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Clarity in the Afterlife? If there IS an afterlife.

by Low-Key Lysmith in

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friends

just a thought i had while driving home today.

not that i definitely believe in ghosts, but has anyone here had or heard of a deceased jw relative coming back and trying to warn their still living loved ones that the cult is all a sham?

you would think that if there is indeed some sort of afterlife, that once misguided jws would have some clarity once they passed on and went to a better place.

Mindchild_rebooted

Hi Gregor, My experience doesn't exactly fit with the question you asked but perhaps you may find it interesting.

About 3 years ago, a local friend who was a natural healer, encouraged me to try talking to a medium friend she frequently used to help her develop her spiritual outlook on life. I told her that I really didn't have any confidence in mediums or the supernatural (although I had previously had some eye opening personal experiences I couldn't explain) but thanks to her encouragement, I told her I would give her friend a call.

I was determined to make it a scientific experiment though and wasn't about to give out any personal information about myself and had a list of questions I was going to ask about my life that I was sure nobody else really knew about. I should also tell you in advance that I lost all contact with my JW family decades ago when they told me never to contact them again. I had no idea of where they were living or if my parents were still even alive. Anyway, when I called the medium, it was far from the experience I expected (you know... a lot of WooWoo and weird stuff) and this lady was very friendly and immediately started talking about my family and personal history in amazing detail, even disclosing the family secret that my JW father had a secret second family with children who were not Witnesses, while still living with my family. The medium told me that my mother had died a few years earlier (I later found this out by searching for obituary records) and kept calling "the truth" "the religion" over and over and why she stuck with it even though her life was miserable. She told about her new job in the afterlife (working with my JW grandmother and a group of 5 nonhuman beings and an old human writer) to help me in my quest to understand my role and purpose in life and recover from the negative things that had happened to me and to help me in my goal of changing myself and having a more productive life.

I have to tell you, I was getting pretty emotional towards the end of the conversation and not only did I realize that she had addressed all the questions I was going to ask about my personal history but she was speaking to me in such a fast conversational mode, there was just no time for this lady to stop and make things up! Even though it was such a strong emotional experience, intellectually I didn't want to believe it. In fact, at the time, I had no basis for believing in God (I became an atheist after leaving the Witnesses) or the afterlife, spirits, the whole package to speak. Since that event, I've come across an amazing and eclectic array of scientific evidence that has changed my world views dramatically. As for the whole package of New Thought memes, well I'm not there yet and may never be but things don't sound so crazy to me. There was at least a few things said in the hour phone reading that didn't make sense but I would say that the medium got it about 80% right. I may do the whole medium trip again someday but I'm still trying to wrap myself around the possibility that it could be real and that nobody ever really dies.

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Do ex-dubs deserve any extra consideration when it comes to employment?

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

i find myself in a situation where i need to make employee hiring guidelines for our personnel department.

we are going to have hundreds of positions to fill late this summer in a major corporate merger between our corporation and six others.

there will be several jobs opening in our textbook department using new digital presses and book binding equipment.

Mindchild_rebooted

Hey WT Wizard...thank you for the thoughtful and considerate answer. Thanks Trev for your insight as well.

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Take a good look at this old ex-dub the cat drug in

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

as you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness.

the uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb.

lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible.

Mindchild_rebooted

Hi Blue Sapphire...I'm afraid the Gilligan's Island dream crashed and burned. I did manage to get a house on the beach in Florida though...at least before the hurricane took it away. lol. Hey Gopher..nice to see you.

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Take a good look at this old ex-dub the cat drug in

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

as you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness.

the uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb.

lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible.

Mindchild_rebooted

Hi belbab...an interesting visit to the forum morgue huh? I apologize with great relish and sincerity for the smashed together text. Apparently this forum didn't like the nicely formatted version I put in originally. Thank you GentlyFeral for your cleaned up version. Nice to see you around by the way. Scully, ah the memories your name brings back! Avishai...remote viewing, been there done that, I'm not all that great at it myself but I believe there is enough evidence for it working, not to think it crazy. I'm much better at PK and PSI.

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Do ex-dubs deserve any extra consideration when it comes to employment?

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

i find myself in a situation where i need to make employee hiring guidelines for our personnel department.

we are going to have hundreds of positions to fill late this summer in a major corporate merger between our corporation and six others.

there will be several jobs opening in our textbook department using new digital presses and book binding equipment.

Mindchild_rebooted

I believe at this point that psychological testing, interviews, and checking references might go a long ways towards determining a persons ideological background. When I don't see any college history and bland work history, I already give one mark against the applicant. I do discriminate in that I'm looking for the best person I can find for the positions we have open. I'm also thinking I can ask questions like, do you have any objections working with producing or promoting material that has themes of human sexuality, evolutionary science, and other hot button topics. Hmm, maybe I can ask them if they have any objections working with vampires or Smurf lovers?

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Do ex-dubs deserve any extra consideration when it comes to employment?

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

i find myself in a situation where i need to make employee hiring guidelines for our personnel department.

we are going to have hundreds of positions to fill late this summer in a major corporate merger between our corporation and six others.

there will be several jobs opening in our textbook department using new digital presses and book binding equipment.

Mindchild_rebooted

I find myself in a situation where I need to make employee hiring guidelines for our personnel department. We are going to have hundreds of positions to fill late this summer in a major corporate merger between our corporation and six others. There will be several jobs opening in our textbook department using new digital presses and book binding equipment. Maybe that might be ideal for ex-Bethelites (unless they just cleaned toilets there) and even more jobs as company representatives and buyers who will be engaging the academic community in a friendly, low stress environment (perhaps ex-pioneers, etc). While we will be recruiting nationally through online job services and headhunters, we are really in no need of going out of our way to recruit ex-JW’s or nor do we seek to hire JW’s. While we can’t legally discriminate against someone on a religious basis, think we can sniff out ideological and religious troublemakers in the screening process. I’m getting away from my question though…do you think ex-dubs deserve extra consideration for a job offer just based on the fact that life rained on their parade? If so, why? I’m not all teary eyed for any group of people in principle. It seems we all get dumped on in life. But at least I’m familiar with how hard it was for me to pick up the pieces.

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Take a good look at this old ex-dub the cat drug in

by Mindchild_rebooted in

jw
friends

as you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness.

the uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb.

lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible.

Mindchild_rebooted

As you sit here quietly reading these words your transdimensional organ of neural coordination and quantum consciousness is quietly performing miracles without your waking awareness. The uploading and downloading gigabits of information that make you, you, are silently and relentlessly radiating throughout the whole hyper-dimensional universe but most importantly to the 3 lb. lump of flesh sitting on the top of the collective bacterial colonies (some 90% of all your cells) that make your miserable existence possible. Suddenly, there is disorder in this peaceful scene, especially among those old farts here on this board that have been here like forever (or maybe six years or so ago) when they finally figured out that old Mindchild is back in the playpen. Okay, so much for the baloney. I left the ex-JW online world somewhere around 5-6 years ago and finally got a life. Ha! And you thought it would never happen (sly grin) What brought me back to this never-never land is a question I will ask in another post. But for the moment, I just want to say Hi to all you loveable and enduring characters, (you know Simon, Farkel, and other impossibly old fogies) and tip my hat to you. My life has been damn fantastic (it shows all you newbie ex-dubs that life is possible after the big Borg) and I’m about to become a multimillionaire. I still have my scientific career and I’m working on consciousness and PSI (parapsychology stuff if you want to get freaked out) and making cool discoveries but not getting rich. I’m getting rich from plain old business entrepreneurship and fast track innovative ideas that make wealthy corporations dump money on me. Not that I’m bragging, I worked my ass off to get to this point…just want you to know it is possible for an ex-dub to make good without selling his soul. Oh wait, didn’t I sell that at a discount some years back? Ha Cha Cha Cha Mindchild Please note that no Witnesses were cursed or otherwise mentally defiled in making this post...I'm so over the Borg.

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