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Snakes! You are not keeping in step with our progressive organisation!!
Hint to naysayers: I do NOT text. Period. Very annoying and yes I am old school too.
But I have so many requests as to my status and upcoming projects that Twitter is just perfect for this. Feel free to join.
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get the latest and find out about the videos before we release them.
so much coming i'll have to tell you in advance!.
about six years ago, when self-extricating myself from jehovah's witnesses, i decided to follow robert anton wilson's advice in cosmic trigger, a life changing book for me, and explore taboos as a way to rapidly deprogram myself.
tarot was a great way to do that, as few things are more odious in the jw world.
i wrote up my remarkable experiences in an essay on my blog, tarot & rapid brain change which will probably be interesting to jw forum readers.. .
This is very true.
When I first became "aware" I found myself challenging my perception of spiritism (that term itself is a JW buzzword).
One night I was with non-JWs in an allegedly haunted house. All alone in a room I called out to the ghost to show itself. Nothing happened. This was less about seeing ghosts and more about deprogramming.
Another time I tried a oujia board. Then tarot, meditation, Wiccan festivals, yoga.
Experiencing the taboo dissipated the bogey-man factor. Then I was open to experience spiritualityfrom all points of view - without prejudice.
Isn't that what we were doing as JWs, blinding ourselves as unbelievers? Nullifying other cultures with our own brand of superstition?
i have thought about this a lot recently.
as a jw, did/do i really have "beliefs"?.
how can a person have "beleifs" only to turn a page in a magazine - the same mag that tought them what they believe - and now completely change their "beliefs"?.
This is true, JWs do not believe anything except what is currently printed in the publications.
Thus they do not have a personal belief (notice how teachings on 'anointed', 'the generation' cause JWs to turn on a dime), except for one belief...
...that the Governing Body is channeling God.
C. U. L. T.
after seeing the danish movie "worlds apart" and being told on this board that it is acceptable in some foreign countries, how common is it and where?.
A beard is not acceptable for elders in any country I've seen. Goatees I have seen on French elders.
it seems the occult origins of the word "watchtower" has been around for a very long time.
did the founders of the watchtower bts choose that banner name to reveal the origins of their spirit guides?.
a watchtower is a spirit guardian of one of the four cardinal points in both ceremonial magic and the neopagan religion of wicca.. alternately, the watchtowers are the abodes of the guardians.. often believed to represent the four elements, the watchtowers are invoked during ritual to cast the magic circle.. in many wicca and witchcraft systems the watchtowers are evocational symbols of spiritual beings known as the watchers or the grigori.
One interesting thing is that the current Watchtower logo shows a castle archecture not used in Biblical times. IMO the current "Watchtower" is more Norman than anything else. I'll let an expert take that over.
Current "Study" Watchtowers amplified the logo by printing the tower on every cover. Compare, its an obvious nod to the original Watchtower cover (the old watchtower looks more like a light house).
The closest connection to 'pagan' I can find is the tarot for Tower Card, strikingly like the original Watchtower:
Note the clouds, lightening, the cliff edge and crown shaped roof. The style of this tarot image would have been common at the time of the original Watchtower.
Card meaning Source: http://www.tarotexperts.com/cards/thetower.html
It is the card number 16 and is ruled by the planet mars. The positive aspects associated with this card are disguised blessing and a change which is necessary. On the other hand the negative aspects associated with this card are any kind of disaster, downfall and disruptions. It is a very hard issue to associate with the positive aspect of this card as it mainly symbolizes matters which are to be felt afraid or feared off. It reflects unreasonable suffering and a person with this card in appearance can get accused without being guilty.
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Rated "Biased and Misleading"
Don't waste your time. Another "Jehovah's Witnesses believe..." podcast that gets it entirely wrong. They take a straight phrase like "Without accurate knowledge, people are without hope," and then "interpret" it to mean something not even hinted at in the text. A firefighter without accurate knowledge is without hope of surviving a four-alarm fire. Does that mean my statement is biased?
Weak and lame in it's hate speech. What a waste of bandwidth.
i sent a link to my new video and told them that they were featured in it.
i hope this induces mass hysteria at the tower office.. i guessed the addresses, and i haven't gotten any error messages.
so if you want to send a message to the gb or anyone else, the address should be:.
Quality content and total credibility as regards your experience. Interesting that if you did not add an apostate barb here and there, the video would appear completely neutral.
Keep checking "Insight" on your YouTube video page. I'll bet you get a lot of hits from NY.
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