Posts by MorpheuzX

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JWs Enjoy Looking Down On Others. It Makes Them Feel Good About Themselves!

by minimus in

jw
friends

do you agree with that statement?

MorpheuzX

I think it's impossible to talk about all JW as a group or a generalization. When I was a JW, I sure knew a lot of people who thought that because they were witnesses they were better than worldly people. I also knew a lot of witnesses who thought they were better than a lot of other witnesses.

I think the Watchtower directly encourages this. Not only with their constant admonitions to be no part of the world, but also through the phrase, "bad associations spoil useful habits." How many hundreds of times do you think you heard that?

I honestly don't know if I ever felt that way. I don't remember feeling superior. If anything, I felt the opposite. And I think many, many other witnesses did not, in fact, look down on people -- they just wanted to help them in a misguided way.

I bet, however, if one conducted a cross-sectional study of any major religious group you'd find relatively similar outcomes in regards to feelings of superiority among group members.

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The UN Posts Their Letter!

by jgnat in

did our letter-writing campaign work?

http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection/watchtower.pdf.

here are some lovely instructions drafted by syn, and hosted by valis, on how to navigate to the site yourself.. http://www.sassquatch.com/syn/un_ngo_letter/.

MorpheuzX

Wow! So the JWs are lying hypocrites? Who would have thunk it?

Actually thanks for the link. I have several family members still in the borg: father, mother, brother. Maybe this will open their eyes a little. Then again they can be disfellowshiped simply for talking to me, so....

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PASSION of the Christ

by myownsaviorthankyoumuch in

wondering if anyone has seen it yet, and what the general consensus was around here.

i saw it a week ago this coming monday, overall i liked it, and didnt really see what the controvesy was, thought that the aramaic w/ english subtitles was a nice touch, cinematography was great, watching mary's griefmoved me a whole lot more than watching jesus get tortured, satan rocked visually, i especially enjoyed the fact that he was portrayed by a female, [that was not a comment to instigate the femenists on the board] though he had one too many hollywood moments, i really like the fact that jesus actually came across as arrogant, not the weakling he is always portrayed as during the easter season, he actually had some nads, and had something to say, that was cool, made him a lot more real in my eyes, after walking out of the theater though, i could only keep thinking to myself this was such a tragedy in the likes of homer, a hero bound for disaster, a legend told through the centuries, much like king arthur became a legend based on the events of a real man, im thinking the same must have happened with him, 80 flogs with bamboo into it i was thinking endorphines and adrenaline, yet it kept going into a second round, how he was able to walk after that and carry a cross, seemed a bit ludicrous, comments??

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MorpheuzX

I assume you're being facetious?

Either way I found it repulsive.

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Do you want to pay to send a e-mail?

by kls in

jw
friends

that is the idea of bill gates, to pay for spam, anyone sending an e-mail will have to pay.

it would probably be only a cent or two ( ya right) but many companies and internet services are saying no to this idea.

would you pay to send a e-mail ?

MorpheuzX

Simon, I think there is a third option besides charging a penny per e-mail sent or breaking the legs of spammers although the latter sounds kind of fun, lol.

I think if ICANN and internet registrar companies would aggressively pursue and shut down the domains that spam is sent from and paired that with creating a list of people and organizations barred from purchasing future domains would greatly cut the amount of spam on the net.

Yes it would be an expensive system to set up, but the cost saving that reducing the bandwidth usage of spam could possibly save ISPs, broadband leasers and telecom companies might generate enough profit incentive to implement it -- just an idea, not necessarily a very good one.

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My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 4

by Simon in

my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1 .

my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2 .

my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3

MorpheuzX

Simon, I know I haven't really introduced myself to you yet, cause I'm a newbie. But, I just wanted to say thanks for the discussion board. It's helped a lot of people.

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Associates of Charles T. Russell reveal the truth about the year 607 B.C.E.

by Brownboy in

look at what i found............ i would have never imagined that i would find a link to the original bible students associated with the wts,.

here is the link to proof about the 587 b.c.e.

as being the correct year for the destruction of the temple.

MorpheuzX

I hope I don't offend anyone here, but old Charles Taze was a nutcase! Why are people still tying to make sense of his hysterical ramblings?

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PASSION of the Christ

by myownsaviorthankyoumuch in

wondering if anyone has seen it yet, and what the general consensus was around here.

i saw it a week ago this coming monday, overall i liked it, and didnt really see what the controvesy was, thought that the aramaic w/ english subtitles was a nice touch, cinematography was great, watching mary's griefmoved me a whole lot more than watching jesus get tortured, satan rocked visually, i especially enjoyed the fact that he was portrayed by a female, [that was not a comment to instigate the femenists on the board] though he had one too many hollywood moments, i really like the fact that jesus actually came across as arrogant, not the weakling he is always portrayed as during the easter season, he actually had some nads, and had something to say, that was cool, made him a lot more real in my eyes, after walking out of the theater though, i could only keep thinking to myself this was such a tragedy in the likes of homer, a hero bound for disaster, a legend told through the centuries, much like king arthur became a legend based on the events of a real man, im thinking the same must have happened with him, 80 flogs with bamboo into it i was thinking endorphines and adrenaline, yet it kept going into a second round, how he was able to walk after that and carry a cross, seemed a bit ludicrous, comments??

?

MorpheuzX

I saw the movie for the first time today and something about it really made me mad. It wasn't anything on the screen. It was what the people in the audience were doing. Let me just say this, I'm not christian. I really like Jesus. What I don't like, however, is most christians. This movie is just one reason why. There's a part in the movie when Jesus is brutally tortured for about the last hour of the movie. Well I look around the theater at the good christians in the audience and what are they doing when Jesus is getting flogged, beaten, whipped, crucified? They're eating junior mints, m&ms, popcorn and sipping their coca cola and ice cream smoothies. It made me furious. I could understand if it was just a few people, but it was almost everybody.

I don't know if anybody else was in a situation like this or was bothered by it. But I was.

Sorry to be redundant, but I think Jesus was a pretty great guy and to just sit there and eat twizlers while he's being tortured is awfully f@#$ed up.

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Bush Ads & 9-11

by ThiChi in

passing this on, i agree 100%:

can you imagine abraham lincoln running without mentioning his leadership during the civil war?

can you imagine fdr running without mentioning his accomplishments during world war ii?

MorpheuzX

Bush keeps me in a constant state of "shock and awe" with his insensitivity, stupidity and ruthless ambition.

As for Bush and his "strong leadership" on Sept. 11, as I recall it Bush was hiding in a bunker that day. Our true leaders that day where Dick Cheney -- who stayed in the White House even though he knew there was a jet headed straight for it; Rudi Giuliani -- who personally took charge at ground zero and the countless firefighters and NYPD who risked and lost their lives to save others, while Bush was hiding in his Presidential bunker, like the coward he is.

George Bush makes me sick and he continues to sink to new levels of breath-taking stupidity. For him to try to take political advantage of Sept. 11 is truly reprehensible. And I only hope Americans have the good sense to not give him a second term as president.

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PASSION of the Christ

by myownsaviorthankyoumuch in

wondering if anyone has seen it yet, and what the general consensus was around here.

i saw it a week ago this coming monday, overall i liked it, and didnt really see what the controvesy was, thought that the aramaic w/ english subtitles was a nice touch, cinematography was great, watching mary's griefmoved me a whole lot more than watching jesus get tortured, satan rocked visually, i especially enjoyed the fact that he was portrayed by a female, [that was not a comment to instigate the femenists on the board] though he had one too many hollywood moments, i really like the fact that jesus actually came across as arrogant, not the weakling he is always portrayed as during the easter season, he actually had some nads, and had something to say, that was cool, made him a lot more real in my eyes, after walking out of the theater though, i could only keep thinking to myself this was such a tragedy in the likes of homer, a hero bound for disaster, a legend told through the centuries, much like king arthur became a legend based on the events of a real man, im thinking the same must have happened with him, 80 flogs with bamboo into it i was thinking endorphines and adrenaline, yet it kept going into a second round, how he was able to walk after that and carry a cross, seemed a bit ludicrous, comments??

?

MorpheuzX

It's an excellent piece of Hollywood fiction.

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Do you want to pay to send a e-mail?

by kls in

jw
friends

that is the idea of bill gates, to pay for spam, anyone sending an e-mail will have to pay.

it would probably be only a cent or two ( ya right) but many companies and internet services are saying no to this idea.

would you pay to send a e-mail ?

MorpheuzX

Umm...let me think about that, NO!!!

There are better ways of stopping spam like aggressively shutting down the domains that send out the spam and creating permanent list of people banned from owning domains for reasons of spamming.

It also might not hurt to have a few high profile arrest made for spamming. People might think twice if they knew they might be spending 10 years in a federal pen getting bent over by Bubba every night, lol.