i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
Actually he leaves the god question open as many have said on this forum we cannot say for sure there isn't one, we can only say the Christian God or any God who gives a damn about us doesn't exist.
'These things' don't always turn to magic at all, people are trying to suggest rational explanations, are you sure you have read a) Hawking b) this thread?
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
By the way - there are about 80k astrophysicist and thousands of theoretical physicists. - wilyouDFmeYou might find Stephen Hawking's last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions interesting. Arguably one of the greatest theoretical physicists and scientific minds the world has ever known, he tackles questions regarding is there a God, predicting the future and alien life, in the most amazingly humble way. Notably he does not SHOUT at us willyouDFme. Perhaps you could emulate his intelligent example?
the new study edition watchtower is up, and most of it is devoted to child abuse damage control.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2019/.
Like the Bronze Age religion it is, they view women and children as property not human beings to be cherished.
i was wondering if there was any policy from the cult about your own blood in you cut your finger and put it in your mouth out of reflex ect.
what if any is the position of this?
i always thought the amount of blood is not the real issue, even a drop would be a sin?.
Lol Toby I was out before the whole smurfs thing but I remember the panic about Care Bears and yoga! Childish yes!
i was wondering if there was any policy from the cult about your own blood in you cut your finger and put it in your mouth out of reflex ect.
what if any is the position of this?
i always thought the amount of blood is not the real issue, even a drop would be a sin?.
As I understand it it's an evolutionary instinct that cleans the wound and provides antiseptic from our saliva.
Of course JWs don't believe in evolution. I remember this kind of question occupying the minds of some congregation members. What can I say? I suppose it's a distraction from why hasn't the new system come yet, why is this religion always wrong?
anyone remember 1992?
i can remember i was in the cult.
times were changing at a rapid pace.
The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, I remember it because we left the JWs that year. There was a lot of talk of peace and security, the words were splashed across newspapers. We thought it was odd that nobody in our congregation was interested. Too busy fighting among themselves and the elders stepping on heads.
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
I'm amazed at quantum physics too Bobcat, especially that we can affect things at the quantum level by observing them. So there is a link between living and non-living things at that level. There's still so much we don't know. I agree no need for woo woo. Isn't she in the Mikado?
A scientist.
at matthew 24:45, where jesus discussed the faithful and discreet slave, he gave only two identifying features of that slave.
(1) providing the master’s domestics food at the proper time; and, (2) after having done so, being appointed by the master himself over all the master’s belongings.. since current watchtower teaching is that the appointment over all the master’s belongings is yet future and that such appointment is to be made by the master himself, how does the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses account for the fact that it has preemptively identified itself as that faithful and discreet slave?.
surely there remains among believing jws some who can discern the problem with this teaching!
Dagney that's brilliant thanks!
good morning, .
i am just wondering how you have constructively worked through the emotions of waking up?
i am trying hard to be positive, and i know life is a gift.
Hi Fognomore. I've found that the more people I meet the more I realise there are all sorts of things that happen to people that make their lives hard.
I have a colleague that has type 1 diabetes whose illness and ensuing health problems have stopped her having children.
I've met people with mental health problems, people who are going blind, people who can hardly walk.
In India I saw people living in the most terrible poverty, tumble down houses, children begging on the street. So many different ways of life with everyone just trying to survive with what life has thrown at them.
I hope this helps. I hesitate to write this because it rarely goes down well on this forum to say look around you, there's a lot of people struggling to cope with the cards life has dealt them. It's not just us.
I'm not trying to minimise what you and I as exJWs have suffered I just think we need to mentally join the human race and say life is hard for all of us. It's damaging to think everyone else is having a great time but us. We are all humans struggling together but we're getting there.
