But if it is a publishing corporation with a board of directors... an oligarchy?
Posts by rmt1
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14If Watchtower was a country
by zound inif 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?.
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Regrets for knowing the TATT? Strange feeling overcoming...
by BluePill2 intoday 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.
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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.
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If you're happy and THEY know it all HELL breaks loose!!!!!
by SophieG inhi 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!
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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?
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If you're happy and THEY know it all HELL breaks loose!!!!!
by SophieG inhi 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!
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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.
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If you're happy and THEY know it all HELL breaks loose!!!!!
by SophieG inhi 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!
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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.
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Danger Witness Robinson! Danger!!!
by Marvin Shilmer indanger 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.
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Thank you. I left in 1999 and this quote struck me solidly. David Koreshesque. I wish they would have let this one drop earlier.
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Danger Witness Robinson! Danger!!!
by Marvin Shilmer indanger 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.
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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.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth...
by geek inthis 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?
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"Worldly" what does it mean?
by msconcerned ini have recently been using the expression "people not of our faith" and it shocks me to be corrected everytime by, "you mean worldly".
i dont really like the word worldly because i feel it is a degrading word to describe people we love so much that we try to find them in the ministry.
below are a couple of quotes from recent watchtowers that really give us the esscence of the word worldly as far as the watchtower is concerned.. janusz, who lives in eastern europe, became engrossed in his gardening business.
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I highly recommend Dan Simmon's Hyperion, which is a space-age Canterbury Tales. The first chapter is about a parasite that does anything and everything to preserve itself, including preventing the host from leaving a specific small area sufficient to find enough tubers to live. The host's entire former human and intelligent self is truncated, amputated into a pale shadow with no memory, no future, only a permanent now. The parasite is in the shape of a tiny cross, and its preferred spot to attach to the host is on the sternum.
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You owe me a cup of coffee! Said the elder who caught me in my pajamas just now.
by Julia Orwell insaid the elder who came to our door this morning.
last time he came we weren't in a position to give him one because we were doing a big cleanup.
today- well, i was in my pyjamas!.
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rmt1
Harry, I'd like to encourage you to visit the Kingdom Hall.
