Do you have a right to your private thoughts?

by Terry 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Terry

  DEFINE: Privacy

  the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.

  If your private thoughts were made public--and you knew they WOULD be made public--

  it stands to reason you could become your own worst enemy merely through the impulse of processing options, opportunity and weighing

  relative cost/benefit analysis.

  How so?

  Others--using their personal opinions, standards, judgments--could declare you an enemy, a pervert, an agent of corruption, etc. in order to silence you, prevent you from "possible actions inimical to their interests."

  GOD, it would appear, has access to our private thoughts--and yet He doesn't make those thoughts available to his "agents."

  What can we conclude about this?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwAodrjZMY
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  donny

  Wow Terry, you gave me a lot to think about there. You have a great mind.
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  Terry

  Let's not jump to conclusions, Donny!
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  Vidiot

  Terry - "GOD, it would appear, has access to our private thoughts--and yet He doesn't make those thoughts available to his 'agents'. What can we conclude about this?"

  That his "agents" are really nothing of the sort.
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  Dis-Member

  I conclude that God does not work for the NSA..
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  NewYork44M

  According to the Watchtower (actually any religion) the answer is NO. God id kind of like Santa Clause - he know when you are naughtty and when you are nice. This also includes thoughts.

  I grew up believing this and had all kinds of guilt when my imagination wondered into the dark side.
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  Terry

  LORD OF THE FLIES--remember that book?

  British school kids on an island after a nuclear war begin as socialized peers and end up descending into tribal madness. Atavism.

  They are isolated from adults and supervision and they become their own hermetic society.

  They impose superficial rules at first, but they quickly break off into hunters going after blood sport and the nerds who crave

  pacifistic semblance of civilized life.

  They are hunting Jack because he won't comply with their dominant Alpha mentality rules. They want to kill him for a ritual.

  Suddenly, a sub surfaces and they are rescued. The privacy of the island is no more--they are flipped back from being

  masters of their primitive universe into mere school kids who must answer to a higher authority.