Posts by cuckoo in the nest

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I really want to go JW but..

by fortbethel in

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i've studied with like 30 diff denominations.

i really feel jw is best for me.

i think it's the 144,000 part & the once a year get together when they pass around the sacrament that bothers me most.

Hello Fortbethel, from your description of yourself you and I could be twins. Both male, same age, single and both my parents are dead now. I've been semi-seriously studying with a witness couple for years too, after they started visiting my mother and then refocused their attention on me, probably thinking I was more responsive to their message. I was a lapsed Anglican (Episcopalian) with an interest in matters philosophical and comparative religions.

I suppose it was after the death of my mother that my interest in their teachings moved from an academic level to more of a "hands-on" approach. Their take on the physical resurrection of the body has certain appeal at certain times, and they certainly knew their audience. It also seemed to agree with the words of the funeral service "...in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life". Maybe bereavement just knocked me sideways for a bit, and the old grey matter wasn't firing on all cylinders. Whatever was the case, I found myself polishing a chair with my butt in the local Kingdom Hall.

It's only when you get beyond the warm, fluffy cosiness of the Bible Teach book, the diet Kool-aid, and get to observe dubdom from the inside that the JW's reveal their true nature. True, there are some very nice people in the org, but is it the org that makes them so, or are they just nice by nature? Certainly the burdens imposed by the seven-headed monster in Brooklyn seem to crush the spirit out of some.

I still attend the public meeting on the odd occasion, but it's more to study them than study with them, and also so as not to offend the couple who introduced me to dubdom. Despite everything they are decent people and don't deserve to carry the can for all the Watchtower's excesses. However this is reducing, and sometimes I can't help but plant the odd seed of dissent...

If you truly want to find spirituality, it won't be found in an airless, windowless brick box whilst some middle-manager conducts a sales seminar every Sunday. The world is full of good people, good churches. Go find them. Good luck and may your god go with you.

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How can i make my cat drink?

by highdose in

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its the height of the summer here and i think my eldery cat is not drinking enough.

his urine smells strong like human patients that i used to work with did when they hadn't drunk enough.. hes got fresh water down all the time, but hes not touching it?.

cuckoo in the nest

Hello Highdose, I had similar trouble with my elderly tom. He wouldn't drink tap water only rainwater from the water butt. Do you live in a hard water area, as this can put them off drinking. Try him with bottled mineral water but only the still kind. Hope it's just a case of feline fussiness and not the onset of kidney trouble, good luck to you both.

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Songs about escaping mind control/JWs?

by chosetheredpill in

i'm looking for suggestions of songs that make you think about your escape from mind control.

please reply with your suggestion.. here's a youtube playlist i just made.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=pl4618cce125431c7a.

cuckoo in the nest

The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) by the Fun Boy Three.

I find this one singularly appropriate. I've even used it on my phone as the ringtone for the MS I (sort of) study with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRNYqsMIbg0

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80% of all web sites are pornagraphic

by Sour Grapes in

during today's witchtower study there was so much wisdom.

coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that.

i could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?".

cuckoo in the nest

If porn really was that prevalent, then I'd spend most of my working life disinfecting keyboards and fitting monitors with wiper blades. In reality I never come across it (no pun intended) either on my own system or those of clients. And some of those can be pretty ropey.

No, what this is all about is information control. Scare the herd, so they don't go wandering around the net and find out the real story. Keep the Great Unwashed under the thumb, don't let them think, to question, to spot the holes in the doctrine you could drive an OIL TANKER through.

You can see how it's working. I got a lift back from the hall with the MS I'm allegedly studying with & his wife. I said something along the lines of "the net isn't all bad, I downloaded the assembly program off it. And got the new DVD too...". You could see the colour visibly drain from his face. Poor chap. He's a good man, but he laps every word of this up like a starving dog in a gravy factory.

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80% of all web sites are pornagraphic

by Sour Grapes in

during today's witchtower study there was so much wisdom.

coming forth from the conductor and those in attendance that.

i could only say to myself "can't they hear what they are saying?".

cuckoo in the nest

In the real world I'm a computer engineer, and also the lowest form of life in dubdom, a mere study. Although these days most of my effort is spent studying them rather than with them.

So out of professional curiosity I dragged my arse into the airless, windowless brick bunker of a hall on the hottest day of the year to breathe in other peoples' gaseous emissions (from both ends) for two hours, just to see what their take on the internet would be.

Christ on a bike, they certainly rose to the challenge. Porno popups? Titty pics on every page? Spontaneous appearance of pussy all over your screen (even when you're not on Icanhazcheezburger.com). Every possible cliche, every biased, unthinking half baked idea they could dredge up, they beat the web to death with it. And I'm there, eyes rolling, biting my pen in half to stifle a cry of "BOLLOCKS", hardly able to take it in. Just how ill informed are these people? Maybe in the mid nineties, long ago, the net was a bit like that. But they made it sound like the world wide wank.

Oh, and to top it all, after the meeting one of the elders came up to me and asked if I could speed up his internet connection for him. You really couldn't make this crap up, could you?

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