Posts by ranmac

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Politically Correct Wasteland

by freemindfade in

this was a comment i made from another post, but i would like to hear some people discuss this.

i know the social justice warriors will scream i'm some sort of trump supporter for what i say even though i don't agree with his ideas and no i am not voting for him... i accept this is a go to for them.. i think we have fallen into a pc vacuum.. criticizing someones religion = racism!.

telling someone to not be so sensitive = misogyny!.

ranmac

It's funny how people say it's not about political correctness, it's about being respectful. Well the truth is the PC movement has become a foul mouthed aggressive bully.

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Politically Correct Wasteland

by freemindfade in

this was a comment i made from another post, but i would like to hear some people discuss this.

i know the social justice warriors will scream i'm some sort of trump supporter for what i say even though i don't agree with his ideas and no i am not voting for him... i accept this is a go to for them.. i think we have fallen into a pc vacuum.. criticizing someones religion = racism!.

telling someone to not be so sensitive = misogyny!.

ranmac

I havnt read thru this thread yet but I just have to say,

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Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

by freemindfade in

so sad.

i love europe.

i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

ranmac

Spot on SSC. There's an absurd atmosphere of denial and self-righteousness going on with people about this issue. It's especially being pushed by the regressive left here in the West.

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Pixar the production company is jealous of Caleb and Sophia video's

by life is to short in

so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.

he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.

the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.

ranmac

Of course they do!

I smelt horse shit as soon as I heard it. Thought I'd check to see if the same stories on here and wouldn't you know, same story, different scenario and details!

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Pixar the production company is jealous of Caleb and Sophia video's

by life is to short in

so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.

he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.

the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.

ranmac

Wow. I just heard from a witness the other week that the brothers that do the Caleb videos were at a workshop/CGI semminar or something like that and people from Pixar came to check it out and told them that the Caleb videos were so good that the society is now considered competition.

Its official. We now have a new JW urban legend

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Beware Independent Thought

by poess in

is that for real?

i swear i read it in a magazine article directed towards teenagers.

it was a while back, maybe a year or two.

ranmac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9kiS8U46E&list=PLDBAF6B654A127171

This video sums up the GB's view of independant thought pretty good. The logic will blow you away.

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The Tubal-cain Class

by Londo111 in

watchtower theology is intent on the idea of classes, taking characters from the bible and making a modern day application that is nothing if not a study in narcissism.

there is the elijah class, the elisha class, the jehus and the jehonadabs, they even made a class out of the very obscure nethinim.

i was emailing auntbee and she had the idea of possibly parodying the idea in one of her videos.

ranmac

Thats awesome! If you were to somehow slip that into a watchtower, I doubt anyone would even blink an eye. Yes! What a fitting and timely application for us today!

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Using the word Father far more intimate than saying Jehovah?

by BU2B in

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this was one of the things i thought about while i was beginning to think for myself.. who has the more intimate relationship, the coworker of a man who calls him by his first name, or his child who calls him dad, or papa?.

all the emphasis jws put on jehovah blinds them to this simple truth.

what if one of us walked up to our father and said, hey bill!

ranmac

Ive thougt about this too. The repetitious obsession with saying Jehovah over and over again seems formal and cold. At a meeting a speaker once used this illustration: At a funeral the speaker giving the eulogy would never refer to the person as "the deceased" over and over again, it would be very impersonal. Some how that was supposed to be fitting.

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missing the JWD glory days

by fresh prince of ohio in

don't get me wrong, this forum currently has plenty of interesting discussions and posters, but, for those of you who weren't on the old jwd board in the early-to-mid-00s, man...i'm sorry but you really missed out on the glory years of this forum.

it was really a special, unique place then.

again, not dissing the current, but, that huge exciting wave of ex-jw internet activity that occurred in the early part of this century seems to have leveled off.