Topics Started by Phil
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Stockholm Syndrome
by Phil inare there any readers that have studied or are aware of the term "stockholm syndrome" and its application to cults?
i have heard of this as it applies to people who are brainwashed in countries where torture is used to alter the thinking of people away from their past habits.
i have never heard it applied to the jw organization and its practices.
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Is Relgious belief a trick of the mind?
by sleepy in.
what is it about our brians that drives people to religious beliefs that are so obviously nopt founded in fact or reason?is it an inherant founction of our tiny brians or is it in fact our brians going wrong in trying to make sense of the world?
maybe its the psychological equivelent of an optical illution were your brain in trying to make sense of what it sees constructs an impossible reality .like say when you draw a "3-d" box on a flat piece of paper and the brain tries to work out which face is on the front , but it can't, as none is, but the brain will put one in front whatever.maybe religion is what the brain makes to explain the world and uses it so the weiredness of reality makes more sense.
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Watchtower to move printing operations upstate (news page)
by Dogpatch incheck out the "nice" article by the brooklyn eagle a couple of weeks ago at:.
http://www.watchtowernews.org/moveprinting.htm.
how long before they have to sell the brooklyn plant, or will they move the patterson people there just for punishment?
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How Would You Handle This?
by Undecided ini've been expressing myself about some of my doubts about god being an active creature in our life and my doubts about christ being the son of god.
i didn't know the young grandkids were listening sometimes when i was talking to the adults.
my daughter was telling my wife that her 10 year old son was crying to her because he was afraid of dying since god and christ wasn't real.
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Who Who's a JW?
by WorldsEyeView inhi guys...
i was wondering who in here is a jw and who's not??
i thought everyone was, but from some of the stuff i have read people aren't.
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e-Watchman
by Phil ini just got a reply from a person on the ewatchman.i wrote this to a person called hector3000.
after several emails i wrote the following answer to a sermon he sent me in response to a question regarding jw's communication with god and the authority they are given:.
a person or persons have taken upon themselves to be the interpreters of the bible.
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when getting the reply 'where would we go?where does Gods people gather'?
by Veronipony in.
when getting that triumphinglike reply, as to they're being gods org,.
veronica
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in the Money
by Phil ini have read the posts on the so called wealth of the jw organization.
where is the proof that they have all this money in the banks, somewhere.. with all the people leaving the org i can only assume that more concrete information would be available from people that have actually worked in the accounting department and would furnish this to the fbi.
where is this concrete information.
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Bible History
by Phil inin january 2003 i posted a message requesting some history on the jw bible.
unfortuneately, i tried to copy the information and for some reason it would not print.
i then posted another message explaining this delema.
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Did you know: some states will force blood transfusions on your child
by joe_from_kokomo inone of my children is facing surgery, and when we went in for pre-op discussions and tests, we met with the anesthesiologist's assistant.
of course, we told her we were jws, and noted that on the questionaire form, but she was quick to inform me that in my state, blood transfusions can be administered to minor children in spite of the parent's objections, even if they are jws.
state law precedent has been set in this matter, and they will get a court order if needed.. .