My point is, we have responsibility with this life to make the world a better a place for all who inhabit today and in the future. We have inherited this beautiful planet and our lives for a brief time only. What we do wth our time here is telling. Wishing, waiting for the world to end is by nature deluded thinking and hopefully not a self-fullfilling prophecy because we certainly possess the means to do it. And it seems countless people are OK with this.
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The real danger of "end times" thinking
by new22day inif the world is going to come to an end doesn't it drain one's motivation to make the world a better place?
is religion just giving people a free pass to apathy and letting them off the hook?
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The real danger of "end times" thinking
by new22day inif the world is going to come to an end doesn't it drain one's motivation to make the world a better place?
is religion just giving people a free pass to apathy and letting them off the hook?
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Good points everyone. Thanks for responding
"Political history is full of examples of tiny governments being afraid of the populace revolting because we always outnumber them. ... Just think what 7 billion people could do if they tried."
Xanthippe: I really love this.Julia Orwell: thanks for the insight. When I read the internal struggles/guilt so many of you went through I'm reminded I don't fully get it and I'm shocked at how tough being a JW can really be. Glad you're free and doing better.
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The real danger of "end times" thinking
by new22day inif the world is going to come to an end doesn't it drain one's motivation to make the world a better place?
is religion just giving people a free pass to apathy and letting them off the hook?
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If the world is going to come to an end doesn't it drain one's motivation to make the world a better place? Is religion just giving people a free pass to apathy and letting them off the hook?
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Save the Manatees!
by wha happened? inhttp://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-19-2013/tea-party-manatee-riding-patriots?xrs=synd_facebook.
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Just watching 'Religulous' again. Bill Maher is great and he totally cracks me up. Have you seen it?
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Finding love after Da Troof
by hamsterbait indo they go out in door to bore misery.
lets face it - the witless mating guide is just a checklist of behaviors that makes a potential mate.. how do you let go from this??.
sorry - have met so and am already going through this compatibility crap.
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come to think of it ... I stayed with a grown man who was scared to leave the house on Halloween for fear of demons getting him.... I think i need a better checklist
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Finding love after Da Troof
by hamsterbait indo they go out in door to bore misery.
lets face it - the witless mating guide is just a checklist of behaviors that makes a potential mate.. how do you let go from this??.
sorry - have met so and am already going through this compatibility crap.
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Sorry but JWs don't get to have sole domain on this one - lol. Dating is just hard period and I think everyone has silly checklists of some sort or the other. As you said, try to just take it as it comes and I bet you do great! Good luck.
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Noah's Ark and I'm a dumbass
by new22day inwalking down memory lane today and recalled a convo with my ex about noah's ark.
(i made all the rookie mistakes when talking to my ex about jw stuff -sigh.
) i think i said something like 'if you believe in noah's ark take the cat and a mouse from the backyard for a drive around the block and let me know how it goes.
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Cyberjesus, you sound like my ex - kinda dumb. We should totally go on a date
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Where do we go when we die?
by cptkirk inwhat would happen if we did not have religion to give some at least inference to (at the very least) our subconscious, that there is some type of afterlife?
what would we tell kids when they ask us what happens when we die?
what would we tell kids after these shooting massacres?
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It's interesting that as the old religions and stories become more and more worn out (there's too much understanding of history and science to belief for most thinking people), there are new ideas of God/creation emerging that marry science and religion. Things like energy fields and quantum physics. I don't understand much about it but it seems many people (including scientists) aren't giving up on the idea of an afterlife just yet.
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Noah's Ark and I'm a dumbass
by new22day inwalking down memory lane today and recalled a convo with my ex about noah's ark.
(i made all the rookie mistakes when talking to my ex about jw stuff -sigh.
) i think i said something like 'if you believe in noah's ark take the cat and a mouse from the backyard for a drive around the block and let me know how it goes.
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Well global flood aside, he was referring to the literal ark, with all the animals and the Mount Ararat thing. I don't want to be rude, but all the animals on earth sailed around in a boat? Come on.
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Crazy Religions
by Qcmbr ini was reading a good article regarding the relative 'craziness' of faiths (blog) and they mentioned a lot about mormons.
in short they talked about the socially accepted craziness (as opposed to actual mental illness) of mainstream , culturally accepted faiths v those that are relatively new.
we see scientology as more crazy than catholicism if we fall into the trap of judging without consideration but when examined all religions have very crazy elements.
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new22day
Humans are bat shit crazy (no offense to bats)! We have a lot to learn from the species we share this planet with.