By the time they were done, my mom was saddled with five boys. At about boy #3, I recall the family sitting around as she read a short story she had written that featured something about the wind blowing fragments of leaves into someone's eye. Dad and us boys (5yo and down) for some reason thought it was worthy of panning. There was undoubtedly a male majority component to the opinion. She went away sad. Another time, she showed us her charcoal drawings. I believe no one panned those. Dad is gone from cancer, she's a graying widow under the care, I'm sure, of some secondary sequence of alpha elder gorillas, and she will die in this cult, with her artistic potential unexplored.
Posts by rmt1
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42The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!
by DATA-DOG ini don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.
both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.
i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.
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Why would a supremely powerful and wise being regard faith as a virtue?
by Island Man inif i were the all-powerful creator of all the universe it would be a very easy thing to prove my existence, requirements and will in an indisputable and unambiguous way.
everyone would know of my existence and requirements without them having to put forth effort to believe based on limited, ambiguous evidence that is highly subject to interpretation.
i would regard faith as a harmful trait that makes one vulnerable to being deceived.
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rmt1
Looking down the master-slave dialectic, faith is a blindfold and an act of subjugation. Old-school 'terrorists' were often pictured blindfolding their victims to some specific end. The victim's faith of living through an interrogation, a life-and-death ordeal, or other high-control scenarios, is an exploitation and psychological warfare.
Does the National Security Agency have faith in You?
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I feel my faith is weakening
by Brother Mike inwhen you were in the truth did you find websites like this and read what the other side has to say?
i am in that stage and i feel as if i'm seeking out the ttatt.
i feel the wt society is hiding way too much.
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oops, thought I was hitting the back button. clearly, it does not belong to man who is clicking even to direct his mouse.
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Were you afraid of Armageddon on New Year's Eve 1999?
by rebel8 inobligatory false predictions link.. so were you cowering somewhere with a stash of watchtowers hidden in your bunker on 12/31/1999?.
were you excited about armageddon coming and wiping all the wicked off the planet?.
were you arrogantly bragging how much better you and your fellow bros were than the worldlies, who were out celebrating blindly, like those in noah's day?.
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rmt1
New Years 1999 was my first New Years out of the cult. Champagne among adults at a technology workplace, myself newly completely alone in the universe except for about three workmates. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Do it when you're young.
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I feel my faith is weakening
by Brother Mike inwhen you were in the truth did you find websites like this and read what the other side has to say?
i am in that stage and i feel as if i'm seeking out the ttatt.
i feel the wt society is hiding way too much.
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rmt1
If you haven't graduated, one idea might be to get some part-time work and just bank it, use it, milk it, leverage it. You will need a social support system before too long, so see to that. If you >REALLY< need to ferret out that rat that you smell, well, then, you need to do that. If they have you fearing Armageddon, well, you need to live in the world that exists. If they have you feeling weak in faith, well, that's just because you've accumulated facts. (They hate that.) If you think they're hiding something, well, that's because they have nothing. (They have no cards. No cards.)
Looks like you may have a New Years to commemorate and hold in remembrance of your solemn freedom. A Memorial with margaritas, doritos and guac, and an observance shared by time-zones' worth of real-people-that-actually-exist-and-are-not-vulture-fodder-via-divine-genocide. The last part is 'making strange' what is difficult to conceptualize when first getting out.
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33 percent of Americans reject evolution
by Simon inhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57616373-71/33-percent-of-americans-reject-evolution/.
that seems to be a disturbingly high number for a western / educated / developed nation.. does this have anything at all to do with america slipping behind in the sciences?
it seems hard to imagine they could not not be linked somehow.. no surprise that the jesus party (republicans) reject evolution the most.
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rmt1
I thought this was a low number.
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Just watched a documentary that made me yearn for the JWs again
by marmot inwell, almost.
i just watched the documentary "dirty wars" on netflix and it left me so emotionally overwhelmed that i watched it a second time back-to-back.
it's unreal how cynical this left me feeling about obama and the us government's global war on terror, it's so bleak that i almost wished for the simple life of being a jw with the naive promise of big daddy jehovah coming to sweep away all the wickedness at armageddon.. watch this movie!.
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Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques
An American Gestapo is being gestated presently.No amount of JW Sunday talks will stop a process that involves hundreds of millions of post-imperial subjects reaping the momentum of the victory of WW2 and Cold War, unmindful of the cyclicity of history or the manner in which corruption erupts from within a steady state of complacency.
If you really need to go back to the JWs to get some kind of a hit, there are probably far more expensive and far more illegal and far more dangerous checmical substances you can use to acheive a moment of ponderous wisdom. Why make do with JW quacking when you can go all out?
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The 100th anniversay of Christs return just around the corner.
by I quit! injust wondering what everyone is doing to celebrate the 100th anniversay of christ's return..
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I will celebrate 100 years of life-saving medical advances, 100 years of advances in information technology, communication rates, data storage and retrieval, 100 years of advances in transportation, infrastructure, architecture, 100 years of advances in energy production in nuclear, fossil and renewable, 100 years of scientific discovery (and theory) from the gluon to the bulk, 100 years of high quality photography of our world from Ansel Adams up through 'Milky Way Scientists' photographers, etc, etc. I'd be petting pandas and picking pears, and still would have not the first shred of a clue how reality works, if Jesus had really done anything interesting 100 years ago. So thank you, Watchtower, for not letting me down. <toast> I can count on you to bear no relevance of any kind whatsoever to how the world turns, how the planet rotates, how tides and empires and flowers of liberty rise and fall. You're just a mole or blemish or feature of an incomprehensibly more vast skin of human experience.
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New ExJW closed group forming on Facebook
by Watchtower-Free inthis is not my group.
just fyi.
uniting all ex jehovah's witnesses whether previously studying, inactive, disfellowshipped, disassociated, or thinking of joining the jws.
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I joined, set notifications to ZERO, still got plasters on my wall of this or that person joining, and dropped.
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There Is No Atheist In Practice!
by abiather in1) in conscious level, everyone agrees with the principle of cause and effect that says a cause precedes every effect, and every effect is the cause for another effect/s.
in subconscious level, everyone knows that if there is a cause for everything, then there a cause (or a designer) for the principle of causation also.
and this cause is more real than the principle of causation itself, just like source is more real than the resources!.
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rmt1
Looks like one of those little round plastic mazes with ball-bearing. Minutes of fun.