Crumpet I should have added that the brother in question believed/believes very strongly that armageddon is around the corner - don't know what long term damage he could've done to himself, sorry I'm so negative about it.
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Crumpet the Human Guinea Pig -Clinical Trials - Anyone tried it /have info?
by Crumpet inhas anyone here been involved or know anything about clinical drugs testing and trials?
i'd just like to gather as much information as i can before i go ahead.
am interested in info both sides of the atlantic.
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Crumpet the Human Guinea Pig -Clinical Trials - Anyone tried it /have info?
by Crumpet inhas anyone here been involved or know anything about clinical drugs testing and trials?
i'd just like to gather as much information as i can before i go ahead.
am interested in info both sides of the atlantic.
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I know a brother who did it regularly and is still as healthy as ever - he got paid very well. However I wouldn't recommend it - anything can happen
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Hypothetical situation: What would you do?
by winnie inlets just say that the jw teaching regarding armageddon, living forever were true.. and lets say that many on this forum who still attend meetings somehow survive.. you don't agree with the teachings.
you may not even like many others who survive.
why would you want to live with the kind of people who continually judge others actions?
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bernadette
Hypothetically I would stay in for reasons like justice for all, love of neighbour, love for god, worldwide unity etc etc etc because i would keep those ideals in front of me constantly and believe that I was working towards them.
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How Not to Talk to Your Kids - The Inverse Power of Praise
by zensim inby po bronson .
thomas didnt just score in the top one percent.
they were told, you must be smart at this.
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bernadette
good article zensim
praising specific effort and behaviour is more enabling than general labels to do with the person himself.
bernadette
only just noticed that your online name is zensim and not zenism
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My Journey-Cruel and Unusual Punishment
by truthsetsonefree inlet the beatings begin.
beatings and whippings were routine.
so conditioned was i by corporeal punishment that one day something happened that my mom recalled with pride for many years afterwards.
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bernadette
kwin I wonder when that new light will be made available to the congregations.
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My Journey-Cruel and Unusual Punishment
by truthsetsonefree inlet the beatings begin.
beatings and whippings were routine.
so conditioned was i by corporeal punishment that one day something happened that my mom recalled with pride for many years afterwards.
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((((((truthsetsonefree)))))))) very sorry for the brutality and torture you endured growing up. Your mum seems to have become a psychopath under the influence of the wts as they tutored and encouraged her behaviour.
Just one person in authority consistently helping her to see that her behaviour towards you was barbaric and inhuman would have been enough to cause her to stop and think and change imo.
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What will Jehovah's Witnesses do when they realize they've been lied to
by cultswatter ini think there might be a mass revolt.
imagine a mob of 100,000 angry dubs in newyork smashing down wt 25 using telephone posts as battering rams.
then the looting and the destruction of every wt property in newyork and elsewhere.
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bernadette
What will you do when Armageddon would comes and you find out you have been fighting against Jehovah?
Most will continue to allow themselves to be lied to because confronting the question above is just too scary for most - it derails honest appraisals of what is true and what is false
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My Bethel Experience Part 18
by new boy inthis is the fun one......... health, dismemberment, death (natural and unnatural) murder and suicide.. well its sunday afternoon, portland oregon, february 18, 2007.........its been 34 years,.......i 'm just drunk enough, excuse me,.....i mean "self medicated"enough (p.s.
juni sweet heart.... i love you), to start writing this chapter.........the people at bethel were killing us spiritually!.......and sometimes they killed us physically too.....i'm not letting myself of the hook...i was there and i was as bad them..............no, i'm sorry i was worst then them......and why?.....because i knew better....those bastards didn't know any better .......we need to send them some love........the thing they can't give us ................we need to give them......... love............. "thats all you need" .
first off....... when you go to bethel, you sign a document stating that if you die while you are at bethel, the society has "the right" to keep your body.........most people, just sign it and forget about it, but don't you think that is just a little strange?..........i did.
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New boy - very sad - a relative of mine spent 5 years at bet hell. He developed irritable bowel syndrome and has to take medication for it - he got off lightly. Others weren't so fortunate.
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Been gone awhile.(Rough past few three months)
by jakes ini have'nt been here for awhile.the family and i went through a very rough time over the past three months.most of it has been jw related and how negatively the teachings have affected a brother of my wife who has been diagnosed with bipolar.however,that i will leave for a different discussion.we have managed to pull through it all and we are slowly picking up the pieces.
i am also hard at work putting the final touches to my book.i will keep you posted on the release date.
this past weekend i stepped into a kingdom hall after more than two years.i attended a jw funeral of a friend who was not a jw.his family are all jws and i was actually surprised that permission was given to them to have it conducted in the kingdom hall.halfway through the talk i got up and walked out of the hall.i could not bare to listen to the pathetic reasoning laid out by the elder during his talk.hardly any comfort was given to the family in the talk.as one other poster mentioned,it all become just one big jw presentation and "sales talk".this was probably done because of the many non-jws that were in attendance.
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bernadette
Hi Jakes and welcome back
Sorry that its been rough for you
bernadette
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Need some education on THEOLOGY? Start here! Evolutionists take note!
by LittleToe inhttp://www.monergism.com/systematic.html.
http://www.rtrc.net/documents/wcf/hodge/wcftoc.htm.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.htmlhttp://www.lgmarshall.org/reformed/berkhof_summary.html.
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bernadette
Good discussion LT
Wow HS - am beginning to see you as our resident, intellectual eccentric - no offence meant. I think every board needs one or two
bernadette