Topics Started by Terry
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STUPID PEOPLE: can't kill em...What do you do with them?
by Terry ini'm afraid we all run into stupid people.
they can frustrate us; they can baffle us; they can make life miserable for us.
what do you do when you encounter one?
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IF YOU COULD BE GOD FOR A DAY.......what would you do?
by Terry inokay, here is your chance to straighten out the entire universe!
just like in the jim carrey movie, bruce almighty, you will be given god's job for a day.
you can control everything, though, unlike him; there is no limit to your power.
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What do you know? And, How do you know it?
by Terry inremember how certain you were as a jw?
you just knew what you knew was right 100%
you staked your life on it, didn't you?
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LIGHTNING BOLT from Gawd! Paul's turnaround?
by Terry inlast night in bed listening to the terrible electric storm that raged outside i was thinking of a local football player who had been struck by lightning while jogging on the school track.
i then had what they call an epiphany.. it became clear to me that, perhaps, paul had been struck by lightning on the road to damascus and partially blinded and perhaps sustained a permanent infirmity.. further, being struck by lightning would be taken as a sign from god that he needed to reassess his course in life.
he was a thug doing enforcement for the high priest against the upstart christian sect.
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IMPORTANT IDEA! Petition the Society and embaress them for their hubris
by Terry ini may have an important idea!
(beginner's luck).. what if we all (and i mean every last one of us; big numbers of people) wrote a scathing and precise petition or letter of protest (as an open letter) to the governing body of jehovah's witnesses and released it to the press on a slow news day with lots of fanfare?.
we would "call out" the rascals in no uncertain terms citing our grievances (like the founding fathers to george iii) and enumerating our personal suffering under the policies we want changed.. the list would include setting themselves up as little dictators speaking in god's name and issuing papal decrees upon penalty of excommunication.. we could demand apologies for stealing the future of children born to jw families who lose the happiness of childhood through worthless pharisaic adherence to blind rules such as no birthdays, christmas, easter, holidays in general, etc.
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EVASIONS! Techniques JW's use to avoid dealing with the truth about TRUTH
by Terry inmy weekly conversations with my old friend, johnny, who was responsible for bringing me into the watchtower society, have proved to be a herculean task.
he is still active in the organization and greatly skilled at avoiding anything unpleasant for him to face.
i've learned to identify his evasions as such and prepare myself mentally to deal with them.. what evasions have you encountered?.
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My Lunch with an active JW today
by Terry injohnny and i go back all the way to childhood.
we met in elementary school all those years ago.
he was a chubby, one-eyed kid with freckles and a coat that didn't fit him and i was a tall and vanishingly thin introvert who wore dress pants instead of blue jeans.
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EVIL LOUTION? Why do you still resist? Science doesn't work?
by Terry ini resisted it for years.
i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.
i had to be intellectually honest.
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FALSIFYING your religious beliefs: an important tool
by Terry innews.
published online: 06 august 2004; | doi:10.1038/news040802-19 science secret of grand masters revealed .
mark peplow .
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Only possible things happen. Is free choice an illusion?
by Terry inthings are what they are.. everything acts according to its nature.. nothing escapes its own nature.. we cannot be other than what we are and our "choices" follow our nature.. consequently, can we not say correctly that free choice is merely our ignorance of the fact that all our actions and choices are predetermined by our nature?.
example: if i offer you dog piss or a dove bar is that really a choice?.
only possible things happen.