Love the painting CoCo. Confessed fog lover here too. As a painter myself I love the californian impressionists and tonalists.
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For Smiddy: Cool and Damp
by compound complex ingosh, smiddy, it's nice to have a request for poetry!.
"the black oaks" describes where i live in the california sierra foothills; we are, for the most part, above the fog and below the snow.
nevertheless, we do get both occasionally.
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Are JWs capable of a genuine discussion?
by stuckinarut2 ini was just pondering whether jws are capable of having a calm, in depth discussion about religious or faith topics?.
i have just finished listening to a great podcast by "dogma debate" (dan) episode 333. this fantastic, in-depth conversation between a theist and an atheist was a masterful example of how a dignified conversation can take place without it resorting to abruptness or even nastiness.. jws on the other hand seem incapable of having such discussion without ending up in the following ways:.
1)they get dogmatic and defensive if a differing view is presented.. 2)if the conversation doesn't go their way, they cut it short saying something like "well, we had better agree to disagree" or the like.. so why the arrogance?
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No, they are not capable of genuine discussion in their fully indoctrinated state the JW program running in their brain won't allow it. Garbage in garbage out.
That's why I feel they need some sort of "short sharp shock" in the form of saying something they will find completely unexpected to disrupt the JW feedback loop in their brain for a few seconds or minutes. Enough to allow a tiny window of time for a critical thought to get in that may resurface later after the conversation has ended. That's how most people wake up in tiny snippets rather than all at once, it's a process.
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Goodbye my friends.
by StephaneLaliberte infor almost 12 years now, i have been coming to this site on a regular basis and in the last 5, i “faded out”.
i never regretted this and never will.
unfortunately though, yesterday, i realized that, until i can publically tell all my old acquaintances why i have left, i will never be truly free.
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Best wishes on your journey.
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The Governing Body's credibility
by UnshackleTheChains ingiven the proliferation of websites, youtube channels, books and other forms of media attention focusing on the extreme policies, teachings and scandals of the watchtower bible and tract society; where does this now leave the governing body's credibility?.
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There has been the odd local story and two minute mentions here and there of the ARC and a convention but really nothin much at all.
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The Governing Body's credibility
by UnshackleTheChains ingiven the proliferation of websites, youtube channels, books and other forms of media attention focusing on the extreme policies, teachings and scandals of the watchtower bible and tract society; where does this now leave the governing body's credibility?.
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Their credibility with who the gov, media the public or with JWs themselves?
Coz nobody where I live talking about the terrible horrible no-good very bad JWorg except ex-jws on the internet. So I'd say their cred is still intact by the default of nobody giving a shit.
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Jw carts
by Jrjw ini was just thinking it would be funny if apostates set up jwfacts carts and placed them in areas where the jws do their metropolitan witnessing to unwitness to people the witnesses have spoken to.
it would probably get the jws backs up like or it would stop the cart witnessing altogether.
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Everything triggers JW snowflakes into armageddon thinking. Polite questions "trigger" them. Seeing an apostate out shopping "triggers" them. Getting a text from an inactive relative "triggers" them. Seeing a news report "triggers" them. Christmas "triggers" them. Office parties "trigger" them.......
There's a term for that it's called emotional blackmail.
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Jw carts
by Jrjw ini was just thinking it would be funny if apostates set up jwfacts carts and placed them in areas where the jws do their metropolitan witnessing to unwitness to people the witnesses have spoken to.
it would probably get the jws backs up like or it would stop the cart witnessing altogether.
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It would have an effect - one of causing the JW cart people to run away. If setting up carts becomes so "triggering" for them maybe they won't want to do it anymore.
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Jehovah's Witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - San Diego Reader (California, US), Friday, January 12, 2018
by darkspilver injehovah's witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - san diego reader (california, us), friday, january 12, 2018.
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Been saying it for while with ya Morpheous.
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Jehovah's Witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - San Diego Reader (California, US), Friday, January 12, 2018
by darkspilver injehovah's witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - san diego reader (california, us), friday, january 12, 2018.
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My opinion is that WT is by their own design changing direction not failing.
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Attention!! There will be sex in heaven
by James Mixon inwell i thought i had heard it all but, the mercury columns "will christians enjoy sex in heaven" just hurt my brain.
how can god allow sexual relations in heaven without marriage??
in heaven there is no need for anyone to belong exclusively to another(wow!!!
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Aren't heavenly beings asexual non-gender (sounds like leftist heaven to me) and isn't that why they had to become human and male to get some - according to the bible anyway. Lol btw.