Posts by cappytan

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REASON demands belief in God

by abiather in

it has been the history of mankind that they proceed from the crude to the subtle in all spheres of life: they seek the subtle amidst the crude, and in the subtle, they seek the subtlest.

when hunger is extinguished, humans looked for art.

ancient humans appreciated the harmony of music; they also liked to dance in joy.

cappytan

Reason demands a belief in God.

Wrong.

Reason demands you say, "I don't know," when you don't have the answers. Saying that Magic is the answer for questions that are as yet unanswered is not reason, it's arrogant delusion.

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Had a major blow out

by freemindfade in

jw
friends

my mom was emailing a group thread of rhetoric about isis and armageddon, and i finally got sick of it and said some pretty intense harsh things about ideals, and wishing for armageddon.

then it went back and forth like some debate, all the while i am holding back unloading serious ttatt on my family.

i put a whole bunch of scriptures where the wonderful yahweh committed infanticide.

cappytan

Oooff. Sorry man.

I bet the whole bible being fairy tales thing is what sent him into cult mode. Breaking faith in the organization has to come before breaking faith in the Bible.

My wife still believes the Bible. Drip irrigation from the scriptures about how the organization is wrong is what's working right now. I can enlighten her to Dawkins after she's free of the cult.

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How many were baptized in your area, last assembly?

by brandnew in

jw
friends

how many were baptized in your area, last assembly?.

santa paula, ca..........17..

Stephen King Freakouts?

by cappytan in

i have this memory of deciding to get a stephen king novel (tommyknockers) from my high school library.. went home and started reading it.

first few chapters were pretty amazing.

felt guilty because i had heard urban jw legends about people who owned stephen king books having demon problems.

cappytan

I have this memory of deciding to get a Stephen King novel (Tommyknockers) from my high school library.

Went home and started reading it. First few chapters were pretty amazing.

Felt guilty because I had heard urban JW legends about people who owned Stephen King books having demon problems. And that their problems continued until they burned his books in their BBQ pit.

I marked my book, went to take a shower. Came out and my mom was freaking out. She said I was "inviting demons into the house." She made me burn the book and reimburse the library for a "lost" book.

I never read a Stephen King novel again...

...until I woke up to TTATT.

Here's the dumb part: Tommyknockers is just a run of the mill SciFi thriller.

I remember years later, watching The Shawshank Redemption on TNT with the family, my mom saying at the end it was such a great movie. Little did she know.....

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Caleb & Sophia video Getting Big Coverage

by freemindfade in

wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.

not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.

cappytan

Dean's the bomb! Which book?

I'm reading some of his older Sci Fi stuff right now.

Dark of the Woods was the one I was reading on Sunday. Really short novel. More like a novella or novellette. Finished it Sunday evening. It was a good escape. Nothing to write home about.

I had yesterday off, so I started Stephen King's Tommyknockers.

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Caleb & Sophia video Getting Big Coverage

by freemindfade in

wow, i am kind of surprised the amount of attention this appalling video is getting from the media.

not surprised because it is appalling but that something that i grew up with was encapsulated in a cartoon and is exposing the witnesses publicly for mind control.. www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jehovah-witnesses-video-slammed-threats-kids-article-1.2116873.

cappytan

The watchtower is way too long, beating these things out into an hour is painful at best.

Wholeheartedly agree. I was so bored last meeting I decided to read Dean Koontz on my tablet instead, and I still gave a comment.

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Joseph and Potiphar's wife

by StarTrekAngel in

what are the real reasons joseph refused to sleep with potiphar's wife?.

the watchtower and others teach that joseph refused to commit adultery.

specifically to the jws, we teach that joseph, somehow, knew that adultery was wrong, despite not having any specific rule or writing to teach him so.

cappytan

Maybe she was a fattie and Joseph just wasn't into that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Look at this fear mongering graphic from latest WT

by cappytan in

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cappytan

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About myself

by tamagotchi in

hi to anyone reading this, so i little bit about myself.

i'm 24 years old born-in, all my family are in, my father is an elder.

though i'm not fading as such i no longer believe jw.org is gods chosen organisation so you could say i'm mentally out.

cappytan

Welcome!

You aren't alone.

Don't marry anyone in the truth unless you know for a fact that they're of the same mindset.

Tread carefully.

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I have found out how to have a great round of golf

by James Mixon in

yesterday a golf friend had a great round of golf, he shot a 79.. normally his play is in the low 90's.

yesterday he was hitting the ball a mile down the fairways and straight, just killing the ball.. so i ask him after the round, what the hell got into you today.. he told me he had a fight with the wife, not a physical fight but a disagreement.. he saw the face of his wife in the ball each time he hit it.. i will have a great round of golf next week.

the old lady and i will have a hell of a disagreement before i play next week..

cappytan

Or instead of your wife, picture the ball being AMIII's sneering face.