All of the above, Jules.
And try a little Van Morrison. Good for the soul...
OrphanCrow
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I almost gave up today except for a girl her tried to throw herself infront of two cars.............
by umbertoecho inthis may sound insane but i literally have blood on my hands as i have just come home from a counselling session that went wrong...i wanted to collate all that has happened and record it...hospital policy is against it.
i said "what am i alive for then if not to tell the truth" she tut tutted and i walked out sadly in despair.. when i got to the ground floor there was a young girl screaming her head off.
she was afraid, that is all she was...........afraid.
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Hello
by Munster Abu innew here but looking forward to joining in some of the discussions with you all.. a small bit about me: i'm shane.
was raised as a jw in the uk by my mum (single parent family) from about 2 years of age.
got baptised at 15 for all the wrong reasons.
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Hello Shane.
:)
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Old brainwashing/blood
by rebel8 inas you probably know, this is me and you can imagine that the old brainwashing sucks for me sometimes.
i don't believe anything wts says about medical care, i don't agree, and i have seen the proof they are wrong.
i've been out for a long time.
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Rebel8: Dumbasses. Creeps. A big middle finger up for messing with my brain.
Me too.
I haven't 't been able to read the last round of posts about bloodless surgery. My stomach heaves every time I look at the title of the threads or run across an article. I can't read this latest round of noblood propaganda yet.
Dumbasses. Creeps. A big middle finger up for messing with my brain.
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Call For Papers - The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism
by OrphanCrow inthis may interest someone who has the background and maybe the resources to participate in some way.
there is time to submit a paper and maybe attend for all you scholars out there!
the jehovahs witnesses in scholarly perspective: what is new in the scientific study of jehovahs witnesses?.
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My wheels are churning, Nonnie.
I wonder if I could submit a paper and not have to travel to present it...I am thinking "Iconography". It isn't much time to get something together. Hmmm....
And it is too far to crate and ship my paintings across the Big Pond. An exhibition could be fun.
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Call For Papers - The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism
by OrphanCrow inthis may interest someone who has the background and maybe the resources to participate in some way.
there is time to submit a paper and maybe attend for all you scholars out there!
the jehovahs witnesses in scholarly perspective: what is new in the scientific study of jehovahs witnesses?.
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This may interest someone who has the background and maybe the resources to participate in some way.
There is time to submit a paper and maybe attend for all you scholars out there!
April 21-22 2016
Antwerp, Belgium
CALL FOR PAPERS
In the past 50 years, scholarly research has gone from relative ignorance of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to profound curiosity. While in the 1970s there were few serious studies of the movement, the bibliography is now extremely rich. Parallel with the evolution of the scholarly gaze, the group itself has considerably evolved in the last decades.
The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism feels that it is time to bring together scholars and students who have studied the group, in order to compare and combine their works and provide our community with an up to date state of the arts analysis of this most significant minority religion.
All features of Jehovah’s Witnesses can be presented: history, relations with the outside world, international settlements, theology, sociology of the members, iconography, publications…
Practical information:
There are many hotels in Antwerp and a few in Wilrijke and Mortsel: check on the Internet and do the booking yourself. FVG is on a bus line to downtown Antwerp.
Registration fee: 50 euros and 10 euros for each lunch.
Papers will be considered for publication, with editorial details given during the conference. It is understood that presenters must submit their paper first to the organizers before submitting it to other publishers.
Unfortunately, no funding will be available to cover travel and accommodation expenses.
Deadline for submission: February 29, 2016.
Send your abstract with a 10 line CV to both addresses:
Régis Dericquebourg and Bernadette Rigal-Cellard
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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Jim Jefferies talks about gun control:
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Price for Child Abuse
by vinman inhow much money do you think the watchtower will have to dish out for this scandal in australia?
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I have looked, but am unable to find it again. I read a news relaese that stated how much some victims of other instituions have received - or the money set aside for victims in that one case - and the total figure represented a three way input. From the instituion, and two levels of government in Australia.
It was a substantial amount per victim. If it is any indication, the WTS will be taking a big hit soon. Many millions.
*I wish I could remember the amounts and number of victims...
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why did the sacrafice have to be so BRUTAL
by Tater-T inwhy did the sacrifice have to be so brutal... i mean what value does that add to the equation of justice.couldn't he jesus have came down and just been slaughtered like a regular sacrifice without the brutal torture.why is justice served by brutalityanyone anyone bueller... lolnow you know i don't like to type for hours but this is always bothered me
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It is a mythic narrative. A narrative that is played out in every man's suffering and death on earth, in different ways. A display of the human condition. What it means to be purely human.
That myth, the story of death and suffering, is one that is repeated throughout human history, since time immemorial. It is reality told in the form of a story.
It is the human story. The Grand Narrative.
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Lewd act with a child under 14 years of age
by gda inhttp://jehovahswitnessreport.com/.
on january 6, 2015, the paso robles police department in california charged a jehovahs witness, steven martin lindhorst, 51, with the following offenses:.
lewd act with a child under 14 years of age (felony), possession of child pornography (felony), possession of explicit child pornography (felony), posting intimate photos of another without consent (misdemeanor).
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Update on Steven Lindhorst:
Church shouldn't have divulged child-porn suspect's alleged confession, attorney says
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referenced Steven Lindhorst's membership as a Jehovah's Witness. Though he was a member when the alleged crimes occurred, he has since been disfellowshipped and, as a result, is no longer a member of the congregation.
Elders in the Jehovah’s Witnesses church violated the confidentiality of a congregation member when they told police about an alleged confession he made regarding child pornography, according to a defense motion.
But, a judge ruled Wednesday, evidence seized after the alleged confession should not be suppressed because there was other information to justify a search of the congregation member’s computer.(full article at link)
Lindhorst is set to appear in court again Aug. 8 for a trial-setting conference.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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WC: Those are all high-control CULTS. So yeah, I'd say if you were raised in any of them chances are you are messed up mentally in some way, shape, or form. So therefore relevant.
I agree. The shooter's JW upbringing is relevant. It is not the only factor that led to his behavior but I do think that it is a contributing factor.
JWs are indoctrinated into a "us verus them" mentality and are told that "worldy" people are not to be trusted. This man was raised, by the accounts that I have read, in a so-called devout JW family. He would have been exposed to that "us vs. them" mentality from the time he was a baby. This type of thinking cannot always be changed, and in this case, it obviously wasn't - the shooter revealed that he still had the residues of JW ideology when he spoke about "Jehovah".
Regardless of his mental state, the JW ideas that had been planted in his brain about the world being an untrustworthy place would have had great bearing on how he coped with his problems, whatever those problems were.
Some people can undo the persecution complex that the JWs are so good at giving to their members - some people can't.
We will never know the nature of his mental illness or whether he had a diagnosable personality disorder such as being a psychopath, but the JW ideas that he was exposed to as a child growing up would have led to the "perfect storm" that unleashed itself in the form of violent behavior.
The JW ideology is very good at disempowering people, and in this case, with deadly results. This fellow chose to empower himself by killing other people.