All cult members have a genuine personality. Problem is, they also have a cult personality that can be manipulated and brought to the surface at any moment. Don't trust that anything you say will be kept in confidence perpetually.
Mad Sweeney
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Blip! The radar has blipped. I'm on it. 'chat' booked in for Sunday.......
by Captain Blithering ina young, progressive, kind elder wants to have a chat with me on sunday after the meeting.
we've talked before and been quite open about the judgemental attitudes 'we' have as witnesses, and he was completely in agreement, stating that he's never understood the beard thing among other issues, and wants to see the society moving forward by change..
i've no doubt he just wants to encourage me to up my hours or reach out again, but it's nerve wracking, as i know i'll say something i'll regret.
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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth
by Westenddave ini thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
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Mad Sweeney
Not only the population growth of the country but the population growth of the JWs themselves. I suspect the majority of new publishers are JW kids growing up to become publisher-age.
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Ackkkk JWs posting videos on Youtube now
by fahrvegnugen inwell i haven't been here in a long old while, but was browsing around youtube and stumbled across a channel called jehovah's witnesses downloads which appears to be an official cache of propaganda uploaded by the borganization.
jeezus christ!
are their any worse actors than jws in those smarmy dramas?
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Mad Sweeney
jw.org is just as bad...It's amazing how loony it all looks once the blinders come off.
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2014 Yearbook Stats - 7 Countries account for > 50% growth
by Westenddave ini thought i'd share the 2014 yearbook stats.
i converted the file to excel format & sorted the increase in publisher's column from largest to smallest.
as i suspected, the growth is limited to a very few # of "lands.
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Mad Sweeney
It isn't actually percent increase. It is the percent OF THE TOTAL increase. The countries listed account for 83.31% of all the JWs growth in 2013. ALL other countries combined only account for 16.69% of growth.
If he had shown his formulas it would have been more obvious where the numbers come from.
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Costco store label Bible as fiction. Minister outraged.
by jam inminister walks into an costco store and saw labels on the.
bible $14.95, fiction.
the news media contacted the office of.
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Mad Sweeney
I don't think most modern, educated Jewish people believe the history as presented in the Bible is totally factual. Some of the stuff sort of happened but not in the way it is presented. Its value is cultural, as an early mythology of the people.
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"I won't watch HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER" because Neil Patrick Harris is gay"
by OnTheWayOut inthat's what my jw mother said.
folks, there are plenty of reasons not to watch how i met your mother, but a gay actor playing a straight part is not one of them.
i should give her a list of known gay actors and ruin a bunch of movies and t.v.
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Mad Sweeney
NPH is AWESOME!
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Bible Writers not just ignorant "goat herders"
by applehippie inreally, the bible was written by nothin' but goat herders?
i don't post much but this does irk me.
yes a few may have been shepherds or fisherman, but a fair amount were far more educated and were professionals in their fields of occupation.
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Mad Sweeney
The mockery of the Bible writers isn't so much the best that critics can do - there is much better criticism that can be leveled against the Bible and its authors here on JWN and in libraries and websites around the world.
We mock because it's fun and because it tweaks the self-righteous and gullible followers of an ancient book.As for how advanced they were, LMAO. They knew some things and imagined a LOT of things. They were primitive.
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A JW husband emailing his ex-girlfriend after his wife reveals her apostasy
by JimmyPage ina woman i've known for years recently confided in me.
she told me she found out her jw husband had been secretly e-mailing his jw ex-girlfriend.
he was telling his ex about how difficult it had been for him since his wife was now basically an apostate.
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Mad Sweeney
I think recommendations on what to do depend largely upon what she wants at this point.
Is being married to an active JW a marriage worth saving? Is any marriage in this situation worth saving?
I was raised Borg and got married young. Never lived on my own until my divorce in my 40s. Had I known earlier what I know now, I'd have ended the marriage years ago. So I guess one of my points is that this could be a great opportunity.
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If man evolved?
by tornapart ini know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
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Mad Sweeney
Another great way to avoid reading and learning: drag discussions off-topic into hashing out personal offenses.
Brilliant.
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If man evolved?
by tornapart ini know anyone who believes in evolution is going to say that there is no 'if' about it.
however.... if man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years ago, why were there only about 200-300 million people alive 2,000 years ago?
surely there'd have been many billions by then?.
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Mad Sweeney
Unless you're a super-miraculous typist, it takes far longer to type long rambling posts on these threads than it would to actually research and read about evolution. Then, rather than go out of your way to show the world how much you don't know, you'll actually know things and be able to add productively to the discussion.