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  Clean the JUNK out of your vocabulary and it follows, you will clean up your ability to THINK

  by Terry in

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  there are certain "junk" words that litter our brain, pollute our vocabulary, and play fast and loose with our reasoning.. one of those junk words is spirit.. the words means nothing, but extrapolations of its metaphorical pretense are everywhere!.

  we have five sense connected with our body link to brain.. hearing, vision, taste, touch, sense of smell.. with those five we are in touch with things as they exist.. reality is what it is.. through technology, science has been able to amplify our senses with microscopes, telescopes, x-rays, mri's, space probes, atom smashers, etc.. but--i assure you--none of this has produced evidence of "spirit.".

  the last thing that happens when you die is this.

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  Healthy skepticism requires that our beliefs should be commensurate with the available evidence

  Even when I was completely "in" I always thought of myself as a skeptic. Perhaps I was enough of one to enable my waking up to the reality of the JW religion but the second greatest realisation I have had other than the deconstruction of my faith is that my skeptism was really at infant levels and not healthy at all.

  Understanding that has really helped me to keep my sanity as my entire points of reference have disappeared and I have had to seriously consider what I really believe and how I go about choosin what to accept or not accept. Healthy skeptism is not necessarily cynical and allows one to be open minded with far less risk of taking on board beliefs and concepts that effectively put one back in the same place as when a Witness.

  Asking for reasonable corroborative evidence is not the same as closing your mind.
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  Video about London DC..

  by Daisychaindream in

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  mc happy?

  auditions?

  the cockney man was an authentic touch.

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  My wife remarked that it seems strange to have to have a video telling witnesses how to be friendly to other witnesses.
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  Roll call of those of us stuck in for our spouse or whos spouse is still in!

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  i just wanted to get a feel for how many here have awakened to ttatt but are still carrying on some jw activities to pacify them and keep the peace.

  also trying to hear from those who have left, but whose spouse has stayed in the wt and in the marriage.. for me it comes down to my own mental anguish.

  i am mentally tortured by attending the meetings, yet i feel compelled to because my wife would kill me with her personality if i had her drag 2 small girls by herself there.

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  12 - I am still nominally active but working on my wife and tryin to fade in a way that allows family relations to continue. I think I am going to have to push things harder though.
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  New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

  if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

  (yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

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  It's about how the Caleb videos are made. Aprrently the GB, faced by the lovable Tony, give their teaching requirements to Caleb who posts it through the door of the "animation dept" and then the production process is shown. It's just like how Disney would do it and very professional.

  Having said that, the "animation dept" is an outside agency who we now know to be a JW owned business with nice offices and run by a college educated JW animator. I wonder if all that work is being done on a Bethel stipend? On top of that all the audio recording is being done in state of the art WTS facilities paid for with the hard earned dollars of the faithfull.

  There is of course more context to all of this and it's unfair to impute bad motives to the creatives but aren't the WTS lucky there are some college educated specialists who can turn the Caleb tripe out without question.
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  why dont more elders leave?

  by Crazyguy in

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  you would think that what they are exposed to more would wake up and leave, why not?

  thoughts..

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  For the same reason people like me are still executing some kind of exit after 2 years. Fear of the family and social consequences of simply upping sticks and stopping.
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  New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

  if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

  (yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

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  Singing...."You post on my thread and I'll post on your thread"....

  is is there a merge thread option for admins?
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  Another cheery video for the kids on jw.dork

  by konceptual99 in

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  http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/kids-animated-videos/.

  enjoy..

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  I wonder what will happen when Caleb wants to get the same level of education that his designer has?
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  New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

  if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

  (yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

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  https://plus.google.com/app/basic/photos/111265181202435930602/album/5669170580488002705?cbp=14w4h8v40p7fi&sview=26&cid=5&soc-app=115&soc-platform=1&spath=%2Fapp%2Fbasic%2F111265181202435930602%2Fphotos&sparm=cbp%3D14w4h8v40p7fi%26sview%3D26%26cid%3D5%26soc-app%3D115%26soc-platform%3D1%26pgpnum%3D1%26spath%3D%2Fapp%2Fbasic%2Fstream%26sparm%3Dcbp%253D17f6edn3wddrj%2526sview%253D26%2526cid%253D5%2526soc-app%253D115%2526soc-platform%253D1

  check out the Adam, animals and Caleb, Caleb's mum... Some of the other drawings have a very similar style to our good friend Sparlock IMHO...

  There are also references to CA notes on his instagram feed so he is a JW.
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  New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

  if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

  (yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

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  Check out the profile and social media sites of the boss, Jimmy Gramblin. Describes himself as a spiritual man and his faith as being very important to him...
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  New "Caleb and Sofia" video on JW.ORG....you have to see it!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, so i dont want to be a negative bitter person...and we all love little kids, but i am just so torn about the new video just uploaded on jw.org.

  if you havent watched it yet, have a look at it...."an animated series that touches hearts".

  (yes, its well done...and they certainly like to do a lot of boasting about their technical skills etc...).

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  konceptual99

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/281528/1/Another-cheery-video-for-the-kids-on-jw-dork#.U7y3RGC9KSM