with russelites and they merge with adventists, and then miller in 1844.before that be disperse into baptist and other denominations.
It’s breakaways all the way down. 😊
i was just reading how a guy on the net was saying he was attracted to some black women like halle berry but serena or gayle king not at all.
he was expressing his opinion.
anyway, he quickly got fired and he profusely apologized for what he said and has asked for help from the naacp and the mayor’s office to learn to do better.
I’m afraid I won’t be politically incorrect enough.
😛
here is a memorial-worthy song...at least in my books.
got any other suggestions?.
https://youtu.be/5fa58v6lrto.
“All Along the Watchtower”
”Sympathy for The Devil”
”Highway to Hell”
😏
