Posts by rmt1

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Just watched a documentary that made me yearn for the JWs again

by marmot in

well, 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!.

rmt1

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! in

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friends

just wondering what everyone is doing to celebrate the 100th anniversay of christ's return..

rmt1

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.

http://www.pinterest.com/frankseidl/milky-way-scientists/

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New ExJW closed group forming on Facebook

by Watchtower-Free in

this is not my group.

just fyi.

uniting all ex jehovah's witnesses whether previously studying, inactive, disfellowshipped, disassociated, or thinking of joining the jws.

rmt1

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 in

1) 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!.

rmt1

Looks like one of those little round plastic mazes with ball-bearing. Minutes of fun.

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If Watchtower is not on terrorist watch list ... should it be?

by wannabefree in

i personally don't consider the watchtower organization to be a violent group with terrorist motives ... however ..... the control of this organization is quite astonishing and they do have a network to be envied by any terrorist group.. cedars' impending judical committee brought the reality of this to my mind.. while the organization may be peaceful as far as worldly involvement goes, consider what they are able to accomplish globally.

if you are a part of the religion and you choose to mess with them, they will find you, they will have their representatives deal with you, they control how even your closest family members will treat you if their allegiance to the organization is strong.. governments of the world have borders, and while they may have covert ways of dealing in other lands, all loyal jw's, all over the world, are controlled by 8 men in new york.

what is said from new york is as good as coming from god to loyal jw's and is not filtered by any worldly authorities, no diplomatic channels.. certainly, jw's are mostly good and peaceful people, but what a potentially global sleeper cell it could be in the hands of desperate men..

rmt1

If they had control over, interferred with, or could intimidate parties that were in control of oil or some natural resource, they'd be worth government intervention like the 1% doctrine. As it is they are only in violation of human rights. The U.S. generally doesn't get involved in a land war solely to right a violation of human rights, but it will absolutely use that as a pretense to go after parties interfering with natural resources. And that's what sets Jehovah's people apart - they're really only dangerous to themselves, which with today's saturation of technology, is a feat of mind-control. They are comprehensively irrelevant, tangentially orbiting every issue, and catastrophically wrenching every frame of view into a universe centered upon themselves in time and space. The U.S. doesn't step in unless something they are doing makes the U.S. look bad or diverts money/resources. I can't think of anything that rises to the level of the 2013 definition of """"terror"""", although that definition will probably expand one day to include dissent.

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" the universe made itself " but---

by prologos in

watching the fertilization of an ovum and subsequent cell division it appears that the new being is making itself.

parents were involved, unskilled labor, time, energy.

no thing has ever been observed to make itself, to my knowledge.

rmt1

Prologos, your question provoked me enough to do some reading and listening. My concern was about energy conservation in the primordial universe and energy conservation of dark energy over the life of the universe. I have run into a few instances of Sean Carroll or others saying that a flat universe is the only possible universe to require no starting energy, and is therefore the only universe to not need a god and to be explainable by quantum fluctuation theory. In a closed universe you must start with an excess of mass; in an open universe you must start with an excess of potential energy. Due to God's Abundant Energy (TM), He May have made a closed universe or an open universe. But we see something that does not demand a starting excess of either. I believe my second concern is answered in the QA session of the lengthy (epic, imo) talk by Alex Filippenko, Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe. It has a bonus QA where the speaker knocks out of the park a question about Science versus Faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPkGEVgOJK0

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WHERE IS THE BEEF - Little Bitty Skinny Magazines

by Bob_NC in

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friends

the magazines were left in my door today.

skinny little things with a lot of pictures and bullet-type commentary.

actual articles are almost non-existent.

rmt1

It takes an iron grip on family member's brains from a soulless hostage-taker to keep many common sense bearing people from walking away. Their senses do not deceive them. They do not possess any pretensions to an excuse. I'll be damned if my biological brothers are as stupid as to swallow all these manifest contractions and back-pedalling without a few cracks in the foundation.

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They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

by XBEHERE in

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friends

a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

as regards pursuing higher education?

the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

rmt1

Those skills and services are expensive to procure legitimately on the street. This is basically a black market in skills. They want "the worker is worthy of his wages" -valued skill sets for free, if someone is so persuaded as to donate them. Mechanical / electrical / civil start about $40k - $50k national average straight out of the undergrad.

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Stats: Does Money affect the growth? Analyze please...

by ILoveTTATT in

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friends

i made a graph of the new members from 2012 to 2013 in all countries that had positive growth, and graphed them against the country's gdp per capita.. .

the general trend is, as expected, less growth the more money there is in a country.

but there were some unexpected results.

rmt1

US has huge immigrant populations, huge assured income programs, declining public education standards, climbing wealth disparity, and is of course ground zero for the cult, so bears a location/heritage bonus.

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No more doubts for me! Good-bye JWN! We have THE TRUTH!

by DATA-DOG in

i could go on and on about my personal journey over the last 2 years or so, but i don't need to.

everything i needed to hear to finally lay my doubts to rest happened on one meeting night.

it could only be divine providence.

rmt1

I do have to say that the Watchtower's Message Editing and Preparation Service is sine qua non.