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Ever feel bad about finding something amusing?
by osmosis in.
http://ebaumsworld.com/videos/bad-babysitter.html
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JWs abusive by nature.. ?
by osmosis inthe current pop psychology about cults is drawing a very strong parallel between cult victims and "battered woman syndrome".
1. the woman believes that the violence was her fault.. 2. the woman has an inability to place the responsibility for the violence elsewhere.. 3. the woman fears for her life and/or her children's lives.. 4. the woman has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient.. i myself have noticed certain abusive patterns in my relationships with my jw relatives.
a lot of it comes from my dad and now when i think about it, i think of it as manipulative, "jedi mind tricks" he tries to play on me.. has anyone else noticed manipulative and/or downright abusive undercurrents among jws?
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Brain teaser
by osmosis inhere is a question that actually makes my jw aunt feel uncomfortable.. er, rather, she admits that this question makes her uncomfortable.. a very prevalent argument for the existence of god is the apparent complexity of the known universe.
this complexity, believers say, is proof positive that the universe was created.
we couldn't just appear out of nowhere, the big bang can't actually explain things.
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dammit sass, you were right
by osmosis inbah.
bah i say!.
after talking with the jw aunt yesterday and feeling extremely frustrated at her ability to twist logic and not see things that are right in front of her, i started feeling kinda down.. dammit, sass was right, i worked myself into a depression over this.
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JW interpretation of bible
by osmosis insay, for example, you ask a jw about the book of genesis, and about the seven days, we all know what they say, that it's in "god time" which means 1 day = 7000 years, by their reckoning.
does this particular argument have any validity?
to me it seems like an "escape hatch", a tool to explain away what one could call certain "irregularities" in the bible.. they seem to think they can cross-reference any one part of the bible with any other as serves their ideological agenda.
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Update on the JW aunt melodrama
by osmosis innot sure if she has actually sent that letter to the wts yet, but so far there has not been a response.
i wonder if they will respond at all, after all it's easy to say it got lost in the mail or something, much harder to make such excuses over the phone.
time will tell.
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What do you have now?
by osmosis ini was talking to my aunt the other day.
she knows i talk to you apostate folks and i don't think she's very comfortable with it, but that's her problem.. she did, however, ask a question that seems particularly important, not only in and of itself, but even more so when you apply it more generally.. the question was: what do you people have now that you're out?
what has leaving given you?.