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  'The Great Submission', Masculinity, and Future Elders

  by metatron in

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  i will, in this post attempt to filter my thoughts thru the prism of political correctness and thereby cause no offense to anybody.

  if i fail, i ask that the "jury disregard those comments" ( laughable if a judge says it because it underlines what was said).. since the watchtower allows nothing but ( a veneer) of male domination, it faces a bleak future because of the decline of masculinity in general society.

  they abhor the idea of any 'sunday school' or more and so are not training young men to be fathers, husbands or just men generally.. i once went to a 'get together' - so called because the term 'party' might create offense - and noticed young brothers together with (hot) young sisters..................................................discussing shoes !!!!.

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  there were always SO MANY sisters in the bathroom chatting and talking and enjoying themselves.

  It was those little, off-program things that made it all tolerable for us sistas.

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  Samadhi: The Ultimate Achievement of Spiritual Awakening

  by frankiespeakin in

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  well just what is samadhi?.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samadhi.

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  Thank you, Poppers.
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  Watching Worlds Apart

  by man in black in

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  about a year ago i saw this movie for the first time.. and while watching it, most of the points showing how controlling the jw's are did not really stick out to me, (shunning,emotional abuse, etc.).

  but last night i was bored and watched it again, and wow was it amazing to me how strange this religion can be.. i find it somewhat amusing how long the wt mentality can remain in the subconscience unnoticed.. for example at the end when sarah attends the funeral of her good friend who died because of the no blood policy, her father walks up.

  and tells her that she is selfish for attending.

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  I saw it a couple years ago with English subtitles. Good story, one that I identified for the heartwrenching relationship with an unbeliever. It really captured the emotional and spiritual challenge of trying to live two lives, one devoted to an ideal that's wrapped up in life and death and your standing with God (real or not), and the other following the yearnings of your heart and all its desire.

  There's so much at stake when you leave all you've ever known with its attached family and social structure, where all of who you are is judged good or bad. Good movie.

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  Do you yearn to know what we are, and why we are here, before you die?

  by sabastious in

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  lets face it, we don't know what humans are.

  science is doing a good job at uncovering many facts about us, but even science cannot explain consciousness yet.

  conciousness is still a strong mystery to us.

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  Do you yearn to know what we are, and why we are here, before you die?

  Yeah.

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  Convention attire

  by Honesty in

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  did your parents, spouse or siblings get all in a tizzy about what they were going to wear a couple of weeks or months before the district convention?.

  my ex is a pretty good seamstress (it's in the dna she inherited from her dad, a famous tailor from europe who made suits for celebs like s.stallone, c. eastwood, etc.

  ) and she would get all excited about what she and my teenaged daughter would be making and wearing to the convention.. .

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  Did your parents, spouse or siblings get all in a tizzy about what they were going to wear a couple of weeks or months before the District Convention?

  Not a tizzy, but a moderate excitement. Buying a new outfit for the memorial or an assembly was an occasional special splurge in my family, that in retrospect, I'm grateful for since there's not much else JWs can get excited about or celebrate while Waiting for the End to Come™. Gotta take the good when it comes.

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  SURVEY: Is a JWN members post count a reasonable indicator of their theist/atheist position? If so what can be learned from that?

  by nicolaou in

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  i've done no research on this but i suspect that a members belief or absence of belief in god may have some correspondence with the number of posts he or she has made.. my tentative suggestion is that members with fewer than 500 posts are mostly believers while members with more than 3000 posts are mostly non-believers.

  of course there are exceptions, maybe quite a few, but i'm only dealing with generalities here.

  so how about a survey?

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  Is a JWN members post count a reasonable indicator of their theist/atheist position?

  Nah, just a good, introverted listener.

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  2011 District Convention Program

  by truthseeker in

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  9:30 song no.

  10:10 how we know that god's kingdom will come soon .

  10:50 song no.

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  Those are some looong days to sit in racetrack / stadium bleachers. What a relief not to have to go.

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  Samadhi: The Ultimate Achievement of Spiritual Awakening

  by frankiespeakin in

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  well just what is samadhi?.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samadhi.

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  Poppers,

  I love this. Where does the will, drive, motivation come from that makes me want to do things? The need to create things, express my truth, etc.? The need to leave something of myself behind when my physical being ends? What is it that wants to keep me moving, growing in this life?

  (Hi JamesThomas!) JT also helped me on a journey of seeing differently years ago. I am grateful for the sharing. I keep seeking (why?).

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  What musical groups or songs were bad according to JWs?

  by Victorian sky in

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  what songs or groups were you forbidden to listen to as a jw?

  were any specifically mentioned from the platform or were you counseled not to listen to a certain song?

  for me it was the entire def leopard hysteria album - bad heavy metal told it was demonic, i listened to it in secret, silk's "freak me" - a virgin listening to a song about hot sex?

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  Who the hell listens to records played backward?

  ROFL!
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  After Exiting the Witnesses - Are you O.K. Not Knowing about the Future ?

  by flipper in

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  it seems that religion has always been considered the opium of the people.

  or at least many tend to gravitate towards religion to have or solidify some sort of future with a supreme being overlooking them hoping to have a reward either in heaven or in the jehovah's witnesses case - living forever in a " paradise earth ".

  it seems that people can't just live day to day and let each day come to them with whatever happens.

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  After Exiting the Witnesses - Are you O.K. Not Knowing about the Future

  Somedays yes, somedays no.

  I'm at my prime on this unknowable variable while I'm sleeping.

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