By the way,
something that has been 'bothering' me lately is the question; 'am I technically an APOSTATE' now I'm sharing these ideas with people on this forum?
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Christopher Hitchens Vs Armageddon
by The Marvster ini've just spent a big part of today watching interviews, debates etc with richard dawkins.
when i was a jw i used to hate this man with all my energy, i looked on him as the devil's offspring, he represented an idea that totally terrified me.
today i found myself saying i love the man.
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Christopher Hitchens Vs Armageddon
by The Marvster ini've just spent a big part of today watching interviews, debates etc with richard dawkins.
when i was a jw i used to hate this man with all my energy, i looked on him as the devil's offspring, he represented an idea that totally terrified me.
today i found myself saying i love the man.
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The Marvster
I've just spent a big part of today watching interviews, debates etc with Richard Dawkins. When I was a JW I used to hate this man with all my energy, I looked on him as the devil's offspring, he represented an idea that totally terrified me.
today I found myself saying I love the man. Anyway a Richard Dawkins video was linked to Christopher Hitchens videos and I found this one particularly interesting. He was basically talking about how he detests the whole attitude in certain religions, i.e., that longing for god's great day to come when billions will be destroyed while the faithful stand by gleefully watching, awaiting their salvation to eternal bliss, while 99.99% of mankind experience gruesome divine execution.
This is a subject often mentioned on this forum so thought I'd post this vid (of course it might be 'very' old news already seen by many, if so, sorry)
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Had any weird dreams recently?
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i'll go first.. i dreamt last night that i was still at uni, i said goodbye to one of my lecturers.
then ulrika jonsson (former weather girl, shooting stars captain, and swedish nymphomaniac) gave me a lift home in her car - wtf?!
she kept trying to change the cd whilst trying to drive (reaching on the floor, looking for a cd).
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The Marvster
Oh and I used the 'hold your nose and try to breathe through it' test when I wanted to check it was a dream....
the first time that worked, lol, I was flabberghasted, and of course the dream crumbled as I got too excited, I woke up a few seconds later... lol
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Had any weird dreams recently?
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i'll go first.. i dreamt last night that i was still at uni, i said goodbye to one of my lecturers.
then ulrika jonsson (former weather girl, shooting stars captain, and swedish nymphomaniac) gave me a lift home in her car - wtf?!
she kept trying to change the cd whilst trying to drive (reaching on the floor, looking for a cd).
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The Marvster
Stuffwotifink
Yeah that is the first time I experienced pushing the hand through the glass... no idea why I tried this when lucid. Re: flinging myself through glass windows, this is a habit after getting lucid in one nightmare and escaping the building in a panic by jumping through the window, hoping I would awaken, it worked. I think it's just a habit now that I do without thinking when lucidly aware.
I think most people think themselves incapable of doing this stuff, total BS, anybody can, it's just finding a way I guess, and some people are inclinde to develop the ability more easily, who knows why? I wish they had a lucid dreaming pill, I would definitely pay... I think I have one of Steven Le Berge's books or some other well versed lucid dreamer...
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Had any weird dreams recently?
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i'll go first.. i dreamt last night that i was still at uni, i said goodbye to one of my lecturers.
then ulrika jonsson (former weather girl, shooting stars captain, and swedish nymphomaniac) gave me a lift home in her car - wtf?!
she kept trying to change the cd whilst trying to drive (reaching on the floor, looking for a cd).
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The Marvster
Great post, Loveunihateexams....
for some odd reason I've had about 5 lucid dreams in the past month, the most recent was the craziest..
I'm walking down the street and suddenly there's a cobweb blocking me, so I pull it out of my way, then another appears, then more and more until I try to charge through them all and they start to wrap around my body, pulling me to the floor.... well after fighting the damn things off i get up and throw the bundle of 'web stuff' away, and just flies up in the air and sticks to a wall high up on a near building and I immediately think, 'this is a dream, I'm dreaming'... so I start trying to construct things, I wish a building into existence and it appears, I turn the corner and wish another scene and it appears. then I notice my eyes are shutting and I think, damn, I'm losing it, I'm about to lose lucidity. then I awaken in bed, but I don't trust it, so I do an experiment and realise it's a 'false' awakening and i'm still dreaming... so I take my hand and push it through the glass of the window (I'm on the first floor of a house) and it softly goes through the glass, like entering another dimension, no smash, no pain... i then hurl myself through the glass smashing it and land on the pavement below, but then I wake up in bed again, so redo do the experiement, ' it's still a dream', put my hand through the glass 'again', it goes through softly again, throw myself out the window through the glass again, land on the pavement below, unhurt. Find myself next to a Barkley's Bank, push my hand through the glass door, goes through softly, push my whole leg through, same thing, and yep, you guessed it... decide to violently fling my body through the glass door of the bank and land on the carpet inside... then finally I awaken.. for real... wow, did I immediately grab pen and paper for that one, it was one of my faves....
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Astral Projection
by Black Man inso what are your thoughts on astral projection?
have a co-worker who claims to know how to induce this on himself.
is he crazy?
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The Marvster
Interesting topic....
I've experienced feelings of being outside my body, within the dream state, as stuffwotifink said, it is a shockingly unmistakeable experience, it's almlost ridiculous how convincing it feels. The last time I experienced this was during a 10 day meditation session, in the afternoon when I was sleeping I had a vivid lucid dream and towards the end was outside of my body and then fell back in to me... WTF was that... meditation can induce these experienceS...
here is the delusional poppycock part though, about a year ago, I experienced these sensations for about a month, while wide awake on my travels... like IMPOSSIBLE, and I wouldn't dare tell anybody this..... people think you're a crackpot... but when this sort of experience hits you you're like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS???? UTTER DISBELIEF..
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This just in new policy bethel
by poopie ini called bethel recently asking a question.
the question was do you have a bible example of someone that showed pricipled love to anothet human by giving them the silent treament for months?
answer well bro are you a jw yes well we will aens the elders over to help you.
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The Marvster
This is exactly why I love this site....
there are so many ideas that just expose the insanity of Watchtower behaviour, I ideas that I could never have thought up myself, I mean, why the heck didn't anybody think about that one? Now you've pointed out, it's so frikkin' obvious...
I bet the bethelite on the other end of the line was pretty shocked...
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Blackmail to get your drivers license, blackmail to end the shunning...
by Zoos inthe watchtower corporation is ripping the carpet out from under sincerity.. they teach that god knows our private thoughts, the inclinations of our heart.
how can they possibly think that it's okay to dangle a drivers license in front of a teenager under condition of baptism?
how can they possibly think it is okay to dangle renewed association with family under condition of reinstatement?.
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The Marvster
Kaboom..... rumble, rumble... (Like lightning followed by thunder fading into the background)
I remember when that thing about reinstatement hit me like a bolt of lightening out of the blue one day, maybe a year after I got disfellowshipped... it was so bloody obvious, does anybody really go back for Jehovah? can't Jehovah see the enormous conflict of interest there? If I'm returning because I can't take the 'shunning' anymore, am I really returning to 'Jehovah'??? am I returning because I love him???... or do I just want my friends back and will do just about anything for it...?
this is just one of those things that made me realise my relationship with the Jdubs totally over...
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If its Halloween, it must be it must be saw
by suavojr inthis is the list of my favorite terror movies that i used to watch as kid and still was able to be a good little jdub and son of the cobe.
looking back, the wt made me more curious to watch these movies.
some great memories!
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The Marvster
Invasion of the body snatchers 1978, yeah, that film was the bollocks, one of my faves.
Pet Cemetery 1989 (scared the shat out of me)
The Omen Trilogy...
before joining the 'dubs' with my mum I remember watching horror films with my family when only 8 years old.. they indoctrinated me with horror films, I remember sitting between mum and dad watching all sorts of horror films... and at Christmas parties whilst all the adults used to be drinking and dancing in the living room, we kids would huddle up and watch the available horror film in the wee hours of the night...
then during the JW time I still secretly watched a few horrors with some more liberal brothers... and one of the first things I did after getting DF'd was watched horror film after horror film after horror film after horror film... had to play 'catch up'... it was so liberating to invite 'Satan' into my home again....
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Something interesting!
by John Aquila ini was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.
we both served as elders for years.
he is in his late 70s.
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The Marvster
OMG, my jaw is on the floor.... f***
Amazing shit is going down....