sizemik

Joined

• started 145 topics
• posted 5,292 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by sizemik

• 
  78

  Neurosurgeon Has Near Death Experience

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  interesting stuff:.

  http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.

  i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  Brain chemistry is pretty kick-arse as I understand it. I've had my own issues with it, as plenty have, and it only needs a relatively minor imbalance to induce major behavioural changes, mood swings, audial and visual hallucination, mental illness, etc. Many of these can be mitigated or even eliminated by changing the chemistry back again through a course of therapy and/or meds.

  I guess my point is . . . if even relatively minor imbalances in brain chemistry produce these tangible changes, imagine the cocktail swimming around the comatose brain? . . . it's gone to DEFCON 1 as a bottom-line survival reaction. Of course you're going to tour the universe.
• 
  104

  “We will decide who is a predator!” – New Watchtower Instructions to Elders on Child Abuse

  by Jaime l de Aragon in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  must read on jehovahs witnesses watchtower arrogance in failure to warn of congregation pedophiles.. http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/we-will-decide-who-is-a-predator-new-watchtower-instructions-to-elders-on-child-abuse?fb_action_ids=10151270345663993&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  So if an accusation is made by the abuser that a minor was a "willing participant" . . . it's not child abuse?

  You may have misread the point being made . . . so here it is with emphasis.
• 
  78

  Neurosurgeon Has Near Death Experience

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  interesting stuff:.

  http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html.

  i've had long, personal conversations with two people who've had these experiences.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  Interesting read . . . thanks for posting.

  My father was a skeptic. He was comatose for a week in 1978 and eventually died in 1984. Only recently my mother told me about how he had experienced "astral travel" while he was in a coma and told me the details. She was the only one he ever told because he was too embarrassed to relate it. When she told me I thought it was her who was "losing it" . . . I just couldn't imagine my father saying such a thing.

  Food for thought.
• 
  15

  Secret Watchtower Letter: PARENTS HAVE MAIN RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILD'S SAFETY

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in a separate thread, cedar's response to the watchtower's hot-off-the-secret-press-to-elders letter on child abuse is featured.

  cedar's article is a powerful, well-composed overview of that letter.. tellingly, in the watchtower letter you will not find any direct exhortation requiring parents to first go to the elders when their child discloses sex abuse.

  no, the watchtower is much too clever to directly state what parents should or should not do.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  "Step One: Elders must call the Watchtower's legal department for direction".

  New fancy dressing dripping with pretend concern for the child, but the main concern is that lovely five letter word beginning with L and writ large: LEGAL.

  Why isn't step one "Call the 'Help for Vulnerable Children' Dept." . . . oh that's right, they don't have one . . . they're "Christian" . . .

  Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress . . . (James 1:27)
• 
  104

  “We will decide who is a predator!” – New Watchtower Instructions to Elders on Child Abuse

  by Jaime l de Aragon in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  must read on jehovahs witnesses watchtower arrogance in failure to warn of congregation pedophiles.. http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/we-will-decide-who-is-a-predator-new-watchtower-instructions-to-elders-on-child-abuse?fb_action_ids=10151270345663993&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582.

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  Rather, we are referring to situations in which it is established that an adult brother or sister has been guilty of sexually abusing a young child or has been sexually involved with a minor who is approaching adulthood and who was not a willing participant.

  So if an accusation is made by the abuser that a minor was a "willing participant" . . . it's not child abuse?

  These fuckers are just plain crazy.
• 
  281

  Songs that make you cry

  by sooner7nc in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there have been several threads about music the last few days, so i decided to start another.. this song absolutely makes me tear up every time i hear it.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq_3byxasmm.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  There was always something more important to do

  More important to say

  But "I love you" wasn't one of those things

  And now it's too late

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2loAlaonqQ&feature=related
• 
  121

  The Black Cat Analogy

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  .

  .

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook

  How to trap a believer: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a God.
• 
  18

  Spiders On Mars?

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  check it out:.

  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/spidery-black-objects-mars-surface-raise-speculation-184239849.html.

  whatever they are, they move.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  Fascinating . . .

  I found it difficult to marry the images with the close-up. Also science has only recently asked the question as to what life on other planets might actually look like . . . and thus how to recognise/define it. Complex molecules can have movement and other life-like behaviours.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dySwrhMQdX4
• 
  278

  Jwfacts-- More Lies But This Time About The Great Crowd

  by Recovery in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jwfacts has an article that explains why the great crowd must be in heaven.

  i am also aware that many of these are the same arguments that stemmed from the 'awakenings at bethel' so my statements are not simply attacks of jwfact's character (since these arguments are probably not original) but rather his copy and paste of what others have said instead of verifying it as 'fact' for himself.. so here are jwfacts arguments:.

  1. he shows that russell and rutherford (at some point) believed that the great crowd were in heaven.. 2. each term that describes the great crowd of revelation 7 is else used to described the anointed by the wt.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  I would like to know why you title your thread "More lies ..." when somebody simply has a view that differs from yours . . .

  Seems a little childish not to mention slanderous . . . and very unchristian.

  You appear to have an underlying motive that is fuelled by malice, which you try to justify with "reason"

  I think you should pray to Jehovah for forgiveness for your nasty behaviour, and work harder at putting on the Christian personality.

  I'm an inactive JW . . . and you are giving a poor recommendation. Shame on you.
• 
  21

  Please respond to an email from a distraught dad who is losing his daughter to the JWs through a JW boyfriend

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i received the following email through my website, www.watchtowerdocuments.com.

  how would you reply to his question?

  (i'll send him the link to this thread containing your replies.).

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sizemik

  no active diligent JW would ever consider dating outside of the JWs; their relationship would place him at great risk of being punished for it, if it were to come to light

  Really Sol? . . . that certainly wasn't my experience. A reasonable proportion of young ones I encountered were far from "diligent", in fact many were living double lives. As long as worldly friends were coming to the meetings and studying . . . nobody seemed to care. The young man will obviously want to preserve his family relationships at the expense of hers.

  Nobody's suggesting this is the "MO" of the cult . . . but it certainly happens.

  This man reports his daughter wants "nothing to do with her family" . . . hardly sounds like a normal young person stretching their wings. I grew up Anglican and have never met one who is possesive about their religion with their children . . . they're not normally that dogmatic. I don't think her religious choices are this man's real concern . . . but rather the well-being of his family relationships.

  During the conversion process it is stated very early on, that the student will experience opposition . . . from friends and family, and that this is actually Satan trying to prevent the student from having "the truth". Straight away this forms a family barrier . . . which has obviously been established here.

  It seems likely this Father has voiced his concern to his daughter and the cult reaction has kicked in.

  READ