Posts by cheerios

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Further Education and the Special Assembly Day

by eyesthatsee in

i had the misery recently of attending the sad.. the bethel speaker looked and sounded like the usual corporate businessman after your money.. during his main talk, he praised a recent bethel member who left his college (aka university) course early to pioneer and join bethel.. that followed experiences from window cleaners, unemployed, parents home-schooling (aka child abuse - it is a basic human right to be educated) their kids and those baptised as children (youngest was 10).. the brainwashed dubs applauded every ruined life paraded on the platform.. these bethel speakers have been around long enough to know exactly what they're doing - they are evil men, ruining peoples' lives, breaking up families and masquerading as holy men.. their time will come when they face god - too late for the many ruined by their filthy lies and false hopes.. sorry to sound bitter, but to my shame i had a part in this cult as an elder.

what part of my brain did i lose to not see through this rubbish?.

better late then never though.

cheerios

what burns me up about home-schooling is the quality of the education that is available. while the material might be okay, the parents that have to deliver that material are questionable at best. teaching is a skill, one that has a scientific method behind it. that's why teachers have to go to college for awhile - to learn how to teach.

sorry but window washers that attend the craptastic moan-ass-tree skool are NOT teachers, do NOT learn pedagogy or any other teaching skill, and are NOT qualified to give their children the state-mandated education. they are fully qualified at ruining people's lives, however.

just my two pence

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If The Watchtower Ruled the World...

by brotherdan in

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friends

during my "intervention" the other night, an interesting thing was brought up that i remember hearing all through my life.

i think even the wt has commented on it a time or two.. the girl i was talking to said, "can you just imagine what this world would be like if it was run by jehovah's witnesses?!?

" she was saying this so as to prove her point that jehovah's witnesses have love and would never go to war nor break the law.

cheerios

speaking of orwellian ... "Animal Farm" also comes to mind ... especially the part about they were freed from tyranny ... and then the pigs taking over ... i'm sure they were of a separate class .. all "classes" are equal but some "classes" are more equal than others ...

actually, i dont think the WT could ever take over the world. there's only so much dumb to go around .. and the world is a big place. To quote Douglas Adams .. the gibbering Body would be "the jerks who were first against the wall when the revolution came" ...

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Restrictions on sanitation supplies at a$$emblies

by WTWizard in

now that the grand boasting sessions are well under way, now is a good time to discuss what they are restricting on supplies there.

the "one towel" rule is quite famous by now.

however, i have heard scattered reports that they are rationing things like toilet paper as well.

cheerios

absolutely disgusting

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Restrictions on sanitation supplies at a$$emblies

by WTWizard in

now that the grand boasting sessions are well under way, now is a good time to discuss what they are restricting on supplies there.

the "one towel" rule is quite famous by now.

however, i have heard scattered reports that they are rationing things like toilet paper as well.

cheerios

*sneer*

only "weak" witnesses ever get up and leave their seats anyways ... if you have to go to the bathroom, clearly you should be shunned

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What is the definition of "new light"?

by MsDucky in

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who gets and disperses "new light"?.

cheerios

"new light" is what the bethel proctologists find when conducting their examinations of the GB ... "oooo lookie .. found something in there .. must be new light!"

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"Where else would we go?" - A common JW cliche'.

by Crisis of Conscience in

how many times have you heard that before, whether in or out?

in the past, i truly believed that.

if i were to leave the "truth", where else would i go?.

cheerios

where else would we go? that's simple .. how bout down to the pub?

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Last Night's Intervention

by brotherdan in

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friends

i'm afraid of starting a new post because i've stepped on a few feet here with my last post... but i still love you guys.. last night i went home to find my wife and her friend on the couch with the bible, ready to show me how i'm wrong and exercising "apostate thinking".

my wife said, "i am unable to fight you with the bible because you know more than me about it.

but k** knows more and will be able to show you how you are wrong.. so my wife went into the other room so as not to be stumbled by my discussion.

cheerios

what i find interesting about this discussion is that the WTS will not accord the same privilege in reverse ... if you say anything against what they say, you're an automatic apostate ... they don't allow apologists working in reverse for the rank and file ...

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An Explanation of why TIME TRAVEL does not work

by Terry in

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friends

energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed.. consequently, the building blocks of existence are actually finite parts.. to create things in "tomorrow" which are new, something has to be dismantled to leave spare parts for tomorrow's new thing.. the old thing deteriorates, (dies/disintegrates) and the parts become available to make the new thing.. time travel requires going to a place where today's parts are available to be rearranged.. some of today's things persist as they are, of course.

they only travel through time by persisting as they are.

(mountains, for example.).

cheerios

dude ... time travel is so possible ... christopher lloyd proved it ... all you need is a flux capacitor!

/rolleyes @ amateurs ...

:D

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Once a cheater, always a cheater

by Quillsky in

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if you discover, while getting to know a potential partner, that they have cheated on a previous partner........ don't touch them.

run run run.. in my opinion a cheat remains a cheat.

opportunity is the variable.. please discuss..

cheerios

to make an assumption that someone will do something that they've done before just because it happened before is very shallow thinking indeed.

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Why is god hiding?

by AK - Jeff in

what god could have done to show himself:.

he could have left incontrovertible evidence of his existence.he could have made it impossibly evident that mankind has been here only 6000 years, not the 200,000 give or take, that fossil evidence supports.

he could have provided evidence through jesus to millions of non-believers, instead of focusing on a small band of fanatical followers eager to point to 'the messiah'.he could at any time, being the ultimate of beings, just simply show himself in the sky, speak to millions instead of to the lonely occasional deluded sheepherder in the desert, or provide miracles to millions of us as observers - part the ocean, cure cancer and announce it from heaven in a clear unmistakable voice, or instantaneously stop starvation and plague in it's tracks.

cheerios

i've had this same discussion with my dub relatives. if god is really there, why not just say so in a manner that is definitely provable? people would still have the choice of whether or not they would follow him/her. many believe that proof of god's existence is the opposite of having faith, but i do not believe that it is. faith can help me accept something credible that i don't happen to understand. e.g. gravity. i dont quite understand how gravity works, but i can clearly see it's effects, so i can have faith that if i jump off a cliff, i'm gonna go splat.

otho, to say that creation is proof of god's existence, to me, is circular. it is proof that we are here - nothing more. there is no evidence that jehoover created us (or any other god for that matter). the explanation given by a bunch of primitive men who wrote that "jehoober made us and wants us to do all these confusing things that can be taken out of context for non-jehoober sanctioned purposes" and then later were venerated by others: oh it's in this "book" - "see right here it says jehoober created us, therefore he did" isn't proving anything. it's simply their opinion that they wrote down. "oh i was inspired by god to write this" ... really? that's quite a claim to make ... can you offer any credible evidence to support that claim? (because you see many nutjobs make the same claim, so how do we know you're not a nutjob?) "uhh, well if you need evidence, then you suck because a real man of faith doesnt need evidence."

how convenient ...

"oh and by the way, god needs money ... lots of money ... and he doesnt want you to wear beards ... and you have to do all these things ... and if you dont do all these things that these holy dudes in a factory in brooklyn come up with at the drop of a hat, then you get destroyed with all the 'worldly' people at armageddon which is right around the corner, really it is, no this time it is, stop that 1975 business that was your fault not ours, 1986? we didn't say that you did, no it's really close now .. so get off facebook and stop sexting (unless you want to sext to any of us elders - that's okay) and do more stuff for the Holy Factory Dudes or you'll die!"

to put someone's life in the balance for this spooky non-provable circular and definitely exclusive club of "oh we have god's blessing and you dont" way of "revealing god" ... sounds more like a way of controlling people than anything else.