greetings, friends:.
wishing you well and progress toward freedom.. comments from elsewhere on the vignette below have spurred me to share how the jw experience affected me.
basically, the jumble of emotions and thoughts - good and bad - pours out of me in story form.
compound complex Your writing is always enjoyable and stirring emotionally. Perhaps more substance by way of a plot that leads somewhere would hold the readers attention for longer.
We need to see the character’s emotion manifesting in action; to see how his action is consistent with his emotion or whether his behaviour becomes contradictory when tested.
I appreciate that you are only showing us glimpses of your work. I shall watch this space...
only scientific responses needed smiddy
AGuest Just when I thought it was safe to go round the bend, you have come back to straighten me out after a 4 month absence.
Good to see you back on the forum.
SweetBabyCheezits So very true.
Humans were the last species to appear on planet earth and are likely to be the first to leave. For every human there are at least 1.5 million ants. Now I haven’t personal counted them but I have faith that whoever did was not telling porkies.
Ants are great survivors and would survive despite, nuclear warfare, famine, bent politicians and a worldwide collapse of computers and commuters. And all without religion!
My money is on the ant - though snails are nicer to eat.
one of the hardest questions to answer if you believe in an all loving god, is why 'he' permits so much pain and suffering?
of course as imperfect, sinful humans we all know we could not bare to watch a day of human suffering without helping out, how could a god cope and not intervene for thousands of years....?.
the answer most of us all accepted was a pair of scales.
mP Lets keep thing simple - for my sake.
one of the hardest questions to answer if you believe in an all loving god, is why 'he' permits so much pain and suffering?
of course as imperfect, sinful humans we all know we could not bare to watch a day of human suffering without helping out, how could a god cope and not intervene for thousands of years....?.
the answer most of us all accepted was a pair of scales.
mP Lets keep thing simple - for my sake.
one of the hardest questions to answer if you believe in an all loving god, is why 'he' permits so much pain and suffering?
of course as imperfect, sinful humans we all know we could not bare to watch a day of human suffering without helping out, how could a god cope and not intervene for thousands of years....?.
the answer most of us all accepted was a pair of scales.
One thing that both Christians and Atheists on this board agree on, is that Adam & Eve never really existed as humans.
That would be simple enough except that Christians have suggested that they may have been:
(a) spiritual
(b) metaphorical
(c) symbolic
(d) analogical
(e) ‘possibly’ existed as humans
Jesus could help out here but he is keeping quiet. For my money I would avoid all box-ticking and go with, Adam & Eve never really existed as humans.
Reference: Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.
Hope this helps.
The gladiator - helping people avoid hours of debate about nothing.
NewChapter Perhaps your confrontational approach and certainty is nothing to do with having been a Jehovah's Witnesses, and more to do with your disposition. You give the impression of being strong, certain and intelligent, and I don’t doubt that you are. You are certainly entertaining.
Tolerance should not be mistaken for weakness. In both nature and engineering, strength is often found in things that have the greatest tolerance. Brittle things are prone to suddenly snap.
Until it’s Time for me to go.
“I was an oak.
Now I'm a willow.
Now I can bend.”
sleep eludes me.
she plays coy, then retreats, laughing as she looks back at me.
i vacate my disheveled bed with less than quiet resignation.
compound complex Moving words indeed. Life can lose its lustre. Hang on in there.
i've been in the vale of deep shadows, but am feeling more and more like myself.. i'm grateful to my doctors and modern medicine.. sylvia.
snowbird Quite a few people have left recently. Wondered where you had gone.
Hope you are feeling more settled and sociable. Remember, it's all in the mind.
