Posts by rmt1

walked out of the kingdom hall cold turkey never to return based on injustices i observed among others and myself at the hands of elders giving out not god's counsel but personal opinions as counsel .

some of them weren't even giving out wt society counsel- just personal opinions.

rmt1

I've recently taken up the habit of the toast on Friday nights when the wife and I head over to her friends' house. I'm a staunch disbeliever in a deity-type who holds deed and title over my moral choices, but I am absolutely comfortable indulging in a primitive superstition that the gods of thermodynamics ought to be recognized by marking the unqualified success of living through another week. And so I and the other guy raise a glass to the roof, the walls, and the 'floor' (countertop). It is a ritual far more satisfying than the weekly observations of servitude in the KH. And so, Flipper, I can say I'll toast you back when I get my hands on some beverage. It's good to be out of that living carnage. It is even better to be on your own road.

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9/11 resemblance

by A.proclaimer in

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i found this picture while searching through the old watchtowers.

this one is in the july 15, 1975 (spanish).

i don't know what date it would be for the english edition.

rmt1

Those are all modern analogues to the Tower of Babel. They all defy gravity. They all require a minimum infrastructure base of tens of thousands of workers, and lots of collaboration. Sometimes international, sometimes multi-lingual. And they get closer to God, if that exists, than 8 or 12 or 13 wrinkle bags of hot air ever could on their own merits. GB hate human successes with a frothing passion, except when they can use that point of success to their own advantage. They are analogous to the 9/11 fundamentalist Islamists in regarding human success in general as the Great Satan, with the U.S. as the greatest demonstrable specific exponent. But they are the definition of risk-averse, so they are not analogous to anyone that explicitly performs violence outside the cowardly defense of a wall of law, or at least a wall of lawyers.

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this week's wt study

by thedog1 in

i conducted the wt study tonight on higher education.

i wondered what the reaction of the bros and sis would be.

there was no deviation from the idea that a university education is not a good idea.

rmt1

I continue to test my hypothesis: There is no unforgiveable sin in the JWs except rocking the boat. This is a complex function. The major variables include rank, status, income, blood connections, social connections. It is, as far as I can tell, an equivalent in 2013, and soon-2014, and soon-2015, and soon-2016,,,, of medieval sumptuary law. If you are not pre-approved (or post-approved) by virtue of some complex tabulation of these metrics of status, it is morally wrong for you to engage in higher education. It is above your station. It is a pretense. It is a punitive offence. But it is not above the station of certain ones, a select few. It is not a pretense for those ones. The trick, I suppose, is in the lower estate individual somehow faking estate and right to that caste of sumpuary priviledge WITHOUT ROCKING THE BOAT. That's all that matters. It would take a clever prole, indeed, to do this.

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Is there an official name for this comedic device?

by Island Man in

is there an official name for the comedic device where one replaces one word with another word having a similar pronounciation but a different (usually derisive) meaning?.

for example, some skeptics deride the bible by spelling it "buy-bull".

same or simliar pronounciation but entirely different meaning.

rmt1

"Asleep" is non-pun sarcasm. Also not strictly ironic.

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I regret my disassociation.

by Zoos in

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if i knew then what i know now, i might never have disassociated myself.

i realize all i can do is speculate on what could have been.

however, when i consider the number of people i might have been able to help by dropping little thought-provoking seeds, i really regret having jumped to the decision to disassociate so quickly.. ive read the accounts of several people on this forum telling of how stressful it is to be in the position that i just described above.

rmt1

This seems to me like the idea of knowingly taking out a fresh loan at 1.05 * x% in order to pay off an outstanding loan at x%. Think of the mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, psychic energy, as well as gas money, logistics money, field service food money, and other opportunity costs you'll be able to put into the bank. This is not saying that some probabalistic cross section of getting through to your family is not worth all that - but it is still only a lottery's chance of getting through. (Do some fast reading on tunnelling in Quantum Mechanics, and the probabilities involved.) And you're still on the hook for all the aforementioned costs. Science, which in the absense of some angels with trumpets and kazoos coming down and personally giving you a singing telegram in barbershop four-part harmony, says that you get one life. One life.

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Nervousness While Commenting?

by schlick in

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was always shy about public speaking of any kind.

when i commented, my heart would beat as rapid as a moving train.

and oh if it was something i tried to remember then it would be forgotton the second being put on the spot.

rmt1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response

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Is there an official name for this comedic device?

by Island Man in

is there an official name for the comedic device where one replaces one word with another word having a similar pronounciation but a different (usually derisive) meaning?.

for example, some skeptics deride the bible by spelling it "buy-bull".

same or simliar pronounciation but entirely different meaning.

rmt1

If a theo exists it wouldn't have the first thing to do with that gang of fools. How about, real-estate-ocracy, or edict-ocracy, or dogma-ocracy. And real-estate-tese, edict-tese or dogma-tese.

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Help me...!

by OneDayillBeFree in

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lost my job, just a week before making the final arrangements to move into my very own apartment.. got a speeding ticket on the following sunday for trying to make it to the meeting "on time", (never made it to the hall, just parked in the back of a shopping center for 2 hours in silence).. marked by the elders for quitting pioneering, no more commenting and "failing to adhere to bible counsel".. jw family sees me as a disappointment.

non-jw family is too far away to care.. found out ex-girlfriend got df'ed and is now pregnant.

puts some of the blame on me for how things turned out.. realizing that she's not entirely wrong as i was still an ignorant, kiss-ass, die hard jwdub when we started dating, always putting the "kingdom interests first" never having time for her since "the end was so freaking close" and then warping her up in the mess of me learning ttatt.. dwelling night after night in "what could have been" if i had never been a jw.. alternating between being a theist, atheist and agnostic on a daily basis to the point where i don't care anymore yet getting creeped the f*ck out when facing my own mortality and the thought of me dying alone.. always coming to the same conclusion, when i find myself alone on friday nights and weekends, that i have no actual friends, only two conditional jw "friends" which are both currently out of town for about a month and 0 real, non-jw friends.. haven't been able to sleep well in literally weeks now.

rmt1

"Dwelling night after night in "what could have been" if I had never been a JW."

If you are getting unplugged right now, what is it in your 'could have been' category you can still do? You sound like you have fifty years at least.