what skills/habits do you believe all humans should develop/have to make them more valuable to society?.
every person should know how to swim.
jovial.
Serious: Have the skills to feed, cloth and shelter themselves in the case of an emergency, cook (real cooking, not from a can), sew, basic electrical, basic plumbing, basic building, math, reading, writing, communication and how to say NO. And this isn't a skill but every human needs to look at things as fixable and not disposable.
Jovial: Masking farts in public, polite staring and how to do almost anything naked (safely).
so, why are we like the animals if the bible says we are made in almighty gods image.
this should be an asy question.?
use of the capital letter.
What a load of crap. If we were made in his image then, no matter how much testing and deception, we wouldn't "sin", even with free will.
Can the christian/jewish/creationist god lie or sin? No? Then his creation shouldn't be able to either unless God didn't really make us in his image but made us flawed, or the whole thing is a lie.
my mother has the c.o staying and told her the new zealand bethel is about to be closed and the land and buildings sold.. .
karter..
So much for their purported growth.
Looks like jayhoover is speeding it up so fast they’re forced to downsize.
i knew one day it would happen.
i often wondered how i would react.
well, sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned.. last weekend i went back home to chi-town to finally clean out a locker my sister and i share.
Thanks for the experience.
I'm still "in" but checked out and I don't like associating or being seen with the witlesses; now I won't feel so bad when I run away from them.
recently, when saying goodbye to my grandmother, who i only see a few times a year, she started tearing and said something that made me very sad.
she said she had to tell me that the door to jehovah's kingdom is closing at any moment now, and that if i didn't do anything now, it would be to late.
to her, she is facing an eternity without her grandchildren and it makes her very sad.
When an elderly witless is facing their end in "this system" it scares them because they thought, and were always taught, that they would see the big A. I think many are having (secret) doubts and are just looking for affirmation to the beliefs they held so dear for so long.
during door to door activity in the distant past i have had the experience of witnessing actual anxiety attacks of jw's who could not handle that required preaching on that day and on more than one occasion.. this is what i have seen on multiple occassions.. extreme headaches, upset stomach to the point of vomiting, visible trembling before even approaching the door, arguments with spouses and children, signs of elevated blood pressure, light sensitiity, a total character change, and basicly a complete shut down to the point of limited communication.
yes we all have butterflies in the stomach associated with certain activities but what i am talking about here bodily affliction to the point of physically affecting the individual in some cases for the rest of the day.. these symptoms are obviously present for some newbie to this type of activity but i have observed this from people who have been exposed to this type of work for years.
i think the body just cannot handle the stress anymore, and the marination in the hormones associated with it.
I find the less witless things I do the better my mental health gets.
For years I couldn't figure out what was causing my eating disorder and why I was so anxious/depressed, now I know.
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the service meeting for this week was almost entirely made up of questions based on the dvd faith in action pt1.
I grudgingly watched it and now have the heebie-jeebies from all the lies.
This DVD is so full of shight it needs to come with a full Tyvec contamination containment suit (with the optional attached vomit bag) to watch it.
have you done a "sin" that you didn't confess to the elders?.
When I was still trying to believe I figured whatever I did wrong was between God and I, no one else.
Now that the veil has been lifted I don't believe I've "sinned", so what would there be to confess?
And well there is the fact that, regardless of conviction, I wouldn't tell those hypocritical bastards anything!
Questions to fence sitters: Can the elders really help you? If you confess anything do you think they will actually help, or instead chastise, manipulate and crush you? Who truly benefits from a confession?
Deep down we know the REAL answer to these questions, so don't feel guilty, mnkay?
poster fernando makes the statement on another thread that we are all "fallen, imperfect, dysfunctional" .
everybody.. i get the feeling that this is not too far removed in its thinking from the wt statement that apostates are mentally diseased, now i am aware that fernando is perpetuating the late doctrine of original sin, and his words were about all mankind, not just us on jwn.. but do you believe you are cursed by what a fictitious couple did in a fabled garden around 6,000 years ago ?
does that make you imperfect, fallen and dysfunctional ?.
Hmm, didn't know I was broken.
Oh please tell me more about myself I din't know.
if you were a jehovah's witness have you "reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by christendom"?.
"from time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of jehovah's people those who, like the original satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude...they say that it is sufficient to read the bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home.
but, strangely, through such 'bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago...".
Love this because reverting back means they think they actually moved forwards!
