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  The Neurochemistry of Flow States, with Steven Kotler

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahp2hkue8rq

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  From the 'Grandfather' and originator of the concept of FLOW.

  www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow
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  The WT is making a broadway musical about a cart, no joke!

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm literally speechless on this.

  mixed between a big wth, rofl, dumbest thing ever made, and shock that wt actually made this and is taking it seriously!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxvnn04xd3u.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses have now become the producers of 'religious pornography'. This video blatantly presents an unrealistic and distorted view of the lives of the everyday 'rank and file' of Jehovah's Witnesses. Josef Goebbels could learn a lesson from the Governing Body(tm)!!
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  Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.

  by Pubsinger in

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  2. beliefs

  apologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.

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  Someone named 4FldSvc has just uploaded it to YouTube again. I think as many people as possible should go there and make their feelings known. I have already posted 2 comments. Post away and have some fun!!!
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  WTS leader rants against higher education

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on jw tv.

  anthony morris is ranting against higher education.

  he is blaming parents for enrolling their kids in college.

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  In my opinion, there is something VERY disturbing about Anthony Morris III.
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  An email from a Jw "friend" to me (accusing me of apostasy) a few months back.

  by objectivetruth in

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  2. friends

  i was going through old email and i came across the below email from a former acquaintance of mine who is a jw.

  when we were both jw's, we were both pretty liberal in our beliefs.

  its quite interesting how cognitive dissonance kicks in, for many & not too much for others.

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  "Asking questions is fine and if you had come to the conclusions you came to without looking at all the junk you have been I would have patted you on the back."

  So if you learn the Truth about the Truth on your own, you are a hero?

  And if you learn the Truth about the Truth from someone else, you are a zero?
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  How do you overcome this JW excuse?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during one of those meetings that took place before my jc, one of the elders, who was a good friend of mine back then and used to come up with a few outlandish personal views about some teachings, attempted to counter one of my arguments like this:.

  eden - "well, if the truth doesn't change, why is it that what we teach as 'truth' has changed over the years (several examples given)?

  how can we dogmatically claim at any given moment that we have 'the truth' if our teachings keep changing?".

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  EdenOne.................I would ask the Elder how the following information applies to his reasoning:

  "Notice that worship in 'truth' is a must! It is therefore impossible to worship God acceptably without a deep love of the truth. The true Christian religion must be founded on the truth, not on traditions, creeds, dogmas and articles of faith that are often hard to understand because they defy all the faculties of reasoning with which God created us. - The Watchtower January 15, 1970 page 38 paragraph 2
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  Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have you seen this article?.

  the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.

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  Billy brings up an interesting point. Since Angels were created sexless where did their desire for sexual relations come from? Even more confusing is why did they materialize as men only and have only heterosexual relations? Why didn't some of them become gay and have relations with men? Why not materialize as a woman and have lesbian sexual relationships? Why not materialize as a woman and have heterosexual relations with a man? A rather narrow fable that does not take into consideration the whole range of human sexual relationships.
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  Why Do Atheists Struggle So Much Against God Who Supposedly Doesn't Exist?

  by Perry in

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  2. beliefs

  an athist made this casual statememt on another thread:.

  this would suggest to me that there are at least some atheists that do have consistant beliefs.. .

  as an atheist, how could he possibly trust the reason that suggests this to himself?

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  "Can't we all just get along?"
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  The Judicial Committee is a Circle of Elders in a Room?

  by Shanagirl in

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  2. beliefs

  has this ever happened to anyone who has been df'd here?

  did you walk into a room with a circle of chairs for the whole body of elders?.

  shana.

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  "Yes, this is more commonly known as a Circle Jerk."-Zordino

  Or...............A CIRCLE OF JERKS!
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  Why do ultra rich jehovahs witnesses get a free pass when it comes to being materialistic?

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  i know a couple of jws in my town that are both very wealthy.

  one has upscale retail stores and owns a property development company.

  the other has a large service company and owns a lot of real estate.

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  BRAVO!!!!! Well said,AndDon'tCallMeShirley!!!!! Someone finally 'called a spade a spade' and shined the light on a BIG problem within the Jehovahs Witness religion. YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS-Jesus Christ. I say that ALL wealthy people in this religion should put their money where their mouth is. There is nothing wrong with having money or building equity, but if a Witness persues riches in this system of things than he is 'just rearranging chairs on the Titanic'. His works belie his religious philosophy.

  A person is judged not by what they say but by what they DO.