have anyone of you read, the absolutly jaw dropping paragraph in this article about a women who was hit by her husband?
its in page 25 of the 2/15/12 wt study edition (i read the dumbed down version).. .
if there was any question, that the watchtowers stance is for wives to simply take it when their husbands abuse them, this makes it crystal clear.. who the hell is scanning these things before they go to print?
Bookmarked. This is a jaw-dropping thread - except for the fact that, having nearly 40 years of experience with this religion, I can attest, as several of the past quotes already highlighted show, that this horrific tripe is par for the course for the WTS.
This article's "example" of Selma is disgusting. Sadly, it is not at all surprising.
i know of someone that is concerned that she will be all alone when she dies.. are you afraid to die alone??
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I'm going to be in the casket alone anyway. Unless someone wants to join me in there, I'll be forever alone once I die. So the actual action of dying alone doesn't frighten me.
I had a relative who died in an accident while several states away from his home state and town. Facing death alone is something that many people do contend with, and that is kind of sad. I know it's tough on the family - not being near that person, hearing about it over the phone. It is difficult.
one, i have heard that, since boy george was on heroin, that listening to culture club would amount to taking it yourself.
to me, that is a lame excuse to ruin a song or discography.. another example was michael jackson's thriller album.
they wanted me to get rid of that album because i would be "supporting that apostate" by listening to cuts from it.
Madonna's music was seen as undersirable (it wasn't all that good anyway ). I had one of her CDs, and an elder visting my home was visibly displeased when he saw it on my CD rack.
There was a lot of talk about Thriller - don't buy the album, don't watch the video. I remember several discussions by Witnesses about that disc and the title song especially.
It's not just jws either. I remember a letter to the editor of a local newspaper written by a "Christian" who objected to Bennie And The Jets by Elton John, contending that the lyrics fomented teen rebellion. Perhaps the letter writer was a jw, but it could have been any fundamentalist.
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I feel that time has actually slowed down considerably since I stopped running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to meet the demands of the jw schedule. My weekends have filled in nicely with activities that I used to have to cram into Saturday afternoons because I usually went out in service both weekend mornings. Plus there were the meetings. So a typically "zealous" jw weekend is really just one afternoon. When I was an elder, I was lucky to have even that.
I look forward to my weekends, during which I can now enjoy going to the gym, watching sports, and traveling about an hour to visit my child. My weekends aren't the stress-filled marathons they used to be.
One elder once asked me "since you no longer attend meetings, what do you do with your time?" What he failed to understand is that now I finally have some time.
disturbing divine behavior:.
troubling old testament images of god.
by eric a. seibert.
I guess part of the problem for many people is that God never seems to rise above the human societal contraints of the times. In an era during which women were treated as property, God treated them as...property.
sooner,.,, boomer,, what more can i say?.
americans,,, take note!
i am an okie fan,.
I'm not a Longhorns' fan, but come and talk to me when Oklahoma finally wins a BCS game.
i believe in curses.
the billygoat.
the bambino.. the sox just lost to the yankees 6-5 after leading by three in the 8th.. we all know what happened to the cubs.. and i believe in the rally monkey too, from last year's angels (though i guess he's looking for work these days, poor little fella).. this is all in kidding, but it does make me wonder.....are some teams "cursed"?
JRK, allow me to quote the Matthew 24:34: "This generation will be no means pass away [until the Cubs win another World Series]."
Of course, since the Cubs have not won one since 1908, we must understand this "generation" as overlapping.
i believe in curses.
the billygoat.
the bambino.. the sox just lost to the yankees 6-5 after leading by three in the 8th.. we all know what happened to the cubs.. and i believe in the rally monkey too, from last year's angels (though i guess he's looking for work these days, poor little fella).. this is all in kidding, but it does make me wonder.....are some teams "cursed"?
Resurrecting an old thread - ESPN's 30/30 last night aired "Catching Hell" dealing with the Cubs' loss to the Marlins in 2003 and the infamous Bartman incident. The program also dealt in large measure with the 1986 Red Sox loss vs the Mets in the World Series and the infamous Bill Buckner play.
This program revealed a very dark side of sports - fans who have no perspective. Fans who are willing to go as far as calling for the lynching of a person because they do not understand the concept of what a game is. It's just that - a game, not life and death.
A close look at the Red Sox loss shows that they had already blown their two-run, 9th inning, 2-out lead before the Buckner play. And the Cubs were in fine shape even after the Bartman incident - until they unraveled, due mainly to Alex Gonzales's boot of a sure double-play ball that should have ended the inning.
Since this thread started, the Sox have won two World Series, but the Cubs haven't been close since.
if you could ever meet a celebrity, who would you love to see?.
Farkel wrote: "The last time I checked, celebrities pooped brown poop, just like everyone else."
Whenever I find myself in awe of someone, I picture them on the potty. It works wonders in setting my mind straight.
this list is taken from a college course called the psychology of fundamentalismoffered by the university of texas.
1. the leader is charismatic and often militaristically demanding.
2. the leader is always right.
The JW religion for the most part fits 24 of 25 (number 1 is debatable) of these criteria.
