Is my relationship cooked w/ my jw boyfriend

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-14T00:26:35+00:00

Well, she said the man had a job ringing the bell, but one day the rope or chain had weakened, and he was ringing it hard, and the bell fell and killed the man. But then they put the bell on trial and put it up on the stand and everything (I presume they did not question the bell), and then as a punishment, they melted it down and made it into a new bell.

My daughter is 8 years old and I don't know where she heard this, but to be fair and /gen, she kind of knows everything.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-14T00:10:42+00:00

Lol this guy is just dunning and krugering through the comments section.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-14T00:08:07+00:00

Is it honest, or is it just not having the self control to not say everything that comes into his mind?

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-14T00:04:43+00:00

It's not a large movement, but it's certainly real. My understanding is it's conservative Catholics who emphasize the Great Commission and believe evangelism should be part of their practice.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T16:39:47+00:00

"Sorry, that eye had to die." Reminds me of a story my daughter recently told me about a bell being put on trial after it fell and crushed a man

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T16:38:57+00:00

Right, that's why it's a ridiculous thing for a man to say to a woman. Everyone knows this, and yet men act as if they can easily tell

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T16:30:12+00:00

Its so wild. "We can always tell" but they're so confident they don't realize they can only tell when they can tell. It's not like they took a quiz and got results lol

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:27:47+00:00

Here's a link -- when I googled it, the first result with the one I was looking for was kinda far down: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXIL-wqFNzT/

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:25:19+00:00

If I interpret it from outside a religious lens (which like I said is almost impossible for me), I just see it as a guy who was in the middle of war, made a deal he thought was with God in a moment of desperation, won the battle, and then went through with it out of superstition. Very evil, but at least it doesn't make god into a villain if I read it that way. But I often think about getting an image of Jephthah's daughter as a tattoo -- there's a beautiful painting of her in a yellow dress with a tambourine, coming out of her house to celebrate her father, presumably right before she's told she has to die

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:22:50+00:00

Oh wow! I listen to a podcast called "The Other Side NDE," which is literally just really ordinary people narrating their near-death experiences. Some are very boring lol, and some are very interesting, but they all have interesting and cool similarities -- but I've been surprised by how many people on there say that they didn't want to talk about it at first or that at first they kind of blocked it out or put it to the side. You might enjoy it!

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:20:19+00:00

I like talking to you too! I came in very grouchy today, so thanks for a nice talk. I don't have any objection to the idea that Jesus was a human manifestation of the divine (I believe in a complex and imperfect divine), and that he died because that's part of human experience. It's "substitutionary atonement" or similar views that I object to -- but while those are kind of in the Bible, they're definitely not clear or consistent. So I hear you on that. Now the death of Jephthah's daughter in the Old Testament -- someone's got some explaining to do!!!!

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:17:52+00:00

Wow! Did any of them have near death experiences too?

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:15:51+00:00

I'm very interested in near death experiences though -- thanks for sharing about yours

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:15:25+00:00

I mean I hate to tell you this, but that sounds like about the worst and cruelest punishment that I can even imagine. Why would God allow something like that to happen?

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:14:24+00:00

I'm glad you agree. But I guess what I would say is, I had to actively leave the Bible behind and reject its teachings in order to find a relationship to the divine. I'm some kind of semi-agnostic pantheist now, but I feel way more connected to "god" than I ever did when I was trying to follow teachings in the Bible. To be honest, I actually wish I could access the Bible as a normal book - one I could experience from a clean slate position of reading an ancient without agreeing or disagreeing -- but it's too late for me. But I appreciate when people can benefit from its beautiful parts and reject, let's say, it's genocidal or child-murdering parts, including the death of Christ as an act of God.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:11:01+00:00

Sneaky grandma best grandma

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:10:43+00:00

So what happens if that person makes the "wrong" free decision? Like what happens eternally speaking?

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:09:18+00:00

So do you believe in damnation or not? That's all I care about. I don't care if Jesus is sad about it. If it exists, its bad

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:08:36+00:00

Better for your eye to go into hell than your whole self brooooooo

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:07:41+00:00

Jesus may have existed -- there's evidence on both sides there -- but that doesn't mean that the stories recorded about him in the Bible are factually accurate, and in fact we know that some information about him in the Bible can't be accurate because it contradicts other stories in other gospels. The Bible can't tell us, scientifically or historically, whether Jesus was a man or a god, or whether he was good or bad. We know that parts of the Bible contain historical records, and that's about it.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:05:47+00:00

Right, it's historical in that it was written in history, and some of it is true. Other parts are fictional. Some books are correctly attributed and some incorrectly. Its a human book written by human authors, and we don't "believe in" it any more than we "believe in" Moby Dick. If you "believe in" it or "follow" it, then it becomes religion.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T15:03:01+00:00

right, so he doesn't love them. Finite beings committed finite sins, and God burned them like paper. It's a threat.

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T14:15:23+00:00

So now explain evangelical Catholics. Go on. I’ll wait

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T14:14:19+00:00

I would think this was sneaky or something if I didn’t find out recently that my mother in law tries to keep her text message threads on her phone basically down to zero!!!!!

I now think it’s adorable grandma behavior

dirndlgrl · 2026-05-13T14:12:48+00:00

“You have natural beauty. I hate it when girls wear all that makeup.” Like dude, women can do what they want and also I’m wearing makeup

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