Posts by Diogenesister

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Living forever

by jws in

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someone on facebook posted john 3:16 where it says people will live forever.. not that i believe it, but i just cannot imagine this.

this, to me, would be the true hell.. if i'm very lucky, i will live to be 100. at nearly half that, already some parts of life no longer hold much interest to me.

even tv shows.

If we are all perfect, living perfect lives we will have no cause for empathy, the glue that binds the human & animal family together. Empathy happens because we are soft wired to experience anothers plight as if its our own, this happens due to our mirror neurons.

With perfection, presumeably like everything we don't use, our mirror neurons would die off and all empathetic emotion wiuld cease leaving us automatons.

Do watch this short RCA vid about it

https://youtu.be/l7AWnfFRc7g

GodZoo:

We are doing that already and so far they are all lifeless, cold and dead and unable to support any form of life.

We should also not forget that the Bible itself clearly contradicts this fantasy of space travel and galactic exploration.

Reasonably conservative estimates there are about 100 earth like habitable planets for every grain of sand on earth.

I think Villageidiots 1000 yrs is a good age . The only reason I want to live longer is for the moment when, not if, we meet our first non human sentient ( alien )civilization.

Check out this all who want to limit themselves to earth.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html

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No 'Tight Pants' policy is now official - classed as 'disturbing'

by wizzstick in

in short:- tight pants is no longer just a am3 hang up (or is that a hang up on the well hung?

)- brothers who have effeminate body language are flagged up- as are sisters with 'masculine' hair styles or dress- such dress is 'disturbing to the congregation'- the above must heed the (repeated) counsel from the elders...or they get stripped of the right to share on the ministry- however...this will not be revealed (announced) to the congregation.

wow.

Diogenesister

People don't hate themselves and commit suicide because Starbucks doesn't allow giant gauges or three earrings to be worn during business hours by employees. They don't commit suicide because Apple asks their emloyees to be neat or wear a company shirt. They don't commit suicide because Disney asks them to arrive on time and smile at children, whether or not you feel like Snow White on Monday morning.

If you want to wear three earrings, you have the freedom to leave Starbucks and work somewhere else. Your life is not affected negatively, you still have your friends and family. That is a world apart from a letter to Church officials, asking them to actively seek out and discriminate against members who look "gay."

Bang on DD, so toni the tiger has wrested control from old ex-Splaner !

That twitcherty shouldered old buzzard, whose so holier-than-thou just because nepotism saw him into the GB AND he raised 2 boys, is going to tighten the screws on the kids even more.

Like to be well groomed? Use moisterizer for your shaving rash?Like a well fitting suit in something other than taliban black? Ok, rant on dress superficial and expected.

But....

Young man with a voice too high..,gentle manner, soft laugh? Fond of your bros giving them all hugs..oh and I forgot, handsome? Elders kids a bit jealous of the attention all the ladies give you 'cos you love to make the sisters laugh....

Time for a witchunt

Its all so bloody predictable, it would be funny if I didn't know how much misery their stupidity and ignorance causes.

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

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FayeDunaway

My first experience with anti cult views was probably field service. We went out in service a LOT. We lived among a very educated population. Many of those people liked to get in long discussions about philosophical/theological issues, often for their own entertainment I think, and I still remember many of the conversations. It's interesting, because of course you are SUPPOSED to go out in service and have discussions with people, but doing that exposed me to all sorts of interesting ideas

Hi Faye, Hi all,

I 've sometimes wondered if this is one of the reasons the WT are pushing (geddit?😄)cart witnessing. What with the internet combined with more people educated generally but also specifically re cults, atheism, the biological sciences, evolution & now the Royal Commision etc are the dark tower worried that Jdubs, rarther than enlightening the householder, are more likely to get enlightened themselves . Whereas people are less likely to lecture cart witnesses regarding their folly if they are not being actively engaged in conversation themselves.

That and legal reasons - always something they have to consider these days, especially if they have a lot of paedophile pioneers' on the loose.

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You have a $100,000,000 budget to do a global campaign against the WTBS worldwide. How would you spend it?

by JWchange in

what if by inheritance, winning the lottery or any other way, you suddenly got your hands on $150m after tax.

you maybe would spend a third of this giving your extended family financial security for life.

you maybe would buy a boat and a few investment properties.

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Marvin Shilmer14 hours ago

The answer is easy: Offer each current member of the GB the sum of $10,000,000 to step aside as a GB member and write a memoir on their years as a GB member and that must be accompanied by documentation.

Watchtower would be toast as we know it today. Over. Done with.

Multiple GB members would jump on this cash train.

Oh love it! I agree....now anyone, who would be the first takers...in your opinion?

Does anyone think any of the GB are partially awake? Or have they swallowed it hook, line & sinker?

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Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai

by fulltimestudent in

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when i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).

not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.

after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.

Diogenesister

soooo jealous xxx

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after 2 years, getting the courage to read COC. but is is still really relevant?

by nowwhat? in

if so why?

Diogenesister

Good point.

I think Marvin has answered it better than I could.

I will add, from my own point of view, that this is an organization that claims to have Holy (holy?)Spirit. The personal backing of the Almighty Creator of the universe, at that time and for all time.

That such an organization could go gunning after one aged individual who had served it faithfully for most of his life - homeless, virtually penniless and almost friendless - with a vindictiveness that would make the Cosa Nostra blush, simply for the crime of resigning his position?

Words fail me.....

Is it relevent today? Yes, if you have an ounce of human compassion. I feel no shame in playing the emotion card btw.

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AUSTRALIA – Artemis Legal launches inquiry into group and class action lawsuits against Jehovah’s Witnesses

by jwleaks in

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jehovah's witnesses - group action lawyers fighting for justice | artemis legal .

artemis legal | watchtower claims.

13 october 2015 .

Diogenesister

I think simon was just asking for the so called "official Royal Commission list" of (, I guess the assumption was, safe or cleared )lawyers". He asked, reasonably in my opinion, because it was insinuated that using other lawyers might not be the best policy.

We none of us know what others have been through in the past, some of us share and some don't. Let's therefore give each other a break, not make too many assumptions and maybe try to get the 'sense'of what the other person is actually saying before we wade in!

Having said that I am as guilty as the next person for being a plonker, but it's especially harsh when something is addressed personally to a moderator - he's damned if he does and he's damned if he doesn't (take it down,that is).

I fully agree, however, that people should be extremely cautious and yes, if they can, wait until the RC has completed its investigations before approaching lawyers. Anyway I can guarantee that in most countries there will be specialist charaties/helplines set up to give just this kind of advice.

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