Posts by Scully

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My 8 year old daughter tells me she is an atheist...???

by sosoconfused in

so since we have not been to a meeting in 6 months or so, i decided to ask my daughter (on the way home from cheerleading practice - yeah i can't believe i am letting her engage in such a worldly activity lol) if she misses going to the kingdom hall.

she says sometimes because she can't see her friend - but she has made new friends so it doesn't bother her too much.

so i ask her, "well, what about learning about jehovah?

Scully

sosoconfused

Don't stress about it too much. Like MrFreeze said, all children are born atheists - without belief in the supernatural - I can totally relate. When I was 6 years old, my parents started Studying™ with the JWs. We'd never been a churchgoing family before this, not even at Christmas or Easter. Anyway, the first Meeting™ we went to, I was listening to them talk about how the earth would turn into a paradise after Armageddon™ and I distinctly remember thinking "That's NEVER going to happen!"

Kids have a better BS detector than we give them credit for sometimes.

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Food For Logical Thought...

by braincleaned in

sometimes we waste hours and hours debating a subject like the flood, and the impossible scientific and evolutionary consequences that it entails.

we go into great debates about how all of is is possible, what a "kind" means (species, obviously not)... etc.... but believers will not stop believing... so here is something even a child would think of more logically:if god is all powerful and love why would he have not just made the wicked drop dead, painlessly?

simply, humanly.

Scully

I think sometimes religious people use the graphic violence (a) to scare themselves - and their kids - into behaving (b) as kind of taking delight in the death of someone they consider to be a sinner (Schadenfreude).

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Do you have coconut oil recipes that does not involve knives?

by Iamallcool in

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i have been encouraging my mom to cook with coconut oil, it does help with her dementia symptoms sometimes.

it is just not safe for people with dementia to use knives for cooking, thats why i need some recipe ideas.

thank you!.

Scully

use a spoon to take it out of the container instead of a knife.

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My 8 year old daughter tells me she is an atheist...???

by sosoconfused in

so since we have not been to a meeting in 6 months or so, i decided to ask my daughter (on the way home from cheerleading practice - yeah i can't believe i am letting her engage in such a worldly activity lol) if she misses going to the kingdom hall.

she says sometimes because she can't see her friend - but she has made new friends so it doesn't bother her too much.

so i ask her, "well, what about learning about jehovah?

Scully

Good for her.

Good for you too.

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Bloody livid with school teacher teaching soul leaving body to 6 yr olds

by not bitter in

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just put my 6 yr old to bed and we always have a chat about the day.

she tells me that she knows about another thing that happens to our bodies when we die in addition to buriel and cremation.. .

she tells me that they can do something really nasty to the body but its ok because they're dead so don't know about it.

Scully

I'd be curious as to what prompted that discussion in the first place.

Did another 6 year old come to school upset because their pet passed away? or maybe a granny or grandpa?

Did someone find a dead creature on school property, like a mouse or a bird?

I can't imagine a teacher just coming out and having a class on 'what happens after you die' - there must have been an event that precipitated it.

Did someone bring a book to school about a death in the family?

Yes, there's only a week left of school, but for your own peace of mind, I'd ask the question. "My child came home wondering about something you discussed in class, about what happens when you die. I'm wondering how that topic came about? She was quite distressed and needed me to follow up on it. How did the discussion proceed? Did other children talk about their beliefs or just yours?"

It's one thing if the teacher invited the children to talk about what they think happens at death, but quite something else if the teacher just stated her opinion without giving the opportunity to discuss.

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Where Does Material Success Come From - The Devil or God?

by Iown Mylife in

how can you tell if your business successes are coming from satan or god?

because if your work gets real busy and you miss some meetings and/or fs, is that how you tell that it's from satan?

but then if you contribute a big amount every week, is it from jehovah?

Scully

It comes from getting up off the couch and working your ass off.

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Complete Donation What Happened?

by Marvin Shilmer in

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complete donation what happened?.

today i added a new article to my blog showing part of a never before publicized letter where the watchtower organization makes admission of how jehovahs witnesses actually responded to the 1990 change to its complete donation arrangement.

my article is titled complete donation what happened?

Scully

It's kind of funny, but when they first moved to the Complete Donation Arrangement™, Mr Scully was assisting the Ministerial Servants™ on the Literature Counter™, and I commented that there would be massive orders for cassette tapes, CDs and expensive volumes that people generally didn't purchase because they were considered to be luxury items. Mr Scully gave the people in the Congregation™ the benefit of the doubt and said that it was like being on the honour system, and the Brothers™ would be fair and honest and contribute accordingly. I told him he was dreaming in Technicolor™.

I also objected to the idea that we were expected to Donate™ the same amount as we did prior to the Complete Donation Arrangement™, plus any Contributions™ we received from Householders™ were expected to be put in the Contribution Boxes™ as well. I considered that to be "double dipping" as far as the WTS was concerned and I'm so glad the whole thing blew up in their greedy faces.

That's what happens when you're in league with Billy Graham as a "Friend of the Court", dumbasses.

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Your views and ideas on forum areas and organization?

by Simon in

this may come as a shock to some people, but the current forum structure was kind of thrown together without much real thought and then evolved a bit over time.

there are a few things that particularly grate on me and areas where i don't think the subjects work particularly well.

'friends' is a bit vague and becomes a dumping ground, news & world events vs politics & current affairs is hard to decide sometimes, child abuse is a scandal but isn't contained withing 'scandals & coverups' etc.... with a new forum platform imminent, it's a good time to solicit ideas to improve things.

Scully

I'd love to modify/update my profile, using pics from photobucket or flickr or uploaded from my PC.

Also my email address that I first registered with is long gone, so any email notifications I may get or password retrievals etc wouldn't work for me.

A way of knowing at a glance when I have a PM, rather than having to go into my PMs to check, and possibly the option to receive PMs via email.

A preview function to check formatting of a post prior to posting would be lovely.

A subscribe to this thread/unsubscribe option, with possible email notification of thread activity, as well as a Like button (toggle on or off in case you click the like button by mistake).

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At the DMV and what do I see?

by whathehadas in

the jw's are taking it a little too far.

people have to wait in line and be tortured by the sight of this.. .

Scully

Oh and that sign "Free Bible Literature" is misleading.

Once you start accepting the Free™ Bible Literature, they'll want your soul in return.

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At the DMV and what do I see?

by whathehadas in

the jw's are taking it a little too far.

people have to wait in line and be tortured by the sight of this.. .

Scully

Isn't the DMV a GOVERNMENT office? Why the hell are they even allowed there? Haven't they heard of the separation of church and state?