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  Quite an interesting first meeting with my Therapist.

  by truthseekeriam in

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  the moment i mentioned jehovah's witnesses he headed over to his file cabinet and handed me this print out.. .

  dear beloved one, .

  i see your loneliness and fears.

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  I have never been to a psychotherapist or counselor, but I have watched the TV series "In Treatment".

  How do you pick a therapist?

  If the therapist is to much like you they won't be able to help you address the real conflicts in your life. They will have the same coping mechanisms and blind spots.

  If the therapist is opposite of you they will hate you and become sadistic and get some secret pleasure in creating discomfort for you

  If the therapist is simply not the kind of person you would take seriously they won't be engaging enough to put in a sincere effort.

  It seems that the ideal therapist would be somewhere in between a friend and someone who is indifferent.

  You end up switching therapists and you have to lay out a couple hundred dollars to get to know them as persons.

  It's as bad as courtship.

  If I needed a therapist I would want a free session where I could browse their professional library to see what books and therapies they reference.

  I would ask them which therapists they tend to model. Thank them for their time. Read a book or two by the therapist's favorite therapist.

  Nice thing about this method is your problem will probably be gone by the time you find your best therapist.
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  Did you ever have a supernatural experience?

  by XPeterX in

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  ok i know some of you are going to mock me but i don't give a shit and you'd better get dafaq outta this thread if you don't beleive in this stuff.. .

  so,you ever seen somethin strange?shadow people?felt cold spots?touched by something you can't see?beaten by an unseen force?heard voices/whispers/growls/screams etc?are you sure about it or was it just your imagination?you ever been into the occult?c'mon share your experiences and stories!personally i've never had an encounter with the other side..

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  Calling forth Sylvia Brown... Are you there?

  No answer. Must be cuz she died.
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  'Deal with it!' - WT, in so many words

  by Gayle in

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  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20091101/spouse-special-needs/.

  an article if a marriage partner has a chronic health issue.

  no - did not mention something like - 'just read the bible & you'll feel better.

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  19 For my part I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to YOU shortly, that I may be a cheerful soul when I get to know about the things pertaining to YOU. 20 For I have no one else of a disposition like his who will genuinely care for the things pertaining to YOU. 21 For all the others are seeking their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

  Philipians 2:19-21

  So what's new?!!
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  US Dominance Fading Fast

  by metatron in

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  http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12.

  dead last in math and falling in other categories.. zerohedge announced this morning that the chinese yuan just passed the euro in trade finance globally.

  this puts it as #2, second only to the dollar.. metatron.

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  fts

  Thanks for the corrections to my stereotype.

  Things have changed a lot since the last time I was in China -NEVER!
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  US Dominance Fading Fast

  by metatron in

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  http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12.

  dead last in math and falling in other categories.. zerohedge announced this morning that the chinese yuan just passed the euro in trade finance globally.

  this puts it as #2, second only to the dollar.. metatron.

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  Fading is the right word. But at some point the competition for world dominance will cause instability that will break out in world war. Russia knows this and that's why it's using MacKinder's heartland theory to consolidate its power in their former border states. Look up MacKinder in Wikipedia. His theory states that the world consists of one big island (Eurasia-Africa) and whoever controls the world island is strategically situated to control the world.

  Without the USA buying stuff from the Chinese sweatshops China will revert to its old methods of keeping people under control - pruning theirpopulation through starvation. They have no need for war. War gets you more people to control. China doesn't need more people. They need space and raw materials. Russia has what China needs but war with Russia would be suicide because Russia could quickly bring all of China's progress to a halt by using a few of its thousands of nucelar weapons. A world without a strong USA would be under Russia's nuclear blackmail.

  This scenario could unfold quite rapidly in todays technology dependent world.
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  knockout game, what the freak!

  by unstopableravens in

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  Since I am an atheist I realize that humans are ANIMALS. Humans are dangerous. It doesn't matter what color.

  I don't think knock out perps should be killed but if they kill or disable someone that should be the end of their participation in society.

  Since it's mostly a male thing (forget about race) it needs to be treated via castration. Give them a choice to surrender their gonads or stay in jail until their testosterone diminishes to a non-threatening level (around 50 years old).

  That should be sufficient to take the fun out of it.

  Males are always trying to move up in the hierarchy so they ultimately have access to more females. Same thing in politics, religion and business.

  It's an organic problem that requires a surgical remedy. Testosterone poisoning.
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  My life time thoughts about Babylon the Great has fallen

  by Gorbatchov in

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  friends,.

  since i was a very young boy (+/- 10 years old) i had thoughts when revelation 18:2 was studiyed at our kingdom hall.. babylon the great was for me new york.

  the center of the world, where all cultures are comming together.. next step for me, was that new york was the center of the universe for our jehovah's witness religion.. so i was connecting babylon the great with our own religion.. now with all the topics about the connexion between the watchtower corporations with investment billions, political influance, history cleaning and rebranding their business i could imagine when the society is going down, many corporations and politicians will say "shame, shame, babylon the great has fallen...".

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  There are at least 4 ways to view endtime prophecy:

  1. The atheist view that it is just a style of presentation of universal conflict between good and evil but has no connection with the real world.

  2. The preterists view that it all has been fullfilled.

  3. The know-it-all. It hasn't happened yet but we already know the full explanation of how it will unfold. (Includes JW's, Adventists, Born-Agains)

  4. Open ended approach: It hasn't happened yet but we will know what it means when it happens.

  The idea that Babylon the Great is a religious entity is a protestant idea. Most of the protestant reformers liked to say that the Catholic Church is Babylon the Great. JW's descend from that tradition only they extend that explanation to cover all religions except theirs.

  This is a serious flaw in JW teaching. There is no basis for believing Babylon the Great is a religious entity.

  The language of Revelation 18 makes no reference to religious features. The descriptors primarily refer to wealth and dominance of a political nature.

  The language of Revelation also makes it impossible to apply Babylon the Great to the Watchtower organization. In what way could you say the scripture at Rev. 18:23 applies to JW's "Your traveling merchants were the top-ranking men of the earth".

  If there is any fullfillment of the prophecies about Babylon the Great then the USA is the best candidate.

  "The traveling merchants of the earth became rich due to the power of her shameless luxury" _ Rev. 18:3b

  "The traveling merchants of the earth are weeping and mourning becasue there is no one to buy their full stock anymore" _ Rev 18:11

  "Too bad, too bad the great city, in which all those having boats at sea became rich by reason of her costliness, because in one hour she has been devastated._ Rev. 18:19

  USA is still the economic and military hegemon that has a kingdom over the whole earth.

  The idea that Babylon the Great is a religious entity or a collective religious entity can't be supported in any way by the Bible.
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  Video stills from the latest talk by GB member Steven Lett....

  by sir82 in

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  ...at least, i think that's what this is...... http://www.today.com/id/19798680/ns/today-today_entertainment/?cat=tm.

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  Sir82

  I hear a super she-bear rustling in the brush.
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  Shooting stars at end of JW video about New Tuxedo HQ

  by scotoma in

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  the videos on jw.org are nauseatingly corporate and propagandistic.. the smiling blondes that are showcased - the big executives sitting at their thrones (authoritative.

  desks).

  the workers clad in their orange safety uniforms like so many worker bees in a hive.. the word "love" used over and over again.

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  Yes AnnOMaly we know. So, what's the point.

  It wasn't a shooting star. But, it WAS a shooting star effect. To the ordinary observer of the video (me for instance) it looks like a shooting star and reminded me of the intro to a lot of warm fuzzy UFO movies (Spielbergs ET)

  As I said, " The JW.org is clever enough that if they didn't want the shooting star effect they could easily have removed it."

  "Airplanes: If you are shooting anywhere near civilization, you will most likely have some shots
  with airplane trails in them. I like to use the clone tool in Photoshop Elements to remove the
  airplanes. If it was a busy night, this could take a while, but your final product will look much
  better if you take the time to remove them. If there are a lot of airplanes on any particular night,
  sometimes I'll go ahead and render the star trails photo, and then decide which airplane trails are
  most offensive and just remove those. It's always best to go back to the original photos to remove
  the airplane trails, and then re-render the star trails photo. I have, however, discovered that if I
  decide to make a time lapse video of the photographs, then I like to leave the airplanes in for
  them. I think they have a very cool "shooting star" effect. Again, just my taste; you may think
  differently."

  ___James Vernacotola on Photography
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  Shooting stars at end of JW video about New Tuxedo HQ

  by scotoma in

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  the videos on jw.org are nauseatingly corporate and propagandistic.. the smiling blondes that are showcased - the big executives sitting at their thrones (authoritative.

  desks).

  the workers clad in their orange safety uniforms like so many worker bees in a hive.. the word "love" used over and over again.

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  scotoma

  AnnOmaly,

  I must confess I'm not completely oriented to this planet yet.

  The JW.org is clever enough that if they didn't want the shooting star effect they could easily have removed it.

  I really don't care about the origins of any omens. But they seem to care about origins of such things.

  It just seemed like they were going for a little "magic realism"

  Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." [2] From Wikipedia