My favourite was the fantastic four. It wasn't all just brute force, they were a little more subtle than that, and they were a team.
myauntfanny
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Favourite comic book or comic book hero ?
by El blanko ini noticed somebody said they were bored, so i thought i'd start up a ' fluff ' thread .
i have been a minor fan off and on of comic books through the years (although not as obsessed as a guy i know of who owns 1000s of the comics and delves deeply into that particular universe of artwork for spiritual insight) and have a favourite book that inspires thought and fires up my imagination:.
' watchmen ' written by alan moore.
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myauntfanny
Uh-oh, this thread can only go downhill from there. And I for one am looking forward to it.
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Why men are happier...
by IT Support inyour last name stays put.
the garage is all yours.
chocolate is just another snack.
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myauntfanny
Do ya really want to hear the rebuttal of "Why women are happier?"
Didn't think so.
I do. You won't convince the men though.
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Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious,,Myths and Archetypes.
by frankiespeakin in.
leolaia...recomended to me carl jung so i did a little search,,i find his theory of the collective unconscious fasinating here is a neat essay on the subject:.
http://lcc.ctc.edu/faculty/dmccarthy/engl204/seven-lecture.htm
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myauntfanny
Jung had a great story. He had a client who was super-rationalist-materialist-etc and getting nowhere with the problems she had started therapy with him to solve, and things were getting tense. Then she came in one morning with a dream she had had of a golden scarab, but was resisting all interpretation. All of a sudden something thumped on the window. When he went to open it a golden beetle flew in the window. Apparently that shocked the woman enough to change the course of her therapy.
I love these kinds of stories and I don't see the necessity of trying to explain the magic away using statistics or whatever. Why shouldn't people be allowed to have a little mystery and magic in their lives?
For those of you are interested in the topic Rupert Sheldrake, a British biologist, has done some research on things like knowing when you're being looked at, and knowing who's about to call you. The book I read is called "The sense of being stared at" and it's a little dry but still interesting. Jung also has a book called Synchronicity, which I personally didn't find that interesting but you can read what he believed first hand.
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What's your ethnic background?
by Joker10 in.
it seems that light skinned ex-ws speak out more against watchtower than people of a darker skin color.
what is your ethnic origin?
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myauntfanny
German, Danish, Scottish, French, and a tiny bit of Native American but the family story keeps changing about which tribe. I always thought it was Cherokee but my sister says she always thought it was Sioux and then someone else did some research and said it was Waxhau so I don't know and I probably never will unless a miracle happens.
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What if a close family member decided to join the org?
by ohiocowboy inscary topic, and knock on wood it doesn't happen to anyone, but.... what if one of your closest family members; spouse, sibling, parent, or child came to you and told you that their mind is made up, and they have decided to join the organization.
how would you respond?
what unbiased, loving council would you give them, so as not to ruin your relationship with them?.
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myauntfanny
I've wondered about this myself. I think I'd have different responses depending on the relationship. It seems like it would be important to have some understanding of what is driving them in that direction in the first place. I never joined, I was raised in it, and it never suited me, so I am somewhat in the dark about this. It seems to me, though, that people often join because they are lonely, vulnerable, and feeling shaky about what to do with their lives. They quite often seem to be people who need some very strong structure and strict (if not consistent) instructions. And they often have a very negative view of life and themselves and other people. That's why JWs so often start with questions like, "do you ever wonder why the world is such a screwed up place?", because they know that's going to reach people who are feeling hopeless and overwhelmed by life. So it seems to me like a good way to counteract that might just be to keep showing them the positive side of life, lots of warmth, like that. I do think the worst thing you can do is slag off the religion (even though it's incredibly hard not to), because it just feeds into the persecution complex.
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First time in Jail
by Descender inso i got to spend most of my night in jail last night for the first time.
but the whole thing doesn't seem right to me.
i was charged with public intoxication.
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myauntfanny
You're really not allowed to be drunk in public in America now? My goodness. That seems very strict. How do they expect you to get home from bars?
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Unlearning what one has learned.Can it be done?
by Blueblades in.
it has been said that one cannot unlearn what one has learned.when it comes to all the years of learning from the watchtower, is it easy or hard for you to unlearn, get it out of your mind so to speak and go on to learn newer and more meaningful things outside the walls of the watchtower.. when i was active in the watchtower there was the potentially endless cycle of assertions, analysis, counterassertions, qualifications, redefinitions, exceptions,extentuations, complications, hidden presuppositions, emotional colorings,and summations, ad infinitum.it had been exhausting.but now, i find a measure of relief, not from unlearning but from dismissing from my mind all of what i have learned from the watchtower for over 30 years.. and yet from time to time all those things taught by the watchtower for all those years resurface on my mind,so for me it is not easy to unlearn what i have learned.what about you?.
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myauntfanny
Actually, I think it can be pretty challenging if you were raised JW, because then it's your baseline of reality, and a lot of their beliefs got mixed in with how you formed your personality. I was raised JW in the 60s, so 1975 was gonna be the big A, and there was never any discussion or thought about what I might BE when I grew up. I still have this deep underlying feeling that there's no point doing anything, even though obviously I don't believe it in my head anymore and haven't for years. And beliefs like, WE are superior, and strangers are dangerous and evil, and anyone who doesn't agree with me is evil, and there's only one way to do things right, stuff like that is structural and much harder to get rid of than religious doctrine, for me anyway. My main weapons in the fight against old JW beliefs are logic, and looking at what other people do.
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Where did they get their brainwashing tecniques?
by cyber-sista inwhat is really the most disturbing thing to me is that i really do feel that i was brainwashed in those 20 + years in the org--i mean seriously brainwashed.
i am not an idiot, but there were times that i look back on now where i was a radical jw, though this is not really my personality to be such.
i remember after assemblies (while greatly relieved it was over with aching back and all) i would feel different--sometimes i would start donating more money to the wt and at one point i seriously thought of puttingthe wt in my will.
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myauntfanny
I think it is deliberate. It's a corporation that takes in a billion a year and has over 200 billion in assets. From what I've seen a lot of corporations use similar tactics of discouraging questions, loyalty demands, overwork demands. JWs just have to take it a lot further because their "employees" work for free, and don't get stock or pensions or benefits (unless you count the New World, which of course, they do). Who would work under those conditions if they weren't in a total trance? The only reason, in my opinion, that we even question that it's intentional is because they call themselves a spiritual organisation. It's hard to believe the level of hypocrisy and cynicism that must be there at the top if it's deliberate. But look at scientology. In the 50s L. Ron Hubbard actually wrote a book about a man who started a religion to make lots of money, then Hubbard went off and started scientology and made LOTS OF MONEY. The cynicism is right there for everyone to see, and people STILL become scientologists.
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What Is YOUR Concept of "God"?
by minimus inis he/she "real"?
are you now unsure of "god's" existence?
do you ever pray to "god", anymore??
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myauntfanny
When I was a kid the JW God never answered one single prayer and I was very angry, bitter and atheistic about it for years. Now I believe in Something. I usually call it the Divine Whatever. I agree with Markfromcali that our concepts cannot approach whatever It really is. I don't think there's only one right concept of It. I think anyone can approach It from any direction, maybe even one that seems sinful to others. I don't exactly pray anymore, but I have noticed that a certain kind of intention, that is joyful and wholehearted and focused, can bring things about.