rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.
say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.
people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.
Rights flow from the individual, not from the government.
You have as many rights as you grant yourself. Don't sit around waiting for some "group" or entity to empower you.
You were born with rights, only religions and governments box you in, restrict you, make you think you "can't do this or that".
Once all of humanity realizes rights flow from the bottom up, not from the top down, then things will get interesting!
some of you may remember old goat who used to post here.
he died last night in his sleep.
he was 92 years old.
Sorry to hear of this..
Always admired his desire to make a record of what the WT claimed to be, even if not many care.
May he rest in peace..
do you remember the first time you found out "the truth about the truth"?.
yes, it was confronting, shocking and life altering.
yes it was hard to deal with.. but, along with that, many have said that they experienced a sense of thrill, euphoria, or joy when realising the facts about the religion that held us captive mentally and physically for so long.. it was liberating to learn some of the controversial teachings etc.
I wouldn't call it a 'high' either. I would call it utter shock. It was amazing the further and further I went down the rabbit hole there were just more things that popped up. The intellectual dishonesty and misquoting of sources was more shocking than anything.
Now it doesn't even surprise me when new stuff comes out, just the same old same old from a crazy cult!
my marriage is ending.
its been over for a long time to tell the truth.. im not completely out of the borg and dont want to be dfed.. i want to keep contact with fam and friends, but im very lonely now.. which are the best jw dating sites which have free options?.
im not going to pay a lot, just want to meet some single sisters or ex sisters.. any help would be much appreciated..
I was in your place before and made some of the mistakes that it sounds like your headed for.
I understand lonely, its very tough leaving a cult and losing a life partner. But nobody else can fulfill what you feel is missing. You need to take a little time alone and get used to that feeling, and eventually be OK with yourself. Entering some sort of relationship while you aren't 100% whole and complete is a bad idea, as you will attract the same kind of person.
Take a year off where you simply focus on yourself. Extract yourself from the cult all the way and make some new platonic friends. Once you do this you will be ready for a new partner.
in the most recent circuit assembly there was a lot about porn and warning against porn.
even warning against looking at swim wear adverts!
so i was wondering, is porn really such an issue in the wt?.
Porn is an issue in society in general. Its going to be even more so in a sexually repressive cult
there is a public talk given by tight pants tony on youtube titled "the real armageddon, why, when"his talk, as usual, doesn't make much sense.
he says armageddon is not a nuclear holocaust or an asteroid hitting the earth it's god's war against all the political nations of the earth.
he talks about a celestial phenomenon that will be phenomenal.
I used to give that talk.
There were six bullet points on why Armageddon was close in the original outline. One of the points was that the number of anointed were falling.
Then a revised outline came out. Amazingly one of the bullet points was dropped. The one about the number of anointed dropping.
is this true?
is this really true?!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.
I watched. Its good, even with Cedars commentary....
A few highlights I picked up on
Dry humping is pornea at 38:00
1:11:30
Being under the influence of Masturbation is like hiking up a mountain carrying a boulder?
1:26:00 Have you ever woken up with an erection?? :)
1:41:45 Grabbing your Bro Friends crotch when he sits on your lap is Pornea. Because that happens all the time????
i believe that i have a good cause to sue the organization.
but i know that they have crafted themselves a legal loophole infinite loop.
so i was thinking that i should just sue the congregation that i know fucked me over.
Sue them for what?
Are you in the USA or elsewhere?
are there any good scholarly texts on revelation that aren't written from the perspective of a believer?
whenever i try to find anything i can barely get more than a few sentences in before the supposed exegesis starts talking about how it applies to us living today and how we all need to get right with jesus.
i want to find a text that isn't coloured by the preconceptions that come with believing it's all real..
It was dude on a mushroom trip. Why bother reading anything further into it?
for those who don't know, asexual is someone who feels no sexual desire for other people.
they may often want the companionship of a relationship but with no benefits.
what would the jws view be of a jw dating an asexual worldly person?
Probably allowed unless you stay the night at their house, cause that automatically means they had sex..
