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Posts by rmt1
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12Update on Ark Encounter (YEC theme park): creationist Ken Ham offering junk bonds
by adamah inseems the ark encounter project is having a hard time raising funds, but ken ham doesn't miss a chance to bash obamacare to help raise funds.
ham is pushing junk bonds to help finance the project:.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/ark_encounter_finances_obamacare_sank_ken_ham_s_creationist_theme_park.html.
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Do you look like the apostate they warned you about?
by Angus Beef inafter waking up and wanting to get out of this nightmare, the word apostate is really bothering me.
if i quitely become inactive, fade away will i just be looked at as "always weak".
i want to scream out how big a fool i was.. and now telling my poor young daughter how wrong i was to bring her up as a jw.
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Apo means against. Sto means stand. The GB continue to harvest centrality, relevance, context, reinforcement, and numbers from people who are ex-JWs who still answer to the GB's leash, """"apostate"""". The operative conceit is that whatever it is that an apostate is standing against is the very Ptolemaic, entrenched, inextractable center and origin of the coordinates or references of all reality. It is you and you alone that decide what is central in your context and your universe. The JW concentration camp experience may be a driving origin for born-ins, but that does not make the teaching, the doctrine, the interpretation, the philosophy, center to anything. It is a spun-off suite of ideas from the late 19th century.
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They all laughed when I insisted that the Yellowstone caldera was a threat...
by Nathan Natas instrangely enough, jesus never warned that "there will be wars and rumors of wars, but if the yellowstone caldera blows, we're toast.".
...and jesus' composite bride through the pages of the watchtower, never suggested that deeply-dipped dubs ought to move out of the area downwind of yellowstone, lest they be transformed in the twinkling of an eye into crispy monoliths.. but up here in the uadna orbiting space platform, things are different.
we're rational.
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One of my finest cinematic nightmares was right after 9/11. I was living in Tucson in the future, California had fallen off the map, I could look out on Pacific beachfront property, and the wife and I lived in a spacious futuristic glass house. I took the freeway to the coast, and lo, an event of Biblical proportions. I looked north and saw beyond the horizon mountains of fire leaving earth; I looked upper and saw a (basically an asteroid-size) chunk of burning rock heading down at me from its parabolic arc. If I had to date it it was late this century. Nightmares are a free movie and you don't have to pay those jackasses a cent for popcorn.
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Goodbye and Thank You Jw Net (Last Post)
by Brother Mike ini would like to thank everyone for the discussions that we've all had.
after all of them i have realized, all of you have made me realized that after all of the stuff i have been through, i just need a good friend.
and regardless of how hostile our discussion could get i have felt that you have all shared something with me that have helped me.
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There's some coffee left.
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I Want Your Thoughts On This: A 80 Year Old Man Lost His Wife....
by minimus inand within a month, he has been seeing a 69 year old woman who lived upstairs from him.
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the wife has been sick for a year and she passed away in october.. now, the 80 year old man is like a teenager with this woman, making out in public places with this woman and introducing her to family and friends as his new girlfriend that he "loves".. the father's family thinks this is weird and are concerned about it.. any thoughts?
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rmt1
Kubler Ross timescale, not uniform.
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Paul Walker killed himself, right, carelessly, needlessly? How does that prove God exists?
Using what leverage do flaming sanctimonious back-clapping kangaroo court fraudulent newscaster circus showmen on a sound stage expect their viewer to find conviction that the physical world was personally designed?
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Is ingratitude and education inversely proportionate?
by abiather inbible describes ingratitude as one of the characteristics of last days.
people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money ....ungrateful.... etc.
(2 timothy 3:2) it seems this prophecy about people becoming ungrateful is having its fulfillment more than 100%.. i was watching an interview on the tv the other day.
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wow
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Father 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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"Apostates are mentally diseased."
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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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Yes.