its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.
but you know this beast rears it's evil head.
my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.
Everything you need in one convenient website:
https://www.jw-supplies.com/Disaster-Preparedness-Emergency-Kits-Supplies-Go-Bags_c44.htm
Packing go bags is not exclusive to the JWs. This is an initiative that was put in place post 9/11. Grants and funding are available through FEMA. How handy that the org can get money from Satan's government to implement disaster preparedness and what a loving provision from Jehovah that the initiative fits so nicely into their warped doctrines.
the latest from the 'tea' drinkers in canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/police-were-monsters-who-would-kill-them-details-emerge-in-alberta-naked-kidnapping/ar-aaab1wh?li=aaggfp5&ocid=calheader.
i can hear them chanting now.
Thanks for the link, Incognito.
From a reference on that page, another story about an Australian family that succumbed to shared delusions:
the latest from the 'tea' drinkers in canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/police-were-monsters-who-would-kill-them-details-emerge-in-alberta-naked-kidnapping/ar-aaab1wh?li=aaggfp5&ocid=calheader.
i can hear them chanting now.
StarryNight: A whole family is really weird... even if they somehow got into a religious frenzy.
Actually, I think that a family is more prone to this kind of behavior just because of how family dynamics work. A family, after all, is a micro cult - a JW family is a cult within a cult.
Shared delusions become amplified in isolation (this family spent three days in isolation - watching movies which were likely JW videos - not eating...) and...boom. the "campfire ghost stories" aka "borg bunker stories" became their reality. They acted on their reality - their true belief in what their religion has taught as the "truth".
I am with Cofty on this - I find it fascinating.
And I also suspect that this event makes lots of people a little uncomfortable and left asking themselves if they may have acted similarly at one time during their true belief stage.
What would it take to tip over into irrational behaviour based on irrational beliefs?
the latest from the 'tea' drinkers in canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/police-were-monsters-who-would-kill-them-details-emerge-in-alberta-naked-kidnapping/ar-aaab1wh?li=aaggfp5&ocid=calheader.
i can hear them chanting now.
tiki: Holy sh!t....they have some serious mental issues.......
True believers
I don't think they have serious mental issues*. They are just JWs on Org broadcasting steroids.
They watched the bunker video too many times.
They succumbed to their delusions. Delusions that are held by over 8 million people worldwide. Delusions that have been planted in their brains by the WT/org.
*I need to qualify this...they do have serious mental issues. They are under the influence of a cult. Religious induced delusion leading to psychosis.
well, this is awkward !
these are jehovah's witnesses...lol.
http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/naked-suspects-in-nisku-kidnapping-may-have-consumed-hallucinogenic-tea-1.3671452.
I am waiting for this to be a convention story. Wonder how the org will spin it
Maybe there should be a video made.
well, this is awkward !
these are jehovah's witnesses...lol.
http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/naked-suspects-in-nisku-kidnapping-may-have-consumed-hallucinogenic-tea-1.3671452.
IloveTTATT, if they had drank marijuana tea, they would have spent the weekend eating snacks and sleeping.
And not quite legal yet. October 17 is Canada's Green Day
I agree Hoser. Too many bunker re-runs
well, this is awkward !
these are jehovah's witnesses...lol.
http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/naked-suspects-in-nisku-kidnapping-may-have-consumed-hallucinogenic-tea-1.3671452.
More details
Tea had nothing to do with this
Irrational fear of Armageddon had everything to do with it
https://globalnews.ca/news/4482670/naked-kidnapping-alberta-police-monsters-armageddon/
hi new folks, lurkers and trolls.
i thought i would post this simple but interesting video which shows how scientists bring multiple lines of evidence together to prove evolution is true; for example:.
comparative anatomy.
Interesting fact - females have all the genes to make a penis.
Interesting fact: all fetuses start out female. Which sort of blows the "Adam was first" fable out of the water.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809211068220658-finland-jehovah-witnesses-army/.
the finnish government has ruled that the current law allowing jehovah's witnesses to avoid military service, in place for several decades, is discriminatory and contradicts the constitution.. .
in the future, finnish jehovah's witnesses* will be obliged to either serve in the nation's military or perform civil service on the same terms as everyone else, the government ruled, submitting a corresponding proposal to parliament, national broadcaster yle reported.. according to the 1987 law, jehovah's witnesses were not only freed from the military draft, they were freed of any obligation to perform community service as a pacifist alternative, a common option among other young people in finland.
"...Ideally, we should keep the system that exists today. It has worked well and does not violate anyone's rights..."
Yeah, it was working well for you.
This is typical. The response reveals their ignorant attitude to those who aren't part of their special elite group of JWs.
They don't give a rat's ass about anyone's rights except their own.
The law as it existed in Finland discriminated against everybody else's rights because the JWs were getting concessions that were denied to others.
JWs have a myopic view of the world - it is them and then all the others who belong to the bird food class.
Narcissistic - no consideration for anyone but themselves
https://jwglossary.blogspot.com/2018/09/to-all-bodies-of-elders-handling-cases.html.
to all bodies of elders "handling cases of drug abuse".
september 1, 2018. to all bodies of elders re: handling cases of drug abusedear brothers: as noted below, the procedure for handling the misuse of marijuana and the abuse of medi- cal, illicit, or addictive drugs has been adjusted to harmonize with the procedure for handling the misuse of tobacco.
pale.emperor: You just know that this letter has been written because someone on the GB is on the ganj for pain management.
Maybe
But, I always like to follow the money. The org is money motivated and only money motivated.
It likely wouldn't do for the org to come right out and be against something that a big contributor is invested in, now, would it?
Gotta keep those donations coming in from those who have their fingers in the green pie:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/315890005/lorenz-reibling-gives-interview-about-real-estate?page=16#5446960882384896
*edit to add: it is more likely that the org is getting on the bandwagon and joining all the institutions and corporate structures in Canada in laying down guidelines for the use of legal marijuana. October 17th is fast approaching. I betcha the Canadian branch has been asking for "direction" on how to handle legal recreational herb. Seein' as recreational booze is okey dokey for JWs
