James Thomas - That was beautiful - Thank you.
BB - You have a problem. Get some help before Jehovah tells you to jump off a bridge and join him in heaven. Oh - and for starters...quit taking LSD.
in all of my postings i have sounded out a message of warning to all of those that cared to listen.
we are at the point where a warning is in the form of a solemn plea.
i am revealing to you a secret that most everyone has always asked.
James Thomas - That was beautiful - Thank you.
BB - You have a problem. Get some help before Jehovah tells you to jump off a bridge and join him in heaven. Oh - and for starters...quit taking LSD.
i got another tattoo yesterday!
wahoo!
they're addictive...... .
Dude! - I don't know why - but from your screen name - I thought you were a girl!
Nice tatoo!!
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amidst all the arguing, i have to say that i love each and every one of you.. yes, that's it, the percoset is setting in quite nicely.. dick cheney's america is much more tolerable on prescription drugs!
That's so cool!!! I'd love to run into an old friend on here. Of course, no one would recognize me from my pic - lol.
I love ya'll too!! (And I'm not even loaded!!)
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the book, reasoning from the scriptures does not inform the reader on who are the nwt scholars nor their education background.
could someone provide some information concerning the nwt scholars?
THe only reason that I know of for the 1914 chronology to matter in the least is that the JW's base their predictions for armageddon on it. CLEARLY they are WRONG. So what's the point, really?
it is not a difficult thing to find self-condemning words from the watchtower printing and lying corporation.
one merely needs to look at the filth and scum they spread about those who do not agree with them to find such self-condemning words.
then, simply substitute themselves for their enemies and see how true their own words ring.
Well done Farkel! Certainly another 'Best Of'
Thank you!
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the book, reasoning from the scriptures does not inform the reader on who are the nwt scholars nor their education background.
could someone provide some information concerning the nwt scholars?
Therfore, I repeat that the Committee is unknown [to me] and unknowable [to me] at this stage until firm evidence[from the Society] is produced [in the Watchtower magazine]. In a way, the whole matter has mystical [occult] overtones which sends shivers throughoneme is it not?
Boy!! Now you've really said a lot.
From Lifton's 8 forms of Mind Control: (Just a refresher)
Sacred Science'Maintains an aura of sacredness around its basic dogma, holding it out as the ultimate moral vision for the ordering of human existence; evident in the prohibition (explicit or implicit) against the questioning of basic assumptions, in the reverence demanded for the originators of the teaching, the present bearers of the teaching, and the teaching itself; while thus transcending ordinary concerns of logic, however, it makes an exaggerated claim of airtight logic, of absolute `scientific' precision.
I am anxiously awaiting your answers to Hillary's questions!
found it at a rest stop today while traveling.
i thought about tossing it, but decided it had a much better purpose.
it was an issue on what to teach your young child - cute picture of a little girl (about 4 years old) on the cover.. so - i took it to my car, got out a pretty purple pen and wrote on the cover "this religion has a major probelm with pedophiles and is hurtful to young children.
Dawn - Way to go!!!! Every little thing we do to protect children is GRACE!
Gdt - I am also glad you do not have first hand experience of child abuse. Do you mean to imply it doesn't happen because YOU haven't experienced it? So many of us have. So much documentation. Do you really think just keeping silent is the best course to take??? And you would call that grace????
It not only happened to me - it happened to several of my young friends - and much more severely to them. Its a terrifying thing to have happen and to see nothing happen to the perpetrators. I felt so powerless. I got confronted by an elder for holding hands with a JW boy who was my age. But nothing happened when I was fondled by a married elder 3x my age. Where is the grace?
in the new system (tm) where will all the dead resurrected babies be?
i mean just think about how many aborted fetuses, sid babies, etc.
that have died over the last 6000 years.
Fluer - What a horrid story! Kind of sounds like the servant beating up on the other servants doesn't it? I'm so sorry they abused you like that while you were dealing with such a huge loss. Bastards have no right to be in such a powerful position and they will pay!
Leolaia - I read your thread...that was awesome!!! I would love to see the stupid look on the face of a Dub after you got through ripping their beliefs to shreds with basic math! Have you written a book with all of this information that you have? That would be a great de-witness tool!
And I agree - A world with no babies would be no paradise to me.
We would mate just for the fun of it?! Doesn't sound very dub-like to me. LOL
My mom is a witness because she lost her first child - I don't think she ever got over that and can't handle the thought of any other realities. Poor lady - walked away from her live children (and beautiful grandchildren) to obsess over her dead one.
who thinks "judge" rutherford really believed what he wrote?.
i believe it was in the salter letter where it is stated that rutherford said once that he had "bluffed his way through life".
think he also "bluffed" his way when writing and talking about "the theocracy"?
Rutherford once said to a convention that he was not the head of the Jehovah's Witnesses. That was a very, very insideous way of actually increasing his hold/power on the followers.
Very interesting statement....can you say more about why that is?
Also, what is the Salter letter?
I think Rutherford was a smart businessman. Do we have any evidence to indicate that he actually believed it? That would mean he built those California houses for Abraham, Isaac, etc....who clearly are in heaven (according to scriptures). I don't believe he really expected that to happen. C'mon he was an attorney, right? No offense to attorney's - but I think that says he had some smarts for business and financial affairs and was adept at finding loopholes. I think he, like L.Ron Hubbard, knew that the best way to sell books was to "start a religion."
this is really wild!!!.
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html.
if you take a look at the following picture , let me tell you ... it is not animated.
Wow! I have motion sickness now!