Posts by Mariusuk.

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Multi-tasking? Is it a skill or a disorder?

by Crumpet in

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do you tend to multi-task or hone in one job, giving it your full concentration until its finished?.

would you say your ability/inability to multi-task is an attribute or a curse?.

the reason i ask is that i seem to have a very short attention span.

Mariusuk.

Apparantly women are "wired" to multi task better than men

Although I would argue that it is because men gets things right the first time ;-)

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i was told not to even look at them when i studied, but i did not buy the satan stuff about them and said well what have the watchtower got to worry about if they have the truth and no skeletons in the closet ?

i was quite tempted to speak to them and felt rude and judgemental , what did you used to think about them when you were dubs in the trufff ?

Mariusuk.

I always thought they were a little pointlessto be honest, they looked like the Witnesses THOUGHT they would look like which basically reinforced their belief in Satan et al. Apostates would have been much better just dressing in civvies sitting next to single JW's and occasionally whispering "seriously can you believe this haha" "do you REALLTY believe that???" etc

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Aren't we all responsible for the success of the Watchtower Society?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

raymond franz was a member of the governing body of jehovah's witnesses from 1971 until may 22, 1980, and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. franz wrote and edited two detailed books which relate his personal experiences with the watch tower bible and tract society and fellow members of the jehovah's witness organization.. .

after reading ray franz's books,i held him and his fellow members responsible for all the false teachings.

i also wasn't forgiving any of them even if they found out that it wasn't the ''truth'' and left the organization.now i changed my mind.

Mariusuk.

Aren't we all responsible for the success of the Watchtower Society?

LOL

No! Look at it in terms of converts v people you have helped get out (including yourself)

How many people did you convert?

How many people have left since you started posting online etc?

I would think you would find that you have contributed more to people leaving than people coming in, giving any "credit" to yourself for the "monster" that is the WTBTS just minimises to a degree to culpubility of the real conmen

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Drinking and Posting

by wanderlustguy in

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certainly, in these end times, we may encounter individuals who do not heed the counsel found at 1st wlg, 3:13. yes, that is correct, as apalling as it sounds...they do the unthinkable.

they drunk post.. many of us have been tempted, nay, stumbled into the sin of drunk posting.

but there are those among us who have traveled the dark path, and from them we learn what not to do.

Mariusuk.

'hic'

whash the prblum you me,rons

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Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself

by svennibenni in

i'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.

it is a very big company with offices all over the world.

she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.

Mariusuk.

Oh and another point, IF you manage to convince her to before you pop down the aisle be warned that she will STILL want marriage before sex and also she will possibly be in need of therapy, there is a chance she may completely rebel from her programing and turn into a person you no longer recognise, drinking a lot, discovering sexuality for a newly exited exdub is often an amazing experience, drugs can posibly become involved etc etc

Getting her out does not neccessarily lead to a rosy life, the person she evolves into might not be the person you want anymore

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Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself

by svennibenni in

i'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.

it is a very big company with offices all over the world.

she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.

Mariusuk.

Svenni

A few points

1) As a jw this girl will be rather emotionally stunted and likely not had any real experience of long term relationships

2) If she is past 24 she will be feeling "left on the shelf". JW's tend to confuse their feelings out of desperation (no offense intended), remember how you felt as a teenager and the amazingly strong feelings you had whenever you met a girl, this is how a jw feels when they meet someone at almost any age

3) If she is past 24 and still not left the org, it would be tough to prise her away,

4) Joining a religion to please someone is not a path to a healthy reltionship and marriage, it will end in tears as you try and pull her away and she tries to pull you in, you will also "black mark" her and she may become resentful...especially if things are not going her way

It is hard to be rational when you have strong feelings but trust me, being a JW is completely different to converting to say ....a catholic

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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

by Crumpet in

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i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

Mariusuk.

That has to be the cleanest keyboard I've ever seen sacrificial loon! A sign of a true introverted geek for sure!

That is what I thought, but if you look really, really close you will see porn on the monitor :-)

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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character...

by digderidoo in

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...in all fiction:jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevent bully.

", says richard dawkins in the god delusion p51.

he goes on to say, "those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror".. would you agree?.

Mariusuk.

Agreed. Just because He's seen in the OT as a God of war, doesn't rule out His also being a God of peace. He wages war in order to make peace happen. I know that isn't so hard to understand for those who really want to.

Sorry i just do not buy that

God v The Assyrians ...circa erm a long time ago, God decides to arbitarily kill 187000 (if my old bible study training is up to scratch, it has been 15 years lol) soldiers. All men are God's children, soldiers in these days did not just volunteer to join up, the men had families likely dependant on their earnings. This is GOD we are talking about, the God of the O.T never finds a peaceful way of dealing with problems (which strangely enough matches up with other gods of that era who also strangely enough were rather bloodthirsty) he could "click" his celstial finger and vamoosh the assyrians are back in Assyria or he could possess the Senaccarib and get him to turn the forces away but no he murders them.

Aside from the stretch of imagination it takes to believe that an "angel of death" descended on thier poor souls, this and other incidents in the OT are so far removed from the NT God that it is clear they cannot be the same being

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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

by Crumpet in

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friends

i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

Mariusuk.

For all in the Uk who know Dr Who my geeky obsession is David Tennant (drool) have his calendar on my wall in my study(and i am 44 yr old gran)

What! What.......what???

Amazing!!!!

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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character...

by digderidoo in

jw
friends

...in all fiction:jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevent bully.

", says richard dawkins in the god delusion p51.

he goes on to say, "those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror".. would you agree?.

Mariusuk.

I believe the Bible is the inspired record of God's dealings with His people

Do you believe that because the bible says so "all scripture is inspired of God and beneficial .......etc", that is kind of me writing some ramblings and stating they are God's word. Not trying to be rude I just wonder why people believe the bible as if it is fact?