Posts by freemindfade

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30 fricken minutes for a part about "Meetings for field service" !!!! Seriously??

by stuckinarut2 in

30 minutes and a km article of 13 paragraphs to consider how the field service group should be 5 mins brief!.

how ironic!.

(find this in the kingdum misery for march).

freemindfade

I feel like because I am mentally out the length and redundancy of these parts is unbearable.

but then sometimes I start to sense its not just me. My wife seems bored. And the person giving the part seems bored.

Have you ever been walking around a city with someone who drags there feet and barely moves? It's more exhausting than actually walking faster. This is how I feel about these parts. Dragging out to fill time. Mind numbing.

Like having a paragraph in the watchtower about hitting your wife. OK granted there may be cultures somewhere in the world that is not frowned upon. But I try to not live in those places. Clearly that is Grossly despicable. Why are people commenting on it for 5 minutes!? it's wrong. Not because the watchtower says it is, because it just is. And I think 100% of the hall I am in already is well aware. Its not nulite. Of course it's the whole watchtower article and the km parts. I feel more than ever they are stretching a 5 minute talk to we'll beyond its tolerance level. Taking simple information and drawing it out to be filler.

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15 Years of Jehovahs-Witness.com

by Simon in

yes, today is the forum's 15th birthday!.

i never thought for one moment that it would survive this long or have so many people post so many great subjects over the years.. it is still humbling when i get pm's or emails from people expressing how the site has helped them and of course thanks goes to all the posters who have shared their experiences and make helpful and supportive comments to others who are in the sometimes difficult process of learning the real truth about 'the truth'.. the site has gone through several different incarnations over the last 15 years running on different platforms, different databases and different hosts but we've been able to keep all the old topics.

the current site is still being developed and i'm hoping to push another major upgrade soon.. i also may have some other news to share soon about the future of the site so stay posted.. until then, here's the the next 15 years!

freemindfade

happy birthday

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Richard White, machette attacker in New Orleans airport a JW dies. Another medicine denier.

by Wasanelder Once in

richard white was mentally unstable.

apparently he went off the rails and attacked the tsa at the n. orleans airport.

they shot him to stop him chasing down people trying to hack them with his machete.

freemindfade

For having so much hope in paradise, witnesses are some of the most health obsessed people on earth. Or America at least. They buy in and promote all sorts of pyramid scheme health ideas. My faded friend and I comisreate over our parents being involved in this crap our whole lives. Some one had found some miracle cure all. It's the weak minded cult brain that allows to buy into this nonsense so quickly. I am invovled in the medical field and western medicine is a mess in many way. True western medicine and eastern have benefits. What doesn't is multi level marketing quackery. I move to a new state and was playing basket ball with some Bros. Right off the bat one was telling me about some miracle tea he sells and how it cured cancer or some shit. Bottom line is I can testify that many witnesses get involved in this quackery. Their distrust for Satan's system makes them put faith in the worst part. People making a buck off brain dead suckers

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Those darned apostates

by berrygerry in

july 15, 1992 wt.

"apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead.

our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.".

freemindfade

I mentioned something along these lines with my wife the other day. That we make never ending concessions for @$$hole elders, GB, and so on in this Org because they are after all imperfect men... but you know what, if you are not a witness, if you are on the fringe or fading, if you are disfellowshipped or anything other there are no f%$#ing concessions for you.

They are suppose to be on par with god's decisions, when they make "mistakes" then we give them a pardon. It's a paradox witnesses cult minds are not able to think out of.

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Wife fully awake.

by cappytan in

i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.

i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".

she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.

freemindfade

Good work brother ;)

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Official Website of the Cult Diverts to Arabic Version?

by cofty in

or is it my browser?.

freemindfade

Dont accidentally join isis!

Do and adware cleanse

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Mind control.

by New day in

in a recent thread someone mentioned that the wtbts uses mind control techniques.

do you think this is a conscious ploy?

if it is it would mean that the leaders of my religion (i am still an active jw) set out consciously to control people.

freemindfade

https://youtu.be/y-PvBo75PDo

watch this. I don't believe most are concious to it. But unaware. Products of an existing system. Like disfellowshipping. Most jw would never consider it emotional manipulation outright but also not hesitate using it for just that.

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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction

by freemindfade in

8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .

18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.

20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.

freemindfade

Or to even say "good luck" to someone when you dont even literally mean that, it's just "I hope for the best for you"

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Finnish authoritories inquires on DF policies of JWs

by InquiryMan in

until now, only senior members of the jehovahs witnesses committee have had access to the congregation's secret book of rules.. the disciplinary activities of the jehovah's witnesses committee have been criticised for violating human rights.. http://yle.fi/uutiset/jehovahs_witnesses_to_hand_over_top_secret_manual/7244267.

link from the major finnish tv broadcaster.

according to anna-maja henriksson, finland's minister of justice, the purpose of the handover is to examine the book and determine whether its rules and regulations run counter to finnish law.. henriksson and interior minister paivi rasanen met on thursday with the leadership of the jehovah's witnesses in helsinki.

freemindfade

Interesting. Witnesses are great though at practicing things that aren't policy but just loaded language or not even spoken of. Dress and grooming = no beards. I think this is awesome. I just wonder if they will remove it from the book but still be practiced full force at congregation level as it always have. Thanks for the post. Interesting stuff.

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Ever Think About This One? Another Bible Contradiction

by freemindfade in

8you must not make for yourself a carved image+ or a form* like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.-deuteronomy 5:8. .

18 you are to make two cherubs of gold; you will make them of hammered work on the two ends of the cover.+ 19 make the cherubs on the two ends, one cherub on each end of the cover.

20 the cherubs are to spread out their two wings upward, overshadowing the cover with their wings,+ and they will face each other.

freemindfade

Garden gnome was an illustration to show the sensativity of possibly possessing an idol. Like maybe when I was younger if I wanted to put a poster of a basketball player on my wall. Some jw's would say bad bad bad. Idol worship. When I didn't bow to it. Or really worship. Respecting someone's talent and wanting to emulate their jump shot us not idolatry. But the point is lost. If some did want to bow down to a garden gnomome I sat go for it! Because there is know guy in the sky worrying about it. Do I think idols are silly? Yep! Do I think having one deserves Goss wrath? Nope. And the fact that one minute he is killing people for worshipping him through a golden calf then commanding then to do it through a golden box with angels on it. You be the judge

And yes wife is still in. Using her as an example of what you everyday witness would think.