Midget-Sasquatch

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  which is worse.....?

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from time to time some of you post letters/emails, etc that you receive from family/friends urging you to come back to the "truth", jehovah, whatever.

  even though the intentions of the sender is misguided, it is apparent that they must have some affection or feeling for you to bother to send the letter.

  others get no letters, no calls, no inquiries.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I'm not even going to consider the "sheperding calls" and drop-by-visits from jws just counting time or trying to get some dirt. They're an annoyance, but they tend to renew my zeal for my present course of quiet dissention.

  The visits and calls from those few that really care about me however, are more painful than the silence. I don't doubt their motive of wanting to nurture, and save me, but the cult control is so overriding of them, that "it" becomes central not me. Its an agenda that only exacerbates and antagonizes the split between us. I'm made to feel like I'm the one turning my back on everyone, bein ungrateful and callous towards everyone. It drags one back into that unhealthy dynamic, albeit even momentarily.

  No --- any comfort I may get from knowing that they do genuinely love me isn't enough to salve the repeated infliction of emotional pain. Its especially hurtful to those of us who may already have low self-esteem/negative self-image issues. In the interludes of silence that I'm blessed with, I hear no blame, I don't feel "wicked" and even as an agnostic, I have moments of wanting, desiring something spiritual. Maybe I'm solitary by nature and thats why I love it so. One things for sure, in the silence I can relive just the happy moments with my loved ones, and try to attenuate (but not forget) the painful ones.
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  I can't get a straight answer

  by Glofishy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can anyone tell me if the organization believes that when a married spouse is addicted to pornography, they are actually cheating?

  i mean cheating in the sense that the "innocent" spouse can then declare that they are victims of adultery, and be free to marry again?

  i looked around their website and found nothing that specifically stated that it is considered cheating.

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  Blondie

  Well I'm not being told much anymore since I'm "spiritually weak" nowadays but even back 3 yrs ago, when I was still a MS, the CO told us and the elders that 1st: if any of us were addicted to internet porn we were to immediately confess it to the elder body. Yeah right.

  2nd and sorta related to what you said: That CO said outright that if we had the problem we'd be immediately removed from our positions even if we were repentant. He said that one could argue that it technically wasn't fornication, but it could still have the same impact of a betrayal on wifes. So I think its totally believable that they've now made it even more taboo and upped the sanctions to df'ing.
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  'Beyond The Da Vinci Code' [now, on History channel]

  by sf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey golf, you will enjoy this.

  hope you can tune in my friend.

  skally

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Leo

  Holy Tomes Batman!

  Does the amount of info you can recall and work with have any bounds? CSICOP would love to have someone like you to write stuff for them.
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  Do ALL men cheat??

  by ChakkaConned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was watching an old eddie murphy hbo special a few weeks ago where he was talking about relationships.

  in his bit, he went off on how all men cheat on their wives and girlfriends.

  he was adamant that even the nicest of guys will take the opportunity to cheat if given the chance and that women need to understand that this is the way it is, 100% of the time.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Sorry, but SOME of you guys just think men are fragile little flowers whose love cracks at any stress and whose appreciation for their wives or lovers flies out the window with one glance at a willing sexy woman. I have more faith in the male gender than this. Not all of the male gender, but a big part of the male gender.

  I'm glad you've had wonderful relationships that have borne that out to you. And don't get me wrong, the stuff from sociobiology shouldn't be used as an excuse by philanderers, because the data itself is objectively showing not all guys cheat. Those that do are just making chimps of themselves so to speak.
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  'Beyond The Da Vinci Code' [now, on History channel]

  by sf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey golf, you will enjoy this.

  hope you can tune in my friend.

  skally

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I read the novel to see if it had any new spin on stuff I had already read from the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the 80's. It put forward that whole san greal ---> sangreal ---> sang real argument bit if I'm not mistaken. The source for all those "revelations" was supposedly a member of Priory of Sion. The document that was used to support its existence was hoaxed.

  IIRC, the oldest legends of the holy grail are roughly from about the same time frame as the Arthurian ones and from that same part of the world. So why would you be looking for hidden meanings in the word in Swahili? Urdu? or to the point, French?

  The "messages" in Davinci's paintings was a new take. If you look at the actual Davinci paintings mentioned in the book though, you see that their trying to read way too much into them - like some of the supposedly subliminal messages in WTs, ads, etc.

  I think the author of this novel, must have had some idea of the flaw in just sticking with the sang real bit. So he tried to show a connection of the original chalice with Magdalene by way of the motifs of the blade and the chalice in the Sacred Feminine ( Honestly though, I wouldn't be suprised if he misportrayed even those symbols).

  As a novel, I did come to like the character of Silas.
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  Do ALL men cheat??

  by ChakkaConned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was watching an old eddie murphy hbo special a few weeks ago where he was talking about relationships.

  in his bit, he went off on how all men cheat on their wives and girlfriends.

  he was adamant that even the nicest of guys will take the opportunity to cheat if given the chance and that women need to understand that this is the way it is, 100% of the time.

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  Frankiespeakin

  Yay! I was clear for a change!

  JWBOT

  Sociobiologists aren't painting all men with the same brush. Just making comparisons with the behaviours of other primates in general. Many guys definitely cherish their relationships and I don't doubt that your squeeze is very faithful. I wouldn't cheat regardless of the unhappiness of the relationship. But like frankispeakin pointed out, add in alot of booze on top of that (hypothetically- I'm practically a tee-totaller) and its more likely that people will have their baser drives take the helm.
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  US Special Troops in Iran?

  by Midget-Sasquatch in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4180087.stm#

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  as if the ayatollahs weren't paranoid enough?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4180087.stm#

  As if the ayatollahs weren't paranoid enough?
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  Did You Have Aspirations In The Organization??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you think you could someday be a servant, an elder, a regular pioneer, a circuit overseer, etc.??

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  As a teen who was way too enamored with secret societies moles and such, I would have loved to "infiltrate" the upper circles and get the "real" dirt on the WTBTS. But I hated the little crap I had to do just as a regular publisher, that I knew I couldn't hack through more of it without losing my sanity.

  I think the universe hates me because I was maddeningly enough made an MS and they piled on the work.
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  Jonah as Fiction

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the book of jonah contains one of the most famous stories in the ot: the account of a cowardous prophet who was swallowed whole by a giant fish.

  the only other mention of jonah in the ot however is absolutely silent about this remarkable story (2 kings 14:25), and there is much evidence that the book is a late tale written after the babylonian exile.

  the book is unique among the twelve minor prophets for being mostly narrative and it has much in common with post-exilic haggada (such as the first-century lives of the prophets, which added considerably to the jonah legend), the "great city" of ninevah is little more than a distant, vague memory (as evidenced by such things as the anomalous title "king of ninevah" and the non-mention of the king's name in jonah 3:6), legendary touches like the giant fish and the magical growth of the castor-oil plant, and especially the late aramaisms rife in the book (such as spynch in 1:5, ht'st "to think" in 1:6, stq in 1:12, mnh in 2:1, and so forth).

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  So that all may see and believe.
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  Do ALL men cheat??

  by ChakkaConned in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was watching an old eddie murphy hbo special a few weeks ago where he was talking about relationships.

  in his bit, he went off on how all men cheat on their wives and girlfriends.

  he was adamant that even the nicest of guys will take the opportunity to cheat if given the chance and that women need to understand that this is the way it is, 100% of the time.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Ladies measure his balls if he has big ones like the chimps there is a good chance he will cheat. I heard that somewhere,, and it makes sense to me. But don't forget there are many women who cheat too and I would guess that as the sexes equal out so to speak that the % of cheat men and women will be equal and may even swing toward woman having more cheating type of sex than men.

  Well, as I understand it, the hypothesis is that testicle size seems to vary with the promiscuity of the female primate. Because they really decide whether they want the horndog on them or not. It goes something like: The more promiscuous she is, the more sperm within her competing for her egg. So the male would be better off sending in a greater number of sperm, to increase the likelihood that his sperm reaches the egg first. Chimps with less sperm are eventually beat out, they have less offspring whilst, the real chimps have their numbers increase.

  What I was talking about before was empirical data on male primate promiscuity. As a group, human males are less promiscuous that chimps.