It depresses me that they are a prime example of the school of thought that says we can never be happy about the current state of anything, but always strive toward some distant, speculative, highly unrealistic utopian 'prize'--and that we can only receive it by suffering until it arrives. I think that a life lived in fear of today betting on the promise of tomorrow is one of the saddest existences I can imagine.
Sara Annie
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What Depresses You About Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inmany persons express why they are angry toward the jw religion but what gets you depressed, just thinking about it, regarding the witnesses?
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Find the error (quiz)
by Schizm inthe image below depicts the "manger scene".
if you look close, and use a little imagination, you can make out the "three wise men" there on the left, and joseph and mary on the right.
of course the brightest, pulsating "star" above them all is the "star of bethlehem".
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Sara Annie
I find it interesting that the shepherds learned of Jesus' birth by means of an angelic announcement, whereas the "Magi" learned of it by means of the "star" that appeared to them. What do you make of this? Care to speculate?
I always find it fascinating that people try to speculate as to the motivation behind recorded incidents where God is concerned. This is GOD we're talking about, people. If he'd wanted to use 50 different means of declaration, he could have done so. If he wanted to send an angel personally to each and every individual simultaneously, he would have. Heck, if he wanted to declare the birth of his son by use of a singing telegram featuring a dancing banana descending from the sky, he could have.
I'm just saying.
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Movie recommendation: Defending Your Life
by seattleniceguy ini wanted to recommend a movie and see if any of you had ever seen it.
the movie is called defending your life, with albert brooks and meryl streep.
it's a comedy, but it strikes at some important truths.
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Sara Annie
My three percent is swimming
One of my all time favorite movie quotations. We used it to death in college. Good flick, great fun!
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Would you do this to your kids?
by Euphemism ina lot of cell phones now contain locator technology, either in the form of a gps transceiver, or a system based on triangulating cell towers.. some parents are using this to track their teenager's location at all times.
"before, they might not have told me the truth, but now i know they're going to," said mr. lutz, 46, a lawyer who has been particularly protective of britney and her sister, chelsea, 17, since his wife died several years ago.
"they know i care.
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Sara Annie
Lets suppose a daughter suspects her dad is fooling around with another woman but mom don't know. The daughter reads the diary and the dad walks in on her reading it.
Heres the point...would a daughter have the right to do this, as her dads feels he has a right to read his daughters diary?
The logic here is faulty. We cannot reverse the roles and see if the same action is objectionable because the relationships are not equivalent. The father is directly responsible for the welfare of his daughter. The daughter is not directly responsible for the behavior and decisions of her father, regardless of their impact on her life.
As a mother, I'm with Yeru on this one. The bottom line is that these are MY children, and I will use any means or information at my disposal to keep them safe. If that means that I search the room of a child I suspect is using drugs, I'll do it in a heartbeat. If I see evidence that my child is not revealing something that could endanger their welfare, I will read that diary with no hesitation. That's part of my job as their mother.
To protect your children by close supervision or occasional breaches of 'privacy' and to lovingly allow your children to grow and make decisions are not mutually exclusive activites. I get frustrated with the mentality that our children should be our 'friends'. I have seen little that is more destructive to a parent/child relationship than regarding your child as your social equal when they are absolutely not. I listen to parents say "I can't control what he/she does". Bullshit. You are the PARENT, you not only can control their behavior, you must.
Your reward for maintaining a loving parental relationship using understanding and discipline while still allowing them to make their own choices is that when your child grows up to be your social equal, you can enjoy a friendship with them. I absolutely count my parents as two of my dearest friends, and am so thankful that they were proactive when there was trouble in adolescence. I may not have liked them much at the time, but I dearly love them and respect that they loved me enough to let me make mistakes, but also to find out what I was up to before I made decisions that could have had dire consequences.
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Why Christmas is so important
by metatron inyears ago, we used to wonder about bible studies and why they fought so hard to resist giving up christmas.. it just seemed that many people were willing to face all the negatives about becoming a witness - except this one.. why?
it's simple.
friends and family!.
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Sara Annie
Christmas is the devil's holiday. Who cares what the witness taught us, they was right. Half the parents in the world said's they love their children, but at the same time lies to them with that santa bulls---. And the fact is that nobody living knows when Jesus was born , but yet everybody lies about it and Jesus made it clear that you have to worship the father with truth.
You say that without all these holiday, people can not get together and show love, but all things are possible with GOD, not with ignorance and man. you know im telling the truth, but again like half the world everybody is putting aside the truth and following in their own ways, which is the wrong way
What a well thought-out and eloquently written rebuttal. I've been swayed and seen the light!
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Debunking the Skeptics
by Tashawaa inhttp://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1006138.htm
i thought the above link provides a good argument for those who doubt "his" existance.
sometimes we get so caught up in the "science" - we forget that with him "...anything is possible".. imo, i'd still believe due to my faith and evidence - there are the writings, personal experiences, songs, miracles, plus he has touched my heart..
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Sara Annie
Don't make me break out the old list of SANTA v. SATAN similarities.
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This had me laughing.. anyone have hip hugger or jean tales to tell ?
by Xandria inthis article had me laughing so hard i was crying.
i know a few friends who have had the ol' hip hugger snafoo!
all i can say is: full moonnnn... .
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Sara Annie
I am 32 years old and have two children. While I can wear low-rise (and it's a good thing I can, because it's damn near impossible to find anything else when looking for a pair of jeans these days), I always feel like little girls are looking at me the same way I used to look at my mother when she tried to wear stirrup pants and Venezia sweaters when I was in junior high. Just because you can wear something doesn't mean you SHOULD.
My husband looks at me laciviously when I wear them, though, and that's always a good thing...
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Debunking the Skeptics
by Tashawaa inhttp://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1006138.htm
i thought the above link provides a good argument for those who doubt "his" existance.
sometimes we get so caught up in the "science" - we forget that with him "...anything is possible".. imo, i'd still believe due to my faith and evidence - there are the writings, personal experiences, songs, miracles, plus he has touched my heart..
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Sara Annie
*laughing*
That'll teach me not to read the link before going off half-cocked. Cute.
Edited at 11:06 CST because I'm a rash idiot.
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JW's Mentioned on Hannity and Colmes
by RubaDub ini hope i'm not repeating another thread, but i was listening to hannity and colmes on fox last night (thursday) and they mentioned a law suit (in washington state i think) filed by a woman to keep the word "christmas" in the holiday songs.. hannity said this resulted from several jw families that requested that the words be changed so their children could participate and sing the holiday songs.
the school made the changes and now apparently at least one mother wants the original words put back in.. .
one of the issues she brought up was that the word hannukah was not removed, only christmas.. .
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Sara Annie
On a semi related topic, I have a friend who has two JW children in her third grade class. At the last holiday-related class party, the JW children were picked up by their parents prior to the festivities, but both requested that the snacks and prizes to be distributed at the party be bagged up for their children to enjoy at home. (I guess if the Halloween candy and stickers were enjoyed outside of the party, they were OK)
Since neither family had participated in paying the nominal fees at the beginning of the year to fund the parties due to their religious objections, she politely declined to give the parents the items unless they wanted to reconsider contributing to the fund. She found it odd that the both sets of parents again refused to contribute but were visibly upset that their children weren't getting the treats anyway.
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Trista and Ryan - did anyone watch it or does anyone care?
by TresHappy ini watched this made for reality wedding last night on abc.
did anyone else watch it?
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Sara Annie
Do you have presents? Give your things away if you are so worried about people who don't have presents.
I do, and I do. The very best present my parents ever gave me was that they quietly and consistently helped others and did good in this world, and let my brother and I watch them doing it. We have grown up trying to do the same, and I am teaching my children that part of the privilege of having a comfortable life is that it includes the responsiblity to look after those less fortunate than we are.
Again, I do not begrudge anyone happiness on their wedding day, there is nothing wrong with having lovely flowers and beautiful garments. When it gets outrageously excessive, however, I find it distasteful. Why spend $250,000 on flowers just to say you did? Why not spend one tenth of that amount for flowers that would be just lovely? I always think about a JW friend of mine talking about how the carpet in the den of the house they were building cost $1,000 per square foot, and gushing with how wonderful it was and remember how I actually felt sick to my stomach that someone would spent 200 grand on carpet, but not give a dime to charity because their 'conscience' wouldn't allow them to. Disgusting.