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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
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  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  Then again, OUTLAW's sense of humour always makes me smile, laugh even, and that helps me not take all this shit too seriously.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Are NOT Under Mind Control

  by PublishingCult in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how would you respond to the assertion that 7.2 million members of the jehovah's witness religion are not under any sort of mind control?.

  the argument being that every one is responsible for their own actions and cannot blame the indoctrinator for what he says and does.

  how could they possibly be under mind control?.

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  Nickolas

  Spade, the greatest conundrum of mind control is that one is unaware of it in himself.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  Yes, I understand what you are saying, Giordano, and I understand the emotional dynamic and why it is so. I have a profound loathing for the WTBTS myself and I realise there are some dispicable individuals who frequent the Kingdom Halls. But there are also many good people who are victims of the WTBTS whose delusions will only be entrenched by the perceived persecutions they are constantly told to expect. If my ambition is to open someone's mind and help them escape the Watchtower, venom and vitriol make my job more difficult.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  No shortage of venom on this board.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  Your nick is well chosen, doofdaddy.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

  Mahatma Ghandi.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  My Mom is intelligent...but she is a JW, therefore she is not that intelligent.... Can you REASON with them? Can they TEST their knowldege? Can they hear condratictory staments? Can they have an honest debate open to the idea of being wrong? Can they admin they dont have ceirtainty? So where exactly is the intelligence?

  You are confusing credulity with intellect, cyberjesus. Atheism is not a new concept, although it has been bolstered considerably by men like Einstein and Darwin. However, arguably the most intelligent individual to have lived, Sir Isaac Newton, was also a theist when many of his contemporaries were not, although few would admit it at the time. Newton also had an irrational belief in alchemy which most of his contemporaries judged laughable, but the mathematics and physics he figured out contributed more to the evolution of human intelligence than anything else to date. Anything else. If you really want to understand how an intelligent person comes to believe what is not rational, you're going to need to find a different way.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  Goes to our individual motives for being here, I suppose, MJNM. Qadhafi's going to either blow his own brains out or get lynched. He is an evil individual and is the ultimate focus of the hatred of the people he has oppressed. The individual Jehovah's Witness is not in the same league, although the organisation that exercises so much control over him may very well be.

  My wife's a Jehovah's Witness. An intelligent Jehovah's Witness. She skipped two grades, in fact, one in elementary school and the other in high school. She was the youngest student in the University we both attended and she graduated cum laude with an honours bachelor's degree. In terms of intelligence, she's 95th percentile. She's no witless, as much as she has been hoodwinked by the WTBTS. If you were to speak to her with mockery, she could if she wished cut you into ribbons and you wouldn't even notice. You would not experience catharsis.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  I wasn't familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, so thank you for contributing to my ongoing education, SBC. I visited the link provided and left with a kernel of a proposition that all of us suffer from it. The older I get and the more I learn the more I realise how ignorant I am.
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  Is "Kingdumb Hall" really an offensive term?

  by cyberjesus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if a friend of mine starts to say things out of emotion and i call him "schizophrenic" then that might be an insult.

  however if he is having auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking then that word becomes a description of his situation.. now i ask you.

  does the attendance to the kh promote intelligence?

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  Nickolas

  The difficulty with bluntly saying how you perceive things, however honest you're being, is it greatly lowers your odds of prevailing in a discussion. Again, what is your purpose? Ignorant people do not know they are ignorant. Why? Because they are ignorant. If you tell them they are ignorant, they will be offended, they will not believe you, they will disrespect you and what you are saying and they will not be the least bit inclined to listen. If you tell them that you respect them as individuals but perceive problems with some of what they are representing you just might get them to listen to you. My perspective on how best to undermine the Watchtower is still evolving, but I long ago decided that attacking the individual Jehovah's Witness was not going to be effective.