A Wrinkle in Time. The planet where everyone had to behave in exactly the same way and even the kids had to bounce their balls in perfect coordination. If someone got sick, they were eliminated. No deviations.
bluecanary
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Was There a Fictional Work Helped You Realize the Truth About the (T)ruth?
by BabaYaga inthe pen really can be mightier than the sword, and even fiction often carries much weight and powerful messages.. did you read a book or watch a movie that made you think?
did an "entertaining" work plant a seed of doubt?.
the first one i can remember making a definate comparison to the witnesses in my mind was ray bradbury's martian chronicles.
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Today is my baby boy's birthday
by mrsjones5 injoshua turns six today.
seems just like yesterday he was born.
we went to see kung fu panda which he highly enjoyed, was kinda hard for him to keep seated but it was fun.
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He's in good company. Today is my boyfriend's birthday. It's the first birthday party I've ever been to.
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"Remember, nobody can REALLY love you unless they know and love Jehovah first."
by AllTimeJeff in"unless they know and love jehovah first.
they love "jehovah".
they discuss how to make sure that though they are in charge, everyone doesn't see them, they see the great and powerful jehovah.... oh.
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Spike, I was ready to give you the benefit of the doubt, until your last post. At first I thought you meant that no one would know love without Jehovah simply because he created the ability to love. I can respect that belief. People who believe in a Creator, believe that he created humans with the ability to love one another, whether they know and believe in this Creator or not. In this case it is reasonable to say that love comes from God or that God is responsible for all love.
Where I disagree, is in saying that one must "know" God in order to make use of this emotion that he has created (hypothetically) when the FACTS do not bear this out. How do you know when someone loves you? By their words or by their actions? If a fellow witness claims he loves me, but ignores me or mistreats me, is his claim true? Does the fact that he "knows" Jehovah mean he loves me by default? Conversely, if a worldly person claims he love me, speaks to me kindly and helps me when I need it, is his love a lie, meaningless or nonexistent?
If so, I'll take heaping helpings of lying, meaningless, nonexistent worldly love anyday. -
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MY APOLOGIES TO ALL
by Mary inlooking back over the last few weeks, i think i've been unnessarily rude to some posters and i just want to apologize to anyone who has been on the receiving end of my anger recently.. i believe that i'm so angry, dismayed, devastated and heartbroken over what's happening to my brother in law, that i've been taking it out on others and that's not right.
it makes absolutely no difference what i think of the wts as a whole, or whether or not americans have a universal healthcare system......none of that makes any difference whatsoever when someone you love and has been like your brother for 35 years is dying and there's not a fucking thing we can do about it.. my sister just called me and there's more bad news, and that's that his disease has now progressed into the acute myeloid leukemia which means he cannot start the therapy they were going to give him, as this is far more serious now.
they want to start chemo right away, but his blood counts aren't up high enough for him to survive.
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What is something so unimportant to you
by John Doe inthat you won't even make the effort to post about it?
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bluecanary
Not really the answer to your question, but sometimes I'll type an entire response to a post and then decide I don't feel like responding and delete it.
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The Hills Are Alive With the Wonders of Creation...
by sd-7 inwow, topic #3 for me.
i feel like i have a reputation to live up to.
hopefully there won't be any errors in this one.... so, tonight mom and i sat down to watch the wonders of creation dvd.
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I enjoyed your post. It does have more of a blog feel than message board. Have you thought about blogging your experiences? A couple of people here have been kicking around the idea of attaching blogs to this forum. You can try over at free minds, too. AllTimeJeff will sometimes write essays and post a copy here and on free minds as well.
I have no intention of ever seeing the DVD so your critique of it was welcome.
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Old JW lady just at my door by herself..................
by outofservice inso i assume the back of the territory card was not marked that apostates live at this address.do they still do that?
anyway the first thing i asked her was if she had a back issue of the july 09 awake.
she looked through her bag said she didn't but could get me a copy and bring it back to me.
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As long as you just want to have fun with them, I would do the 1919 issue. List all the ridiculous crap they were teaching at that time and ask if Jesus approved it, and if so, does that mean they've lost his approval now?
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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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Words are thoughts. The common definitions of words are the primary means by which we transfer thoughts concepts and ideas to other people. When our understanding of the definition of words is limited or altered, our thoughts are as well and we lose a connection to other humans. What better technique for mind control and isolation?
Good post.
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"Remember, nobody can REALLY love you unless they know and love Jehovah first."
by AllTimeJeff in"unless they know and love jehovah first.
they love "jehovah".
they discuss how to make sure that though they are in charge, everyone doesn't see them, they see the great and powerful jehovah.... oh.
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Atomahawk, in addition to what Jeff said, the GB may be small-potatoes on a global scale, but they rule over seven million people. That's like being the government of a small country. (Compare here). If only one million of those people donated ten dollars every month, how much money would you have at the end of the year? Add in investments and real estate deals and they have a cushy set-up. They know how to stroke the hand that feeds them while keeping it chained to them.
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The Final Curtain.....
by cognizant dissident inall the world's a stage,.
and all the men and women merely players:.
they have their exits and their entrances;.
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Goodbye Cog.