I checked his site and there is a link to the podcast on Cults but after the ad runs it doesn't play anything. I can only assume he hasn't completed recording the podcast yet. But he gives no time that I could see for when to expect it. I'd love to hear it before tonight's Cult Free Radio show because if it's good, I'll recommend it on the show.
Mad Sweeney
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Watchtower quote sent to atheist podcast service....
by trailerfitter inyes i am proud to say that i took the quotes from the watchtower literature calling apostates mentally diseased.
even if i am not an ex jw i see this as hate and a direct attack.
also one thing that made me feel sick was the boast about the watchtower providing cooler clean water to quench the thirst of their followers.
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All of you should start a splinter JW group..
by fortbethel inforgive me if this comes off as harsh,.
i've read & read many posts here mostly very negative.
alot of you have family that have shunned & continue to shun.
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Mad Sweeney
For the people that still love YHWH and Jesus, there are some good and noble things about the Witnesses that cannot be denied.
Are any of these good and noble things unique to the Witnesses or can they be engaged in without the trappings of an organization? If you can name some positive things about the JW faith that also require organizing into a formal religious entity, then the idea might have some merit that's worth exploring. Right now, I can't think of anything.
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Please explain or why God chose this organization to represent him,per JW,s
by jam inwhat reasons was given why jehovah looked down.
too earth and said, these are the people that is doing.
my will, they are unbalance, sorry mean unblemish.. they may not get it right for the first 100yrs, but they.
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Mad Sweeney
According to "God's Kingdom of A Thousand Years Has Approached" it was because they were teaching truth (relative to the teachings of Christendom) during 1918-1919 when Jesus came to earth to inspect all religions that claimed to be Christian. And if you go to archive.org and download, "The Finished Mystery" which was the ONLY book published by the WT during this period and was being studied as a series of concurrent Watchtower articles, too, you will see the kind of "truth" the Borg was teaching at the time.
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Was Jesus a Buddhist Monk?
by skeeter1 inone of the things that most bothered me about the bible, is the narcasist, lunatic jehovah who orders killings of women, children, starts wars, etc....and the advent of peaceful jesus.
some people say that jehovah was a killer to protect "his" people, but couldn't a perfect, all-knowing god have found a way better then to walk on the earth and tell abraham to kill his first born son?.
on my spiritual journey, i now see how the earlier gods (roman, greek, pagan) are intertwined into the old testament.
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Mad Sweeney
I'd like to see the original question explored further. I don't care if we're talking about a historical figure or a created conglomeration of myths. Did the Jesus we know show similarities to the teachings of Buddhism or Taoism or Hinduism? The answer is yes. So the follow-up questions are: Exactly how great are the parallels between the teachings of Jesus and the eastern philosophies? And what is the liklihood that a first century Jew in Palestine would become aware of those eastern concepts without traveling to the east?
Wanna discuss whether there is really a historical Jesus at all? Feel free to start a new topic, but it seems to me that historical characters are rarely created out of whole cloth. The Biblical Jesus may not represent the actual person very accurately but it seems logical that the original movement had to be based on SOMEone who really lived - even if he didn't do or say half the things the book says he did.
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SO FRUSTRATED - I lost my flash drive
by Mad Sweeney inin addition to a bunch of stuff from work and school, all my research for this saturday's cult free radio was on there (in addition to the previous shows).
if it doesn't turn up soon i'm going to have to "wing it" tomorrow.
i don't want to have to wing it.
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Mad Sweeney
Found. Thanks to my lovely wife for checking on the floor of my other car.
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SO FRUSTRATED - I lost my flash drive
by Mad Sweeney inin addition to a bunch of stuff from work and school, all my research for this saturday's cult free radio was on there (in addition to the previous shows).
if it doesn't turn up soon i'm going to have to "wing it" tomorrow.
i don't want to have to wing it.
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Mad Sweeney
In addition to a bunch of stuff from work and school, all my research for this Saturday's Cult Free Radio was on there (in addition to the previous shows). If it doesn't turn up soon I'm going to have to "wing it" tomorrow.
I don't want to have to wing it. I had hours and hours of research saved on there. I gotta find that thing!!!
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Are we all still FAMILY? Yes or No?
by Greybeard inhere is why, even though i no longer agree with most of what the gb/wt/jw's teach, i still feel especially close to all of us who were apart of this group.
born in or converted.
we all have had the same life experience of being raised in a over bearing mind controlling cult.
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Mad Sweeney
The Borg forces conformity and calls it a loving worldwide brotherhood.
The Free enable diversity and and we know we can count on each other no matter how different our personalities or views.
Which is more like true family? I think the answer is obvious.
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Have you noticed that the Watchtower is not emphasizing how close the end is as much?
by stuckinamovement inmaybe i am off base, but it seems that the last year or so hasn't had the standard retoric about how "imminent, close, or soon" the end will be.
it seems as if the focus is now on obeying the governing body.
have you noticed this?.
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Mad Sweeney
The entire "toes" talk and "new (if recycled 1978 doctrine can be considered new) light" at the district convention was about how imminent and soon the end is.
They're all about how urgent and soon it all is. Every earthquake. Every hurricane. Every war. Every tornado. Every cry of peace. Every cry of war. Every time they hear or see news, it is "proof" that the end is soon.
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A Beautiful Essay
by Magwitch ini was going to post this yesterday and then hesitated.
i read johnathan's essay (so lovely) and thought this one would very much be enjoyed also.
my daughter, alexa, 20 years old (3rd year at cu) is getting ready to circle the world in a semester at sea.
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Mad Sweeney
Thank you for sharing that. It is awesome. Beautiful to see young people putting the more important things first in life.
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Higher Education and Disqualification for Privileges in the Congregation
by 00DAD inwhen i was still serving as an elder in the late summer of 2006 in a congregation of jws in socal we received a letter from the "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses" (read: the governing body) directing that anyone pursuing a higher education would be disqualified from privileges of service: elder, servant, pioneer, etc.
i remember this quite distinctly because i had just received by ba in education in june a few months before this.
in 2002, i had decided to pursue a degree under the society's then current "it's a personal decision" policy and was quite shocked at their drastic policy change.
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Mad Sweeney
I have to ask this question as someone who has never been an elder but has obtained a large pdf file of policy letters that seems to be missin MANY letters I've heard mentioned in various discussions:
Is it common for the Borg to send out letters to the body of elders with the explicit instruction to destroy it after reading it?