simply for the money..
http://www.babycenter.com/cost-of-raising-child-calculator
We probably need a shunning calculator to make the most pragmatic and informed choice. I bet you TWS has one. It incorporates the formula, "How much additional guilt contributions, activity, involvement, human life-years, etc, can we extract from remaining family members after one is ejected? Solve for x."
truth does not need protecting, it can protect itself.
no knowledge is dangerous to what is true as what is true can never be proven otherwise.. .
ask questions, trust yourself, trust your motives as you will never know anothers, trust your reading and research.
OP: Nowhere close to trillions of humans who have ever lived, although there is a character Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Billions", like Carl Sagan.
A sound mind does not interpret all available evidence as supporting JWs being anything but a publishing company fronted by a cult which the publishing company would have you believe is a bona fide religion (whatever that is). Don't think of them as a cult fronted by a legitimate publishing company of trash cartoons on cheap paper. Nope. Money is what makes the world go round (aside from classical angular momentum), and money is the primordial, fundamental truth to the whole JW enterprise. Has nothing to do with some wrinkled farts really betting their lives, fortunes and sacred honor that they have a red phone to god. They're betting YOUR lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. The truth about The Truth is money. The pursuit of money requires all number of coercions, threats, hostage-taking, emotional terrorism, information control, brainwashing, duckspeak, doublespeak, denial, inhumanely unnecessary long-suffering and endurance, hypocrisy, unaccountability, guilt, costly signalling, false hope, false prophesy, you can add more of your own observations <here>. Money is the root cause of all these symptoms. Money is something you can research. There are plenty of numbers to look up and think about quantitatively. The correct conclusion, or arriving at the truth about The Truth, can occur just by following the money.
if the watchtower society was the leadership of a state or country, and jehovah's witnesses were the citizens of said state or country.
which do you think current or imaginary regime or country would that be likened too?.
But if it is a publishing corporation with a board of directors... an oligarchy?
today is a strange day.. i have been out of the borg for a while now.
some years have passed and i thoroughly enjoy the freedom, not having to bend my mind and rape my soul to force myself to do and say things that i don't feel or believe.
i started my own business, got a wonderful girlfriend and made some friends (that are not monsters like the wt$ likes to portray others).. my parents, siblings, brothers-in-law, cousins, aunts, uncles, ex-wife, "friends" and my daughter, have cut their contact to me.
When I left I was cut off from all biological family. I took my time to carefully pick a girlfriend/wife, one that had a tight nuclear family and large extended family. Two other small criteria, but the family was the primary. I've been as adopted as adopted gets, they get the whole story, I don't miss the biological family in any way because the substitutes are better in mental, psychological, psychiatric, spiritual ways.
hi guys...is it me...i am beginning to wonder: is a happy ex-jw a target?
i have had a few run ins this week on fb with random jws trying to check me for things that have absolutely nothing to do with the org.
(please dont ask me why they have not un-friended me!
Apostles of Denial. Book title! No one should hide this gleaming gem of coinage under a basket. It deserves a wider circulation. They really do actually _preach_ the active, knowing, deliberate, premeditated denial of facts that conflict with their changing stream of narrative. Could be widely-accepted interpretations of data via the scientific method, could be an event they witnessed with their own eyes of JW behavior, or non-JW behavior, that contradict JW doctrine or JW absolutes or JW dichotomies. They do actually preach denial. If I'm not mistaken, that's actually the main thing they preach. Cartoons of lions and sheep?
hi guys...is it me...i am beginning to wonder: is a happy ex-jw a target?
i have had a few run ins this week on fb with random jws trying to check me for things that have absolutely nothing to do with the org.
(please dont ask me why they have not un-friended me!
Narcissistic Supply, it's frightening how close you are to a cogent argument. I have to say that I am gleaning a ton of useful new concepts for how to digest and interpret the JW heritage I carry around. So, to be blunt, are JWs mentally disabled? It's a rough job distinguishing between what a JW can do for themselves to get out, and what they are incapable of doing, as a social animal bound with evolutionary dependence to a social group, to get out.
hi guys...is it me...i am beginning to wonder: is a happy ex-jw a target?
i have had a few run ins this week on fb with random jws trying to check me for things that have absolutely nothing to do with the org.
(please dont ask me why they have not un-friended me!
I really enjoyed this> Presently I am building cartographic maps of the lunar north pole to identiy feasible landing sites. Is it hard? *$^&@ yes it is. Is it a miserable task? &!^$@ yes. Did I chose, by myself, under no compulsion from a wrinkled fart in a tie, to do this miserable task? Yes. Would I call myself happy? I would say grimly satisfied that my time on earth is being used in some way that resembles me, whether or not that is ever used to any purpose. At least I got to use my own time for my own concern.
danger witness robinson!
danger!!!
today i added a new article to my blog highlighting the danger of power consolidation along with an overt attempt to ready millions for obeying irrational direction from this power.
Thank you. I left in 1999 and this quote struck me solidly. David Koreshesque. I wish they would have let this one drop earlier.
danger witness robinson!
danger!!!
today i added a new article to my blog highlighting the danger of power consolidation along with an overt attempt to ready millions for obeying irrational direction from this power.
Can anyone do a more or less quantitative comparison of this strident statement with previous strident statements of the same ilk, with respect to specificity in word choice. With WTS, words have secondary meanings like in doublespeak, and doubleplusgooddubs can hear it like a dog whistle. In my 25 years in I don't recall something with such specificity of wording.
this very first sentence in the bible makes no sense to me, i struggle with it and i am wondering what other's thoughts are on the subject.
don't get me wrong, i believe in god, i believe their is a creator, or atleast i hope their is.
but i struggle with him creating the heavens and the earth, i mean, why would he?
