Posts by Balaamsass2

Most medical journals agree that males don't fully develop their frontal lobe until the age of 25...and some not until 30 years of age. Most insurance company stats back this up noting that risky driving habits wane after the 24th birthday...and their rates usually reflect this. Under 25, young males are easier to manipulate...therefore easy targets for cults, cons, and the military to mold. ( It's easy to see Watchtower's angle here).

Quote: "It doesn’t matter how smart teens are or how well they scored on the SAT or ACT. Good judgment isn’t something they can excel in, at least not yet.

The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so.

"In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part.

In teens' brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not always at the same rate. That’s why when teens have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling." end quote. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?ContentID=3051&ContentTypeID=1

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News of fires out of control in California

by ballistic in

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hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

Balaamsass2

From 3rdgen and I, Our hearts go out to the victims. Having experienced close calls with major wildfires, we understand the feeling of anxiety and fear when the wind kicks up in the wrong direction and you await evacuation orders.

Nothing like a natural disaster, flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, or tornado to make you powerless.

To any who feel "libtards deserved this"...re-examine the Watchtower-trained doomsday cult mind control that instilled this hatred of "others" imagining their future destruction at an Armageddon.

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In the Year 2525

by blondie in

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb7pohqumwg in the year 2525 i. ii the year 2525, if man is still alive .

if woman can survive, they may find.

in the year 3535ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lieeverything you think, do and sayis in the pill you took todayin the year 4545you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyesyou won't find a thing to chewnobody's gonna look at youin the year 5555your arms hangin' limp at your sidesyour legs got nothin' to dosome machine's doin' that for youin the year 6565you won't need no husband, won't need no wifeyou'll pick your son, pick your daughter toofrom the bottom of a long glass tube.

Balaamsass2

1975....50 years ago...I was a wide-eyed gullible youth who thought the big A was "any day now." "Staying alive till 75 !"

What a maroon.

- Grizzled old guy.

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2025S-147January** Announcements.

by Atlantis in

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2025**pdf**s*147**announcements.. here.. https://pdfupload.io/docs/73dbf41c.

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Balaamsass2

Thank you, Petra.

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My story of becoming a circuit overseer after Kin Suen visited our congregation.

by ExCircuitOverseer in

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here is my story of becoming a missionary after having kin suen (pronounced “shin”) as my circuit overseer.

my father wanted me to go to college, but since he wasn’t a witness, i knew he just didn’t understand how close we were to the end.

i had actually become a circuit overseer!

Balaamsass2

I'm glad you're back on the board, ex-co. It took strength of character to leave when your eyes opened.

It takes years to re-examine everything you believed and absorbed from Watchtower. It can feel a bit lonely at first when leaving your tribe, and it takes time to adjust.

3rd gen and I wish you a great 2025 from Northern California! :)

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Annual Report

by St George of England in

the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

george.

Balaamsass2

Take anything Watchtower says with a huge chunk of salt.

In times past the JW designation meant something. An ACTIVE (preaching and attending) member who held a set group of beliefs including; future life on earth in a paradise.

WT used to be proud of this difference in comparison to mainstream religions which count all nominal 1x per year attenders or donators.

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Reddit thread - ‘Organization Finally Suggesting to Plan for Retirement’

by LongHairGal in

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this information is supposed to be in the upcoming march wt.

(i don’t go on jw dot org).

it would sound like they are hinting at a change in thinking.. in my opinion, any such change would be yet another slap in the face to faithful pimis along with those other recent changes.. there are so many heartfelt responses on that thread and a lot of justified anger.. don’t know what to say except that i’m so glad i never listened to the religion all those years ago.

Balaamsass2

Finance education is great. Budgeting education, simple math, and escaping cult mind control are what is needed by most people.

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1922 Cedar Point Ohio Convention

by Nambo in

i recall reading that daniel 12 verse 12 ( 12 blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

), was claimed to have been fulfilled by the cedar point ohio convention in 1922.. can anybody recall which publications this claim was published in please?.

or even better, a screen shot.

Balaamsass2

Cedar Point, Ohio.....World famous...for....zip. They had a big roller coaster back then. I used to pester mom and the bookstudy about this when I was 10.....in the 60s.

More wasted time about a bronze age dream that only one guy had.

Chalk this up to a 20th-century charlatan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

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"Yahweh" pronunciation is more correct (w60 8/1 pp. 453-455)

by psyco in

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https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1960561 (substitute .borg with .org)furthermore, today in every jw publication the tetragrammaton is rendered as yhwh which is more preserved by yahweh than by jehovah..

Balaamsass2

Does it matter?

Do we have any idea of how bronze-age goatherders pronounced anything?

Where are the "two or more witnesses" to confirm the stories?