Thanks! I was always taught a literal resurrection of the dead on earth. Now that I am starting to read things for myself I am seeming that it is not all that biblical and the afterlife is not clear cut in the Hebrew scriptures, like I was taught.
Yes I imagine so, I remember having a conversation with a Muslim woman on here about Hijab being worn as apart of a Muslim identity and not just for modesty.
I brought up this example as other posters said the Niqab is dehumanising and more worthy of being banned than high heels, so I hope you...
someone told me they met a woman with a Niqab, she never always wore it, she was party girl. She said she felt liberated by the Niqab because people no longer placed her value on how attractive she is. So she felt she had more humanity while wearing it, not less.
I think in general gender...
Yes that is right, I don't think a cult is necessarily "bad" like I said it is about the degree of harmfulness or control that a cult has over a person that is the problem.
At that point I wasn't specifically talking about wearing high heels but beauty standards for women in general, yes it makes you have low self esteem so you feel like you need it and conform. Yes successful women can have low self esteem about what they look like, yes you can be confident in...
I understand why someone would believe in god and a religion, because that was me once. although sometimes I still feel spiritual almost like there is a god or are gods but not really believing it at the same time. Does that make sense? Probably not.
I kind of got the living life with meaning part, but when I read chapter 9 it seems like it is trying to tell me "you only live once" so enjoy life. I can not read Hebrew though so may come across differently in English.
When you are taught to do it because of your physical sex, when your value is placed more on how you conform to beauty standards, because of your sex, yes it is in my opinion.
it is not narcissism, it is low self esteem.
I asked does it contradict a physical resurrection, as in the dead will not be resurrected on earth since they will not live "under the sun" again?
What is your understanding of it?
thanks
I was never baptized, I just had a bible study as a child and went to several meetings, last meeting I went to was my sisters baptism, before that I think I was 18, so 6 years ago.
My sister could never shun me, she knows what side her bread is buttered :D
But I was never in it to leave it...
Well I say my sister and I are close, sometimes she does irritating things that make us not that close but it is outside of religion, just her personality, that is family though right? :D. We are close as in neither of us is shunned from each other, I can get invited to her place even when JW...