this is to complement the http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160129/1.ashx and http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160192/1.ashx threads.. i'd hate to have anyone feel left out.
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Junction-Guy
I have never dealt with a more rude, callous, backstabbing, smart mouthed bunch, until I started conversing with Atheists on here. They are worse than the JW's. (if that's even possible in my book).
You are wasting your time trying to wind up Atheists. They don't believe you exist!
Yes! A few years ago I released a book about the JWs.
The local newspaper ran an article on it and their reporter went and asked the presiding Elder about their shunning policy.
His reply was published, 'It is not our policy to shun people who leave but I can understand our members not wanting to associate with someone who has criticized something they value.'
What a porker!
ok, i was going to ask whether christians have higher morals, but i thought that other religions have the same kind of morals too.. when i look at those who sincerely follow their religion, i think that they do have a higher morality than those who do not follow some sort of scriptural guidelines.. this is not to say that the religious have a monopoly on morality, or to say that some religious people are not hypocritical in doing what they say, rather than what they do.
but as a whole it seems to me that someone with a religious upbringing has higher standards than someone without.. now some would say that higher standards or lower standards are defined by society, so therefore by whose definition do they have higher morals.
this would be a fair assumption.
But by the basic standards, of decency, treating others with respect and honesty i would say that the religious seem to fair better.
I am wondering how would this apply to the moral conduct of Muslims towards their women and the infidels that surround their special nation?
jesus vs. horus.
jesus was the only begotten son of jehovah.
horus was the only begotten son of osiris.
Quote and counter quote. What we have here is a mass of texts and quotes which amount to no more that words.
It just goes to show how easy it is to invent deities with nothing more than words to play with.
Obviously given the interest in such mystical beings there will be generic copies of all such deities stamped on papyrus throughout history. Words just words...the building blocks of novels written for the masses.
in the course of a conversation (it started with the fact that the convention is in town and i work near the site and i was stressing because my family was across the street) i asked my mom if she was upset because i made her choose between me and her family.
she couldn't answer.
after silence she said, "i always said i would die for you so i guess we'll see.
Now that we are adults we have the right to choose what we believe and how we our lives.
If your mother still hankers after an organization that does not believe we have that right and advocates shunning, that is her choice.
No one should live their life feeling guilty because they are unable to adopt the prejudices of others in order to conform to tyranny.
all the talk on recent threads about what is real and what is beyond the explainable made me decide to reveal something that happened to me.
i usually keep these things close to the vest, because i truly do believe in the phrase: "he that knows does not speak.
he that speaks does not know.
EXPLAIN THIS.......Real, mystical, or what?
Are we all agreed then?
The correct answer is what
the world's most accurate map maker advertises: .
"ours are the best and most accurate maps in the entire world!.
we have the only satellite camera that can precisely measure every road and highway on the planet!
Where is Terry?
Perhaps he refused to use a map and got lost
why do women whine and winge and complain and then you give in...and they find something new to whine winge and complain about?
are they ever satisfied?
whats with mood swings every damn month from happy....to horney.....to angry mental case.....back to happy?
I was in a restaurant with my wife and she decides to choose the wine.
Time passes and the waiter comes over to help. He offers her some whites and some reds. She asks if he has and Rose' and he rattles off a few alternatives. She still cannot decide and the patient waiter stands like a tethered horse waiting.
In the end, bored and desperate for a drink, I say, 'Look how many colours(colors) do you need, you're not choosing curtains!' She laughs, the waiter laughs.
Then she says.' I don't know, you choose.'
My response is instant. A bottle of House Red and a large Whiskey to revive my tongue.
Life is short keep it simple.
i am one who believes strongly in the spirit realm, paranormal activity, etc.
even with such a strong belief, i am often told by skeptics that such things are foolish and nonsense.
while i accept people have the right to feel however they want, i have often shared stories with people that are hard to explain with logic and find others have events like this too.
I once accidently went out wearing socks that did not match. People noticed and said I was not normal - so I must be paranormal.
as civilization has advanced, one after another areas of magic, mysticism, superstition and myth have been blown away by rational investigation, testing, measuring, reasoning and recording data.
the last stand of the "believer" is the miraculous: the as yet unexplained.. this consists of blindly insisting on the unintelligible!
the faithful and discreet slave, for example, knows what you cannot know by yourself.
Magick
It was a cosy kind of feeling. Then, I log on and read this silly dribble Terry wrote.
Terry’s comments make complete sense to me and arrive at a testable conclusion. An enjoyable read. I have read through your post and it makes no sense. It seems to be an example of what Terry is writing about.
Fuzzy, illogical, guesswork that allows you to feel cosy while abandoning your power of reason. Sometimes we have to step outside of our comfort zone in order to grasp what reality is.
Perhaps you should read what you wrote again and ask yourself what your point is?
Edited to add:
If we are going to play amature psychology I would suggest that Freud would also say that the fact you have chosen to write about Terry’s 'penis' and 'man moons' indicates that you have an unconscious sexual attraction towards him.
trevor
