If taking blood is the worst thing one can do to defile a body, that would make it worse than smoking, no? Why then is smoking a disfellowshipping offense but taking blood is not? Explain that, true believers.
Mad Sweeney
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LeavingWT's DA letter
by irondork inthe blood issue has been an ongoing arguement between the roomie and me.
not heated, by any means, but she keeps qouting back established wts reasoning on the subject.
"it's feeding, jason.
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Mad Sweeney
Not sure who's scariest, Daniel or the crying hippie. I'll call it a tie.
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Responses to the Feb 15 2012 Wife Beater Article
by discreetslave inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntezntyv60.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnttwkadag&feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2db9jmvzri.
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Mad Sweeney
all magazines are always at jw.org
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The Magazine "The Plain Truth." Remember It?
by AvocadoJake indo you remember the magazine and the author of this magazine, any old timers know who the backers were?
i was five years old, when the old man was the editor or author of this religious magazine.
did you ever talk to any of the followers of this movement?
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Mad Sweeney
The sad thing about this religion is that subsequent to its reform toward a mainstream Christian religion, a pretty good number of their members broke off to form a more traditionalist conservative cult-like sect again. Some people just don't want to be free.
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Stephen Hawkings and Richard Dawkins attend the Jehovah's witnesses two-day assembly program at London Edgware assembly hall
by mankkeli inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15834523.
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Mad Sweeney
Why do you let mAlice troll you for six pages? Seriously people. Don't feed the trolls.
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heh...no idea how i just found this..
by cptkirk inwasn't even looking for something like this, was just looking for some good metal music to listen to while i did my college work.
"he was raised a jw" he says.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwdbiajbebk.
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Mad Sweeney
They should have known better than to screw with Captain James Tiberius Kirk.
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Read S. Hassan's Book: Do JW's really fit the cult mold?
by simon17 infirst time i got a chance to read his book, "combatting cult mind control" and was interested to see if jw's fell into the cult mold.
my opinion after carefully reading and having left the witnesses after almost 30 years is... no, they don't.
however, i would add that they wish they were but are simply too big and unwieldy to really pull it off.
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Mad Sweeney
The point of the book is that a group doesn't need to attempt ALL of the mind control tactics nor be successfull at all of them in order to fit the definition of a cult. If they do some of them, they're a cult. So seeing exceptions among JWs and the Watchtower doesn't make them non-cult. NO single cult meets EVERY bit of criteria.
The author of the book, Steve Hassan himself calls JWs a cult, based on his professional assessment and knowledge of Lifton, Singer, BITE, and how the JWs employ the methods that research has laid out.
Randy's article at freeminds.org is excellent.
You can listen to Steve Hassan and a discussion of this exact issue on the latest Cult Free Radio. Show #011 is the one with Steve Hassan. I also discussed the issue in show #001.
Video:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cult-free-radio
http://www.youtube.com/user/MadSweeney1914
Audio Only:
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What's The Biggest Difference In Today's JWs And The Witnesses From Decades Ago?
by minimus ini believe today's witnesses lack zeal, resolve, "love" of the "truth"......just to name a few things.. years ago, witnesses were excited to knock on doors and tell people they were gonna die if they didn't accept paradise.. now, when you see jws in service, they all look zombied out.. it's a slowly dying religion that will last probably forever like an ancient rotted out tree..
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Mad Sweeney
Decades ago they thought they had it all figured out. Today they try not to think too much at all.
Great thread.
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LeavingWT's DA letter
by irondork inthe blood issue has been an ongoing arguement between the roomie and me.
not heated, by any means, but she keeps qouting back established wts reasoning on the subject.
"it's feeding, jason.
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Mad Sweeney
The Borg blood doctrine has nothing to do with concern for the health of the rank and file JWs, either spiritually or physically. It is entirely about power and control. It weeds out those who are willing to think and act for themselves, leaving behind only compliant, obedient sheep.
It is one of the most tragic cult traits the Watchtower employs.
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The True Nature of Reality
by ballistic indoes any one have any good theories on the true nature of reality?.
if you google this you come up with lots and lots of really wacky fringe science.. it's one of those things that shows just how little humans know about our existance or the universe.. some of the more interesting things i've read, are that our 3 dimensions are just a construct, time doesn't really exist, and another essay explaining that we can't trust our senses and they actually tell us very little about the world around us which is really full of electromagnetic forces, waves of various types and sub atomic particles.. i have started a thread before something along the lines of, i think therefor i am.
i exist on some level.
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Mad Sweeney
Read "The Magic of Reality" by Dawkins and that's about all you need to know. Multidimensional stuff is impractical for us to worry about at the moment, IMO.