Nice post Terry--I do so love a thought-out, purposefully planned, and well-written logical assertion.
Keep this up and you'll force me to post your name on that 'crush' thread!
Sara Annie
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THE BIBLE ITSELF the rotten foundation of Watchtower theology
by Terry in(below continues an idea started in another post).
just consider the difference in meaning between these two renderings.
1.all scripture is inspired by god and useful for teaching, reproving and setting things straight.
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Your thoughts about Wal-mart
by desbah in.
do you shop at wally world?
i can spend over $100.00 on little items, man shopping at wally world is the devil on my checkbook.
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Sara Annie
I want to hate Wal-Mart for their reportedly unfair labor practices. I want to loathe them for the way they've moved into communities and destroyed the small-town business districts. I want to indignantly rail against the price of capitalism to our collective spirit and call for a return to the times when corporate american and the 'man' weren't so good at keeping us all dependent on them. I want to.
But I can't, because I LOVE Wal-Mart. I never get out of there without spending a minimum of fifty bucks on something, and now with the advent of the Wal-Mart Super Center, I can get pretty much anything we regularly (or not so regularly) need. Sue me.
Although I try to avoid it on Saturdays, where it suddenly turns into something akin to a third world open air market--unless of course I just want to spend the day among what my husband calls 'the great unwashed'.
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Where did oil come from?
by IP_SEC in.
i guess there are two theories eh?
one that it came from dead dinos and decaying ancient plant material and the other that it is a normal geological process.. has anyone ever done any research on this?
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Sara Annie
"First the earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came! But they got too big and fat, and they all died. Then the Arabs came and bought Mercedes Benzes...."
Wow. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
--Sara, of the "random classic movie line reciting" class.
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Love is NOT a Human Need
by logansrun inone of the most difficult things for ex-jehovah's witnesses (heretofore referred to as ex-jws) to deal with is the loss of friends and family -- "loved ones.
" rejection hurts, and the pain seems to be very intense for some.
ex-jws seem validated to feel so awful since most humans naturally believe that love is a human need.
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Sara Annie
One certainly can exist with only the basic physical 'needs' you listed.
But we, as creatures, really do NEED loving interaction with others as well. There have been countless cases of children who were provided with food, shelter, air and water--and deprived of kind and loving interaction with other people, sometimes ANY interaction--and they irrevocably lost their ability to develop emotionally, their brains simply no longer capable of becoming the people they might have been had somone cared for them beyond what was necessary to keep breathing. There have been tests on lower mammals, monkeys in particular, where a totally isolated creature was offered the choice between a hard wire and metal 'mom' with milk readily available, or a soft, warm 'mom' with no food. Almost without exception, they would choose the warm and soft surrogate regardless of the fact that other met their physical need for food.
So while in a rigid, completely academic sense your premise may indeed be true--I still don't buy it.
Are there some people who can live happily without ever experiencing the love of someone, anyone, else? I suppose there are. But you get weirdos in every breed...
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Dogma - The Movie (Directed by Kevin Smith)
by Black Man inhey y'all,.
i recently got this film on dvd and it is so on-point with its cynical look at religion and belief systems.
i laughed 'till i cried.
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Sara Annie
I like the movie--it's a little heavy handed, but has some great moments.
I especially like the whole "Beliefs vs. Ideas" dialogue.
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Funny Songs that Remind You of JWs
by Scully inafter reading metatron's post about how love among yourselves has dropped to a lower priority for the wts, i was reminded of a song that i heard ages ago by weird al yankovic that basically says how i feel about any fleeting thought about going back to the jws.. do you have any songs that remind you of why you'll never go back?.
here's mine; i changed the lyrics to suit:(constant doo wops in the background throughout the song).
aahh..... .
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Sara Annie
"Who can it be knocking at my door?
make no sound, tiptoe across the floor...
If he hears, he'll knock all day,
I'll be trapped, and here I'll have to stay..."
Who can it be now??
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Dinosaurs On The Ark...LOL
by Valis in.
lol these guys are total morons.....they claim noah had dinos in the ark...lol....
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Sara Annie
Several years ago there was a Noah's Ark miniseries on TV. My husband and I turned it on out of curiosity, and I vividly recall that when the animals were walking up the ramp to board, as a pair of lobsters, yes LOBSTERS, made their way onto the ship my husband looked at the TV and said a very exasperated "NO" and promptly switched the channel.
To this day, when he loses interest in something because he just cannot suspend his disbelief, he says "They had me until the lobsters...."
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Suitable careers for JW children to aim for!
by Gill inthe october the 1st watchtower has interesting views on the education of jw children.. page 30, in which one jw explains how he ended up in ft service says:.
'we did not associate with our school mates but only with those in the congregation who had good spiritual habits.'.
interesting as this shows judgmentalism and criticism 'even' in the jw congregation.. then on page 31 it explains how parents must offer their children, as early as possible, proper guidance in their choice of school subjects and vocation goals.. 'rather than choose academic subjects that are geared toward a university education, parents and children need to consider courses that are useful in pursuing a theocratic career.'.
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Sara Annie
College isn't for everyone – Education USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), May 2003 by W.J. Reeves
APPROXIMATELY 15,000,000 Americans are enrolled in college, although about half of them probably shouldn't be.
It may get stones lobbed at me, but I actually agree with the spirit of that article. I think the idea that every child should go on to college smacks of this strange sense of entitlement that has swept through the last few generations--this idea that every child is 'special' and 'gifted' is doing just as much harm as good.
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - Ch. 24 - The Atheist Manifesto
by RunningMan inthe atheist manifesto
before debating the existence of god, it is necessary to define him.
the god i grew up with was a pretty specific dude.
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Sara Annie
I used to work with a couple who declared themselves "practicing atheists".
Even all these years later, I can barely type it for the giggling...
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HAS MUSIC ever sneaked up on you and changed the way your view life?
by Terry inhttp://www.freeminds.org/aftrhour/paradise_lost.htm
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Sara Annie
Well, I'm not sure I'd say changed the way I view my life, but I can say that it has often helped clarify my view of myself and what's going on around me.
I love music, I find it delicious and fascinating and those who can create it out of nothing have a talent I envy. But as to how I "feel" about it, that's hard. It's like trying to give voice to the thing that has helped me find mine, time and again. I love the freedom that comes when you just can't put words to what you are feeling, and all of a sudden you realize that someone already has--you can point to particular phrase or a few bars and say "Right there--THAT is how I feel."