i find that when talking people who say they "used to be a jehovah's witness" they say words that show they have in fact, never been one.
it's like a man that worked for the post office for 30 years in a main major urban hub like chicago or new york... and you ask him, "in your last position, what was your rdo?
" and the man says "whats an rdo?".
An electrician should know the Ohm's law. I'm an electrotechnician and never heard about the word dykes for diagonal pliers. If you want to talk about electrical jargons try harmonics (specially the third one).
What about an ideal faith? I don't think faith is a good thing but if you really need one I think buddhism is very interesting.
once i was talking to myself: religions are all about sacrifices (and rituals), viewing god as a means to get forgiveness of sins and material benefits, and bible is no exception.
yet the foundation of the universe is on the never-failing principle of cause and consequences, something which god will never violate.
forgiveness of sins is a violation of principle of cause and consequencessomething that bible itself ironically upholds in galatians 6:7 and in many other verses!
jesus said about keeping off from the leaven (meaning influence?
) of the pharisees and that's why the use of azim bread in the supper.
but what about the leavened grape juice aka wine?
on jw broadcasting there is a video of a missionary couple who were sent to a navajo reservation.
the sister says the thing she learned most at bethel was "shovel the coal, don't question the captain".
it's worth watching about 60 seconds from the 4 minute mark.
jesus said about keeping off from the leaven (meaning influence?
) of the pharisees and that's why the use of azim bread in the supper.
but what about the leavened grape juice aka wine?
now whats this "aspergers" i keep hearing about?
is it the latest "in thing"?
the latest rage "psyche illness" replacing "bi polar"?.
two years before i left jw world i came to a strange conclusion about the jw cosmology and the free will doctrine.. basically i came to conclusion that satan is right about the universal sovereign issue.
and i came with that just only using jws premises, no outside apostasy.
i just told to my sister what she thought about it, and she said to me: dont tell anyone about this!.
i won't say i got "caught" because that would imply i was keeping my habit hidden.
i'm tired of constantly doing that with these guys.
yesterday, my friend and i were waiting for some people and decided to smoke a cigarette to pass the time.
the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.
of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.
i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.
1. it's not all about me.. each of us has to grow up our own way at our own pace.
when we regain our balance we can be of help to other people.
life doesn't.
No matter how much access to information a person can have... people will still know what they WANT to know.
And people can have very awful desires like "I believe because is absurd".
And...
Somewhere you will have the same "technical" knowledge than the best researchers, but you can always learn from their attitudes and methods towards the same knowledge you have.