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  Ayahuasca The Soul Herb

  by new boy in

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  i'm writing this tread for the people out there that are still looking for some kind of answers.

  people who feel the void that any organized thought system can produce.

  people who know there is more to this life than our daily routine which eventually will end, when we no longer exist.

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  There was an interesting documentary series on the BBC called Getting High for God that had an episode on Ayahuasca. My take on it is that if you frame the experience as a spiritual journey, then you're most likely going to have a spiritual experience. Nothing is really happening beyond your brain processing what's around you and what's in your mind at the time though.

  When I took LSD when I was still a JW I had Armageddon style trips, but later, when I had become an atheist that all stopped and I had trips where I felt more closely connected to nature and the world around me. Like I've said elsewhere, it's great for learning more about yourself, but you don't learn about anything that's outside your head.
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  Scotland

  by Jrjw in

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  hi does anyone on here live in scotland?

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  I love to visit Scotland, but I couldn't live there. My soft Southern skin can't handle the midges!
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  Hi, all...I'm a faithful JW who is sick of lies about us

  by James Donalds in

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  i was baptized 30 years ago and have been in the faith for over 35 years.. our organization isn't perfect.

  but i'm sick to death of seeing stereotypes about us.

  we are not mindless automatons.

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  Wow, 7 pages of interesting and entertaining comments from one bullshit post!
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  And finally I'm out

  by Skepsis in

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  hi all.. it's being a while that i don't share in the forum.

  after moving to another country and finding a job, i asked my congregation in my country to send my publishing card here.

  once i did it, i stopped attending meetings.

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  Hurrah!
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  Dinosaurs in Paradise

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

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  2. friends

  i'm so thankful for sites such as this.

  i realise it's our imperfection but god's organization is not always open to 'outside the box' thinkers such as ourselves.

  i've been researching dinosaurs and god's reason for not preserving these beasts beyond the flood of noah's day.

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  If the OP was true then current humans would have weaponised Blue Whales and would already be prepared to counter any piddly little dino threat.
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  So my PIMO Younger Brother Tried To Kill Himself Today

  by pale.emperor in

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  we all know that this cult will drive those trying to leave to desperate measures, and today by brother was very nearly one of those statistics.

  he slashed his thigh with a kitchen knife and was bleeding out until he called the police.. i got a call on my way home from work from a police officer, coincidentally it was one of my old friends from school who's now a cop.

  he told me my brother is in hospital after an attempted suicide and has lost some blood but will be ok. but i should get to the hospital as he's asking for me.

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  Hi PE, I've just read this thread and like others on here I was consumed with a violent rage. Your course is much better though. Keep doing what your doing in the sure knowledge that you're right and good.
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  A very interesting conversation with my father today.

  by joe134cd in

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  this is how the conversation went.

  decide for your selves.. dad : joe if ever i need an operation i've told them i don't want blood.

  not a drop.. joe : well what about blood fractions.

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  Those Golden Age quotes are horrific! All post 1919 as well, so "Chosen by God"(tm).
  
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  Movie Titles that Describe Watchtower

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

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  i'll go first.... .

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  Pull the Plug Already...

  by megaboy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading and seeing so many detailings of the dealings with people in this religion, i have to wonder how to get people who are just extremely asleep.

  reasoning doesn't seem like it works, there needs to be some kind of plug pull event, like the leaders doing something so uterly stupid that it causes the immediate downfall of the entire religion.

  but because i am naturally curious i want to know from people who have more experience with jw structure why they seem to have a resistance to an event like this?

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  Hi Steve2, can you suggest a proportionate scenario then?

  Remember we're not discussing the likelihood of this happening, it's a hypothetical scenario for waking up all JW's to the fact that the organisation is wrong.
  
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  Pull the Plug Already...

  by megaboy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading and seeing so many detailings of the dealings with people in this religion, i have to wonder how to get people who are just extremely asleep.

  reasoning doesn't seem like it works, there needs to be some kind of plug pull event, like the leaders doing something so uterly stupid that it causes the immediate downfall of the entire religion.

  but because i am naturally curious i want to know from people who have more experience with jw structure why they seem to have a resistance to an event like this?

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  The organisation could die... if the money ran out. Then the people would splinter into a million JW type sub groups, most of which would die out, but some could thrive and even grow larger than the original.

  As I said in another thread, the only pull-the-plug scenario that I can envisage to wake up all the people in the organisation in its current form is a direct, divine, planet wide revelation. God actually appearing in the sky to everyone on the planet and saying that the JW's are wrong.