I don't think a news item has ever caught me so off guard and made me so upset. After the string of upsetting news items that have pummeled the U.S lately, I didn't realize I was in such an emotional state. This news really upsets me.
I'm tired.
crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..
I don't think a news item has ever caught me so off guard and made me so upset. After the string of upsetting news items that have pummeled the U.S lately, I didn't realize I was in such an emotional state. This news really upsets me.
I'm tired.
crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..
I hate to come off as the RUSH LIMBAUGH spokesman (devil's advocate) here, but......
... tomorrow he will be spitting and spewing how France, with all their gun control laws, were unable to stop this rampage.....
...and all the conservative southern, CHRISTIAN bubbas in the U.S. will be nodding their heads in agreement, with spit running off their chins...
How would you respond? (Or does this question belong in it's own thread?)
crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..
How does this stop?
With Armageddon?
Seriously. How does this stop? With the attackers being (seemingly) individual radicals, how can an organized government/army/anti-terrorist organization... isolate individuals in a community of millions and make it all stop?
IT CAN'T BE DONE! These lone actors cannot possibly be identified and stopped.
Without wiping out the INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION IN THEIR ENTIRETY, how can civilized society ever hope to be free of this nonsense?
as the title says--i'm out of here for good.. the site is full of atheists, communists, 7th day adventists, creationists, believers, deceivers, receivers, football supporters,.
dodgy types, cantleave---and assorted wankers.. so no place for me--because i'm none of the above so dont fit in.
so--this is goodbye forever my friends--its been almost average knowing you.
Wait jut a damn minute....... I DON'T SUPPORT FOOTBALL.
so i was having this argument with a friend about the westboro baptist idiots.
my point is that while they are horrible people, they are pretty much right in that the bible is against gays because it has verses in both the old and the new testament.
which is one of many reasons to reject the bible as merely man-made rules from ancient middle-easterners.. and she argued that there are problems in translation, etc.
so some may have read the long and boring post about our last vacation and some of the things that my wife came to tell me during our time away.
i am adding the link here but i can summarize it for time's sake.. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5768475763015680/vacation-time-reality-closing-up-on-my-wife.
in a nutshell, right before we left, we found out of a jw couple we know well.
She still claim some good is there and I agree but I told her that whatever good is there is only meant to support the bad, not to help anyone.
There's some good in all religions. So? What sets the Watchtower above anything else on the street?
Good luck.
the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.
of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.
JWs contribute to creating the motive that inspires homophobic hate crimes.
All of Christianity does.
so if the idea is promoted that god doesn't want anyone to be destroyed, why does he make it so confusing for people to learn about him?.
why are there thousands of differing religions?.
why has "his only true organisation" even taught so many varying doctrines?.
The reasoning from the Watchtower organization is that if a person has the right heart condition, Jehovah will direct that individual to his earthly organization. All the confusion of religion will be lifted from his/her eyes because God will have "drawn that one to Him." In this way He demonstrates that He wishes no one to be destroyed.
Jehovah's loves each and every one of... *hack* ... us and sends His servants out into the world to do the separating wor.... *choke*.... k so that we all have a chance to turn our wicked ways around.... *gag* .... and follow the governing body to salvation.
* excuse me while I reach for a tissue *
i came across this weird blog that castigates fading jws for their "cowardice" and "hypocrisy" for not making themselves vulnerable to shunning.
apparently in the view of this blogger jws who discover it's not the truth are morally obliged to play by the watchtower rules and face the consequences of shunning.. http://jwresearchblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/fading-faking-and-lying-as-unbelieving.html#comment-form.
what is absent from the blog post is any discussion of the statement in the july 2009 awake!, that no one should be made to choose between their beliefs and their family.
His friends quickly abandoned him, his family cut ties with him, and his neighbors even set fire to his crops. But the young man never relented in publicly declaring what he thought to be true, even in the face of loss and persecution.
They are using an example of what they feel is unwarranted abandonment due to their new found beliefs as a way of justifying their own abandonment of family and friends who have new found beliefs?
Because others have done it to Jehovah's Witnesses, people who leave the JWs should suck it up and accept the very same thing.
THAT'S their logic?
i've read many statements on this forum from people who have expressed the sentiment that you don't shove ttatt down the throat of an older person.
it would be too traumatic and its best to let some people, in some situations, simply pass on in the delusion.. its humane.
merciful.. in the initial roar of my awakening, i was unable to cuddle up to that sentiment; preferring, instead, to shove the blood curdling shock of truth down the throat of anyone i could get my grip on... age be dammed.
Honestly, I was bracing myself for an onslaught of negative feedback for caving in.
Thank you for the positive comments. It was uncomfortable enough doing the deed. I feel a lot better now.