If you were able to think properly, you might note that even if I agreed with your step father on that one issue, it wouldn’t mean we were both wrong because he was a drunk.
Think hard about it. It should be clear that not every opinion of a drunk is automatically wrong. If your stepfather agreed with you an an issue, would it mean that you were automatically wrong?
That said, I don’t *hate *JWs, I hate the religion itself. People like you, the actual JWs, are just gullible victims. I feel sorry for you wasting your lives on such nonsense.
The not so subtle point that I think dougie_monty is attempting to make -
Anyone that disagrees with his notions is a drunk, drug abusing gambler - and its only his ‘religion’ (or notions) that somehow prevent him from being the same - it was his density to be just like his family otherwise.
Anyone that ‘hates’ the JW (whether the group or individually) is automatically an abusive drunk.
If ‘hating Witnesses’ were his only hangup, I wouldn’t consider him such a monster. But he ignored his son (my younger brother ); deposited his weekly paycheck at his bar so he could go in and drink–he was often falling-down drunk when he left–when he wanted to; he would slip off at times on the weekends for golf, and I never saw any equipment; and once, without telling us, he went to Las Vegas for a weekend; my Mom told him when he returned that she was frantic with worry; he didn’t bat an eye! :mad: When someone like* this* snarls that he hates the Witnesses, I can properly ignore him.
There were things he and I agreed on; I once read that “the most depraved lunatic in creation has some lucid monments.”
Before I forget–what nonsense do you waste YOUR time on?
I already know from another thread that he gets all worked up when I refer to people who believe the world was poofed into existence a few thousand years as “functional retards”. Another button to push would be great…
Why? I’ve known people who didn’t particularly care for that movie, but none I can recall who actually hated it. Is it on some sort of Watchtower forbidden list?
While the Watchtower certainly would not want its members to partake in worldy things - I do not know of any specific ‘forbidden’ list beyond probably ‘nothing rated R or X’ and there are likely generic references against things like Harry Potter, etc - that might make an interesting search - However - this particular rant comes from dougie_monty’s own very pwecious mind -
here -
I’ll let dougie_monty’s own insanity describe things - as there is no way I could do it justice -
Well, it wasn’t that bad. I mean, y’know, Archie comics. They specialize in really weak jokes, so it isn’t dougie_monty’s fault. Of course, quite obviously, he can’t get us deep-sixed off Barbados, it’s actually a fairly good “Pit” threat.
He little recks with my myriads of Star Battalions and Galactic Dreadnoughts!
Very much how I feel about Christian Science. The people who follow that insanity are victims. I’ve seen too many of them die horribly, because their idiotic religion tells them to pray for healing rather than actually go and get medical care. The JWs are the same way: their ban on blood transfusion is a hellish distortion of human moral values, but the poor actual shits who believe that are the victims, not the villains.
Somewhere in the hierarchy of both churches, however, are at least a few highly-placed leaders who both know the truth about real medical care, and still preach the doctrine that sends their members to death. Those are the true villains.
Yes. “Clipboard” refers to the magical space where data strings go when you manipulate them with Windows commands. Don’t go looking for it; even if it has a physical presence, at your level of computer usage, even if you found something, it wouldn’t do anything more interesting or useful than you can already make it do.
Don’t take the above as an insult. It also applies to me and my level of computer usage.
NOW I know why this thread had a familiar tone to it. I remember reading that Evils of Culture thread and feeling sorry for d-m’ty. He was such a tragic blend of judgmental and paranoid.
And the inability to understand another person’s point of view, or to see that what happens in a movie is fiction sounded almost autistic. There was a lot of “How can you condone (an act like disrespect toward authority)? You must therefore do that, or be in favor of it, in real life!”
Now, I’m NOT blaming Jehovah’s Witnesses. It’s more likely that a person with a borderline personality would gravitate to a group that has clear-cut guidelines as to What One Must Believe. A religion that demanded that you think for yourself would be better, but my point is there are people who, psychologically, wouldn’t be able to handle a group of people like that.
Golly, I hope you have a good lawyer in case someione decides to sue you over this…
I have a quote from an ancient source, 2nd-Century Christian writer named Tertullian:
“We do not include even animals’ blood in our natural diet. We abstain on that account from things strangled or that die of themselves, that we may not be in any way polluted by blood, even if it is buried in the meat. Finally, when you are testing Chrtistians, you offer them sausages full of blood; you are thoroughly well aware, of course, that among them it is forbidden; but you want to make them transgress.”
And a modern one, from the Journal of the Florida Medical Association of Sept. 19, 1952:
“[Widespread use of blood transfusioins produces] a weird assortment of antibodies, which may prove too be the source of crossmatching difficulties and may even endanger the life of the patient if he is given more blood.”
You may object to the analogy of “eating” blood; but if a doctor told you that you may not drink alcohol, would that mean you could properly have it injected into your bloodstream? :rolleyes:
I happen to know that in recent years surgeons have worked out means of “bloodless surgery” specifically to accommodate Witnesses who will not consent to transfusion.
If you have any published information that has come out in the sixty-one years since the Florida Medical Association article, and countermands it, by all means show it to me.
You’re walking a steep ledge in a hurricane, Buddy.
Before you pass pompous judgment on my movie tastes, I think there is something you should know: My disdain for movies goes back almost to the start; when I was a kid my parents pretty much made me go to the movies, with my brother and sister, as a regular thing on Saturdays. Most of the movies they showed were not geared for kids, and I would go out and sit in the lobby or even leave the building altogether, and look at the clocks in the jewelry store up the street. When we moved away in December 1959, I stopped going to movies on a regular basis and have gone only irregularly since. I stopped in July 1971 with The Love Bug and resumed in 1982 with Time Bandits; five years later the last movie was The Believers. The other movies I saw in that time were Amadeus, The Thing, Back to the Future (the first part only), and Little Shop of Horrors (only because it had music in it and I needed a musical for a college-course assignment. I thoroughly detested the movie.)
So I don’t ascribe my reaction to any movie to “paranoia” or “insanity,” but rather to the simple fact that I don’t care much for movies in the first place. Occam’s Razor.
); deposited his weekly paycheck at his bar so he could go in and drink–he was often falling-down drunk when he left–when he wanted to; he would slip off at times on the weekends for golf, and I never saw any equipment; and once, without telling us, he went to Las Vegas for a weekend; my Mom told him when he returned that she was frantic with worry; he didn’t bat an eye! :mad: When someone like* this* snarls that he hates the Witnesses, I can properly ignore him.