If things worked that way, there would be no Roman Catholic Church today, there would have been no Nazi Germany, no genocide in Cambodia, etc. etc.
Posts by Mum
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50Big Revolt Among CO, DO, Bethelites, and Branch Servant Likely
by frankiespeakin inas the information age is apon us and it doesn't take that much information to easily prove this new light by the governing body granting them absolute loyalty and power is a blatant power grab by a bunch of over the hill ego maniacs i see a revolt in the making..
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College Update
by noni1974 inso, in 2010 i recived my ged with the goal of going to college and getting a degree.
in the mean time i have been an active member of my schools honors program and have finished all of the requirements for graduation from the honors program.
they were 15 credit hours of honors classes, 12 hours of volunteer work in my community, and 16 hours of cultural activites offered by the honors program.
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Mum
Congratulations! Let's have an apostafest graduation party when you graduate!
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For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends
by Jomavrick ini am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.
so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.
but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.
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Mum
Thanks, Tater. My father-in-law used to remind his conservative wife that the real welfare is at the top of the ladder, not at the bottom.
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My name is Michael.
by new hope and happiness inresearch has shown that " generally" the best way to challenge someone is to use their first name.
to me being addressed by my name " michael" and addressing someone by their christian name is more friendly than using a title.
i think it would also make it easier for elders to accept someones different point of view if they referrd to the brother by therir christian name.
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Mum
Hi, Michael. You may not realize it, but a lot of fundamentalist Christians refer to one another as "brother" and "sister." My early childhood years were spent attending such churches in the woods in east Tennessee. I think these folks did consider themselves different from "the world" and acknowledging one another as brothers and sisters kept them aware of their dependence on one another and their rejection of worldly pleasures and pursuits. They were honest, sincere, good people, with a few exceptions of course.
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Another Newbie
by Skinnedsheep ini recently came to the realization that the organization is corrupt and is false.
my story is similar to many i think.
i was raised in the religion, pioneered and served as an elder for a number of years.
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Mum
Welcome, SS.
My exit did not come because I woke up. I was bitterly disappointed about 1975 because I had not planned for old age and retirement. I was only 27 in 1975. I was losing what mental health I still had; i.e., I was bat crap crazy, without hope or anything to look forward to.
I wanted to go back to college to at least learn some job skills, but my elder husband was against it. Family members gave me enough money to take two classes at the local state university. We had a fight about it every day.
My cousin, who lived on the other end of the U.S. told me I could come and stay with him while I sorted things out. Little by little I came to realize that it was not evil to get an education or plan for the future. I also knew that I did not want my daughter to have the kind of life I had.
Fortunately for me, I did not come from a family of JW's. So I did not risk losing family by my choices.
Best wishes with your roller coaster ride. If you can move to another location, I recommend it. Otherwise, just keep up appearances.
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Is it proper to kneeling before adults?
by KSFernando inas per the sri lankan customs, sri lankans kneel before adults (such as parents, grand parents, teachers etc) to show their respect.. i have quoted some writings from jw literature,.. in some parts of the world, it is the custom for young children to honor adults by kneeling respectfully when in their company.
in this way, they do not stand taller than those who are older.
in these communities, it is also viewed as an act of disrespect for a child to turn his or her back to an adult.
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Mum
Welcome to the forum!
Customs and propriety are not as big a deal as people make them. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, etc. Just stay out of trouble.
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For all my Liberal/Progressive Friends
by Jomavrick ini am going to be unplugged while i gallivant around europe for a while, which means there will be one person short of holding up the conservative banner on this site.
so you can all pile on your leftist views of society, obama, health care, benghazi, irs, union thugery, socialism, redistribution of wealth, racism, sexism, gay marriage, right wing conspiracies, talk radio, fox news, wall street, the national debt, the educational system without my counterbalancing your neurotic views.
but i do love you non the less by brothers and sisters.
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Mum
You're going to love socialist Europe. Almost all European countries have "socialized" medicine, six-week vacations and other "liberal" benefits. Have the time of your life living in societies you totally disapprove of!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Funks the Universe - Music Video
by cantleave ini found this on google+ today, as well as touching on some mind blowing astrophysical ideas, it made me laugh.
so i am sharing for your enjoyment...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e831odxzkwo.
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Mum
Neil deGrasse Tyson is brilliant! I'll bet he's a lot of fun, too!
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Silly TV Programs From The 1960s to the 1970s
by minimus inmcmillan & wife with rock hudson is what i just saw on tv.
watching rock hudson kiss his wife while smoking a cigarette is pretty funny.
and he solved a murder case as he lit up another cigarette at some wealthy person's party.....good stuff!.
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Mum
I was always fond of Leave it to Beaver. I wanted Beaver's life.
Even before I was a dub, I was brought up by very religious fundamentalist Christian grandparents. What struck me about TV at that time was that nobody ever went to church or even talked about Jesus. The committed "sins" (e.g., going to movies, ball games, drinking alcoholic beverages, wearing make-up, etc.) but nobody ever said anything to them about it. In fact, everybody did those things. They all had nice houses, nice cars, stylish decor, and all the amenities of modern life and seemed to do anything they liked.
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So apparently I'm now a Secular Humanist
by Oubliette ini was doing some research on the subject of beliefs and belief systems when i came across an on-line survey/test that supposedly helps you determine which religion or philosophy is most like your current beliefs.
if you're curious, you can take the quiz here: belief system selector quizafter answering the 20 questions the results were spit out!
tada!!!.
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Mum
I'm a secular humanist, too. Unitarian Universalist second. On another test, I was Unitarian Universalist.
Of all the religions on the list, the one that appeals to me the most is Taoism, but I scored 64%, so maybe I'm not as Taoist as I would like to believe. To me, the Tao is about reality and acceptance.
I scored pretty high on Quakerism, too. I've been reading Chesapeake by James Michener, which gives some good info about Quakers in colonial America. They were ahead of their time for sure. They were the first (not sure about that) to object to slavery and the first to free their slaves. Even when they had slaves, they taught them to read, and tried to accept them as full human beings, teaching them to read and caring about their families.
If you have not read the Tao Te-Ching, I strongly recommend it. It makes me feel centered and at peace.