Uptight Nerds obsessing over quibbles are always boring to NORMAL people.
They are so busy being RIGHT they forget to experience the joy in life.
A life without joy is not only boring--it is empty, depressing, and pointless.
So, um, yeah!
Posts by Terry
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24Do You Consider Jehovah's Witnesses A Boring Group of People???
by minimus ini think they are the most boring people on earth.
they are about as exciting as a dead ant..
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Governing Body courageously 'Admit their mistakes'
by LogCon inmarch 2015 study article learn from the illustration of the talents.
brothers and sisters worldwide will be overjoyed to know that the governing body finally has the.
courage to admit their mistakes .
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Terry
This is rather Zen; to do by not doing.
The source of error has not been pinpointed, has it?
How did the noise creep into the data?
The FDS is like a Pharmacist who can't read Dr. Jehovah's prescription script.
So--what do they do? Do they FILL IT ANYWAY?
Where is due diligence?
People sicken and die--but wait! Not to worry--eventually they make a phone call and Dr. Jehovah chuckles and explains
what the ACTUAL medication was SUPPOSED to be. All is well. (Pity about the funeral.)
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Why Do Atheists Struggle So Much Against God Who Supposedly Doesn't Exist?
by Perry inan athist made this casual statememt on another thread:.
this would suggest to me that there are at least some atheists that do have consistant beliefs.. .
as an atheist, how could he possibly trust the reason that suggests this to himself?
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Terry
I like Perry and I like his family. I can see some of my old self in him. I don't think he would be on this group
unless he cared about something which included most of us on some level. I credit him with caring.
These discussions are a kind of exercise and it doesn't hurt any of us to peer into our response mechanism for
the presence or absence of kindness, honesty, lucidity, and empathy without sliding into contempt.
We have good days and bad; all of us regardless of our beliefs or lack of same.
I spent a year on a Christadelphian website many years ago and the reception I got was stellar. Even when they
were disagreeing with me I was treated as though I mattered. I have only positive things to say about them.
I wonder sometimes if we (don't) realize different people popup here to "audition" our family as to acceptance, warmth, love,
and non-judgmental reasoning.
What impression do we make for the better?
It is a question worth asking, no?
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I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody
by Terry ini'm at starbucks .
just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.
my hands are shaking.. wow!.
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Terry
I don't contact him unless he sends me a text or shows up at Starbucks when I am there writing.
I am a response support and don't want to be a stimulus or squadron leader.
It is his life and I think he is smart enough to figure things out. If he seeks my advise I will
offer it couched in the disclaimer: "Don't believe anything I tell you without researching it for yourself."
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Why Do Atheists Struggle So Much Against God Who Supposedly Doesn't Exist?
by Perry inan athist made this casual statememt on another thread:.
this would suggest to me that there are at least some atheists that do have consistant beliefs.. .
as an atheist, how could he possibly trust the reason that suggests this to himself?
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Terry
Think of it this way. . ..
What if you were suddenly whisked back in time to ancient Greece and you were asked why
you didn't believe in Zeus or the other gods? You couldn't whip out your Bible because there wasn't any.
Is there an explanation anybody would find acceptable? No.
You would be an atheist to their religious deities.
Early Christians were regarded as atheists because they denied everybody else's god except their own.
It was unthinkably arbitrary to the Romans and no explanation would suffice.
In summary, to those who understand, no explanation is necessary; to those who don't understand, no explanation is possible.
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Looking for Truth with a capital "T"?
by Terry instop begging for crumbs like a pigeon in the park!.
nobody anywhere has truth tied up with a red ribbon to hand to you so you.
can go skipping down the road with a smile!.
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Terry
Much obliged
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I'm sitting here listening to a JW try to recruit somebody
by Terry ini'm at starbucks .
just outside in the courtyard.. i'm trembling.
my hands are shaking.. wow!.
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Terry
Some situations are extremely hard to handle from inside the Kingdom Hall once you wake up.
The overwhelming strangulation of imposed AUTHORITY becomes unbearable.
Once you've seen the discrepant foundation of Organizational Authority--the pill is hard to swallow.
I'm sure the Bible Students felt the same way in 1917 when the irrepressible Judge Rutherford began stomping
on toes. Sure enough, 2/3 left.
The ones who stayed on no matter what truly BELIEVED the "channel" of 'truth' would follow whatever tyrant came forward
to claim the head of the table.
Jordan will be tested in a crucible of pressure, threats, and demands for loyalty.
He will need more than critical thinking. He will need personal courage.
I believe he has that. I'm not worried.
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Looking for Truth with a capital "T"?
by Terry instop begging for crumbs like a pigeon in the park!.
nobody anywhere has truth tied up with a red ribbon to hand to you so you.
can go skipping down the road with a smile!.
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Terry
Pcop says: Christ has the truth!
It is unwise to look for the truth in anything or anyone else.
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Really? Let's look at history.
Messianic Jews had THE LAW, but the idea of Messiah seemed to be a practical means of solving their political problems.
Some Jews accepted Jesus.
Jesus did NOT solve the political problems. He created more!
The pragmatic solution to the destruction of Jerusalem was, for some few, Jesus--because he promised to take his faithful flock to heaven
when he 'returned shortly."
He did NOT return shortly. Those waiting, died!
After a few hundred years waiting on the return of Jesus, practical Christians organized into a monolithic CHURCH.
The CHURCH purported to represent Jesus with the Pontiff or Pope as the (substitute) Vicar of Christ.
He was NOT the Vicar of any real Jesus Christ!
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Martin Luther, a disaffected monk, laid a heap of accusations against the Church and split off to form PROTESTANTISM.
He asserted JESUS would allow any Christian to learn True faith simply by prayer, holy spirit, and BIBLE.
Instead, 40,000 different 'true faiths" (denominations, sects, schisms, movements, etc.) soon followed.
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To simply say JESUS is the 'truth' is about as empty a statement as can be said aloud.
History demonstrates everybody finds a DIFFERENT version of Jesus.
There is no 'there' there for a good reason. The source of information about Jesus is corrupt: the Bible.
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Bottom line? All you get from Bible, Church, and prayer is some patchwork postulate to pour your life and faith into.
Your Jesus can whip my Jesus, but the other guy's Jesus can smackdown your Jesus.
And the beat goes on. . .
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WHAT IS THE TEST FOR TRUE JESUS except to DIE. . . and hope you wake up in heaven?
In the meantime, your REAL LIFE is ticking away wasted on candles, prayers, ritual, ceremony, fond wishes, and naive remonstrance.
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KM "worksheets" for Bible "students", and a question about God.
by DATA-DOG inso, there was a km part about worksheets for bible studies.
1) watchtarded.
one hilarious part came from a paragraph in the km.
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Terry
In the JW's the Bible is a strawman.
It is used to supposedly prop up and vouch for the interpretations of the GB.
The Bible is a ruse and a fetish.
The Governing Body is the Mediator, what they print and preach takes precedence.
I know a JW who was called before a Judicial Committee on a matter irrelevant to this discussion, but
suffice it to say it was none of the Elder's business in any practical way.
The uncomfortable moment came and this brother said to the Elders, "Where in the Bible does it say
you can question a fellow Christian on such and such?"
He was shot down immediately with the line of argument: "The ORGANIZATION is our source authority."
He was then forced into acceptance/denial of that summary authority.
So, you see, Bible is bullshit.
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How can I ever leave this cult?
by Julia Orwell ini've been out nearly two years but it's not out of me.
i am on school holidays now til february so i thought without work to worry about i can come off my medication.
i phased it slowly, starting in early november to avoid the physical side effects of coming down.
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Terry
What follows is a rather colorful if not altogether disgusting analogy purposed to make a point worth, I hope, making.
If you attended a large social gathering with many of your friends and you somehow ended up crapping your underwear. . .
there may be quite a few things going through your head.
The one possible course of action you would NEVER consider taking would be to pretend it didn't happen!
Ask yourself how 'waking up' inside a cult is any different, and I believe you'll have the beginning of your answer.
It is embarrassing. It is humiliating. There are no good immediate steps which will save you distress and opprobrium.
BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF THE SHITTY UNDERWEAR before you do anything else!
You deal with worst things first.
GET OUT OF THERE.
Then, deal with the stink attached to yourself. (The indoctrination.)
Any other approach is simply weird and unrealistic.
Stinkin' thinkin' doesn't allow you the luxury of standing around asking people if the smell offends or if
it will go away on its own, or if you should do this or that to prepare for dealing with the situation.
I apologize for the crudity--but--WAKE UP AND SMELL THE, um uh--well, you get it!