It was about US patriotism. Comments? I'll add mine later.
I will say, great writing and this show just keeps getting better.
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Anyone see The Simpsons tonight?
by wasasister init was about us patriotism.
comments?
i'll add mine later.. i will say, great writing and this show just keeps getting better.
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Do I really upset people on here?
by ScoobySnax in.
i don't think i say anything more forthright than the next on here........ its just that i believe differently.. if i do upset people then i'll go.. if i don't then i'll stay.. scoob
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Scooby, I don't think anyone here would accuse you of being a deep thinker. Your answer to Ona above is about as shallow as I've ever seen.
You must understand this: not every "exJW" left because of negative experiences - bad elders, disfellowshipping, child abuse, UN scandal, etc. Speaking personally, I had a very nice upbringing in what I then thought to be "The Truth". My mom was a firm believer, she was the best mother anyone could ever hope for, my kids were raised with fantastic moral values, I had friends, I was a well-respected member of the congregation.
The religion is simply wrong. Doctrine, interpretation, predictions, you name it - wrong. The wrongness is sytemic and there's no way to fix it....other than leave, which I did. After getting out, I then realized how many people had been harmed by the wrongness and it changed my perspective.
I am in no way bitter about having been a Jehovah's Witness for over 30 years. But I'm awake now in ways I was not before and if you can't see that, then your alarm clock hasn't gone off yet. Maybe it never will, you seem a very sound sleeper.
Oh, and in answer to your question....you don't affect me one way or another. I just don't care.
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Do you fear death?
by onacruse in.
the ultimate test of our existence: termination.. i don't fear death...no reservations, no nightmares.. craig
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Ona:
What is it for me? Seriously?
It's something I don't know yet. When I "woke up", spiritually speaking, I realized I had more questions than answers and that was somehow OK with me. I no longer worry that I don't have all those absolute answers I did when I was a JW.
I guess I'll just wait and see. In the meantime, I intend to live what's left of my life to the fullest extent possible. Do I want this life to end anytime soon? Hell no!
And as to the Woody Allen quote, when I go, I'd like to not be aware of the onset of death. Maybe in my sleep or during the act of.....well, you get the picture.
Go to bed, ya silly beast.
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Do you fear death?
by onacruse in.
the ultimate test of our existence: termination.. i don't fear death...no reservations, no nightmares.. craig
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Ona: You're very introspective lately. What's up, Buddy?
If I were in your position, I know what I'd be doing to make my remaining time in the carnal world count.
Go find some new positions and quit worrying about it. Won't do no good anyhoo.
Favorite line from The Big Chill: "He went out with a bang, not a whimper..."
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Do you fear death?
by onacruse in.
the ultimate test of our existence: termination.. i don't fear death...no reservations, no nightmares.. craig
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wasasister
Woody Allen says it all for me:
"I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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Why Sex??
by PopeOfEruke insince being de-borged, i have come to appreciate that the answer to the old blue book "did man get here by evolution or by creation" is probably "evolution".. one thing about evolution which is still hard to explain is why or how did sexual reproduction evolve?
of course now that we have it, i guess most of us would not like to go back to the "old" way, of either dividing ourselves into 2, or else self-fertilizing ourselves from our own 2 sets of sex-organs (ewwww!!!).
i know a lot of men try this anyway but to no avail.......... but what motive force could have existed to actually evolve sexual reproduction in the first place?
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I have to admit stuff abdapt but heh this perfectly? Thousands upon thousands of "Big Crunches" when the universe is born again and closed again, just can't make it that perfect... especially when they abdaptations are more of a convience than chemical.
Obviously Secret....seriously, Dude. Huh? You can go on and on with this stuff? I implore you, please do not.
If your post is in support of Creation, then I can add nothing. lol and stuff
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The pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton according to Gérard Gertoux
by Narkissos insome time ago i stumbled across a book by french author gerard gertoux, about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.
the book was also published in english (cf.
the author's site at http://gertoux.online.fr/divinename/) .
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Alan F says:
Gertoux occasionally posts to a JW-only email list that I subscribe to.
Oxymoron if I ever heard one.
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Governing Blunders - Part 1
by hillary_step ini thought i would start a weekly column of wts inanity, inanity serious enough to have affected peoples perceptions and negatively changed their lives.. .
one famous wts myth that i have heard uttered more times a minimus question is that ?women feel while men think?, did you ever wonder where the wts dug that thought up from?
apparently from an unamed woman psychologist and the famous department of ?many authorities?
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That statement still makes me cross my legs very rapidly.
No worries, HS. My super-powers are only used for vanquishing evil. You're safe with me.
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Ridicule or Reason on JWD? What do you do?....
by ScoobySnax indo you think its right to ridicule jws on this forum or reason with them?
so many threads.
so many strong personalities.
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CR writes:
What I don't understand Scooby, is why it's okay when you're the one with the opinion or doing the ridiculing. You're pointing fingers at others for what they do here, but really, can you honestly say you haven't spent time ridiculing others here? Or at the very least pushing some buttons for a reaction?.
Having been on the receiving end of some of Scooby's ridicule, insults, and button-pushing, I can only say, "ditto".
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Governing Blunders - Part 1
by hillary_step ini thought i would start a weekly column of wts inanity, inanity serious enough to have affected peoples perceptions and negatively changed their lives.. .
one famous wts myth that i have heard uttered more times a minimus question is that ?women feel while men think?, did you ever wonder where the wts dug that thought up from?
apparently from an unamed woman psychologist and the famous department of ?many authorities?
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I think (feel?) Meyers-Briggs is full of crap. I've taken it several times when interviewing for jobs, at seminars, etc. Each time I was able to make the test come out to get me hired (or whatever.) Some of the popular tests have a graph based on which of four traits dominate. I never did find a graph to fit my results.
My young daughters used to giggle aloud when this sort of thing was mentioned at meetings. They knew, even from a tender age, that their mom was the logical one in the family.
Like good and evil (as we have so thoroughly discussed recently) "logic" and "feeling" exist in everyone. Good training helps sales-people switch customers to the "feeling" side of the brain in order to make a sale. If women seem more in touch with "feelings" it is likely repetative reinforcement, rather than a natural gender inclination.