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  You know, when you really "Make the Truth your own" it changes everything

  by gubberningbody in

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  you own it.. that is to say, you are the one who decides what is right and what is wrong.. now it's odd to realize that the so-called father of faith, abraham "made the truth his own" in condemning what he thought this being was planning on doing to the residents of sodom (including his own self-absorbed whiney nephew lot) with the words "is the judge of all the earth not going to do what is right?

  " are words which meditating on would eventually lead me to condemn all religion including any being which may or may not be behind it all.. .

  because in "making the truth my own" i learned to reject power as the basis for moral authority, and this power necessarily included intelligence.

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  You know when they said you should wait 2 years before you witness to anyone?

  by gubberningbody in

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  (at least i heard that from a lot when i came in, though only in jest).

  i think it's true for those who leave.. you need time to be with your own thoughts, time to heal before you try to talk to anyone.. .

  if you don't, you'll just confirm what's on the minds of those who fear where you've gone.. .

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  The real truth is that you know you've recovered when you stop caring about JW's

  by gubberningbody in

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  it's perhaps sad, but perhaps a bit of wisdom to come to realize how insignificant jws really are.. .

  you finally get to the point where you don't even care what happens to the borg one way or another.. .

  this said after almost four years..

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  I actually loved field service

  by gubberningbody in

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  that might seem odd, but it really suited my personality.

  even before i became a jw i was annoying people with personal questions.

  the thing is that it's sort of ok in normal land to do that as a cult member, but not as a "normal citizen".. .

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  Fox News: bias anyone? (gas prices and the presidency)

  by gubberningbody in

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  with gas prices on the rise the republicans and fox news are blaming it on obama.. .

  but wait, back in 2008 when gas hit $4.11 a gallon they said just the opposite about bush: the president has no control over gas prices.. .

  sure, "we report the news, you decide".

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  I remember how I always preferred working alone door to door

  by gubberningbody in

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  i'd just stand at the door and not knock on it or ring it.

  if someone came, i'd make a presentation - "here's your tract!".

  otherwise i'd just wait a couple of minutes and then go to the next door and not knock.. .

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  You Can Live Forever In Paradise on Earth!

  by gubberningbody in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhkpoz4sroe.

  if you leave the borg now!.

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  I'd rather be mentally diseased than mentally deceased

  by gubberningbody in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndhomycmaxq.

  living without blind spots is better.

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  Does the Issue of Universal Sovereignty make sense to you as an explanation for evil?

  by gubberningbody in

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  it used to for me, and now it doesn't.. i'm not sure how i was able to accept that argument now that i don't, but perhaps it was connected with my increasing compassion for people and their personal suffering as i've grown older.. now it seems like a sick excuse.

  more like a bar-bet with satan and all of creation suffers.. i read paul's words and he has no rejoiner except to say in effect "sucks to be a vessel of wrath...glad i'm not one, but who are you to complain anyway, huh?

  who's bigger, smarter and more powerful than you, you, you complaining vessel of wrath, you.

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  Anton-Babinski Syndrome and Jehovah's Witnesses

  by gubberningbody in

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  i was reading a book the other day and happened to read about a condition which struck me as oddly reminiscent of the situation jehovah's witnesses may come to resemble for failing to see that "new light" isn't.. .

  antonbabinski syndrome is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe.

  people who suffer from it are "cortically blind", but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.

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