TOTH I can't begin to imagine what it is like to have to adjust to such a loss.
Hope that you get used to the prosthesis when it arrives and are able to get back to your normal routine.
My thoughts are with you.
Trevor
i have been out of commission for several weeks.
back around the first of the year i developed an infection in my left foot.
due to diabetes and poor circulation the doctors were unable to save my foot and so i received a below the knee amputation.
TOTH I can't begin to imagine what it is like to have to adjust to such a loss.
Hope that you get used to the prosthesis when it arrives and are able to get back to your normal routine.
My thoughts are with you.
Trevor
op based on mr. freeze's topic - could attending the meetings/studying again sway any of you back to the org.
hearing the propaganda over and over again is pretty powerful i'm sure.
(i'm a non-jw, non-christian (no offense), stubborn as a bull and even i had moments of pause based on some of the doctrine (lasted 30 seconds) but i never had family/friends at stake or a background in this.
For the right compensation I could be persuaded. Every man has his breaking point!
"And about 30,000 others......pick yours....or not."
Thanks but I'd rather pick my nose!
zed is dead There are hundreds of gods and as many as you can imagine.
how do we reconcile those bullshits being told at the meetings about how jehovah's eyes are upon us and how his figurative wings serves as protection to those who are destitute with the condition of these sickly sudanese refugees at this camp.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlh1xd2lu&feature=g-all-u.
tec " It would be a fundamental flaw, imo, that if we are all there is, that we could not learn to stand on our own in reality."
Billions of people do stand on reality, others seek an alternative of their own. I totally understand the desire to put faith in a hope for the future. At the end of the day reality is a persistent intruder.
how do we reconcile those bullshits being told at the meetings about how jehovah's eyes are upon us and how his figurative wings serves as protection to those who are destitute with the condition of these sickly sudanese refugees at this camp.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlh1xd2lu&feature=g-all-u.
tec "Because there would have been nothing for us to seek to begin with. Why develop a yearning for something that is non-existant? If you say it developed as part of our evolution or pattern thinking, whatever, well that implies a fundamntal flaw in the human species, that it cannot survive without delusion of some sort."
This would appear to be the case. Unlike other animals we have a highly developed imagination which gives us the ability to contemplate our own demise. This same ability allows us to create a way to circumnavigate death - in our mind.
It could be that the Achilles heel in the human race is our overly imaginative mind. It has enabled us to re-shape the world we live in and give us an abundance of choice and pleasure. Ultimately, as a race, it could be our undoing.
Peace
Trevor
it just hit me why none of you have a clue as to who i am or what to make of me.
you are all completely foreigners lol...wow that is like crazy as shit.
most of you have not even a clue as to east coast hardcore new york philly personality types, esp of xy generation.
I can’t tell how much of what you're telling me is shit and how much is bull-shit.
Are you shitting or bull-shitting me boy?
No shit?
Shit…
how do we reconcile those bullshits being told at the meetings about how jehovah's eyes are upon us and how his figurative wings serves as protection to those who are destitute with the condition of these sickly sudanese refugees at this camp.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihlh1xd2lu&feature=g-all-u.
LouBelle "jah as pathetic as the greek gods."
Steady on there LouBelle, I have more than 300 hundred Greek gods that I keep in a jar. They are very small gods.
The petulant bullying Hebrew desert god Jah, despite sounding like a container for my gods, exists only in the ancient writings of the bible and the imagination of the Israelites. I spent 20 years talking to him before I realized I had, been had!
it just hit me why none of you have a clue as to who i am or what to make of me.
you are all completely foreigners lol...wow that is like crazy as shit.
most of you have not even a clue as to east coast hardcore new york philly personality types, esp of xy generation.
I don't understand why you are getting all this deep shit on west coast.
Perhaps they aren't treating the sewage properly?
it just hit me why none of you have a clue as to who i am or what to make of me.
you are all completely foreigners lol...wow that is like crazy as shit.
most of you have not even a clue as to east coast hardcore new york philly personality types, esp of xy generation.
As it happens I went back to spend a week in New York a few years ago. Against advice, me and the wife caught the subway to Harlem . The black people on the train made a great fuss of us and had lots of questions. The huge guard sat and talked to us too.
In Harlem we were treated very well. Went round the museum of black people history. Interesting but understandably rather anti-white. New York was great but not the place I would want to live. Carmel along from San Francisco was great. Clint Eastwood lives there, but then he can afford to.