Posts by freemindfade

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Further CO Leaks

by wifibandit in

believe inspired truth, not inspired error (s-341a-16-e).

instructions for the circuit overseer’s meeting with the pioneers and field missionaries in conjunction with the circuit assembly (s-312-tk16-e no.

circuit overseer meets with pioneers and field missionaries program for september 2015 through february 2016 (s-335-16-e).

freemindfade

God just reading the first few bits of that outline about inspired truth/error has my brain flashing CULT CULT CULT CULT.

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This Could Be Good... Hulu’s ‘The Path’ portrays family life inside a cult

by freemindfade in

this looks great for people who are both cult survivors and aaron paul fans!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/slow-but-emotionally-creepy-hulus-the-path-portrays-family-life-inside-a-cult/2016/03/29/43840c46-f2c5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html.

slow but emotionally creepy, hulu’s ‘the path’ portrays family life inside a cult.

freemindfade

I look forward to watching it the wife, this should be awkward...

as subtle as a ring at your doorbell and the offer of an informational pamphlet.
observing the bliss on the faces of true believers and wondering: Do I buy any of this? Do I belong here?
Post-apocalyptic salvation in the Garden
Despite his punishment, Eddie continues seeking answers from a “Denier” (Alison Kemp),
Trained to rat one another out for perceived sins and prone to intimidate the Deniers who try to leave the fold

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If death is a natural occurrence in the human species, why are we born with the innate feeling to continue living indefinitely?

by Tenacious in

there are some people that do in fact want to die.

these people include the mentally unstable, emotionally imbalanced, and those suffering from ailments or diseases, just to name a few.. i've never met however, anyone, or heard of anyone, who is of sound mind, who just awoke one day and thought it would be an excellent day to die......naturally.. your thoughts?.

freemindfade

We want to survive. That's instinct.

We also have imaginations, the idea of living forever is a product of the social technology known as religion that helped alleviate fear of death.

If we were born without the idea of living forever to begin with that is programmed into by religion, we wouldn't be obsessed with it. No one knows what happens after the point we are dead and gone, probably nothing at all, but no one has the balls to live with "I don't know". they want to make up myths to help them sleep at night.

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This Could Be Good... Hulu’s ‘The Path’ portrays family life inside a cult

by freemindfade in

this looks great for people who are both cult survivors and aaron paul fans!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/slow-but-emotionally-creepy-hulus-the-path-portrays-family-life-inside-a-cult/2016/03/29/43840c46-f2c5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html.

slow but emotionally creepy, hulu’s ‘the path’ portrays family life inside a cult.

freemindfade

This looks great for people who are both cult survivors and Aaron Paul fans!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/slow-but-emotionally-creepy-hulus-the-path-portrays-family-life-inside-a-cult/2016/03/29/43840c46-f2c5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html

Slow but emotionally creepy, Hulu’s ‘The Path’ portrays family life inside a cult

Aaron Paul as Eddie Lane in Hulu's "The Path." (Greg Lewis/Hulu)

By Hank Stuever TV critic March 29 at 3:17 PM

“The Path” is a slow but steady new drama from Hulu about a family in Upstate New York that is deeply enmeshed in a self-help movement called the Meyerists, a commune with all the telltale signs of being a scary cult. But “The Path” comes on gently rather than sensationally, as subtle as a ring at your doorbell and the offer of an informational pamphlet.

Watching the first couple of episodes is not unlike the strange experience of attending an unfamiliar church, observing the bliss on the faces of true believers and wondering: Do I buy any of this? Do I belong here? It’s also a reminder that all new TV shows are desperate to recruit followers.

Hank Stuever has been The Post's TV critic since 2009. He joined the paper in 1999 as a writer for the Style section, where he has covered an array of popular (and unpopular) culture across the nation. View Archive

I didn’t need much arm-twisting — they had me at Aaron Paul. The “Breaking Bad” star plays Eddie Lane, who first came to the Meyerists as a troubled teen, bought into their principles and wound up marrying Sarah (“True Detective’s” Michelle Monaghan). In the first of 10 episodes (Hulu is releasing the first two on Wednesday; the rest will stream weekly), Eddie has just returned from a retreat in Peru, where founder Steven Meyers (Keir Dullea — yes, of “2001: A Space Odyssey”) ascended a mountain in the 1970s and received a powerful vision of paradise (“the Garden”) along with a set of life instructions that foretell the end of the world.

Post-apocalyptic salvation in the Garden is attainable by achieving ladder rungs of knowledge, as divined by Meyers himself. Eddie has achieved “6R” status (meaning he’s at the sixth rung), but Sarah, who is an 8R, senses a disturbing vibe in her husband. She thinks he had an affair with another member during his trip. After consulting with the movement’s elders (who include her parents), she insists both Eddie and his alleged lover voluntarily submit to Realignment, the primary feature of which includes two weeks of solitary confinement.

Though innocent of the affair, Eddie accepts Realignment in order to hide a more personal secret: He no longer believes in Meyerism. Once he’s locked in his cell (and under the influence of the Meyerists’ hallucinogenic “Juice”), viewers are treated to the full range of Paul’s expressive talent, as he freaks out and pounds on the walls. “The Path” is in many ways just the sort of project the Emmy-winning actor has been searching for, right in Jesse Pinkman’s wheelhouse of weirdness but also a suitable challenge. Despite his punishment, Eddie continues seeking answers from a “Denier” (Alison Kemp), who believes the Meyerists killed her husband.

So what else does “The Path” reveal? Created by Jessica Goldberg (whose writing credits include episodes of the network family drama “Parenthood”) and executive-produced by Jason Katims (whose showrunning credits include “Parenthood” and the superb “Friday Night Lights”), “The Path” works best as an intense psychological study of an extended family whose members equate faith and loyalty with happiness.

Trained to rat one another out for perceived sins and prone to intimidate the Deniers who try to leave the fold, the Meyerist way invites easy comparisons to the Church of Scientology, which might as well add “The Path” to its long list of public-relations headaches of late. Yet Goldberg and company have taken care to imagine a belief system that encompasses the lingo and tactics of quite a few touchy-feely, self-help and religious movements; in its jargon and dialogue, one can hear echoes of EST, the Landmark Forum, the Zendik Farm and a bunch of others.

Though the movement is smallish in size (at one point we learn that the Meyerists have 6,000 active members nationwide), the members seem like everyday, non-threatening hippies and hipsters, which makes it difficult for an FBI agent (Rockmond Dunbar) to persuade his superiors to support an undercover investigation into the Meyerists’ business and recruitment techniques. On the surface, they are fashionable, attractive folks. Eddie and Sarah’s son, Hawk (Kyle Allen), goes to the local high school, where he has fallen for popular girl Ashley (Amy Forsyth), whom he hopes to recruit as a “Possible.” (For now she’s just an “Ignorant Systemite,” or I.S., which is Meyerist lingo for outsiders.)

Beneath the veneer as a Pleasantville, viewers soon figure out that the Meyerists have a dangerous megalomaniac in their midst, Cal Roberts (“Hannibal’s” Hugh Dancy), a 10R who is also a struggling alcoholic and sexual predator, convinced that he’s the heir to the movement. Dancy flares his nostrils and mines his character’s most menacing qualities as he bends Sarah to his will and turns her against Eddie, but his scenes can also veer a little too much toward the ridiculously tormented. (The only one willing to speak truth to Cal is his alcoholic mother — a nice little cameo for none other than Kathleen Turner.)

But it’s Monaghan, as Sarah, who delivers “The Path’s” most complex performance, as a woman who believes deeply in the promises of salvation and fiercely guards her faith, even if it means exile for Eddie. True, it seems as if these people are all looney-tunes, but the pain they inflict on one another is a fascinating approach to the age-old story of relationships.

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

Only the future will show

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

Don't be afraid to come.

I'm not really afraid to visit, its just a shame to see whats going on more and more frequently there.

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

freemindfade please don't listen to donald trump - he is just trying to win votes - (doesn't say much for his voters though)

sorry, did I accidentally quote him?

If only 8% of Muslims are so called "radicals" (92% "moderate"), why aren't all those people considered "moderate" dealing with this relatively small group to stop giving them a bad name? You know with the killing of other Muslims, the killing of Christians, stoning women, waging jihad, committing honor killings, throwing gay men off buildings and so on in Muslim majority countries?

Because most subscribe to various Islamic laws that condone atrocities. Terror acts are merely one symptom of a much more insidious underlying set of ideas.

A true "moderate" muslim is like an exjw's. they really aren't Muslim's anymore. They are apostates.

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

This was a prime example with someone throwing up the "hatred/prejudice" alarm when no one was promoting either.

Criticism of bad ideas being treated as an unspeakable crime is the most frightening thing about all this.

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

This is not about "ISIS". This is about the incubator for groups like ISIS called Islam.

Sharia law is horrible. Its not just about blowing up trains and shooting up the streets of Paris.

In my opinion, if you think these are good ideas, you are a terrorist whether or not you blow yourself up. These are some of the ideas of Sharia. And if you are afraid to criticize those that promote these ideas, you are sharing with them in their atrocities.

Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.
Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.
Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.
Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.
Islam orders apostates to be killed.
Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.

"Islam is intrinsically terrorist" : I answer NO

But sharia is, and it makes a pretty damn signifigant chunk of it.

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

freemindfade

I was talking about your hatred and prejudice.

hating ideas is awesome and prejudice towards hatred and bigotry is too! Has anyone's race or gender been singled out? Nope. I'll insult any religion, and I do. I just think most others have tamed themselves and are not pushing worldwide acts of terror against women and children and innocents in general on any kind of scale close to islam!

I think its safe to say any muslims who subscribes to and supports Sharia is EXTREME by most civilized standards. By your definition only someone pushing the button on their suicide vest is dangerous, I think that is terrible logic. You think I should be ashamed for criticizing Islam and their horrible human rights violating ideas, I think they should be ashamed for their ideas about the world around them. That is what is most dangerous.