That isn't the least of it. The way I figure it, I owe god the depreciated value of a 6,000-year-old-apple. He's charged me more than I owe, therefore I ain't payin'. Let the f-er take it to court.
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Job lost everything and still praised God???? Would you?
by Witness 007 inso jehovah and satan are in vegas and decide to place "a bet" that loyal servant job would still be faithful if he lost his money, family, wife's respect and health....and yes, he still praises jehovah!
is this logical?
if god arranged for your family to be killed and destroyed your health and finances would you say:"thank you sir can i have another!
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Bring_the_Light
Ahh, the Lords day, the day of rest, the Sabbath, the day off for the sole purpose of ensuring nobody has an excuse not to go get their mind control. F-Sunday, I think we should get 52 extra Paid Time Off (PTO) days to use at our discretion, and do away with this oppression.
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Won't the "Big" Announcement be made BEFORE Sunday April 27
by RubaDub ineveryone keeps mentioning about the sunday april 27 date as "the" date.. however, in many cities that have multiple congregations in the same kh, there are meetings on saturdays also.. in our kh (and many others locally) there are 5 congregations in the kh.
three congregations have their meetings on sunday and two on saturday,.
so unless the instructions are such that the letter can't be read before april 27, it should very well be public on saturday (actually friday if you take into consideration countries in earlier time zones).. rub a dub.
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WELL?WELL?WELL? Is somebody going to report on this, or do I need to run out and catch and afternoon meeting???
*ANTICIPATION BUILDING*
Somebody tell me before I cream my pants!!!!
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The inventions that they come up with! Look at this computer mouse (fluff)
by MsMcDucket innow why didn't i think of that!.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/04/index.html.
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Anyone notice they have "new" Tom&Jerry cartoons on TV? Well one of them involved Tom using Jerry as a "mouse". I thought it was hilarious.
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So far..............No Evidence
by Warlock in#article { width: 665px; } .
sweep of polygamists' kids raises legal questions.
email this story.
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Yep, unconstitutional.
As much as i love cult-crashing, I firmly believe that the freeing of minds and torment of the religious should be done only within the constraints of the Constitution and the Laws of the United States.
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Jw upbringing and retarded social growth.
by AK - Jeff ini was raised a jw, by an inactive jw mom.
looking back, and reflection on my childhood, causes me to wonder.. i honestly did not miss the holidays, for example.
i never had them, so nothing was taken away in that regard.
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Another piece of "me-wisdom" that might be useful is real perspective comes from seeing everything. So, if you look at someone else and think they or their lives are perfect, its mostly because you are not involved/can't see. The more I poke around and meet different kinds of people, the more clear it has become that everyone is the same. Same insecurities, nobody "actually" holds onto a sense of being superior or secure for very long. Much of this is an illusion.
We Ex-JW's should keep in mind that just avoiding the JW madness doesn't mean there wouldn't have been "other" madness waiting for us. This is just one human experiences amongst many. (not forgiving JayDubyas here, just saying). I think the real answer involves avoiding illusions, trying to be true to eachother and sharing this experience of ignorance and insecurity with eachother.
If we were honest, rather than "teaching" our children things, we would say "welcome to the world, please help us, we don't know what to do, maybe you'll figure it out".
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Jw upbringing and retarded social growth.
by AK - Jeff ini was raised a jw, by an inactive jw mom.
looking back, and reflection on my childhood, causes me to wonder.. i honestly did not miss the holidays, for example.
i never had them, so nothing was taken away in that regard.
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I can relate, but I actually think my being a JW helped my worldish social contacts. Becasue I was the only JW in my school I was pretty unique. Being the only sworn member of my cliche' it freed me to ally with any other cliche' without the inter-cliche' politics and negotiation normally involved. I was nobody and everybody, had real friends everywhere from druggies to nerds, to a few Pop Jocks. \
This notion that there are groups of well-adjusted, happy people who spend their lives never feeling uncertain, rejected or alone is pretty much an illusion. My favorite "me-wisdom" is if you really want to see mental illness and tradgedy, look into the mental lives of the happy and well-adjusted, they, when you look closely are the deeply sick ones.
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!-Emily Dickenson
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I wouldn't have the virulent love of liberty or understand the human condition nearly as much as I do. Thank you JayDubyas! I will include your contributions to my development when I do my "part of this world" and time has come to write my memoirs.
If my big splash happens to include the destruction of this wicked cult, hey, won't that be ironic?
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Borg-like zeal of ex-friends
by Bring_the_Light inwell i've been gone 10 years.
ran around and looked for friends still in, wound up aposticizing myself to one of them (couldn't help it, just so derned aggrivating, had to tell her how it is).
i'm thinking about going to the district convention this summer to continue to fully experience not being a jw.
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Even just asking people to say out loud that they think that the whole current state of the world is based on a woman eating an apple can be an illuminating experience. They generally won't want to say it out loud. If you get them to say it out loud, then they start wondering why they feel so wierd saying it. Eventually, they might figure out they feel wierd because its totally nuts.
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Borg-like zeal of ex-friends
by Bring_the_Light inwell i've been gone 10 years.
ran around and looked for friends still in, wound up aposticizing myself to one of them (couldn't help it, just so derned aggrivating, had to tell her how it is).
i'm thinking about going to the district convention this summer to continue to fully experience not being a jw.
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The one thing that bugs me is due to the cultish mechanisms of control, and American tolderance of crazypants religion, very few JW's really "get challenged" on their crap. They love to talk about good Christian oppression, in reality, I can't remember ANYONE looking me in the eye and telling me what I (was supposed to) believe wasn't true, make any suggestion that I was "being controlled" or indicate any of this isn't healthy, and that people are getting hurt over it.
Wanna be a crazypants? I think you should have to be a crazypants in the full light of day. Anyhoo, I differ from the Society in my views if "Avoiding Individual Thought".
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