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  Out-of-body experiences recreated in a lab

  by acsot in

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  wonder what paranormal believers will make of this.

  british and swiss researchers have succeeded in deliberately inducing out-of-body sensations.

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/rtgam.20070823.wbrain0824/bnstory/science/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsup.

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  oh i thought its for real... its only a simulation with cameras and 3d glasses. its very interesting but as i expected.
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  JW Science Quote Of The Day 8-27

  by TD in

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  in the 1979 movie, "the china syndrome" there is a scene right after swat team members have retaken the control room from jack godell.

  (jack lemon) kimberly wells (jane fonda) nervously whispers to richard adams, (michael douglas) "the reactor is the biggest bomb in there!

  this reflected a belief, common in the 1970's that commercial nuclear reactors were capable of going up in a mushroom cloud like an atomic bomb.. although no one can deny that accidents and malfunctions at nuclear power plants can potentially be catastrophic, these reactors are not capable of a bomb-like reaction.

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  ya, i never questioned it myself too for way to long.

  of course nuclear powerplants CAN actually explode... it even can be devastating. but i do agree that the quoters in that case thought of a nuclear explosion too.

  the second error is minor in my opionion. the watchtower is not a scientific magazine.
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  Im down again

  by freeme in

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  hello people!

  i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit.

  it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further.

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  freeme

  I was also convinced I'd have no social network once I left the JW's and would end up a crazy cat lady

  that one made me laugh :) and yes, i fear that too somehow :) (except being a lady lol... maybe a crazy dog guy rofl)

  thanks all for your comments. its really appreciated.
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  Remember the Movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

  by alias in

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  ... towards the end when the bad guys opened the ark and indiana and his lady were tied to the pole, the spiritual unleashing that came out and killed, no, melted all the bad guys?

  i was probably 9 or 10 when that movie came out and it literally scared the cheese out of me in the theater.

  i was so glad to be a jw at the time because i felt like i just witnessed the power of god and saw what was going to happen to opposers when judgment day came.

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  in my youth that movie was kind of forbidden, because of the heavy references to the bible, the name of god, the ark and stuff.
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  Im down again

  by freeme in

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  hello people!

  i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit.

  it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further.

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  Hello people! i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit. it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further. me and my wife talked about the possibility of a new house with more room, since i need more room. and she told me with a smile on her face "yeah, and in the cellar we could have parties with your friends". she expected that i will be smiling too and happy. i normally would be this way. i said nothing but immediately the picture of me completely friendless somewhere in the near future shot into my mind. she got a little upset (because i stayed calm) and asked me why i am so negative. i just told her that i dont know whether i will have friends to invite. that were the second where the yelling started again. i think theres no other topic that turns her into a killermachine so fast. after a lot of fighting and me crying we end up that i asked her why do we always need to yell instead of comfort eachother with love when life is hard... somehow this time i hit a nerve with it and the first time ever she comforted me and i had some relief (so good...). but the day wasnt finished yet... i wasnt at the hall in the evening and of course a witness friend called me asking why i wasnt there and whether we were somewhere else. i answered "no". he asked: "just because you were lazy???!!!!" with disgust in his voice. it reminds me what awaits me when i leave. im not the type of person who can live with all that pressure. the shunning and hate. im a person whos inner urge it is to make friends with everyone. if everyone i love and like walk away from me and see me as a bunch of shit i truly dont know what to do next. but i have another thing in me actually. :-( yesterday late my wife and me drove out of a parking lot. a group of ppl approached the lot and my wife stopped to let them by. a girl in the group told her with a dismissive hand signal that she may drive by. by wife did so, but didnt said "thank you" loudly because of the other traffic she had to watch for. then the girl yelled at her "THANK YOU!!!!" (negative tone). at that second i was so fed up by my fears, my life and that i dont see a solution for all that misery and the pressure im receiving all the time that i was lucky not sitting on the drivers seat. i was like hitting the breaks, stepping out, go to that girl and dont care what happends next. of course it wouldve been complete stupidity... it scares me. im a friendly person normally. but... uh... i dont know. luckily i did nothing but feeling anger in me. im completely at my limits. :( f*ck... it makes me crazy that if i might would do such stuff, because of the pain that my so-called friends and so-called family unleash upon me all my friends and family would see that as proof that im satanic. "freeme never did something like this before. so sad that he left god... so sad in what he has turned into". im still in... but some ppl already sense it big time what im about to do. and im actually giving them the perfect story for it. im stressed, im unhappy, ive fewer selfcontrol... so easy to see that its such a bad idea to leave gods wonderful organization. look at freeme how he ended without god... *sighs* its incredibly f*cked up... i think the last time i cried so much in my life as i do now i had diapers on. :P makes me feel weak too... i never was so weak before in my life. freeme
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  Will This Latest Scandal Finally Prompt You To Leave?

  by sweet pea in

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  in view of the latest uk child abuse scandal, have any of you lurkers/faders/still ins finally decided to make a clean break and leave openly, for good?

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  "They just used the child abuse as an excuse to leave."

  "They never really loved Jehovah at all."

  Or my personal favorite, uttered by one particular self-righteous hypocrit on a past occasion: "They never really had the truth to begin with."

  i can hear'em too...
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  Will This Latest Scandal Finally Prompt You To Leave?

  by sweet pea in

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  in view of the latest uk child abuse scandal, have any of you lurkers/faders/still ins finally decided to make a clean break and leave openly, for good?

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  freeme

  its so easy:

  there are NO scandals, everything critical are lies by apostates or at the maximum just imperfection of some few individuals. in the end its gods organization no matter what.

  its carefully constructed. EVERYTHING can be strengthen your faith in the religion. even scandals.

  - no scandals: YES, its gods religion
  - scandals: satan is out to spread lies and destroy us. He.Will.Not.Succeed.

  - the number of JWs are increasing: gods blessing
  - the number is decreasing: were close to the end, its a small door, we must stay JWs now

  - doctrines stay the same: what a blessing! this is the truth because we had it right decades before!
  - doctrines change: what a blessing! god gives us new light! thats the truth!

  etc.

  there is NO way to get someone out of the cult by ANYTHING. some would stay followers when the GB would ask them to kill.

  the first step must be done by the believer himself... noone can do it for him. if he does he MAY look at scandals different and starts thinking.
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  Holiday to Tasmania and my incredible book find

  by jwfacts in

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  i have just spent the last few days in tasmania, where i was born and raised until the age of 20. my grandmother is a jw in her 80's but let me stay at her house because "no one is going to tell her she can not speak to her own family".

  i visited relatives and friends, and found that almost everyone that i grew up with are no longer jws.

  it was quite eye-opening; some have become christians, some have new age beliefs, some are athiests.

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  i just smelled big money when being nice to old witnesses...
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  For those of you who have loved ones on the inside....

  by Hermano in

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  my wife is still on the inside.

  sometimes i dont care about that or about the wtbts's nonsense.

  and then some days, i wake up and i have all this anger inside.

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  I tried to talk to them about it and their reasoning just keeps going in circles not proving anything and then when you show them their circular reasoning they just start yelling. I gave up. Yes I do want to shake some sense into them. I mean, how could they produce such an intelligent child and be so stupid themselves???

  this sounds like it came from my mind. creepy.
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  evidence of angelic direction

  by tank in

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  i just came across this on the official watchtover web site www.watchtower.org/ .

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  jehovah's witnesses spend more than a billion hours annually preaching the good news of god's kingdom.

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  freeme

  these "prayed-and-witnesses-knocked-in-the-next-minute"-experiences are emphasized.

  even in my local congregation ive heard of such stories. i dont know how the odds are that such things happen by chance.

  i dont know whats up with that. its sometimes creepy to hear such stories. but i dont know whether they are true, overstated or lied in some cases.

  how do other religions perform on that?