Posts by cyberjesus

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Have you been vaccinated? Have you had any side effects?

by LoveUniHateExams in

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friends

hi all.. i'm 42 years old.

i have had two jabs of the oxford-astrazeneca vaccine.. after my first jab i experienced flu-like symptoms - shivering, wanted to lie down in a dark room, etc.. i experienced no side effects after my second shot.. how about you?.

how many jabs have you had?.

cyberjesus

i got two doses of moderna... flu symptoms for a week on the first one. and sick for 2 days the secomd one... but couldnt move my arm for 2 weeks..

then did some research.... and i would not have taken the vaccine if i had been more responsible

lately i notice hands and feet cold sometimes.. my eyesight has declined 10 percent. i dunno if is the age (over 50 now) or the panic or the sugar or the vaccine... and i have noticed a couple of pricks on chest a couple of times...

btw.. do you know if theres a way to reduce side effects like blood clots or other secodnary damage? anybody has done research?

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What kind of literary device is this?

by EdenOne in

i know there's a name for this technique but i need a name, nonetheless.. if i say to my audience: apostates are horrible, satanic, dirty, sinners, mentally diseased etc ... all hateful traits.

and then i say: person a is an apostate.

then my audience will associate all the traits previously associated with "apostate" with person a. but i can say: i never said person a was horrible, satanic, dirty, mentally diseased etc.

cyberjesus

For starters is a logical fallacy, an association fallacy.

Person A is B

Person C is A

All Persons C are B

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Does this look like the WT is going to be around a long time? One Watchtower @ One Awake for the public in 2022

by pistolpete in

i keep hearing that the watchtower org is going to be around forever because of the many other religions that have been around a long time.

but i disagree because the wt is not like other religious cults.. the watchtower's breath of life is dependent on the last days that started in 1914. .

you can’t change 1914 without a death blow to the entire organization.. the watchtower's 2nd reason for staying alive, is it's continual urging that the life saving preaching work of warning people is the most important work ever.. but- it's very obvious to many, even the old ones that instead of speeding up the work------the work is slowing down to a drip.. comment by former believer; .

cyberjesus

and its a cult.... sure its also a sect a religions... but nevethess a mind control cult

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Does this look like the WT is going to be around a long time? One Watchtower @ One Awake for the public in 2022

by pistolpete in

i keep hearing that the watchtower org is going to be around forever because of the many other religions that have been around a long time.

but i disagree because the wt is not like other religious cults.. the watchtower's breath of life is dependent on the last days that started in 1914. .

you can’t change 1914 without a death blow to the entire organization.. the watchtower's 2nd reason for staying alive, is it's continual urging that the life saving preaching work of warning people is the most important work ever.. but- it's very obvious to many, even the old ones that instead of speeding up the work------the work is slowing down to a drip.. comment by former believer; .

cyberjesus

They ve changed the meaning of 1914 for over hundred years and still grew regardless....changing it again in the. next 100 wont make a big difference.

the difference is the accesibility of YouTube and google. that will make a difference. when i was 6 and had questions i would ask my indoctrinated mother and she would give me the answer... when my 3 year old has questions he says 'hey google...."

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Raising a teenager outside of “the truth”

by StephaneLaliberte in

i was raised as a jw and left the group as many of the teachings don’t align with my core values.

now, forward almost 10 years, my wife and i are raising our kids through puberty and i have to admit, this challenge is not easy and seems to be even more difficult in that my own upbringing was very different.

i find it hard to compare how i was raised with what i now must do for my own kids.

cyberjesus

what defines a good principle? what is a principle? a philosophy?

JWs follow the religious philosphy imposed mainly by rutherford and franz.

children copy their parents philosphy... and in its absence their friends or the movies or music.

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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

by pistolpete in

so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

cyberjesus

Sure... the remaining Jws will double number of doors they bang.... to see less than half the result they had in the past... no matter what they say or do..... The numbers will continue to decline.... its written on the wall.... of the park restroom.

mene mene call my number tekum

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GOTCHA!

by JTrottigy in

so i noticed one of the members here came to my jwtalk website, where i am an important administrator, and tried to join my site.. i check in here every so often and i was able to deduce that person was an apostate fraud, likely bent on polluting my site.

i denied their request to join.. ha!

gotcha!

cyberjesus

One of the members here? Are you sure it wasnt from Redit or Facebook?

Well good job! you got one person who wanted to get in your blog... but what if that person wanted to got back to the organization and was looking for assurance? I guess he's stuck here.

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Anyone know a link to the leaked music video the cult is so upset about?

by mickbobcat in

i have been hearing the cult is upset that this video leaked and is trying to remove it off the net.

lol are they really that stupid?

but if anyone has a link to the video i would love to see it.

cyberjesus

it's my video... mine.. eventhough I didn't pay the actors, the editors, the writers, the composers, the musicians, the producers..

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Has anyone still in or otherwise heard anything about JWs think we only have 12 months before Armageddon?

by blablabluh in

i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.

i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.

anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.

cyberjesus

yes I have.. 40 years ago

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Did The Witnesses Mess Up Your Sex Life?

by minimus in

jw
friends

most of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.

whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.

every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.

cyberjesus

Any religious or social group that gives rules to normal body functions alters the functional view of such functions.

However, "normal" is defined by what the majority practices.

all of us who lived under those influences are biased at some level until we identify the processes