Posts by rebel8

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Dropping in for visit

by orangefatcat1951 in

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hello everyone, it have been quite a long time since my last visit here, and wow so many new people and it proves to me so many are still leaving the wts and its cohorts the gb.

or rather kings, gee give me a break, our lord jesus christ is the king of kings and lord of lords .

talk about disillusion they are off their rocker.ll .

Living forever

by jws in

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someone on facebook posted john 3:16 where it says people will live forever.. not that i believe it, but i just cannot imagine this.

this, to me, would be the true hell.. if i'm very lucky, i will live to be 100. at nearly half that, already some parts of life no longer hold much interest to me.

even tv shows.

I believe I could be very happy living forever if I was healthy, safe and financially set. There are endless new experiences to have--hike a trail, read a book, try a food--when you're done with doing everything once in about a million years, start over.

I think a big part of why we lose interest is aging. Certain things are not as exciting, and they get difficult because it becomes harder to learn new complex things, or physical limitations grow.

For example, I used to think going to a club on Saturday night was the most exciting thing on the planet. Once I did that a lot and wasn't single anymore, it wasn't as exciting. If I had the physical ability to dance all night like I did back then though, and the $ to waste ;), I'd do it even now.

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You have a $100,000,000 budget to do a global campaign against the WTBS worldwide. How would you spend it?

by JWchange in

what if by inheritance, winning the lottery or any other way, you suddenly got your hands on $150m after tax.

you maybe would spend a third of this giving your extended family financial security for life.

you maybe would buy a boat and a few investment properties.

rebel8

I wouldn't spend that $ on jws at all, but that is beside the point in this fantasy. :)

Mine would be all aimed at prevention, not saving current jws, because that is much more effective.
1. Hire legal experts to identify high impact, highly possible legal strategies that could be implemented to significantly reduce cult growth...and implement them in a well thought out, productive manner.

2. Internet and TV ad campaigns that are professionally created and vetted for effectiveness in cult reduction not just ex-cultists getting catharsis or revenge. The intended audience would be non-cultists and the general message would be reducing the social acceptability of cults.

3. Hire professional advocates to activate the public to supplement the multi-media campaign with these proven strategies.

4. Include a single hashtag in a social media campaign all at once to get it trending (which I suggested on this forum but nobody seems interested).

5. Hire professionals to implement strategies designed to spread anti-cult messaging to visitors to pages with pro-cult messaging (in a legal manner).

All of these things would have metrics monitored to ensure they are effective and tweaked if they are not.

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My mom passed away yesterday....

by minimus in

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thank you all for your sincere encouragement during these last few weeks.

finally, she is at peace.

i was with her , holding her hand when she died.

rebel8

I am sorry darling.

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City of Sodom discovered

by Saved_JW in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html

rebel8

The "Bible scholars" are saying it "might be" Sodom.

If Sodom is found, excuse me, but big whoop. Rome is also mentioned in the bible--another real city.

The melted stuff they found has plausible explanations within the natural universe (meteor shower). This further proves the fact that the Sodom story is one of many myths developed by pre-scientific people to explain things they didn't understand. If anything, this discovery reiterates the fact that the Bible contains myths.

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Same sex attraction, as a behaviour can be predicted.

by fulltimestudent in

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being ever ready to note information that demonstrates christian idiocy in general and jw idiocy in particular, i was interested in news of this particular research that has been doing the rounds of science oriented news sources this week.. christianity in general and jwism in particular, have viciously persecuted same sex attracted people, thus demonstrating their peculiar hypocrisy.

most christians (the jw brand and other brands) squeal like a speared pig when they suffer any treatment that they call persecution, but are always willing to persecute same sex attracted people (and anyone else that stands outside their narrow-minded vision of the world).. most same sex attracted people will testify that their romantic attraction to the same sex was not a clear cut choice, but was something they grew up with.

(gay by nature).

rebel8

I thought the term "same sex attraction" was invented by fundamentalists to emphasize their belief that it's just an attraction (feeling) and you don't have to act on it (sin).

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If Jehovah's Witnesses were a cereal, what would they be?

by Zoos in

cult flakes?.

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(welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.

rebel8

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Who Qualifies for TTATT?

by John Aquila in

when i first learn ttatt i started telling every one.

ttatt will not help him, it will destroy him.

all his family are jws.

rebel8

Call me overly optimistic if you want, but I still believe everyone's life could improve substantially by freeing themselves of controlling cults and theism of all kinds.

But some people will not make that transition in a healthy way that will enable them to put themselves together after they are disassembled by learning TTATT.

Everyone could not not all would.

I know people who have done terrible things in jehoopla's name, who probably now know it's all BS. The transition wouldn't be a positive thing for them--accepting they did those evil deeds in the service of bad men and lies instead of the Almighty.

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They would all fit on the isle of Wight?

by purrpurr in

i remember once asking how the planet could possibly accommodate all the people who have ever lived?

after the resurrection i mean.

the answer i was told is that the gb had calculated that all the people who have ever lived could all fit on to the isle of wight?!.

rebel8

I heard the Texas one from the dubs.

Basically, there was some secular statement like this in the 70s or 80s and the dubs co-opted (read: misconstrued) it to "prove" resurrection to Earth would be totally plausible.

This was accompanied by a small movement at the time to "green the desert". The belief was that you could pump water into the desert, plant trees, and soon it would no longer be the desert. Claims were made that the desert was so fertile that crops could grow overnight. This was one of many magic tricks jehoopla would perform after we were done burying the bodies of all the dead non-jws.

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Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse

by Dissonant15 in

all states in the us mandate health care workers and teachers to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement.

this year our commonwealth expanded the law to include clergy, and to include a mandatory two hour training on what to look for and how to report, required for all mandatory reporters.. my coworker at the hospital said she and her husband did the training together, because her husband volunteers in the sunday school at the church, they required him to take it too.

i asked several witnesses when this law came into effect if all the elders and ms are going to be taking the training and everyone looked at me like i was an alien and they had no idea what the heck i was talking about.

rebel8

Look into the law in your commonwealth. I am sure you can find it easily online. Look for mandated reporter laws and trainings--use those keywords.

Then blow in the jw clergy for not taking the training.

You will be doing a good thing to protect jw children.