i have often wondered if many people would be better off if they stayed witnesses.
some people i have known have really gone off the deep end after they left the watchtower.
most all of my family have left now (not due to me as i was cut off from them for years) and many others i know who have left are now bitter atheists or have become pagans and worship stones or new ageers playing with crystals.
I'd rather worship a rock than be dumb as a rock.
Stupid people can stay dubs if they want to. I just feel sorry for the intelligent people trapped into the dub way of thinking.
Sex is good, married or not. When I realised that I realised there was no God. Just don't do it when you're truly drunk, because you might regret it.
Finally, bitter atheists are better than lager atheists. CAMRA rules!
is this the same channel that you brits get the bbc news on?
there is a show on now called changing rooms.
it's a show where they do remodleing.
Feck!
shamelessly pilfered from another site enjoy!the forums have in many ways become plagued by terrible argument.
people who (i am sure) are perfectly normal irl, seem to lose their way in any from of online debate.
i have been watching this and have compiled a list of common mistakes.
JUHOVER!
let's face it.... the only reason the d.c. sniper was caught was because his pride--arrogance, really--got out of hand.
he bragged about another cold-blooded killing that he had made a month ago.
what his stupid ass didn't realize is that he gave a break to competent officials who were looking for any opening.
Rubbish.
The Al-Qaeda killers and the Washington sniper both had a need for recognition. The difference was that the Al-Quaeda killers weren't worried about their identities being discovered after their crime.
The media putting out the message that arrogance will get you caught will not teach killers to be less arrogant. If they stop being arrogant they won't kill in the first place.
The most dangerous killers are the ones who feel no need for recognition from the outside world, usually because they are a close knit team of two or more people. Fred and Rosemary West were a case in point. Similarly killers whose reason for killing was sexual or sadistic also trip up far less, and are only ever caught when one of their victims escapes their clutches.
Television has an important part to play in educating the public. Killers and Al-Qaeda operatives can get their knowledge from other places.
shamelessly pilfered from another site enjoy!the forums have in many ways become plagued by terrible argument.
people who (i am sure) are perfectly normal irl, seem to lose their way in any from of online debate.
i have been watching this and have compiled a list of common mistakes.
And now gaze through a WT article and see how many of those fallacies you can count.
Especially "Last paragraph was really complicated stuff about a greek word, but what has that to do with the conclusion formed in this paragraph?"
i don't think i will never join another organized religion.
that being said however, i have enjoyed going on occasion to non-denominational churches, watching the band play music, and the speaker.
if you did or would attend another church regularly, which one would you go to and why?
After flunking the Dubs, I gradually stopped believing in God, and I'm probably a Buddhist now.
This didn't stop me from singing in the local Church of England choir, because I like traditional Church music. I wouldn't be heard dead singing happy clappy music however.
Although I didn't believe in any C of E doctrines, they are really great accepting people, though it depends on how much of a hippy the local vicar is. I'll be going along to sing at Christmas, and see all my old friends.
a local kid here recently lit himself on fire.
people are already screaming that the jackass movie should be pulled from theaters.
those people sure piss me off!
People should be encouraged to do stupid things. This world is too namby-pamby safe, full of a bunch of whiners who are scared of everything.
I constantly get injured doing the things I enjoy and if the kid enjoys setting himself on fire then why prevent it?
Films have been full of self righteous heroes hurting 'bad' people ever since they were invented. Why can't films be full of people doing things that only hurt themselves.
No, forget it, stay on the couch eating lard buckets. That's a sure way to a happy life.
if the governing body of jehovah witnesses suddenly found themselves out of the power seat that they currently refuse to vacate what do you think might be a fitting job for them to fill?.
i vote for the gb to start making fortune cookie predictions.
finally they could put some of that self appointed spiritual powers to some worth while means.
Shovellers of ordure
i hated getting ready for the kingdom hall.
the whole thing about modest skirts and matching tops ws really difficult for me.
i totally was not into that at all.. i really felt such a fraud in my jw clothes and couldn't wait to get them off!.
As a bloke who wears a suit to work almost every day, I have to say it ain't just the clothes. It's the way you wear them.
How the dubs manage to always look like a dub in a suit I do not know. Or how you can tell the difference vetween a dub and a mormon even though dubs and mormon men and women all dress the same.
Food for thought. :)
i was reproved at the age of 17 and, believe me it was a nightmare at home.
first, my parents felt such shame over me - i was such an evil disappointment to them.
i would hear my mother talk on the phone to other sisters about how sad she was about the way i had turned out.
Hey! Cain! Some of your old chums stuck by you!
The ones that had left the Klueless Klan anyhow.
