Depending on where you live and what your culture is like, I guess people's reactions to your job being a trader would vary greatly. But would they still be dubious even if you're very successful? Or is it just the nature of trading that they're not completely fine with?
I mean, sex is not the only reason to marry.
But it still is a big part of it.
What if it stopped feeling good for all humanity..
And if it’s just a meaningless friction of skin..
The god of trading has been so generous towards me and I refused to accept his love.. again and again.
He constantly shoved 1K, 2K into my throat and I was like , wtf is this even money? And I end up going minus.
Am I nuts? When can I change this habit of not taking profits?
I've been with and dated women in my life that I've appreciated and enjoyed spending time together with and I'm grateful and I know I can't complain as I'm just an average guy.
Yet, I've always had this void in my heart that is not being filled and I'm beginning to think it's because most women I've dated, I haven't like truly been able to feel happy with in terms of looks.
Somehow such women were always friends' girl friends, acquaintances' wives, or just total strangers walking by so fast you can't even meet again.
This feels painful because it shows how superficial I am, yet the more I try to dismiss such feelings as childish and stupid, the more it seems to have a toll on my soul.
Anyone feels similar or is this something totally dumb?
# Every generation who ever lived thought that they were the most advanced, modern ones. (There were exceptions, of course. Sometimes people looked up to their ancestors because they were superior)
I'm not saying that we don't have room for growth.
But I think we've reached the limit where we can go a little bit further (special thanks to AI) but not totally beyond. We've come a long way in terms of science, civilization in general, hygiene and human rights, etc.
It seems we've just reached the summit and are now going downhill to.... where?
What do you think?
Edit. going downhill not because we're most advanced but only because this is as far as humanity can go on their own.
Almost every religion or sect keeps claiming they’re right, that your faith is wrong or at least partially flawed and they can fix it if you let them.
But it’s not just them, the Bible itself says there are not many being saved.
Once Jesus said in Matthew 10:34 that he came to earth, not to bring peace but a sword.
Is it on purpose?
Or is it a precise prediction?
I mean, you could spend your entire life believing in a set of doctrines and who knows if you were wrong all the time?
Am I crossing the line by thinking about it at all? After all, it’s Jesus who will judge.
But then, why not worry? Life depends on it.
Sometimes it can get really confusing.
WHY? WHY would you do that?
Don’t you know that the most important work is to preach?
Don’t you know Jesus said that poor ones will always be with us?
Don’t give a dollar to the charity! You don’t know how they’ll spend the money anyway!
Don’t do anything GOOD or practically helpful for anyone!
Everything else is meaningless!
Meanwhile, they imagine they’re being the most beautiful and spiritual people in God’s eyes by commenting twice in a meeting or standing all day next to the cart no one even has a clue as to the main point, lol.
I say maybe with like 500~1M capital..
How crazy is that? Like unheard of? or sometimes heard of and seen in real life?
Okay so I had affection for this girl at that time and I liked her a lot.
Just that I didn't know it at that time. I was mostly drawn to girls' physical aspects at that time. Even now that's how I am but way less than those days.
Anyway, she had no boobs, flatter than mine and she had thick ankles.
She had a cute face though.
We were just about to start dating but in the end, I couldn't start it because I was not attracted to her sexually a bit. She left and married another guy but we were both very hurt after we broke up. (not quite right because we never even dated)
I wonder if this kind of thing can happen to any guy or if I was being super shallow and a stupid.
Looking back, I can't help thinking the life of a lifelong JW is exactly the life of an old brother in his 60's. (Perhaps worse than that in many cases if we include non-JWs.)
It really feels like a script some old guy in the headquarters pushed back in the 1970's as a "model life" that everyone has to follow.
Maybe for many PIMIs, it's a good thing and SEEMs to help young people grow faster (although it's a fake growth and totally unnatural), we should not forget these are people who should be doing entirely different things, living far more varied, colorful lives.
Sorry if this has been asked many times already in this subreddit.
So as a PIMQ JW (Physically In yet Mentally questioning Jehovah's witness),
I've been researching a lot about this and that including Evolution.
Today I've researched on Trinity and here is what it says. (This still does not break my belief against Trinity but I couldn't figure out how to answer back)
Because here it seems to have a certain repetitive Biblical pattern in favor of Trinity.
What do you think?? Please help.
The Deity of Christ: Six Arguments from Scripture
The following sets out the case that Trinitarians make from Scripture for the full deity of Christ. It is presented as their argument, not as a settled verdict.
The common thread: In each case below, something that belonged exclusively to Jehovah in the Hebrew Scriptures — his purpose, his title, his role as Creator, his attributes, the honor due to him — is transferred to Jesus in the New Testament. Any single passage might be explained on its own, but taken together they raise one persistent question: why do the things reserved for Jehovah alone keep landing on Jesus?
1. All things were created "for him"
The common reading is that Jesus shared in creation only as Jehovah's agent or instrument, supported by the phrase "through him." But Colossians 1:16 says all things were created not only through him but also for him. Throughout Scripture the ultimate purpose of all things is always Jehovah himself — Romans 11:36 says all things are "from him and through him and to him." It does not fit for all things to be created for a mere created servant, because a servant is a means, never the end.
2. The exclusive title "the First and the Last"
In Isaiah 44:6, Jehovah declares, "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no God." Here "the first and the last" is an exclusive self-designation that Jehovah uses precisely to set himself apart from every other so-called god. Yet in Revelation 22:13, Jesus takes this very title for himself: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." It is hard to explain how a creature could claim for himself a title that Jehovah reserved for himself in the very breath where he says, "there is no God besides me."
3. Texts spoken about Jehovah are applied to Jesus
Hebrews 1 quotes the Hebrew Scriptures to set Jesus apart from the angels, and the way it quotes is decisive. Hebrews 1:6 applies to Jesus a command to worship — "Let all God's angels worship him" — that in its source, Psalm 97:7, is directed to Jehovah, in a psalm that opens by declaring "Jehovah reigns." Even more strikingly, Hebrews 1:10-12 quotes Psalm 102, a prayer that from beginning to end praises Jehovah as the Creator who laid the foundations of the earth, and applies it directly to the Son: "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning." An inspired writer transferring a Jehovah-exclusive text wholesale to Jesus blurs the very line between Jehovah and creation.
4. Thomas calls Jesus "My Lord and my God"
When the risen Jesus appears to him, Thomas exclaims, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). In Greek the phrase is ho Theos mou — "the God," with the definite article — not a vague "a god." And crucially, Jesus does not correct him; he accepts the confession and only adds, "Because you have seen me, you have believed." If Jesus were not himself God, he should have refused the title — just as the angel in Revelation refuses worship and says, "Worship God."
5. Jesus possesses attributes unique to Jehovah
Scripture assigns certain attributes to Jehovah alone — eternality, unchangeableness, and presence everywhere. Yet these are applied to Jesus as well. He is "the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). He claims a kind of omnipresence: "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them" (Matthew 18:20), and "I am with you always, to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20). A creature can be in only one place at a time; Jesus speaks as one who shares Jehovah's own attributes.
6. Old Testament passages about Jehovah are fulfilled in Jesus
This extends Point 3 with especially strong cases. In Isaiah 45:23, Jehovah swears, "To me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance." Yet Philippians 2:10-11 takes this very passage and applies it to Jesus: "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow... and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." The knees that were to bow to Jehovah now bow to Jesus. Likewise, in Isaiah 8:13-14 Jehovah himself is called "a stone of stumbling"; the New Testament applies that same stumbling stone directly to Jesus (Romans 9:33; 1 Peter 2:8).
Doesn’t happen if I happen to watch them during the day though. I guess demons just are too impatient to wait for harassment in that case, lol.
But anyway, that’s why I believe most porns or porn industry as a whole are cursed or enchanted.
This is because it doesn’t happen after I watch individually made porns or some really old porns(like 80’s). I haven’t tested enough with this though.
Also this doesn’t happen at a hotel. I tested enough but no amount of porn-watching hindered me from sleeping at a place other than home.
Also weird is this doesn’t happen after playing violent video games, even if a game involves zombies.
Anyone had similar experiences?
Okay so suppose someone was "removed" (before the recent greeting adjustment) from a local hall but he keeps coming to the meeting anyway.
He keeps talking to people though he doesn't get a greeting, keeps raising hands and talks to visitors, because they don't know he's removed. This will be hilarious. Not only that, he goes around and visits other congs where people don't know his status.
Funnier would be if he refuses to be reinstated when the elders offer it.
of course, no one would spend so much time and energy to do something like but it's a fun imagination. In a sense, even a disfellowshipping can't do anything to one if they are so determined to just keep doing what they want anyway.
So you get to either experience eternity in your dream or die.
This dream takes place for just one second but for you it’ll feel like eternity and only repeats your past experiences. It can’t go way beyond what you heard, saw, touched and tasted. You’ll know it’s a dream and it’ll be peaceful and controlled, albeit quite poignant.
Good thing is if you’re ready and willing, you can end the dream. Otherwise, it’ll go on forever. You might even be able to learn new things or find new music, though they’re just your imaginations.
Second option is just die without any such process.
Okay so I’m not sure if it’s just me and where I live but it seems that while there is zero inflow from young people, in both genders, more 20’s sisters get out than brothers in the same age group..
Which doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense because brothers have to do more work and traditionally man is rarer in religious places, like a church.
Is this because young sisters react more aggressively to the harsh reality that they’ve seen from older sisters and how they’ve been treated in general?
Was it because of the "scriptural basis" they constantly offer as a guideline on how to live as a Christian? Like the verses that describe Paul's life?
But he was a goddamn missionary! Why do they force a life like Paul's on every JW?
Was it a collective hypnotism?
Now I just don't get it when they say pursuing secular goals gets in the way of living as a Christian. There are so many ways you can bring glory and praise to God if you are a musician, programmer, film-director, actors etc.
Hell, they would've also benefitted WT a lot more in various ways!
It hurts even more because it's one of those things about which they can say "We never said you can't blah blah" sort of thing.
I can't see how stationing people beside carts 24/7 does anything for God or for the cult.
Okay, so, this person was born inherently evil. But he is so smart that once he sees things, he instantly gets the mechanism. He sees through the entire system and figures out what's going on... and begins working for what benefits him most.
He understands God and finds out how to be loved by God. So he climbs the ladder one by one, without much love for God but just because he knows he has to.
Another case is the exact opposite. He's inherently a good person, really a gem even in God's eyes when he was first born but due to his personal circumstances and weaknesses, he keeps doing what displeases God. Probably not things that hurt others. But things that God finds as sinful. So he dies like that. Also he died a non-believer.
So maybe by definition, the former case is a good person and the latter a bad one.
But I hope this makes sense!
Is this a mere word play or something that really happens?
What scenarios would be possible?
They stop talking about this generation at all.
They adopt more generic Christian viewpoint of this.
For example, this generation might mean the generation going through the great tribulation. It would go hand in hand with that verse that says no flesh will be saved unless~.
Or it could just mean the humanity as a whole.
If we are to think the entire history of mankind after Adam and Eve is one generation because they're not in harmony with God's will, then of course, that generation will not be destroyed until Jesus returns. So it's basically Jesus saying, "Don't worry. I won't let you humans be completely wiped out before I return."
There are some scriptures where it says almost everyone will be gone.
Then again there are ones that seem to imply at least half will be saved, like Luke 17:34,35.
That will look like a Marvel film where Thanos Thanosed away half of all mankind.
Of course, it’s likely absurd to interpret such verses literally. Anyway, what is your understanding?