Topics Started by Cognitive_Dissident

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Need a little help
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i haven't posted on here for quite a while, but i was wondering if someone could do me a huge favor and look up the definition of apostasy for me in the reasoning book.

i'm at my university's library working on a paper and i forgot to bring along the ol' reasoning book.

i tried to find it online but had no success.
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Who's giving out candy this Halloween?
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. jw
2. friends
yeah, so this year, for the first time ever, ever, ever, my roommates and i are having a halloween party, and there will be much candy given out to the small army of children on our block who will no doubt be trick or treating.

i'm really looking forward to it.

has anyone ever thought of getting all costumed up on halloween and then hitting all of the elder's houses?
fun with picture phones...
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. jw
2. friends
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see, the two can coexist peacefully.
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"Are Jehovah's Witnesses a sect or a cult?"
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the following is taken directly from the reasoning book, page 202, under the heading jehovah's witnesses.

parentheses are mine .

are jehovah's witnesses a sect or a cult?".
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"Are Jehovah's Witnesses a sect or a cult?"
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the following is taken directly from the reasoning book, page 202, under the heading jehovah's witnesses.

parentheses are mine .

are jehovah's witnesses a sect or a cult?".
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What is enlightenment?
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i had to share a few passages from an essay that i just read, published in 1784 by immanuel kant, in response to the question "what is enlightenment?

" also, what would your own response be to the question?

the website for the full essay is here.
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Just finished my last final for my first semester of college!!!
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. jw
2. friends
so i just took my last final for this semester, which was in fact my very first semester of college ever.

and it feels great!

dear watchtower bible and tract society, .
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Hey all you musicians out there, I've got an idea...
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. jw
2. friends
so in reading various posts, it's apparent that there are quite a few musicians who post on this board.

here's my idea, anyone interested in recording a track or two, and then sending it as a wav file to some of the others, who could then add there own tracks and send it back?

it could go from one person to the next, to the next, etc., or it could go out to a bunch of people to see the variety of creative responses to the same original track.
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praying for mass destruction and death
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i was writing a paper the other day, specifically about the skewed world view that i had had as a witness, and i typed the following - .

pain, misery, strife, these were all things that used to prove to me that jehovah's witnesses were correct in their assessment of a dying world which was soon to be liberated/obliterated by the hand of god.

this "liberation" was something that i desperately longed for.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
by Cognitive_Dissident in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i'm reading milan kundera's the unbearable lightness of being at the moment, and i just had to share a few of the passages that stood out to me today.

i would like to preface all of this by saying that i am not calling anyone a communist, ok?

the reason i included some background and history is so the passages from the book will not be out of context and cause misinterpretation.