"Outing" the GB is an interesting idea, but proving how devastating their words and actions have been, both individually and collectively would be quite an enormous task, and you'd want a good bunch of lawyers behind you to prove it, and to protect you and me from charges of slander or libel or such. In any event, if such a project is ever to be tackled, I'd be happy to participate, although I have no clue who belongs to the governing body. Surely there is a list of some sort, somewhere.
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Theocratic Warfare: Thinking Out Loud About "Truth", "Lies" and "Characterization"
by gubberningbody inentities, like the gb don't exist.
people do.
entities don't make decisions.
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Zombie Concubines
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Video: 3,000 UNC students RAVE at Davis Library to relieve exam stress; fun!
by Lucky Calamity inthis is so unbelievable.
i suppose the librarians (who supposedly were "unsuspecting") must have really enjoyed this:.
http://unc-admissions.blogspot.com/2009/05/de-stressing-during-exam-time.html.
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Lucky Calamity
This is so unbelievable. I suppose the librarians (who supposedly were "unsuspecting") must have really enjoyed this:
http://unc-admissions.blogspot.com/2009/05/de-stressing-during-exam-time.html
I think I would have had a blast! Looks like a lot of fun. Can't wait 'til it's my turn! -LC
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UPDATE on Saddest day of my life
by WuzLovesDubs inwow you guys...what a difference five days makes.
thursday we went to see s and he was feeling more encouraged.
he was more upbeat and hopeful and he said they were going to give him some medication to help him sleep and to help get rid of the voice and the hallucinations he was having.
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Lucky Calamity
Let's hope he stays in remission with the help of his meds indefinitely. I think dealing with hallucinations and such must be terrifying for all involved! Good luck and lotsa hugs!
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Off For A Self-Guided Walking Tour Of UNC! NCAA Champs Again!
by Lucky Calamity indon't really care too much about the basketball thing .
just thought i'd throw in something about physical activities more invigorating than my walk.. unc is such a big place, it seems to me; so dense and a bit crowded, but lovely!
just gorgeous.. hope i have time to check out the botanical gardens; it's already hot here, for april!
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Lucky Calamity
OKAY . . . now that I'm done getting sidetracked by sociological theory of cults, I'm really going for a walk.
Peace OUT!
Be well and c-u in the next episode of JW.net A.D.D.Land!
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Why don't JW's go to the apostates and prove them wrong as Jesus did?
by moomanchu injesus accepted the spirit's invitation to go into the desert and be tempted by satan.. he proved his faith and proved satan wrong.. why don't they follow jesus's example?.
why are they so frightened to have their faith tested?.
jw's used to be always on offense when it came to debate.. they are now mostly on defense..
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Lucky Calamity
People just believe what they want to believe.
That's why fairy tales/nightmares so often come "true."
I'm thinking voodoo, visitations, self-fulfilling prophecy, and most of all, "groupthink."
Groupthink is a marvelous way for groups - (including modern corporations and the individuals that follow the norms of the corporate subculture -- think Enron or Nestle during the infant formula scandals of the 80's, or perhaps even of the many genocides that have occurred thruoughout history -- yes there are other factors, but groupthink is essential to the "patriotism" or nationalistic or racist or armageddon-centered agenda/ theory) -- to justify stupid or unconscionable, amoral, and self-aggrandizing manipulation of the larger culture and of the culture within. (Yes, I know, great, big fragment upon fragment . . . stream of consciousness) . . .
JWs are experts at such self-manipulation and denial of (others') reality.
They believe, and thus create their own reality.
It is like a never-ending feedback loop, until someone caught up in it, breaks free and joins the outer world.
Then their "defection" is viewed not as a natural consequence of the human need to be free, but rather a result of supernatural, Satanic influence on the "heart" or mind of the defector.
It's very typical of groupthink for the "defector' to be castigated, outcast, fired, tortured and even destroyed from within the groupthink tank, whether the tank is a religious one or a political one. And once that pattern is established, the mind creates its own pathways to functioning and surviving within the tank. Denial of reality, facts, and/or the deeply-held "true self" is one of those multifarious mental pathways to conformity and survival in the very small, Armageddon-centered universe of the cult religion.
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Off For A Self-Guided Walking Tour Of UNC! NCAA Champs Again!
by Lucky Calamity indon't really care too much about the basketball thing .
just thought i'd throw in something about physical activities more invigorating than my walk.. unc is such a big place, it seems to me; so dense and a bit crowded, but lovely!
just gorgeous.. hope i have time to check out the botanical gardens; it's already hot here, for april!
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. . . don't really care too much about the basketball thing . . . just thought I'd throw in something about physical activities more invigorating than my walk.
UNC is such a big place, it seems to me; so dense and a bit crowded, but lovely! Just gorgeous.
Hope I have time to check out the botanical gardens; it's already HOT here, for APRIL! The flowers will be gone soon, so I'd better get going.
I have to go walk a dog and will be back shortly. If anyone here has a suggestion about where to start my campus walk, I'd love to hear from you.
I'll let you know how it goes. I slept too late to go hiking; anyway, I wanted to tour UNC last weekend, but did not, so here I go!
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Why do so many Xjw's not end up in some sort of trouble?
by AK - Jeff inmy observation has been the opposite of agb's in this regard.
i have known of precisely 0 who have turned to gangs/drugs/prostitution after abandonning the lies known as jehovah's witnesses.
most seem to lead lives of quiet hope outside the mainstream religious community once they leave - but far from dangerous lives [even from the jw perspective].. just thought counter-point might be fairplay here.. do xjw's live like jw's?
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Lucky Calamity
I watch tv sometimes; read a lot of books; surf the internet; drink a lot of coffee.
I went to community college and worked part-time and was a single mom, graduated from community college with honors; just got accepted into a "public ivy league" university; and now I'm working at one of the best child development centers in the state.
Yeah, like someone else here said, "major fail," all around, as an ex-jw, LOL!
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NO MANNERS !
by iknowall558 inanyone noticed how the act of shunning is accompanied by a lack of manners and sense of human decency ?
i get shunned by the school lollipop.
who is a dub and who used to be my friend.
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videotape it.
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Being Poor is A Crime
by sammielee24 inguilty of being poorby eric ruder / april 23rd, 2009. the jailers of the 19th century even in the pre-civil war south largely abandoned the practice of imprisoning people for falling into debt as counterproductive and ultimately barbaric.
in the 1970s and 80s, the u.s. supreme court affirmed that incarcerating people who cant pay fines because of poverty violates the u.s. constitution.. apparently, though, some states and county jails never got the memo.
welcome to the debtors prisons of the 21st century.. edwina nowlin, a poor michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a juvenile detention center $104 a month for holding her 16-year-old son, the new york times wrote in an editorial.. when she explained to the court that she could not afford to pay, ms. nowlin was sent to prison.
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Lucky Calamity
disgusting