Originally posted by robbie carrobie
actually its for children under six, who have no concept of Prozac smiles or 70's
haircuts. I used to take magazines to a family whose mum was not interested but she
said that her daughter loved to read them so she requested that i bring them which i
was happy to do. The illustrations are fine for children.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
nah, there not fine. they are rubbish. you need to have a word with the top brass. if you are going to pray on kids then at least give the door to door foot soldiers the tools to do the job. maybe if you had jw action figures to go with the book that would work.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
prey on kids??, ok, you have lost the last vestiges of respect that i had for you, rather
interestingly it was exactly the same accusation that the Romans made against the
early Christians as well. I dont think we shall be taking lessons from you on how to
conduct a public ministry.

Originally posted by rvsakhadeo
What books would the theists on this forum recommend to Googlefudge ?
The OP is because G has recommended several books to Dasa with a view to make him over as "" a human " !
I will certainly recommend the following :-
1) The Bhagavat Geeta-- any English translation ( accompanied by an explanatory
commentary ). There must be several ones a ...[text shortened]... ".
3) Any translation of " Uddhavgeeta ". Many English translations are available.

Has Googlefudge read any Allan Watts. Taoman has recently turned me on to this prolific and most venerable of authors of some 20 books.
He is an Englishman who has singlehandedly brought eastern thought to the west.
A true boddisatva if there ever was one

Originally posted by stellspalfie
apologies mr carrobie. it was meant in jest, kind of, ive had a few run'ins with not so nice jw's over the years but the two that used to come to the door with stuff for my daughter were very nice ladies and were in no way 'praying' on my kids. i used to work with a very nice jw lady who i would have been more than happy to have been prayed open by.........if i was single....(you never know who's reading).

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
ok, consider yourself duly respected once again for this magnanimous reply 🙂

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
ok, consider yourself duly respected once again for this magnanimous reply 🙂

Originally posted by sonhouse
BTW, before you ran off at the mouth🙂, he said "Pray", and you said 'Prey'. You do realize he was making a play on words, right? Preying on kids brings up the notion of child molesters and such, Praying on kids is a slightly more benign if maybe not effective in the way they hoped but means a whole other thing than the idea of predation. Just thought I would throw that one in.

Originally posted by sonhouse
BTW, before you ran off at the mouth🙂, he said "Pray", and you said 'Prey'. You do realize he was making a play on words, right? Preying on kids brings up the notion of child molesters and such, Praying on kids is a slightly more benign if maybe not effective in the way they hoped but means a whole other thing than the idea of predation. Just thought I would throw that one in.

Originally posted by sonhouse
BTW, before you ran off at the mouth🙂, he said "Pray", and you said 'Prey'. You do realize he was making a play on words, right? Preying on kids brings up the notion of child molesters and such, Praying on kids is a slightly more benign if maybe not effective in the way they hoped but means a whole other thing than the idea of predation. Just thought I would throw that one in.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
I think the Bhagavad Geeta is overrated -as is the christian bible. my 2 cents.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes I saw that but like the gentlemen that I am, I knew what he meant and rather than
pedantically pointing it out, i merely introduced it correctly for him, he has Scottish
blood in him but fly's the flag of St George, enough shame for any man.

Originally posted by JS357
OK then I will recommend Alan Watts' The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966) Fewer than 150 pages.

This should have some appeal to the organized mind.

Here are some quotes:

The prevalent sensation of oneself as a separate ego enclosed in a bag of skin is a hallucination which accords neither with Western science nor with the experimen ...[text shortened]... orever.

Nothing fails like success.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Watts

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Has Googlefudge read any Allan Watts. Taoman has recently turned me on to this prolific and most venerable of authors of some 20 books.
He is an Englishman who has singlehandedly brought eastern thought to the west.
A true boddisatva if there ever was one