Sorry for your loss.
Mad Sweeney
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My Great-Grandmother Died This Morning
by TheClarinetist inshe's been really bad for quite a while, and passed away in her sleep.
she lived to be a ripe old age, and even got to meet some of her great-great grandchildren (not mine... i don't have any kids), which is not something that can be said for a lot of people.
she loved music, and took organ lessons for many of the last years of her life, something that we really connected on, despite the fact that she was a, for lack of a better word, crazy jw that pioneered for years after she wasn't able to attend meetings in person.. from what i understand, the majority of people people never meet their great-grandparents, and for that i should consider myself lucky, but still i'll miss her.
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Seriously, what is wrong with US ?!?!!?
by PSacramento inno us as a internet forum but us as a people.. have you noticed how accetable violence is and how it seems unaccetable to view the human form?.
it is perfectly fine for us and our children to see violence during a sporting event, during a movie on primetime even read about "unbelievers" being destroyed by god, but if you see a pair of boobs or a butt a bit to revealing it's like freaking armageden !!!.
the other day a movie was on and there were a could or "risque" scenes that showed perhaps more cleavage than they should have, so it was blurred out, but then they showed a guy losing his head and the bloody neck stub !!!.
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Mad Sweeney
@leavingwt: Seconded. It's a scourge.
I was watching Curiosity last night on TV and it was about the volcanic island of Thera that many now believe to be the origin of the Atlantis story. One of the things the show discussed was that the worse the apparent danger to society got, the more radical the religious leaders became. The mountain is smoking? Damn, better sacrifice a goat. Earthquakes and ash? OMG, better sacrifice a bull. Explosions and pyroclast? Now it's on; time to start sacrificing humans.
And as science and culture have attempted to progress beyond the need for dependence on mythological constructs to explain our universe, that same sort of religious mindset has opposed progress at every turn. It rears its head in the USA worse than anywhere else on the planet.
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Has the Watchtower ever made a correct prediction?
by Fernando inin 1889 the wbt$ predicts in detail the spiritistic scheming priestcraft it would come to embrace (due to the harlotrous gb's insatiable lust for graven unnatural spiritual intercourse or prostitution with demons):.
"the underlying principle of the great reformation, to which all protestants look back with pride, was the right of individual judgment in the interpretation of the scriptures, in opposition to the papal dogma of submission to clerical authority and interpretation.
on this very point was the whole issue of the great movement.
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Mad Sweeney
WT said if you read the Bible without Watchtower literature to interpret it for you, you will end up returning to the doctrines of mainstream Christendom.
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Do you think Witnesses would drink the "Cool-Aid" if told to do so...like Jonestown?
by Witness 007 injonestown 1970's, jim jones brainwashed his 900 member cult into committing mass suicide by drinking cyanide cool-aid.
only three escaped.
{the smart ones} one man hid under a building....another escaped into the jungle while armed guards dragged another member to get injected by force.
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Mad Sweeney
Three words:
Cult
Mind
Control
A majority of ANY group can be influenced to drink the kool-aid. No one is saying the JWs are going to or even suggesting it is remotely likely. The question is whether a significant number of JWs WOULD if the circumstances were right. The answer is YES, a significant number of ANY GROUP would if the circumstances were right.
I'm sure the family and friends of the Jonestown victims thought they'd never do such a thing, too.
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How many of you haven't fared too well since your exit?
by i_drank_the_wine ini know that i've had a hard time piecing things back together after losing my wife and family a couple years ago and haven't really gotten the ball rolling to say the least.
just curious to hear if anyone else is in the same boat, or was in the same boat and how long it took them to get a "new life" figured out and going..
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Mad Sweeney
There are lots of support/recovery groups online/Facebook, etc.
Also, if you can get professional therapy, do it. It isn't just for serious mental issues. It is for anyone and everyone who has been through a cult experience.
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Almost de-converted a JW today...
by MoneurMallard inwell, after hours of chat online via yahoo messenger and emails back and forth via my youtube channel, i almost successfully de-converted a young woman in california from the borg.
or is it the "soc"?
which is the more correct asinine term these days?.
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Mad Sweeney
The Borg it is. And it isn't asinine.
You'll make more friends here by not insulting our lingo.
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CULT FREE RADIO is TONIGHT - Saturday, 9/24 at 10pm Eastern time
by Mad Sweeney intonight is part two of the two-part series on how to leave the watchtower without destroying your marriage and family.
last time we aired an interview with reopened mind and totallyadd, our friends from right here on jwn, discussing their exit from the watchtower and how they helped one another.. tonight we will air another interview with a couple who left together, i'll also lay out how i worked with my family to leave together, and then we'll see if we can't pull some common threads from all of our experiences to develop a step-by-step method or a list of "rules of thumb" to follow when exiting and trying to hold your family together.. listen live at 10pm:.
http://www.facebook.com/cultfreeradio?sk=app_196506863720166 (you can also see previous shows here).
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Mad Sweeney
Bumpity bump!
Just an hour and a half to air time.
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Do you think Witnesses would drink the "Cool-Aid" if told to do so...like Jonestown?
by Witness 007 injonestown 1970's, jim jones brainwashed his 900 member cult into committing mass suicide by drinking cyanide cool-aid.
only three escaped.
{the smart ones} one man hid under a building....another escaped into the jungle while armed guards dragged another member to get injected by force.
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Mad Sweeney
I don't understand how the "suddenly" part of this came in. They know exactly how to induce "buzz" among the congregations with the prospect of "loving new arrangements from Jehovah" and when those arrangements are implemented A LOT of people jump on board.
Have they announced the percentage that auxiliary pioneered in April 2011?
My guess is that with a few months of prep time (special super-secret letter to be read at the Service Meeting and NOT discussed outside the K.H. then a special talk the following month about the contents of the super-secret letter and its secrecy, then another letter chastising the rank and file for speaking about it outside the K.H., and so on), they could get approximately the same percentage to drink the Kool-Aid.
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I'M EXPLAINING WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IN THE ORGANISATION TO A JW! HELP NEEDED!
by TimothyT inhere is an email i received from one of my friends who is still a jw.
she would like to know my feelings on the matter of organisation now that im disfellowshipped.
i have written my thoughts below the email.
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Mad Sweeney
Here you go. You can answer every single one of her points.
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/always-been-witnesses.php
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/where-else.php
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/similar-religions-to-jehovahs-witnesses.php
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CULT FREE RADIO is TONIGHT - Saturday, 9/24 at 10pm Eastern time
by Mad Sweeney intonight is part two of the two-part series on how to leave the watchtower without destroying your marriage and family.
last time we aired an interview with reopened mind and totallyadd, our friends from right here on jwn, discussing their exit from the watchtower and how they helped one another.. tonight we will air another interview with a couple who left together, i'll also lay out how i worked with my family to leave together, and then we'll see if we can't pull some common threads from all of our experiences to develop a step-by-step method or a list of "rules of thumb" to follow when exiting and trying to hold your family together.. listen live at 10pm:.
http://www.facebook.com/cultfreeradio?sk=app_196506863720166 (you can also see previous shows here).
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Mad Sweeney
Tonight is part two of the two-part series on how to leave the Watchtower without destroying your marriage and family. Last time we aired an interview with Reopened Mind and TotallyADD, our friends from right here on JWN, discussing their exit from the Watchtower and how they helped one another.
Tonight we will air another interview with a couple who left together, I'll also lay out how I worked with my family to leave together, and then we'll see if we can't pull some common threads from all of our experiences to develop a step-by-step method or a list of "rules of thumb" to follow when exiting and trying to hold your family together.
Listen Live at 10pm:
http://www.facebook.com/CultFreeRadio?sk=app_196506863720166 (you can also see previous shows here)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cult-free-radio
Download past shows as mp3 podcast recordings: