"Apostates are mentally diseased."
Posts by rmt1
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33Father of four quits job after attending Annual Meeting
by confusedandalone inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdegzadefa.
this is completely ridiculous.
even as an uber dub i would bnever ever do this!!!
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New here and having ah ha moments!
by Angus Beef inwhat made you realize it was time to go?
i've been having health problems for the last few years and instead of any help, i'm listed as spiritually weak and of course associations is only my kids and husband.
all the good jw's have moved to other congregations and are doing well.
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rmt1
From my own experiences inside the structure, from my own collection of errata with who gets to do what, and combining that with experiences I read on this website, my conclusion is that JWs in general have no intention of requiring any standard of truth among themselves. The only crime is rocking the boat. To put this more bluntly, the GB lie. The GB lie. Those who lie the lies that the GB lie also themselves lie. You cannot find any JW that is in good standing who is not lying. They lie to themselves, first and foremost. They lie to the public, which is next in egregious moral wrong. They lie to their family. They lie to their friends. The sum significance of these varieties of lies is that you need to take charge of the demon of guilt they have implanted in you or saddled on you as respects what numbers or metrics they need to be harvesting from you. They'll squeeze you in a juice press for all the numbers or metrics you've got, and will only eject you from the juice press (the KH and good standing) if you refuse to produce the last metric. SO: The metric of being able to be counted as a publisher is one number. That requires not rocking the boat, not pointing at the naked emperor, not pointing at the elephant, not making a face at the foul stench. If you can do that, you can stay in. You need to find happy places in your mind to endure this concentration camp. Other posters here recommend texts that document JW teachings from an academic or pedagogical standpoint. I would recommend Victor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning". I would also recommend falsely reporting as small a number for field service as will keep them at bay. No number related to field service matters one bit. No one is honestly accomplishing anything honest in the entire process of field service, so do not allow their guilt machine to work inside your own perswonal sense of right and wrong. It is all catastrophically comprehensive bullshit, of the highest magnitude. Put in your false 15 minutes, your false half-hour, always have a story to explain your false numbers, and savor your time. (And plan, plan, plan how to reach those you care about.) The most important thing right now is breathing fresh air, locating sources of sanity, and putting on camoflague. Then building support networks. You have a long slog if you want your loved ones.
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America Is A Police State
by metatron inhttp://www.motherjones.com/print/240896.
a sad but well-documented article that lays it out.. .
metatron.
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rmt1
Yes.
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Eagle gets his lunch
by fulltimestudent ingreat pik on today's abc news (the aussie one) site:.
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a wedged-tailed eagle takes a fox at a wheatbelt property near lake king, wa.. reference: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-05/eagle-preys-on-live-fox/5138416.
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rmt1
In the earthly Paradise that Jehovah has promised mankind and for which he has lovingly provided abundant separately reproducible and irrefutable points of scientific evidence, the eagle will swoop down, grab a corn on the cob with its 400 psi talons, shuck it while standing on one foot, and chow down. This is how Jehovah personally designed the eagle's original behavior, before the Fall. Potatoes were out of reach because that required excavation, and red beets. But bananas were to be another staple of the eagle diet.
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Watchtower Study Science Class 101
by CaptainSchmideo inso, i am reading facebook today, and someone posts this little doozy on her page:.
just got done with watchtower study science class 101. so ya know how when u look at a rainbow it reminds u of jehovah's promise never to destroy the earth with a flood.
we should probably do the same thing when watching the beautiful displays of the northern lights .
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I found a new FB/YouTube group and this lady knocked me out she's good
by RayPublisher ini found a new fb/youtube group and this lady knocked me out she's good.
in this video there's a snippet that is priceless.
make sure you watch up through the montage starting at 21:30!
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rmt1
The women speaking out against this cult are a large army.
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Why Evolution Is True--something that scares me
by DS211 inso im reading "why evokution is true" by coyne and the page im on is talking about darwin and natural selection:.
"but natural selection was also the part of evolutionary theory con- sidered most revolutionary in darwins time, and it is still unsettling to many.
selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that doesnt require creation or guidance by supernatural forces.
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rmt1
The marvels of deeply catching a glimpse of how the world actually works is a more potent opium than religion.
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Ever considered joining the Church of Satan?
by J. Hofer inevery now and then i read up on the church of satan, most of their principles make sense to me, in the end i'm still leaning to a more humanist world view though.
what's your view on the church of satan?
pragmatic nihilism spiced up with a few funny rituals?
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rmt1
Reads like something comical, like the Peanuts / Charlie Brown characters got together over a weekend as jaded adults. The Statements and Sins sound like theatrical expansions on plain "thinking".
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What was the subject of the Watchtower Study this past Sunday?
by Lynnie ini have a psycho cousin that has decided to go back to the jw's after never wanting to be a jw even though.
now in her early thirties she's decided to join up.
i heard her say something about this.
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FadeToBlack: "I had to seperate them when she started to cry because he did not want to read it."
This sounds to me like she thought this was a bona fide palm branch, peace offering, pass the pipe, parity of insight, because it was a fresh and timely example of the equivalence between GB words on a page and walking the walk into being examined under time constraint for your knowledge on a professional scientific topic, and then her having that assumption rejected.
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Did you ever have a supernatural experience?
by XPeterX inok i know some of you are going to mock me but i don't give a shit and you'd better get dafaq outta this thread if you don't beleive in this stuff.. .
so,you ever seen somethin strange?shadow people?felt cold spots?touched by something you can't see?beaten by an unseen force?heard voices/whispers/growls/screams etc?are you sure about it or was it just your imagination?you ever been into the occult?c'mon share your experiences and stories!personally i've never had an encounter with the other side..
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rmt1
Both my converted JW parents had ghost stories that informed my craving for empirical and reproducable finding. My dad told me that as a child he had been chased by a leprechaun-type non-human who disappeared when looked at directly. He also said that as a teenager he had some kind of understanding with Satan and that Satan taught him how to manipulate people by word and thought. And my mom said that as a child she and some girls had played with a ouija board in the very house we lived at the time, and she said a green gas or spirit left the board, went out that window (she pointed) and came back in this window (she pointed) and then (whatever). One fertile narrative conceit I really enjoy in supernatural thrillers is that you cannot be victimized by what you do not believe in (e.g. Skeleton Key).