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  Are you an "out of the closet" atheist?

  by rebel8 in

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  i'm atheist and not ashamed of it.

  however, it is so politically incorrect, especially where i live.

  i have a legitimate concern that being out of the closet too much will hurt my career or neighborly relations--i know for a fact it probably would.. i'm really cautious about who i tell.. how about you?

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  rebel8

  REBEL8 - maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you lived in NYC

  I lived in New York State, not NYC. Bad enough there--lots of Catholic conservatives and your career goes further if you say you're Catholic too. In fact, I attended Mass in the chapel at my work (hosptial) many times, and it was a networking opportunity. I had a boss who did novenas with me, at her request. I am not kidding. It's totally inappropriate, but there you go.

  Now I live elsewhere and it's a different flavor of religion but more widespread and extreme. People seem to mind their own business a little more here, but they have more fundie views and it's socially acceptable to consider atheists demonic, evil, etc. I've seen it on resumes.
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  Mommy says no Christmas

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  daughter is 3 now, that's a little less than i've been on this forum.

  you can find my life story in earlier posts.

  enough to say that i have a generous amount of visitation with her.. i picked her up and was talking about the lights some of her neighbors had.

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  rebel8

  The ideas and suggestions of cultBgone & rebel8 towards the topicstarter sounds pretty brainwashing too

  I tried to understand your POV and failed. My post says to keep stating the fact that mommy has a belief so the child realizes people can have different beliefs without them being right or facts.

  The dictionary disagrees with your definition.

  brain wash ing

  1. a method for systematically changing attitudes or altering beliefs, originated in totalitarian countries, especially through the use of torture, drugs, or psychological-stress techniques. 2. any method of controlled systematic indoctrination, especially one based on repetition or confusion: brainwashing by TV commercials. 3. an instance of subjecting or being subjected to such techniques: efforts to halt the brainwashing of captive audiences.

  Factnet's definition also disagrees with your definition (coercive mind control).
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  Are you an "out of the closet" atheist?

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm atheist and not ashamed of it.

  however, it is so politically incorrect, especially where i live.

  i have a legitimate concern that being out of the closet too much will hurt my career or neighborly relations--i know for a fact it probably would.. i'm really cautious about who i tell.. how about you?

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  rebel8

  I'm atheist and not ashamed of it. However, it is so politically incorrect, especially where I live. I have a legitimate concern that being out of the closet too much will hurt my career or neighborly relations--I know for a fact it probably would.

  I'm really cautious about who I tell.

  How about you? Have you come out of the closet at work, etc.? How did it go?
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  Funeral for an atheist

  by Stealth in

  1. jw
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  99% of all funerals that i have attended have been the wt version, where they preach about the resurrection into paradise and say little about the person who passed other than they were loyal to jah.

  the other 1% catholic for grandparents.. now that i consider myself an atheist, i got to wondering what do atheists plan for when they die?.

  if you are a non-believer what are your plans for when you die?

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  I've put it in my will that I want a secular ceremony with readings and music. There are tons of nice things that could be done that do not involve the stink of religion. I want none of that on me in death--not that I will be aware of it.
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

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  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  rebel8

  Imagine what these dumbasses could have walked in to had it been a US church with an active shooter/assault plan

  Very good point! In the US they may face hate crime charges as well.

  There are many ways to act legally and effectively.
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  My own daughter has much suffered; she will get justice in due time.

  by TheFadingAlbatros in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  just learned today direct from my beloved daughter that she has been abused between 5 and 12 years old by 2 brothers (her own cousins) and 1 family "friend".

  she has attempted suicide a few days ago.

  luckily she is living and she is not physically injured.

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  rebel8

  very sorry
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses Psycopaths?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.

  what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.

  (by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).

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  No. I've treated real ones. They enjoy being violent and cruel to others for its own sake, and have no remorse. They view other people, animals and things as existing for them to abuse and destroy for their amusement. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something inside of them.

  Sociopaths cannot be cured.

  jws are brainwashed into being nonviolently cruel under specific circumstances because god will kill them if they don't. Their bad behavior started and keeps happening because of something external to them.

  jws can be cured.

  Granted, dubs take advantage of that, which is the opposite of prosocial behavior. But it's still different from those who have Antisocial Personality Disorder (also called psychopaths, sociopaths).
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  Mommy says no Christmas

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  daughter is 3 now, that's a little less than i've been on this forum.

  you can find my life story in earlier posts.

  enough to say that i have a generous amount of visitation with her.. i picked her up and was talking about the lights some of her neighbors had.

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  rebel8

  Keep presenting it as an eccentric belief of her mom's. "Mommy believes Christmas is bad, lights are bad, gifts are bad, singing Happy Birthday is bad, etc. Daddy does not." Or whatever...
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  How to traumatize your kids while baking cookies

  by rebel8 in

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  2. beliefs

  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-novel-way-to-traumatize-your-children.html.

  well dubs may corner the market on messing with children's heads, but there are other contenders.. .

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  rebel8

  I added a jw recipe.
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  AAWA activists burst into a Kingdom Hall in Kent!

  by raymond frantz in

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  2. beliefs

  aawa activists burst into a kingdom hall in kent.

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  rebel8

  Like you say, it's their choice. But let's not labor under the delusion that acting out angrily and illegally is a tool to help current jws wake up. It does the opposite.

  It's designed for them to vent their anger, period. I can't even call this activism because it's designed to worsen the issue they claim to be fighting against. I just call it revenge.

  

  Should they wish to help current jws, they could have modified the approach slightly and perhaps had an actual positive impact.