i guess it would depend for me.
some of my family i would take out bill boards pointing to them.
many of the elders it would be he is over there and set off a neon sign.
No, I could never directly cause a negative law enforcement encounter in such a paradigm.
In fact, I'd hope such a situation would cause my insane cult family to take a step back, and ease up on the strident cultiness.
If they stupidly persisted in their religious behaviour and caused their own law enforcement encounter - well, that's on them. I'd loathe living in such a society, anyways - and I would never rat and cause someone to lose their liberty for shitty reasons.
this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.
thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.
we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.
So happy for you and yours! May this be just one among many. Congrats, and keep us posted on the progression of things.
Nothing better than a lost child found.
i see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.
reverting to tribalism and racism.
i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.
Obama spent two decades of his life attending Jeremiah Wright's church where he railed on and on about how evil white people are.
And when questioned about it, said he never heard Wright's racially divisive message.
Went to the church for 20 years. Never heard it.
Very credible. Yes a paragon of virtue. The drone-striked Arab children agree.
just seen on twitter: .
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These guys will rue the day they decided to step out of the shadows and into the light.
Now there's no going back.
look at what is happening in europe now, the filth that is trying to enter here.. https://youtu.be/putezss32m8.
uk.... https://youtu.be/jbvxndnd4t4.
firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.
it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.
i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.
I think this board has been, and will continue to be a treasure.
I recall the politics getting heated after Obama was elected. Didn't mean too much then - good discussions were had, and I doubt that the heat over Trump will be different.
I think the connections we 'enjoy' via the JW experience, can serve to overwhelm any other frictions. Hope so, anyways. Love you all. And good job, Simon, et. al.
immigration: the truth about the lie: crimecrime: do immigrants increase rates of violence?
there has been a lot of talk about how immigrants pose a threat to the safety of this country by increasing crime rates.
is there any truth to this, or is it "fake news.
Great analysis, thanks for playing. We are in debt to your herculean efforts.
Robust, indeed.
immigration: the truth about the lie: crimecrime: do immigrants increase rates of violence?
there has been a lot of talk about how immigrants pose a threat to the safety of this country by increasing crime rates.
is there any truth to this, or is it "fake news.
Cult mentality is applying a spurious label to a source:
* Satan's world
* False religion
and then proceeding to discard all arguments from that source, based on the label. Kinda like you have done.
Hassan is indeed a recognized authority on cults. He is not infallible. Therefore, all his arguments are, and must continue to be, scrutinized for validity. This is the case with all rational, scientific endeavors. Name calling doesn't cut it.
You have been invited to watch the video, dispute the data and/or conclusions, and present your findings to this discussion board. I await your robust critique.
immigration: the truth about the lie: crimecrime: do immigrants increase rates of violence?
there has been a lot of talk about how immigrants pose a threat to the safety of this country by increasing crime rates.
is there any truth to this, or is it "fake news.
“The Truth About Crime,” brought to you by none other than Stefan Molyneux of “Freedomain Radio.” If you’re a regular listener of this guy, then you should check out what Steve Hassan has to say about him:
Not an argument.
Sorry, couldn't resist!
is it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?.
as a kid we trusted our parents explicitly.
their word was truth and we believed everything they said.
Yes, thinking for yourself is a burden (of-sorts).
Because you have to own and live with the outcomes of your decisions.
This "burden" is one I'm willing to bear. In the ORG you can see learned dysfunction from being spoon-fed conclusions to every one of life's complicated questions.
The inability (unwillingness?) to adjust to new information carries over into other areas of life. Suffering results.
"If something can’t go on forever, it won’t"
As the ORG struggles forward, JWs will have to get nuttier to stay in it. They are up against entropy (undefeated in the history of the universe).
I do share some of your sentimentality concerning our very black/white, cut and dried paradigms of childhood, but I think as time goes on, it will be harder and harder to be a JW.
Their lives may be simpler, but more miserable.
