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  Just finished my last final for my first semester of college!!!

  by Cognitive_Dissident in

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  so i just took my last final for this semester, which was in fact my very first semester of college ever.

  and it feels great!

  dear watchtower bible and tract society, .

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  So I just took my last final for this semester, which was in fact my very first semester of college ever. And it feels great!
  
  
  
  
  
  Sod off. And if you aren't doing so already, please fornicate yourselves with an iron stick.
  
  sincerely,
  Me
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  Could Chocolate Save your Life?

  by metatron in

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  see:.

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  The scientists reached their conclusion after testing a group of 20 healthy smokers.
  
  My question is what criteria define a healthy smoker?
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  The Life of an Atheist and Agnostic

  by Golf in

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  what do you base your hopes,dreams,aspirations and your eventuality on?

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  What do you base your hopes,dreams,aspirations and your eventuality on?
  
  I base my hopes, dreams, and aspirations on the fact that they are exactly that: hopes, dreams, and aspirations. One of the most detrimental effects of being a Witness for me was that, although I was repeatedly told that I had an "earthly hope," and many other kinds of hope, I in fact had very little or no hope at all in my day to day life. Never in my life as a Witness was I able to envision or look forward to life beyond a few months out. Beyond the very near future was only a void which held no comfort, only depression and confusion. Hope was something I was told I had(or should have), not something I discovered.
  
  Today I am truly excited for the future, because it's unknown. For someone who felt he had all the answers to life's big questions, I was not at all the happy, wise person one would expect. As an agnostic, my focus is now on the reality of the world around me, and that true change does not occur at the will of an unseen force, it occurs because people precipitate it. For me God is a unicorn, impossible to prove or disprove, so why would I spend my entire life searching for him, discrediting the beauty of the world around me by undeservedly accrediting its nature to a figment of fancy.
  
  CD
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  REVIEW OF JCS "BIG NEWS" ARTICLE

  by Oroborus21 in

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  note: the catholic molestation cases have mostly been evaluated under employment law theories not the tort of misrepresentation or under non-fraud related tort claims]; fails to address important legal considerations such as standing and statute of limitations; and finally and most importantly, the essay fails to address in any meaningful way the inevitable constitutional arguments that would be raised by opposing (watchtower) counsel.

  supreme court justices do not have the time to browse through law journals and the implication that they would be interested in an essay is even more deceptive.

  the society does not cite a 1960 study as evidence that blood transfusions are hazardous.. here is the actual quotation in context:.

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  I'm definitely a proponent of hearing all sides of the issue, Ohiocowboy.
  
  My concern, Oroborus, is that the last eight times I've come to the JWD site, under Scandals & Coverups, one of your negative reviews or commentaries has been the featured thread.
  
  You obviously have a wealth of legal knowledge cached in your brain and at your fingertips. Perhaps you could spend some of the time that you have put in to posting all of it online, as an overwhelming flood of negative response to a potentially WT damning issue(with effort), in to preparing a legal brief of some sort for those who are no doubt stategizing for the months and years to come.
  
  Do you have some suggestions that would strengthen the case against the Organization? Or are we doomed to forever be obliterated by the Society's crack legal team and buried in paperwork?
  
  CD
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  REVIEW OF JCS "BIG NEWS" ARTICLE

  by Oroborus21 in

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  note: the catholic molestation cases have mostly been evaluated under employment law theories not the tort of misrepresentation or under non-fraud related tort claims]; fails to address important legal considerations such as standing and statute of limitations; and finally and most importantly, the essay fails to address in any meaningful way the inevitable constitutional arguments that would be raised by opposing (watchtower) counsel.

  supreme court justices do not have the time to browse through law journals and the implication that they would be interested in an essay is even more deceptive.

  the society does not cite a 1960 study as evidence that blood transfusions are hazardous.. here is the actual quotation in context:.

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  any legal attack of the Society itself is going to be met with the full brunt and fiscal power of a cadre of Watchtower lawyers who will bury the plaintiff’s counsel with paperwork, pre-trial motions, discovery requests, etc. Even Erin Brockovich would feel like Dorothy in the Watchtower’s tornado. - Oroborus21
  
  Geez, Ed, tell us how you really feel.
  
  CD
  Edited to add: it feels like you're trying to bury us in paperwork.
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  If you had 1 hour left to live, what would you say to Jehovah?

  by JH in

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  this should be interesting

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  I'd say, "Hey, nice to meet you, Jehovah. I used to belong to this really f%@*ed up religion named after an ancient, mythical, tribal god called Jehovah. Did your parents name you after the same god? Yeah? That's unfortunate. Here's a quarter, buy yourself a pack of gum and start looking for a new name, you caught a bum rap, kid."
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  "Special Talk" being given next week about blood

  by dorayakii in

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  i just got back from the meeting minutes ago.

  we had an announcement at the kh this evening that there will be a special talk next service meeting entitled "obeissons au commandement divin de nous abstenir du sang"... which means "let us obey the divin commandment to abstain from blood"

  i asked the presiding overseer why the blood talk was being given so early, and not in line with the kingdom ministry schedule.

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  "equipping them to express their beliefs with conviction."
  
  Ugh. That line right there just completely sums it up. It's basically saying - "Make sure your kids can sound like they sincerely believe this, regardless of how they actually feel about it." It's the same thing they tell parents to "equip" their children with when it comes to holidays, birthdays, the flag salute, and any other doctrine that makes people question the kids about why they don't do these things.
  
  I think the point of the 'rehearsal' is to inforce/reinforce cognitive dissonance on the adult R&F - most of the children really don't buy the bs anyway.
  
  I agree with you sweet tee, but I think it has a specifically damaging effect on the kids, too. I know that for myself the cognitive dissonance(hence the name) started very early, with things like this really aggravating the process. I remember spending hours thinking about exactly how to phrase my responses to every type of question about my beliefs so that I would give the impression that these were my beliefs, not just my parents beliefs. Wording things in such a way that it expressed personal conviction, because I was told not to say things like "it's against my religion". I obsessed about this, a lot, because I wanted to be the good little witness, and to me giving a weak response meant failure. I was basically teaching myself how to be a very good liar, and at some point started to believe my own lies. But there were always two distinct sides to my thought process, one that felt things and thought analytically, and one that regurgitated things. They didn't co-exist peacefully and when the enormous conflict that brewed for years and years finally came to a head, I felt completely insane.
  
  This particular topic just pisses me off, that they instruct parents to drill this sort duplicity in to their childrens' heads.
  
  CD
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  Current elders help please

  by IP_SEC in

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  here is a thread about a letter that was recieved telling elders to give the blood talk early this year.. "special talk" being given next week about blood.

  did all congos get this?

  did this come before the news on this board?

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  bttt
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  what is a born again christina?

  by tetrapod.sapien in

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  well, typically, a born again christina is a guy who is at the end of his tether, and doesn't give a f*ck about much anymore, and is depressed and cuts himself.

  and then one day, on just a typical weekday, he meets a girl named christina, and she is so sweet and she gives him his faith again.

  his faith in humanity and the universe.

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  Tetra, have you abandoned atheism and discovered underlying meaning in the positive expressions of humanity?
  
  What is this world coming to? :)
  
  CD
  
  (still don't know where everyone gets those face animations)
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  THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  if i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?

  have i ever misled you?

  i'll answer that--no!

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  (edited on account of the fact I posted the same thing twice on accident.)