I think AK Jeff hit the nail on the head. I still occasionally hear those that have left the JW's refer to it as "the Truth". I think that is the single and simplest control word in the JW handbook.
LightCloud
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Unique vernacular and nomenclature of Jw's.
by AK - Jeff inboth robert lifton and steve hassan list the use of 'loaded language' as a key element of cults.
every cult has terminologies that are unique to itself, and often the intent is to polarize the membership into a black and white language style.
the cliches of cultish groups tend to stop thought, or restrict into a a single accepted viewpoint.. this is almost never recognized by the members while they are trapped inside - but is clearly evident the effects this had upon us once we exit the religion.
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What happens when you don't go to meetings
by gubberningbody in.
you look normal, like the girl..
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You become a happier persons.
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Firefight at Fort Stewart!
by Bendrr inthis past weekend i went down to fort stewart.
georgia state defense force had been asked to supply troops to assist in the training for national guard preparing to deploy to afghanistan.
our job was to play the role of afghans and taliban.. gsdf has our own barracks at fort stewart.
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LightCloud
Good stuff.
I am at Fort Polk in the dedicated OPFOR unit (1/509th) that fights the rotational units coming through JRTC. We use MILES gear and have everything from RPG-7 simulators, 249's, 240's, Barret .50 Cals, and we just got some new SVD semi-auto sniper rifles. Back when we did conventional force on force rotations we used Soviet BMP-1 and BMP-2 along with a Soviet Hind helos for air mobile insertions. But now we mostly do Afghan or Iraqi rotations so no use for the big stuff, though I hear in the offing we will be doing a North Korean rotation against a Stryker brigade coming some time in the beginning of next year.
We operate in cells and where cultural garb and learn a bit about the roles we are supposed to play such as a disgruntled former Baathist party uy working with al queda against the US and so on. We have both real world experience, the vast majority assigned to the unit have multiple deployments, and we go through special training to use both realistic and up-to-date practices of Al-Queda, the Taliban and other factions fighting our forces in something we call the OpFor Academy. There are literally hundreds of contractor civilians that we interact with that play the part of COB's (civilians on the battlefield). They too are trained to act as realistically as possible, alot of the times they are actual Iraqi or Afghan interpreters who are being rewarded with a long trip to the US, get paid some big bucks, and get to enjoy a little life without getting real bullets or explosions coming their way. We have alot of built up cities and villages along with all the other civil structures that you would find in country.
Most of the time its pretty serious stuff but at times we have some fun. I recall holding a village of about 30 civilians hostage for a day and ultimately Alamo'ing it in the town mosque while we were surrounds by 4 Bradley's, 2 Abrams, about 8 gun trucks, a company + of infantry and 2 Apaches flying overhead while the brigade commander tried to negotiate with my Company commander playing the role of the Leader of the Ashura Brigade for the release of our hostages. We had taken the village right next to a FOB they were operating out of but they had ignored the whole rotation. We rolled in with about 40 of our guys and starting taking out the guys in their guard towers in the FOB, "executed" all non-Shite civilians in the city and took the mayor and several other of its leaders hostage. They rolled out 4 gun trucks after about a hour of us raising hell in the city. We hit them with RPG's and knocked them out. They then tried to get a couple platoons on foot to start securing some of the out lying structures but with a mixture of small arms and some of the .50 cals we manned off the disabled gun trucks we took them out. By that time news of the fiasco got all the way up to their brigade and they started rolling up the bradleys followed by the abrams and they got the air coverage over top pretty much simultaneously. We then took all our hostages and made for the mosque and made it pretty clear we had about a dozen civilians hostages to hold them off. The negotiations were pretty entertaining to listen to as we prepped the mosque for being breached and making our last stand and probably all getting taken out. Our CO kepts them talking for quite a long time and our snipers would occasionaly take out any of the Bluefor that got sloppy during the wait and exposed themselves. When the Bluefor brigade commander finally arrived via a Blackhawk with his terp my CO managed to secure freedom for some of us as we released some of the hostages in return for them making an opening in the cordon they had formed so we could make it to the wood line. Some of the guys hauled ass through the opening but some decided to stay and go down in a blaze of glory. The Bradley's pulled up and "notionally" knocked down 2 walls on one side of the mosque and another team breached the main entrance. We took out all the guys breaching the entrance and then the Bradley's opened up on us taking us all out and killing all of our hostages.
My CO and a few of the other higher ranking guys who took the city conducted a huge AAR just over that one event during the whole rotation. Needless to say there was quite a lot of improves that were brought up.
I just wish there is some way we could register hits and kills better than with the MILES gear we use. Something that might inflict a little pain but not cause serious injury. We had done the simrounds with the paint tips but they say its to expensive and it is to dangerous with the potential to hit in the face and eyes even though everyone is supposed to be wearing eye pro.
Here is some OK vids of stuff that we do.
Some action with an oncoming vehicle (not sure its from JRTC but it gets the point across)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYrzhkKAIE&NR=1
A news clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fky2BtE637o
A morale boasting vid for the rotational unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdamNDgeLCo&feature=related
Another good one with no sound though
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Should Michael Vick Return to the NFL?
by leavingwt inmichael vick is out of prison.. do you think he should return to the nfl?.
a local dj said that vick should return...covered in bbq sauce and playing against a team of hungry dobermans..
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Its one of those things. I never had anything to do with it, my immediate family came over from Poland and Ireland shortly before WWII so they had nothing to do with it, my grandparents and parents grew up in Amish country in Central PA with hardly any black people around and in all actuality when I had gotten any inklings of there thoughts on race they were pretty liberal , my Dad was one of those guilt ridden self hating white man types who bent over backwards to excuse and equivicate anything done by a black person to me or to our family. I have suffered under probably more direct violent race based attacks then 90% of black people so I don't feel they necessarily occupy the moral high ground. I find it amusing that alot of black people cry foul when racial based disrepect is aimed at them, yet in the same breath use racially derogatory names to refer to other races, lump large groups together based on race, and make huge racially based assumptions about peoples behavior yet cannot be called on it. It points to me that some, maybe most don't want the wrongs to be righted they want pay back and then some.
So while the legacy of slavery in America is someting regretable its not one of those things that makes me ashamed of what my ethnic and cultural heritage is, despite the efforts of people like yourself who seem to think that it trumps anything good that has come from European society and culture while ignoring the fact that Europeans did not invent slavery, were the only ones you gave it up on their own accords (ie the slaves did not overthrow America it fought within itself to right its wrongs), and that it was not the last to practice it (ie slavery exist today by Muslim Arabs in northern Africa of Black christians).
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Well at times sex can be a violent or at least a more physical act than a loving act if that is the kind of thing you are into. Sometimes there is a certain stimulating effect of thinking of sex in a more dirty , sleezy kind of way and refering to it with obscenities even if or especially if it is with a person you love gets you a certain kind of satisfaction.
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I had a Hindu friend explain to me once that becuase they were more than likely American cows, not Indian cows they weren't sacred and therefore he could and did eat burgers from Wendies, McD's, etc. So I supposed following his logic the answer would be yes. Assuming he wasnt working at a burger joint in India.
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"Men of JWN: The 2010 Calendar"! Anyone in??
by Kudra inthis was jokingly mentioned in another thread.... i think it would be great to do it- just in time for x-mas gifts!!!.
what better to give your fave aposta-buddy than a scintillating men of jwn calendar??.
a women of jwn calendar??.
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I would post one and I did try but I am not very savvy at those kind of things so I got a big "fail". Perhaps I could email you my picture WF and you could post it?
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Insomniacs...your tricks for staying asleep?
by restrangled inpersonally i have tried ambien,....yes puts me out but i am up in 2 to 3 hours.....heavy doses borrowed from those taking it for years.
they are shocked it dosen't keep me down.
i just wake up woozey....i hate it.. i can fall asleep easy but just dont stay asleep....its absolutely awful.. i wake up probably 3 times a night if not more, ....i take the dog out, whether he wants to or not, go out smoke a cig and then go back to sleep.. what i find helps me is very fresh ironed sheets with lavendar scent.....that will give me 3 hours without waking up.. the blankets can't be too cold or too hot,..which is almost impossible to get perfect,....the pillows cant be too hard or too soft....i have at least 6 on the bed to choose from..... what the hell is wrong with me?
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LightCloud
I have found that doing a good hard work out, something along the lines of running for 45 minutes, and then 15 minutes of some strength training every day, skipping naps in the afternoon and avoiding caffiene at all cost after about noon time helps me alot. Sometimes to a 900 Mg Ibuprofen helps as it dulls the aches and pains which might bother you and wake you up at night.
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Woman Killed Infant/Cannibalism (graphic post)
by Yizuman insan antonio -- a woman charged with murdering her 312-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said monday.. .
otty sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the death of her infant son, scott wesley buchholtz-sanchez.
she was recovering from her wounds at a hospital, and was being held on $1 million bail.. .
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LightCloud
Sick. If true this person should be executed. I volunteer to do the honors when the time comes.
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Should Michael Vick Return to the NFL?
by leavingwt inmichael vick is out of prison.. do you think he should return to the nfl?.
a local dj said that vick should return...covered in bbq sauce and playing against a team of hungry dobermans..
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LightCloud
Wow I guess according to that logic Blacks in America cannot be held accountable for anything.
What do you think about this?