can all indoctrination leave a person , or does it linger in background till death..
My opinion and my experience.
No you can never have a full healing.
You will always be carrying baggage.
But you can rise above it and have a good life.
But the baggage will always be there.
That is the way my brain works.
Maybe you have a better brain.
Mine is not very good.
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
That is what they want you to believe.
They want you to be confused and believe that we evolved from nothing.
You being a Godless atheist would naturally say Sitchin is wrong.
And I am sure you have not read all his books.
You just believe he is wrong because some one told you he is wrong.
We can not know what is right or what is wrong because we have been dumbed down to the point where we cant know.
So I guess you must be right Sitchin is wrong.
Cofty is right.
while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.
because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".
i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.
If you really want the answer read zechariah Sitchin.
And Peter Tellinger Slave species of God. And the Gods of Eden by William Bramley.
These are based on the Sumerian text which the bible is based on.
But the bible has an agenda which these works will reveal.
We are slaves of the Gods to do their work, fight their wars and make their profits.
If you are smart enough, you can fall out of line and watch the others fall in line.
the last kh i attended, (faded) was built in 2014. there are no windows anywhere, although the front doors are glass.
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it's nothing but a brown brick rectangle, as nondescript as possible as well.. any thoughts about why?.
I have never been in a kingdom hall without windows.
But I have been out since 83.
I think it is the dumbing down of Amerika.
i've always been a bit of a reader - but only reading about topics i find interesting, e.g.
natural history, dinosaurs, etc.. recently i've started to select, buy and read novels.. this year i've bought and read frankenstein (mary shelly), dracula (bram stoker), the hound of the baskervilles (a. conan doyle), 'salem's lot (stephen king), jurassic park (michael crichton) and the firm (john grisham).. i have an inclination towards horrors and thrillers.. what fiction have you been reading?.
could you recommend anything?.
This is a good one.
The God's of Eden" William Bramley.
I would classify it more as historical fiction.
i've always been a bit of a reader - but only reading about topics i find interesting, e.g.
natural history, dinosaurs, etc.. recently i've started to select, buy and read novels.. this year i've bought and read frankenstein (mary shelly), dracula (bram stoker), the hound of the baskervilles (a. conan doyle), 'salem's lot (stephen king), jurassic park (michael crichton) and the firm (john grisham).. i have an inclination towards horrors and thrillers.. what fiction have you been reading?.
could you recommend anything?.
"The Magic Strings of Frankie Pesto" by Mitch Albom.
I'm not a fan of fiction, but it was alright.
besides being raised in the religion , why do people become jws?
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I was raised in it so I don't understand why someone would become a Jw.
I spent 30 years trying to escape.
so we were talking about noah for our family worship tonight and it ended with a little debate between me and my parents about how the flood was possible.
you know, where did the water come from, how did all the animals fit, etc.
of course it led nowhere and my parents came up with some strange theories like that there was "an expanse of water in the sky" and that's where all the water came from.
Kent Hovind has all kinds of scientific facts on why the flood happened. You can watch his videos, if you want to know.
I won't argue it here.
so we were talking about noah for our family worship tonight and it ended with a little debate between me and my parents about how the flood was possible.
you know, where did the water come from, how did all the animals fit, etc.
of course it led nowhere and my parents came up with some strange theories like that there was "an expanse of water in the sky" and that's where all the water came from.
one of my interests is music and i play an acoustic guitar.. i wrote a poem about my guitar and thought i'd share it with you.
my poem doesn't match up to some of compound complex's work however, i'd really appreciate any feedback you can give.. my guitar my friend.
reaching for my old companion.
If he could play it in one take why didn't he?
Don't do the losers limp on me now.
I posted recording of him playing it without the triplets.
I suspect some drummers today figured out how to do live what he couldn't do live but could do in the studio.
