Posts by Mad Sweeney

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How many of you haven't fared too well since your exit?

by i_drank_the_wine in

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friends

i 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..

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 in

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friends

well, 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?.

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 in

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friends

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).

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 in

jonestown 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.

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 in

here 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.

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

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/preach.php

http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/organization.php

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CULT FREE RADIO is TONIGHT - Saturday, 9/24 at 10pm Eastern time

by Mad Sweeney in

jw
friends

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).

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:

http://ex-jw.com/web-directory/cult-free-radio-archives-1-6

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Watchtower quote sent to atheist podcast service....

by trailerfitter in

yes 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.

Mad Sweeney

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.

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All of you should start a splinter JW group..

by fortbethel in

forgive 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.

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 in

what 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.

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 in

one 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.

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.