Posts by emy the infidel

i'm looking at the richmond and toronto apostafest pics and i'm longing for company.. it's been a really long time since i enjoyed good company and warm friendship.

even before we became inactive our friendships with witnesses had waned.. i really am very social.

emy the infidel

Changeling, did you go to the Richmond Fest?

I had to cancel at the last minute, now wish I'd gone.

Emy

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HOW OFTEN do you change your "MIND FILTER" ?

by Terry in

here is something to think about.. let's say you want to survey a large group of people about what they think.. you publish a magazine with, say, 1 million readers.. the name of your magazine is adultry fun.. you ask the poll question : is marriage fidelity over-rated?.

250,000 readers reply.

now ask yourself this question.. does this poll accurately reflect the beliefs of people in general?

emy the infidel

"by the filter of an Organization which first interprets the essential meaning of what they think!"

I do think as jdubs we were conditioned to be good "followers of men".

A few weeks back I carefully read (even though it was the same theme over and over, "why you need to follow us") WT literature. I couldn't believe some of the tripe (conclusions drawn)that was contained in it. If this is all someone were reading, they'd be so sadly and dangerously clueless.

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As an ex JW, why do many of you support Iraq war?

by dawg in

i'm not trying to make anyone mad here, but you ex -jws were raised in a cult similar to the shiria schools run by imams in the middle east... difference is, these schools are much harsher than the jws.

most of you've had little succes getting your familys out of this cult (the jws) but have somehow bought into the idea that democracy will help stop radical thinking in the musliem world-that spreading democracy in the middle east will somehow stop radical thinking; ignoring the fact that syria, iran and others are already democracies of sorts.

there are 1.5 billion musliems in the world; just like christianity has it's radicals, so does islam, most aren't radical, most aren't hard core terror supporting fools, but some are... they're everywhere, including asian countries which are democracies.

emy the infidel

Syria is NOT a democracy, I thought it was a monarchy but I was wrong too.

Wiki says:

The authoritarian regime was not without its critics, though most were quickly murdered [citation needed] . A serious challenge arose in the late 1970s, however, from fundamentalist Sunni Muslims, who reject the basic values of the secular Baath program and object to rule by the Alawis, whom they consider heretical. From 1976 until its suppression in 1982, the arch-conservative Muslim Brotherhood led an armed insurgency against the regime. In response to an attempted uprising by the brotherhood in February 1982, the government crushed the fundamentalist opposition centered in the city of Hama, leveling parts of the city with artillery fire and causing many thousands of dead and wounded. Since then, public manifestations of anti-regime activity have been very limited. [citation needed]

Syria's 1990 participation in the U.S.-led multinational coalition aligned against Saddam Hussein marked a dramatic watershed in Syria's relations both with other Arab states and with the Western world. Syria participated in the multilateral Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid in October 1991, and during the 1990s engaged in direct, face-to-face negotiations with Israel. These negotiations failed, and there have been no further Syrian-Israeli talks since President Hafiz al-Assad's meeting with then President Bill Clinton in Geneva in March 2000. [