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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  OrphanCrow

  cofty: I provided two examples from this thread of calls for greater restrictions on freedom of religion.
  One from DJS and one from Orphan Crow.

  Huh??????

  I did that???
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  Bunker Video: Why No Concluding Scene?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was wondering why they ended the "bunker video" as they did ... with an armed militia finding the jws huddled in the corner of the basement ... fade to black.

  the jws watching don't know what happened after that.

  did they kill them?

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  OrphanCrow

  The unwritten ending:

  "Knock knock"

  "Who's there?"

  "Storm troopers"

  "Storm troopers who?"

  "Open up you fucking idiots. We are evacuating the area and taking everyone to a place of safety until the storm passes. Why the hell aren't you on the bus already??? Let's get going! Kevin told us you were down here...."
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  Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

  by redpilltwice in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is what happened.

  i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

  i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

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  OrphanCrow

  redpilltwice: You see, I know exactly where my pain came from. It was a physical cause and effect and has been there for years since the very moment it happened. In my memory, I can still pinpoint that moment and remember every detail and everything that was involved.

  So, my question to you: why did you still feel pain "for years"? Was your injury not healed already?

  I would propose to you that your pain was unnecessary - it was, for lack of a better term, "psychic pain"...phantom pain. Pain felt that was no longer there. You just thought it was - your brain was tricking you. The memory of the physical trauma was so strong that the pain "imprint' was still there. That imprint got removed...that is why the pain disappeared. You (your brain) didn't need it anymore - you were given permission to heal it and your brain responded. Your brain was probably tired of feeling all that pain for so long
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  Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

  by redpilltwice in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is what happened.

  i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

  i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

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  OrphanCrow

  Then we have examples of animals that show amazing abilities to vacate an area before a storm and so on.

  Barometric changes in the environment. Eardrums attuned to those changes...and a brain that perceives the changes as danger. Look to the birds...they will tell you if a storm is coming
  
  
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  Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

  by redpilltwice in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is what happened.

  i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

  i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

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  OrphanCrow

  Millie, I agree with what you are saying. I know people who seem to have an abundance of electrical energy that flows through them and are able to use this electricity to stimulate other people's circulatory systems.

  Eh...it runs in my family. My mother has hands like that and so does my son. Healing hands, apparently...that is what they have been told they have. Must be true...my mother made a good living from reflexology and massage. Her massages didn't work on me but...I think she really just wanted to hurt me. Healing hands can do the opposite too
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  Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

  by redpilltwice in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is what happened.

  i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

  i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

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  OrphanCrow

  AndersAnderson: I tend to think like OrphanCrow on this, but I can't offer any evidence to back it up

  Two very good books about pain:

  When Pain Strikes edited by Bill Burns, Cathy Busby, Kim Sawchuk

  The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  OrphanCrow

  LUNE: But disagree with: Belief is separate from actions and speech. Belief is linked to actions and speech. People who verbally or physically abuse gay people overwhelmingly believe that homosexuality is wrong, for example.

  Linked, yes, but still separate from.

  How a person acts out their beliefs is based upon individual choice, not upon belief itself. For example, someone who believes wholeheartedly in the wrongness of homosexuality does not neccessarily abuse gay people - the abusive behavior is a choice made by people who use violence as a solution to frustration. Violent behavior is a choice, not a belief

  
  
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  Did I open the gate to the realm of demons?

  by redpilltwice in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is what happened.

  i had a sore tendon in my wrist.

  i could work with it, but nevertheless the pain was there.

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  OrphanCrow

  redpill: The question remains: How did she do it and how does it work?

  She may not have done it, not really. You may have been the one to do it. Her interaction with you may have just allowed your brain to re-interpret the signals it was receiving.

  Our brains are complex things...and they aren't always that accurate in interpreting what it happening inside our bodies, especially when it comes to pain. Pain perception is a personal and mysterious phenomena - we all experience pain differently and pain is something that eludes precise scientific measurement.

  It is possible that you really didn't have anything at all wrong with your wrist - you may have been experiencing sympathetic pain or a psychological pain that your brain was perceiving as physical - and the mere suggestion that the pain could disappear was enough for your brain to interpret reality correctly.

  Voila! Magical healing...only thing was...you did it yourself. Your brain may have been 're-set' so that it was able perceive what was really going on.

  
  
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  OrphanCrow

  LUHE: It's up to government to 'control' (monitor and improve) religion.

  Sure. Government can control religious practice. They can't control belief. Nobody can
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  OrphanCrow

  I wonder who gets to choose what religious people are permitted to believe

  Nobody does.

  Belief is separate from actions and speech. A belief does not give someone the right to disrespect other people's rights

  There is no "permission" involved in what people think. But there is permission involved in what they say and do.

  Bringing belief into the argument is silly - it detracts from what is possible - it is not possible to control belief