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  How good are you at hating?

  by michael downing in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i posted this on another board on this site i didn't like the title and couldn't change it.

  i don't think anybody wanted to read it because they thought it was actualy about baseball based on the title.

  you'd be hard pressed to find a day between 1976 and 1987 that didn't contain one of my showstopping hyperactive bugouts.

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  Ridiculous JW superstitions

  by B_Deserter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not talking about the stuff you hear at the kingdom hall, i'm talking about the "experiences" you were told of by people you knew.

  the big one for me was demons.

  so many people i know had experiences with them.

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  What if she hadn't eaten the fruit?

  by michael downing in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  based solely on whats available in the genesis account, what would happen if eve had not eaten the fruit but had continued a relationship with the "serpent" in perpetuity questioning god's motives?

  would she be punished for this exercise of free will?.

  i ask the question because my personal belief is that if the genesis account is in fact allegory, then what comes after it should be awarded no more acknowledged efficacy that what we prescribe to aesop, confucius or any other pragmatic, non-theistic value-set that has survived history .

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  Been in psychoanalysis/psychotherapy?

  by michael downing in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being a dyed in the wool northeasterner means i have certain proclivities:.

  a love of smashmouth nfc east football and an abiding affection for underachieving baseball teamsthe ability to find woody allen films (nee' woody allen himself) exceptionally funnyan uncontrollable desire to drive 4 miles out of my way to go to the place with the better bagelsno aversion to psychotherapy/analysisi went under psychotherapy for about 8 months; not near long enough to get the kind of depth thats needed but it was still insightful and liberating in its truncated form.

  resistance is a huge factor in the process and i fought it like most, maybe with a subconscious disadvantage stemming from an inbred fear of "the world".

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