Hi friends,
We have a drive at our new AJWRB.ORG site for donating blood for Witnesses! Great publicity campaign, as people will finally REALIZE that Jehovah's Witnesses DO take blood transfusions!Time to end the word-game charade. If you still believe their publicity nonsense on "not taking blood," WAKE UP AND MAKE YOUR SAY TO THE MEDIA..
Plus we save lives, help them get out of the WT, and let the public know we are not participating in their scam of defining a "blood transfusion." But we show all the options for those who want to make their own choice. We do not criticize or put the Witness down.
Plus the WATCHTOWER has no reason to be pissed off! It The publicity only makes them hide their policies and when they are not "persecuted" they don't fignt the same way. They are simply at a loss of what to do.
BTW, donate blood for Witnesses! What a better way is there to count your time?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/national-blood-donor-mont_n_1193156.html
Randy Watters
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On giving blood
by Dogpatch inhi friends,.
we have a drive at our new ajwrb.org site for donating blood for witnesses!
great publicity campaign, as people will finally realize that jehovah's witnesses do take blood transfusions!time to end the word-game charade.
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Help! Help!! Desperately need DOGGIE help!!! Help with a doggie!!!!
by ziddina ini hope this is the correct category..... since pets are kinda sorta like "family", anyway..... a friend of mine (who lives about 25 miles away, in the center of the city) recently lost her beloved six-year-old spayed female daschund doggie under very tragic circumstances.. her other dog, an eight-year-old neutered male daschund, has been inconsolable since her loss.
so my friend decided to adopt another small dog - a spayed female daschund - one that was rescued from a breeder..... this poor little dog has lived in a cage for her entire life!!!
all six years of her life - in what was, in effect, a doggie concentration camp.... she is not "socialized" in any way, shape or form.
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Be careful,
This is not necessarily representative of the dog's point of view!
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Pre-Conference Writing Workshop for Post-Cultic Recovery
by Dogpatch incoming to terms with your story: .
a pre-conference writing workshop for post-cultic recovery.
facilitator: karen pressley.
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Coming to Terms with Your Story:
A Pre-Conference Writing Workshop for Post-Cultic Recovery
Facilitator: Karen Pressley
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 (10:00 am – 5:00 pm)
After leaving a high-demand group, how do you come to terms with the people, events, and countless details of the memories that shaped that time of your life? Outside of counseling or talks with caring friends and family members, exploring the fertile subject matter of your experiences can be an otherwise daunting, seemingly irreconcilable task without a means of connecting the dots and coming to terms with your personal story. Your story is composed of countless moments, scenes, and choices that may hold difficult, tragic, repressed, or even magical events and circumstances. This Writer’s Workshop focuses on the healing qualities of writing that can help you to make sense of your experiences, re-establish your well-being, and re-discover your personal voice. We’ll use techniques that help you to create meaningful accounts that not only document memories, but that can help to diffuse the impact they might have on your thoughts and emotions. These techniques are based on research that shows that writing is a productive, healing process that has been found to reduce physical and emotional illness in people who write regularly.
As a participant in this workshop--and whether or not you consider yourself a skilled writer--you are addressed as a writer with a voice, an author with an authoritative position over your life story. If you have been more accustomed to being the object rather than the subject of your circumstances, particularly if you have been denied authority in the group, writing about your life can play a significant part in erasing years of invisibility and interpretation by others. With the goal of “write or be written,” you will learn writing techniques that will enable you to express the hard-won, deep layers of truth that you might discover but not otherwise share as part of daily social communication. As one writer said after developing a memoir, “Each time the authentic words break through, I am changed.”
The teacher of this workshop is a writing professional, a university instructor of composition, a published author, and a former sixteen-year cult member. She believes that writing is empowering, whether you write to lay bare your soul with absolute frankness for others to read and learn by, or you simply want to make sense of your life for personal healing purposes. By guiding you to put pen to paper as you explore your experiences through these specialized writing techniques and exercises in this three-part workshop, she will show you how writing can bring the very needed joy that comes from transforming your subject matter into material that helps you to grow while you create something of value for yourself and, if you choose, to share with or to help others.
The writing workshop will take place on Wednesday July 4, 2012 (10:00 am to 5:00 pm), the day before the ICSA Annual Conference in Montreal, which takes place July 5-7. The location will be the conference site: Holiday Inn Select Montreal Centre Ville Downtown.
Cost
The workshop is free but open only to conference registrants (select one-day registration if you only want to attend the workshop). Space is limited and preference is given to former members of cultic groups who want to write about their experiences.
Sign-Up Required
In addition to registering for the conference, you must sign up for the pre-conference workshop. Here are the steps:
1. Go to ICSA’s Event Home Page: http://icsahome.com/infoserv_respond/event_conferences_workshops.asp
2. Explore the links to the left, under “Conferences.” These provide information on accommodations, fees, directions, etc.
3. Click “Register” on the upper right.
4. Note the yellow box, “How to Get a Discount Code.” Click on the survey that is appropriate to you (ICSA member, nonmember, full-time student). The survey helps us plan.
5. Toward the end of the survey you will be asked if you want to participate in the writing workshop.
6. Click “submit” and receive the appropriate discount coupon code ($50 - $225).
7. Look left at “Buy Now”; select the option for you; proceed to checkout, look for the box in which to enter your discount code.
If you have already registered but did not sign up, write ICSA: [email protected] .
About the Facilitator
Karen Pressley is an Instructor of English composition at Southern Polytechnic State University in Atlanta, and is the managing director of KAP Communications Inc., specializing in writing, editing, and desktop publishing ( www.karenpressley.com ). Karen holds a MA in Professional Writing and a BS in Communication (Media and Public Relations). As a former 16 - year Scientologist, she directed its Celebrity Centre International Network and later worked at the church’s International Management headquarters. Since departing Scientology in 1998, she is consulted regularly on Scientology issues by media, former cult members, and their families. She is a guest speaker for radio and television shows, conferences, seminars, and academic classes. Her first two books about Scientology, Chasing After the Wind (Broadman & Holman, 2001) and Escaping Scientology: An Insider’s True Story (New Hope, 2006) were suppressed from publication. She authored several entries for Baker Dictionary of Cults (forthcoming, 2011) and numerous articles on Scientology. In 2009, Karen developed the Hegemonic Communication Model (HCM) that shows how a cult member’s personal expression, critical thinking skills, and creativity are affected by charismatic leaders. HCM is illustrated in “Creativity and Cults from Sociological and Communication Perspectives: The Processes Involved in the Birth of a Secret Creative Self,” co-authored with sociologist Miriam Boeri for “The Last Draw: Cults and Creativity,” a special issue of the Cultic Studies Review (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2010), presented at the 2010 ICSA Conference. Her forthcoming book, Experiencing Creativity: Breaking Free from Spiritual Abuse and the Emergence of the Creative Self, provides a theoretical framework for understanding how cult rhetoric suppresses members’ critical thinking, personal expression, and creativity. Her latest projects include development of a writing workshop for ex-cult members that focuses on writing to heal through the power of the narrative, to speed recovery and improve critical thinking skills in post-cult life.
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Thoughts on turning 65 today
by Terry intoday is my 65th birthday.. chances are you have no idea what that means.. would you like to know?
turning 65 can only be described using these two words:.
the first: anagnorisis the moment of critical discovery; the discovery of one's own identity or true character.
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Thanks Terry,
Happy birthday! I'm 6 years behind you.
Randy
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The prognosis is 'terminal'
by AK - Jeff init always has been.
we are all going to die.. .
how did it affect you though, when that reality set in after leaving the lies of religion?.
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YHWH a minor pagan god: Ugaritic Texts and the Sons of El
by DoomVoyager ininteresting.. here is the first thing i've found on the subject, though i haven't read much of it yet.. http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/05-deuteronomy/text/articles/heiser-deut32-bs.htm.
pseudo.
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good thoughts, Band!
Randy
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Israelities so easily influenced by foreign Gods, Why.
by jam ingod delivered the israelities to the promise land.. he shield them from egypt army, fed them in the.
wilderness, open the sea and aided them in.
defeating their enemies.. joshua:24;16 "far be it from us that we should.
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Close, Gary Neal:
Pascal's Wager (also known as Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the Frenchphilosopher, mathematician, and physicistBlaise Pascal that since the existence of God can not be proved (or disproved) through reason, but since in his view there was much to be gained from wagering that God exists (and little to be gained from wagering that God doesn't exist), a rational person should simply wager that God exists (and live accordingly).
Following his argument establishing the Wager, Pascal addressed the fact that many rational people (in spite of being able to reason advantages) will have difficulty genuinely believing in God. He thus proscribed one to live "as though he had faith" and postulated that (like Tolstoy in his autobiographical "A Confession"), this might help to subvert their contrary passions and lead to more genuine belief.
Historically, Pascal's Wager was groundbreaking because it charted new territory in probability theory, marked the first formal use of decision theory, and anticipated future philosophies such as existentialism, pragmatism, and voluntarism. [ 1 ]
Pascal formulated his suggestion within a Christian framework, and set it out in 'note 233' of his Pensées, a posthumously published collection of notes made in his last years forming a treatise on Christian apologetics.
but not quite it.
Wikipedia is source
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Report: six months in labor camp for N. Koreans who didn't cry at despot's funeral
by Yan Bibiyan inoh, the similarities... .
kyodo news via ap.
mourners cry during the funeral procession for late north korean leader kim jong il on dec. 28, 2011.. by msnbc.com staffnorth korea is punishing citizens who didnt cry during the orchestrated public mourning over the death of kim jong il, sentencing them to six months in a labor-training camp, according to a report.. the south korea-based daily nk newspaper said authorities have held criticism sessions for those who transgressed during organized weeping in the wake of the dictators death.. it said north koreans accused of criticizing the worlds only hereditary totalitarian regime are being sent to re-education camps or being banished with their families to remote rural areas.. the news website quoted a source from north hamkyung province saying: the authorities are handing down at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who didnt participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but didnt cry and didn't seem genuine.the funeral of kim jong-il, the leader of one of the most isolated places on earth.
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Well I think it's going to a a long hard road up there. As a dead hero, he will have to go through the deification process, not unlike every other culture, so that he reigns in the hall of the Gods. Legends must be formulated and written down as scripture (politically speaking). It is a critical time for a desperate people. He must be incorporated into their "religion" (psuedo-Communism). Kind of like an Egyptian rite. But no signs of intelligent life yet from his successors; we just know that China is going to ultimately be their "caretaker." They have been their advisor all along.
If they do lean towards democracy and assimilation, North Korea will adopt them, but it will cost them plenty.
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How well known is JEHOVAH?
by jwfacts infor anyone that has not been to www.ted.com than i strongly recommend it.
there is the most amazing range of information regarding science, religion, medicine and technology, and provides a very positive view of what the world will be like in the future.. one talk i just watched was http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html, which discusses a new ability from goole at http://books.google.com/ngrams to search on the change in how regularly words appear in book.
i thought an interesting comparison would be whether the word jehovah or yahweh is more common.
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I would imagine the Hebrew God was relatively unknown by any name in most of the ancient world. He was a tribal god in their eyes.
There is simply no written evidence of any significant use of the name "Jehovah" or even YHWH outside of "sacred" texts, except perhaps in the occult circles. :-))
Randy
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But animals are so innocent!
