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Cart encounters this weekend.
by OneEyedJoe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on weekend mornings i like to take my dog for a long walk at a nearby lake.

recently there's been some cultists and a propaganda cart posted up along my walking path.

until today i've ignored them.
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Without god what is the basis of morality?
by OneEyedJoe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm sure most here who've questioned or left behind their belief in god have encountered this question - without god, what basis can there be for morality?

my exwife, when i admitted that i was an atheist, once asked me "if you don't believe in god, what's to stop you from going out and raping and murdering?

" previously, whenever i got this objection, i would tend to turn it around on the other person with a response along the lines of "if fear of god is the only thing that stops you from murdering, that makes me rather nervous to be around you.
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People are nice and life is awesome.
by OneEyedJoe in
1. jw
2. friends
i got invited as a +1 to someone's house yesterday to watch the fireworks.

i'd never met the hosts, and it seemed that most of the people in the group only knew one or two other people there.

yet i felt more genuine friendship from everyone there than i ever felt at any jw gathering.
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White supremacy is an ideology of peace
by OneEyedJoe in
1. social
2. current
i'm tired of hearing these constant attacks on white supremacists after the events in charlottesville.

why are moderate white supremacists being lumped in together and sharing the blame for the actions of one reprehensible man that misinterpreted the ideals of white supremacy and became violent?

clearly the motivation of such attacks on white supremacists is nothing other than racism.
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Clicking avatar thumbnails to be taken to latest posts
by OneEyedJoe in
1. forum
2. tech-support
it looks like the ability to click on the avatar thumbnails in order to go straight to the most recent posts of a topic is no longer working for me.

is this gone forever or will it be back at some point?

it definitely made navigation much easier, especially for longer threads..
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Got my memorial invite yesterday...
by OneEyedJoe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i wasn't sure how this would be handled since the elders haven't harassed me as much as a lot of others have gotten, plus we live a ways outside of the territory so i figured there was a shot they'd leave me alone since it's inconvenient.

guess not.

two elders showed up unannounced toward the end of their recruiting shift.
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"If I wasn't born a JW, I would never have become one."
by OneEyedJoe in
1. jw
2. experiences
i've seen it mentioned by a few on the forum that at some point there was a realization that had they not been born a jw, they never would've converted no matter how many times the jws tried to study with them.

this was my experience too, and i'm wondering how universal it is for those that were born-in but eventually left.

i think i started having this thought (more specifically that if i were not born a jw, i would surely have become an atheist by now) in my late teens.
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Apostate on Inside Amy Schumer
by OneEyedJoe in
1. social
2. entertainment
on tonight's episode of inside amy schumer she interviewed a comedian (kurt metzger) that was talking about having an open relationship with his wife.

at one point he said (paraphrasing) 'i was raised to believe that a monogynous relationship is the best thing there is ... i guess that's fine if you're going to stay in your doomsday cult all your life...'.

looked him up and sure enough he was a born-in.
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Another "reaching out" guilt trip this weekend, apparently.
by OneEyedJoe in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just got word that the brothers of my congregation is "encouraged to attend a special meeting" this saturday.

i was told to bring the od book, and the 9/15/14 and 4/15/15 study wts.

judging by the articles in those, it's going to be another guilt trip to get all us dead-beat kids in our 20s and 30s to "reach out" to be jr. cult leaders.
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Today's (4/12) WT study - all about Jesus
by OneEyedJoe in
1. watchtower
2. bible
today's watchtower study article is all about jesus.

this stuck out to me after a year of hanging out on here where one frequent point of criticism is that jws claim to be christians but never talk about jesus.. anyone think it's a coincidence that today was the "special talk" follow-up to the memorial?

i think not - this is the most attended sunday meeting of the year, complete with many ubms, studies, and miscellaneous other potential victims who have been subjected to a coordinated effort to pressure them into attending.