Great One! Love your blog, some very exceptional articles. I've got to get some kind of feed from it to the new JWRB.ORG. Any ideas?
Randy
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Watchtower Bedrooms
by Marvin Shilmer inwatchtower bedrooms .
today i uploaded a new article to my blog reviewing watchtower bedrooms.
its quite a study of contrasts.
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I just think it's easier this way!
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You are an AMAZING person Atlantis.
Hope to meet you someday.
Randy
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Import / Export (Watchtower)
by TJ Curioso inand now, a finding that intrigued me.. .
i always thought that the bulk of the publications come out of new york to other parts of the globe, if not produced in these last.
true?.
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Actually I bribe the main Marina del Rey postal center to redirect them all to me.
I am capable of evil things. Just "breaking you in" for now. :-))
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"i've got a funny feeling about this place! think it might be demon posscessed!"
by highdose indid you ever encounter jw's who claimed to be able to "sense" when somthing "dodgy" read demon posscessed was in the room?.
i've got several jw relatives who reckon that jehovah protects them by allowing them to sense this... "i always had a funny feeling about that lump of coral!".
iteams they have thrown out ( and in one case also run over several times with a bicycle just in case there was any residual demons left in it) are :.
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so Zid,
Are you a good witch,
or a bad witch?
Dorothy talking to "Glenda the Good:"
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If JW's Should Be Accountable For Their Sordid History.....
by AllTimeJeff in....shouldn't christian religions of all persuasions be accountable as well?.
if this is insulting, it isn't meant to be.
former jw's all the time come here on this forum and others to hold the governing body accountable for teaching lies and holding on to a history, a tradition if you will, that embraces leaders like c t russell and j f rutherford, both of whom taught things that are almost entirely rejected by jw's today.
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The lesson is, these are all man-made organizations, and due to man's current predatory instincts, leaders of successful organizations must be willing to sacrifice individual people to support the organization icon. It is a brand. Brands must survive! They become collective entities.
That's why the Watchtower is less-concerned about KEEPING people (the dwindling affirmation of "old-timers" with their increasingly and potentially dangerous individual private ideas and lack of zeal are like stale blood. Excise it, but make it look like they excised themselves because of their own sins.
Vampires always need a fresh audience or they shrivel up and lose their youthful zeal, and ultimately many of their followers. SURVIVAL is an organization's goal, and it will stop at nothing, including gross deception, to keep it.
That's why the WT organization is not so concerned about KEEPING members who are potential liabilities, but in deceiving new ones into joining their exclusive club. More shoulder badges for the recruiter, and it makes his/her faith more believable the more they can get others to believe it. That's also how cutting edge economic and political organizations work. Keep the ball rolling at all costs, and roll over the straddlers and trouble-makers. It also explains why pioneers are more zealous and comprised of "true believers." The same happens in multi-level marketing organizations.
Nothing else matters to an organization at it's core leadership.
The leaders have already "sold their souls to the devil," in that they have opted for a new corporate ego to replace their own troubled egos. The organization's mindset is an entity of it's own (even legally!) ; and most all organizations have such collective "identities," roughly equivalent to a personality of it's own - determined largely by the unstable personalities of it's leaders.
As long as you restrict yourself to thinking and reading about JWs and not other more destructive groups like Scientology, and learning that they all have the same patterns, you will never be able to separate "organization" from "spirituality." One's education is thereby deficient, and it will delay your healing and moving on a lot longer. You are still trying to figure out why you are a victim. Yet you are only partially a victim, because you bought into their "Brooklyn Bridge" scheme without adequate investigation BEFOREHAND. We all WANTED to believe in the paradise earth and that all animals will eat straw and grain and that we will see mom and dad and all the other JWs there, perfect in body and mind.
Mainly it's because YOU and I bought into their lying scheme. It's hard to admit we may have had some personal responsibility in the matter. Crooks need willing victims.
This doesn't apply to all zealous religionists and political activists, however, and that's where discernment comes in. All it takes is one good leader who is well-liked to block the predatory pattern and focus on loving others and meeting their needs. But that often takes checks and balances by a Board of Directors to reign in any excess greed.
From experience I know that being a pastor can be one of the toughest jobs there is. There are MANY good ones out there - MANY good churches without the psychopath control freaks. Apparently you haven't looked around much, or you would have seen many. Southern Calif. has some good churches without all the control freaks... so do most all other places in the world. It is not wise to lump them all together.
Jeff, I would guess from your post that you have not attended many churches. I have... hundreds, over 30 years, from Adventist to being a regular TV guest with my own series on Trinity Broadcasting Network, to teaching 40 Christian pastors in Japan and other leaders of ex-JW groups in Australia, to passing out tracts in the small Catholic and Protestant churches in Baja California with a Costa Rican female friend as a translator.
[Excluding those born in who didn't have much choice in the matter] one needs to learn that men are often dog-eat-dog predators with a fantastic ability to pleasantly deceive others to achieve power and followers. Look at show biz, magicians, daredevils, Manson-type cult leaders, and political dictators. They are made up of those who have learned to manipulate the human mind. Yes, even advertisers. Their great advantage over lesser mammals is the ability to speak and understand abstract concepts and fantasy scenarios so as to explain life in such a way as to suck you into their magical universe. They are like vampires who require the blood of the living and the resulting affirmation of their new disciples to keep their dream (and mojou) up to par. So recruitment, even when used as as passive form of affirmation to one's beliefs (inevitably including much fantasy and nonsense), is the blood that nourishes the vampire's being.
Want first-hand experience? Join a multi-level marketing organization (I did for a year after leaving Bethel just for the experience - not the money) and you will see right through it if you are an educated former victim. Just set aside a few $thousand to stock up on overpriced product that you will not be able to sell much of. Then "eat it" in stride, and you have learned your lesson. It will cost you less than joining religious like Scientology which will soak you for far more $$.
You are victims in that the cost and consequences of joining is hidden from you.
But not all churches are like that. In fact, I would say most aren't. It depends on the leadership. They may not capitulate to the organization hype and focus on helping individuals. These are the true at heart. However, what they teach may not be accurate or palpable. I have learned over the years my favorite slogan, "Love others more and believe their ideas less."
Why? Because people have an innate nature to spend large amounts of time figuring out their place on earth and their future... they seek a closed system of thinking to end the internal cognitive dissonance of their REAL life experienced with their five senses, versus their "new supernatural" personality with its flawed ideological conclusions that are unverifiable, but provide a sort of "healing" in believing those ideas. need to evangelize to self-affirm the author of the religious fantasy.
Randall Watters
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Launch of the newly revised AJWRB.ORG (Associated Jehovah's Witnesses For Blood)
by Dogpatch inafter three weeks of putting in long hours zen and i have put up a new look on the well-trafficked (#2 in pagerank for all ex-jw-type websites) site that doctors and medical students regularly go to for accurate information on the watchtower's current stance on transfusing blood components, etc.
fred rusk and gene smalley will love what is coming up.
but surprise!
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After three weeks of putting in long hours Zen and I have put up a new look on the well-trafficked (#2 in Pagerank for all ex-JW-type websites) site that doctors and medical students regularly go to for accurate information on the Watchtower's current stance on transfusing blood components, etc. Fred Rusk and Gene Smalley will love what is coming up. But surprise! We have a softer tone and will soon have three talk discussion forums on the site: one for doctors only (private proof required to register; closed forum to outsider), one for active Jehovah's Witnesses to:
1) teach them in understandable terms what is the WT's latest policy, what they can do in emergencies, and alternatives to blood transfusions for the intractable ones. Then there will be a public forum.
2) understand that we are not their enemy nor are we trying to get them to disobey God, and
3) They will not be disfellowshipped for taking blood in almost every case (but they don't know that yet! Could save their lives).
Michael Shawn ("Zen") Dean, a former Bethelite of six years whose family is still involved in the JWs, writes with care and compassion for the Witnesses. His story is on the front page of www.freeminds.org today.
Marvin Shilmer, who handed over the website to me (his idea) is now very productive in writing some most excellent articles almost daily. Read his fascinating blog at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/.
Zen has planned seminars to educate major organizations like the Red Cross and local doctors to educate them. He wants to be very active in developing respectful communication between all parties in this issue rather tha attacking the WT. The goal is saving people's lives, and you can't do it with vinegar, but sometimes with honey.
Many Witnesses come to this site in emergency situations for advice. We want as much cross-organizational cooperation as possible.
If you work in the medical field, please put yourself on Zen's mailing list (for now just email him) so we can work together. [email protected]
Why? To SAVE PEOPLE'S LIVES NOW.
Any suggestions are appreciated. We are still linking up the old articles but in different folders and URLs, so if you have any links to pages other that the main page on the site, they need to be changed. We will have a site map soon when we get the old files cleaned up. If you need as new URL for an older article, email me at [email protected] for a new link.
Soon will come new articles, video interviews, presentations, etc. so keep an eye on the site. Zen has his own e-newsletter with monthly information updates at: http://ajwrb.bbnow.org/
Articles and testimonies on the blood issue and the latest news will be posted regularly on AJWRB.ORG.
Please feel free to submit and suggested articles to Zen at: [email protected].
peace and happiness,
Randy Watters (www.freeminds.org)
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Robert Jay Lifton interviewed by Steve Hassan July 13th 2011
by Dogpatch insteven hassan says,.
i sat down and had a most wonderful conversation with robert jay lifton, m.d.
on the occasion the publication of his memoir entitled, witness to an extreme century.. .
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Robert Jay Lifton interviewed by Steve Hassan July 13th 2011
Steven Hassan says,I sat down and had a most wonderful conversation with Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. on the occasion the publication of his memoir entitled, Witness to an Extreme Century.
Lifton talks about Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism and his work in Hong Kong in the 1950s exploring brainwashing in communist China. We then talk about his book, Death in Life, which describes the psychological effects of the nuclear bombs on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as his life work campaigning against nuclear bombs and ultimately nuclear energy. Then a discussion of his work with Nazi Doctors, the concept of "doubling" and the mot amazing levels of atrocity done in the name of "virtue." Then to his book, Destroying the World to Save it, about apocalyptic cults. The book focuses on Aum Shinrikyo, the cult of Shoko Asahara who ordered the manufacture and ultimate sarin gassing of thousands on the subways of Tokyo. We talk in depth about this cult and throughout this fascinating talk, the themes of how powerful situational influences can make essentially, intelligent, good people commit extreme and immoral acts.67-minute interview on Vimeo: http://www.freeminds.org/sociology/other/robert-jay-lifton-interviewed-by-steve-hassan.html
Steve's Article on his site: http://www.freedomofmind.com/Info/Lifton.php
Randall Watters
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Greg Stafford Takes a Break
by leavingwt invia a thread at the channel c forum, i've learned that greg stafford of elihu books has stopped writing.
at this time, i must leave off from doing any more writing or translation work.
this means my examiner.com writings, my tweets, my blogs, everything.
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same here! I've met him, nice guy.
Randy
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Could you eat breakfast after watching this at Bethel?
by Dogpatch inthis is a partial video of the morning breakfast table in brooklyn bethel in the late 80s, with lyman swingle hosting... the governing body member who at first tried to shelter ray franz from disfellowshipping, but then within a year or two his spirit was broken and he was a bitter man.. randy (i was there and it was death-dealing, like the death eaters from harry potter!).
address of windows media file if you don't see anything:.
http://www.randytv.com/swinglebreakfast.wmv.
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Dogpatch
I would give my right tit to have footage of Knorr on a tirade or Freddy do one of his little routines.
They were the only ones who were entertaining, Swingle was actually one of the more interesting!!
Of course there was crazy Gangas. Lord.
Randy
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Could you eat breakfast after watching this at Bethel?
by Dogpatch inthis is a partial video of the morning breakfast table in brooklyn bethel in the late 80s, with lyman swingle hosting... the governing body member who at first tried to shelter ray franz from disfellowshipping, but then within a year or two his spirit was broken and he was a bitter man.. randy (i was there and it was death-dealing, like the death eaters from harry potter!).
address of windows media file if you don't see anything:.
http://www.randytv.com/swinglebreakfast.wmv.
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Dogpatch
Try it again.
Randy
Steven Hassan says,