Posts by friendaroonie

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Why do so-called believers need my approval or that of any atheist?

by Band on the Run in

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recent posts from those who may mistakenly consider themselves "believers" demand a safe haven in this forum.

they don't like associating with atheists or someone like me.

of course, there are hundreds of thousands of sites for christian discussion already set up on the internet.

this site sucks! its just a buncha athiest on soap boxes.

by crossquestions6995 in

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this site is not a healthy forum for discussion or healing.

its an arena for jaded athiests to bash anything christian or god related.

yes, i know the jw's lied to us about god and the truth.

All my major problems with jws are actually problems with the bible and any other holy book. So leaving jws and going into some other bible based church would have been a lateral move at best. Now I have abandoned belief for direct experience. I am not an atheist cuz I do believe x exists and x may well be jesus, so I do not reject jesus. Jesus is x and x could be called god on a monday. But the bible is not a good book except as a work of historical ficyion or as an ancient harry potter.

I dont care bout spelling either. Its begging the question.

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"Accept Your Girly-ness...Know How to Shut Up"

by cofty in

a faith-based motivational speaker by the name of justin lookadoo (yes really) has been upsetting pupils, parents and staff at a texas high school.. some pupils walked out of the lecture while others began tweeting with the hashtag #lookadouche.

his website aimed at to promote "godly" dating includes the following gems of advice.. accept your girly-ness.

youre a girl.

friendaroonie

If it means girls can start paying im all for it. Ive been dating someone first time in years. She offers the token oh let me get that maybe one out of five times but if I let her do the paying and planning we d never go out. When neigher of us have money we dont see each other. Sigh.

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Interestingly disturbing!

by DS211 in

i work in the medical field and every 2 years i need 24 hours if continuing education to stay licensed.

my deadline is coming up and i am taking the classes this week and next week.

heres the thing, i scheduled them both on sundays and ive procrastinated over this two year renewal period.

friendaroonie

I have never been married but I have been in a few committed long term relationships. My point is that I may not be that experienced in relationships. But this is the second time in a couple of months I have read of a wife or husband laying down the law in a spouse's religious involvement. And being on this board for about 8 years counting a couple of other abandoned and forgotten accounts. I never heard a partner say those words and still be together. On both instances I checked for hyper-bowling, and nope, it all checks out. Do married people so casually make such threats? Those are walking words to me. Or as one poster said b..... words but this time I let someone else get I just could not tolerate such. How common is this?

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Circuit Overseer who gave talk at Twickenham is DIsfellowshipped

by usualusername in

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evening.

i have it from 1st hand (or second) that a circuit overseer who gave a talk at twickenham in august 2013 has been disfellowshipped.. .

my dilemma?

friendaroonie

What do you mean by "talk in Twickenbobbie?" The way you use it sounds like you are saying THE talk in Twickenhammy as if to say there was this one really big talk given in a really special place that everyone knows about. Or are you just say that he gave an ordinary talk in an ordinary place, just a regular old talk.

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Knowledge by Proxy

by braincleaned in

whatever our convictions are, we all have one thing in common; we have learned them from other sources.. we have knowledge by proxy... we didn't find things out all by ourselves.

we let trusted sources talk for us.. belief is not something that you choose.

but if there is no elephant, i do not "choose" to believe it isn't there either.

friendaroonie

Abandon belief for direct experience. As much as possible.

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Which people in here (or apostate) would you like to actually meet in person?

by ILoveTTATT in

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i would like to meet so many people!

actually hang out with them and see if we get along after meeting in person!.

here's my list:.

friendaroonie

Im usually down to meet anybody. There is a couple of people here in Long Beach, CA I know of, one that. I did meet once, but it was such a brief meeting and they never wanted to meet again. Im not sure what I was expecting or what he was expecting. It was back when yahoo meet-up still existed. Its usually like pulling teeth to get anyone to meet up in my experience.

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This Tired, Lonely Man

by compound complex in

this tired, lonely man has been snared, but i protest little .

she holds me tenderly in her tightening but welcome thrall.

i cave willingly -- oh, so willingly -- to her amatory attentions.

friendaroonie

This would read so well in verse. That's how I read it anyway.

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SOOO - this is what they think passes for "piousneering " nowadays???

by hamsterbait in

on my way into work, i saw a "litterature waggon" strapped to a lamp post outside the railway station.. three (i kid you not) three "pious sneers" were standing, almost thirty feet away, gossiping laughing.. i watched for about five minutes, not one person looked at the stuff (it had "bible" on it so warned passersby cult.).

they never once went near the display to draw attention to it.

in fact, only an ex dubbie would have known they were connected with it.. by the end of the morning, they will have put in 3 x number of hours standing chatting and drinking coffee to keep warm.

friendaroonie

I saw a table set up at a kingdom hall parking lot, actually blocking the driveway and right on the edge of the sidewalk on Pacific ave here in Long Beach, CA. There was a group of about 5 of them standing around goofing off. Then later on my way home I passed some sisters and Iasked them in spanish if they were out preaching. They said resoundingly, "no." ?

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Sadly, fading is bad for my marriage

by stillin in

while headship has always been a problem in my marriage, partly because i'm more of a team player and my wife has man issues, now that i'm clearly fading my wife feels that i have nothing of worth to say.. i resist the idea of divorce but this is not much of a marriage.

since she doesn't/ can't hold down a job alimony would be ridiculously expensive.

cheaper to keep her, as they say.. i get zero cooperation or even discussion for any adjustments i feel might be in order for us as we grow older: obabmacare?

friendaroonie

How do you tell a man to have some balls without sounding insulting?