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  Could religious belief be considered a sign of mental illness?

  by nicolaou in

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  religious believers clearly have tendencies to make-up "facts" and "evidence" rather than accept true research and admit even the simplest of belief failures.

  they have strange ceremonies that are virtually pointless but are said to have special significance or power.. we all know certain 'christians' alive today who are fully prepared to argue that they might never die!

  couldn't it be argued that such a reversion into childlike fantasy is a telltale sign of mental illness?

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  Collective agreement is what liberates most groups of humans from perceived mental illness!

  Consider some of the cultish groups!

  Consider some historical tribal beliefs and practices!

  Consider some present activists!

  Dictatorships!

  Genocide!

  There is more proof than one can assimilate for such a notion!

  Mental illness IS the individuals experiencing repeated INNER CONFLICTS reacting to the outer conflicts of collective others egos on a permanent relentless basis!

  So YES = mental illness is quite often likely a purely artificial condition of permanent inner conflict, predisposed by a person feeling inedequate ( due insufficient self assertive thought networks) that they are so different from the group around them who perpetuate negative interactions with them in judging them for their differences.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAvfdwypmnw&NR=1

  God is in each life form though the collective whole is god and so god cannot be comprehended at any moment.

  Or

  Life is in each of us and the whole cannot be comprehended at any moment.

  Respecting the life in EVERY form is mentally healthy!

  Rejecting the life in any life form is mental illness!

  Maybe more of us re than we realise = because we are considered by others egos (collective or whateve) to be so and/or we think we are?
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  On the sound use of mental suicide.

  by Narkissos in

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  2. friends

  this topic is meant as a follow-up of my recent conversation with r. crusoe on different threads.. it seems to me that the current popularisation of eckhart tolle's philosophy, resurrecting what i think is the very core of age-old mystical traditions (to put it shortly: death of the culturally constructed "self"), without the collective mythological, institutional and social settings for such an experience, is potentially very liberating but also very dangerous.. i am sensitive to that because i went through a similar experience when i left jws -- i felt both its empowering and destructive force, and, although i certainly don't claim to have dealt with it optimally (is that an adverb?

  ), i'm hoping that experience, good or bad, may benefit others, to an extent.

  and i'm sure that i'm not alone in that case.. so i'd like this thread to be primarily supportive, even though that may include some theoretical and practical criticism.. .

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  Quietly Leaving your own body is difficult to put into practise!

  I agree that Tolle has some quite brilliant perspectives to offer humans of themsleves!

  £$ seems to follow as his burdenopposing sincerity - anything not freely given is not of natural origins!

  BUT = much of his work is freely available so it is unecessary to fund your own liberation = it can be free = that is what his message is!

  How to live in a world of ego without an ego is less of him and more of you!
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  My Neighbor

  by Honesty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my neighbor studied with the po from another congregation.. my neighbor attended a few meetings at that congregation's kingdom hall.. my neighbor went into the hospital and the po visited him.. my neighbor came home from the hospital a few weeks later.. i never saw the po at my neighbor's home again.. several years later my neighbor died.. i called the po who studied with my neighbor and told him that my neighbor had died.. the po told me that my neighbor had taken a blood transfusion while he was in the hospital and he didn't care that my neighbor had died.. i was still brainwashed by the cult and didn't 'get it' like i do know.. my neighbor was a decent man.. .

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  Yup ,

  When I needed a neighbour where you there?

  Why yes - we watched and applauded!

  We are the virtual Good Samaritan - signs of the times.
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  ********** Ain't nothing like a wing ding ***********

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. friends

  i didn't know we had wing dings.

  cool.

  this opens untold frontiers.

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  Aint nothing like Judes nannies!

  Goats never had it so good and Bill is nowhere in sight.
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  The Father in Me.

  by R.Crusoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has been killed of!.

  it will mean that my role is forever removed from where it was!.

  the new me is absent the 'family' it was so ready to support and stand up and fight for!.

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  Remember this:

  WT self sacrificing love = YOU the sacrifice!

  In this respect I thinks the egoless self = god in each of us = value yourself!

  So I must agree = The WT are self appointed idols filled with idolatry of men under fear of shunning!

  Lose the fear = lose the WTego = lose the WT = sounds perfect!
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  Rediscovering TELEVISION

  by wings in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first i would like to apologize for all the stupic topics.

  when i do decide to get serious again....beware.

  anyway, i have never been a tv watcher, then in my jw life.....didn't have time.

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  I considered t.v. but JWD has all I need.
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  Hey everyone! Listen to this!

  by Sebastian Melmoth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  howdy ho all you fine folks in jwd land!

  i thought you all might enjoy this little incident that occurred about six years ago when i was sixteen and newly baptized:

  it all happened one night after a theocratic misery school and disservice meeting, during which, i carried one of the microphones.

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  I often go out in ladenhossen just to confuse everyone and know for sure that if I meet a genuine female she will be free of ego!
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  I have a great analogy for the Watchtower/UN scandal....it's helpful

  by middleman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey yall, i was thinking of the watchtower/un scandal the other day and came up with this analogy.

  so far on here ive heard the ymca and the vatican analogies, which i like also.

  mine goes like this.. .

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  Avengers - I'm just hoping noone hits that pussy on your face!

  The 'We Want You' Tower will leave you in no mans land lying in trenches united with your own foot in your mouth!

  They like to bring everything together like that!

  Agape
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  My Neighbor

  by Honesty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my neighbor studied with the po from another congregation.. my neighbor attended a few meetings at that congregation's kingdom hall.. my neighbor went into the hospital and the po visited him.. my neighbor came home from the hospital a few weeks later.. i never saw the po at my neighbor's home again.. several years later my neighbor died.. i called the po who studied with my neighbor and told him that my neighbor had died.. the po told me that my neighbor had taken a blood transfusion while he was in the hospital and he didn't care that my neighbor had died.. i was still brainwashed by the cult and didn't 'get it' like i do know.. my neighbor was a decent man.. .

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  ToH,

  I once placed suchlike as my idea partner on some dating agency and only JWs and family replied!
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  Careful friends, that JC could be viewed as a Legally Binding Arbitration!

  by Oroborus21 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  total car franchising corporation, plaintiff, v. doug anderson, defendant.. .

  defendant argued against confirmation because a prior arbitration award in his favor rendered the arbitrators' award void, and an estoppel defense applied.

  outcome: confirmation denied, because second arbitration lacked a contract basis or foundation because the first arbitration dissolved the contract, the award was null, void, and unenforceable, and equitable estoppel applied to preclude plaintiff from denying the committee decision.. .

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  I anticipated scriptural refences and footnotes. Clearly you are not inspired by the FDS.