this morning reading the paper, latinos target.
of more hate crimes.
while hate crimes against.
as long as people have reasons to claim superiority , nope. which means never. whether the superiorty manifests as physical appearance, intelligence, wisdom, physical abilities, etc etc.
the only way intelligence from another planet would unite mankind, is if they attacked us, and we had to band together to defend earth. so we either all die, or we win the battle, and then go back to hating eachother...so that alien notion is sort of ridiculous for that reason.
when you were in the borg looking at the yearbook, none of the middle-eastern countries were accounted for were they?
did it ever strike anyone as odd that the region of the world which this religion was born in, had no "preaching" work being carried out there?
all the while the wtbs is shouting the end is sooo close?
when you were in the borg looking at the yearbook, none of the middle-eastern countries were accounted for were they? did it ever strike anyone as odd that the region of the world which this religion was born in, had no "preaching" work being carried out there? all the while the wtbs is shouting the end is sooo close? at the same time hinging their reasoning on matthew 24:14....
and then where did they pull that "there will be some obscure areas of the world that dont receive the preaching work" - you ever hear that one? wonder where they pulled that one out of...they are the commanders in chief of double talk aren't they.
a huge number of jws have mental illnesses.
i knew someone with a schizophrenic disorder and he would occasionally forget/refuse to take his pills which made for some very embarassing moments at the meetings and on service.
he would come to our house claiming he is jesus christ in the flesh and would get upset with anyone that didn't believe him.
i feel like i already had this debate on this forum. some goofy highfalutin brother going into a speech during a watchtower study, and the perfect justice occurs....the special needs guy begins clapping for him? you can't write comedy scripts this funny. i cant believe i'm justifying myself to you. but here, i'll give you what you want:
i dont think special needs people are funny to laugh at. i respect all people regardless of their abilities, because i respect life. i value empathy as a human quality, and strive to help people. i also strive to preserve the dignity of any special needs individual.
ok you happy now?
a huge number of jws have mental illnesses.
i knew someone with a schizophrenic disorder and he would occasionally forget/refuse to take his pills which made for some very embarassing moments at the meetings and on service.
he would come to our house claiming he is jesus christ in the flesh and would get upset with anyone that didn't believe him.
good god blondie you sound desperate to be important. we were supportive of this individual. it does not mean some of what he did at times was not funny. we had one instance where his outburst caused the entire congregation to laugh. it is actually the exact opposite of what you're supposing blondie. people were laughing knowing he had a problem, and the irony of an outburst, not laughing AT the poor bastard. because they went out of their way to be supportive, and accepted that he was one of us so to speak. take your preaching elsewhere.
dear lee week 64 friday.
this is my blog today for freeminds.
thaoulgt i would post it here for you too.. .
jw religion is just like any power structure, but because it has the label "truth" behind it...when people want to do all kinds of sick shit, it's much easier to get away with it. it's like that post i read a few days ago here. it was an article about some dipshit constantly commenting on his female employee's breasts...and making her do all this borderline sexual stuff to get him off. well he was "the boss" so he could get away with it for a time. what happens when these dipshits are not just the boss, but "the truth". and this man was made an elder directly by "the holy spirit". now you got some real shit on your hands. and they defend these people tooth and nail because they are so convinced god directly appointed these men. so yea there is the crux of the matter. all this nonsense about "truth" "directly appointed by god as elder, ms" whatever, turns an otherwise eccentric harmless bunch, into a cult. because it justifies any behavior, based on these fantastic notions of god's direct hand being involved in their otherwise childish charade.
in contrast. if they just went and said yea ok this guy is ready to work, put him to work give him responsibility. ok good, he's nice to people, does a good job whatever. when someone then says hey this guy is really into some wierd stuff, people will just take a reasonable approach of examining evidence etc. but when you tell people this guy was directly appointed by god, it's a whole other story. and that again, is the actual point where this religion becomes a cult, instead of a harmless charade, which may do some good for society otherwise.
ladylee: i'm very sorry for what they put you through. it sucks when you put your stock in something, believe, do the work, be a good example...and people take advantage of you, scapegoat you, etc. it unfortunately pulls the veil off what this religion really is. just an organization of men/women, the same as USPS...nothing holy to see here. just as if USPS tommorow declared god was in charge of their organization. instead of when you dont receive your package and call to complain, and then collect your insurance on the package...instead they tell you no no no, god is directing the package work, you must be an evil-doer, because god never sends a package to the wrong location. yea now USPS is a cult if they inserted that logic into their organization. it sets the stage for all kinds of crazy shit with that logic.
waiting on a couple important phone calls, so figured may as well make some use of this time.
i'm going to try and catalogue every error in this book, hopefully can be done before the end of the day.
i'm sure a lot of folks have already disected this and nothing new to see.
gladiator: you shouldn't of said that. now i'm going to read the whole bible backwards in search of codes!
you ever see that thing where they play obama saying yes we can backwards, and it says thankyou satan? maybe the bible is similar.
contradiction without the use of an outside medium (such as archaeology, fossil study).
i just stumbled on this after reading the thread about adam and the sexual subliminal message.
i was thinking about adam and eve and chronology, and a contradiction popped up in my head...so i picked up the bible and there it is.. gen 1:27 - god creates adam and eve, tells them to be fruitful.. gen 2:18 - now adam is alone?
i'm really not going to reiterate. that's fine if it's "already known" (not by wtbs btw)...again many contradictions still exist even after you accept this duality notion.
a huge number of jws have mental illnesses.
i knew someone with a schizophrenic disorder and he would occasionally forget/refuse to take his pills which made for some very embarassing moments at the meetings and on service.
he would come to our house claiming he is jesus christ in the flesh and would get upset with anyone that didn't believe him.
fade_away: you're really cracking me up man...
"Once a brother made a comment on the watchtower magazine study and made it to sound like an epic speech, and the schizophrenic started applauding all by himself afterwards. It turned a lot of heads."
lmao...that made my entire day worth living today.
matter of fact i did goto a congregation with a guy like this. was funny as hell. he was probably in his 30's and had some retardation, wasn't downs...because he didn't have the downs face...but he always had this crazy ass grin on his face, and would blurt out all kinds of crap. not usually the cursing associated with tourette's, just stuff you'd expect a 3 year old to say. his mom always had this look on her face like good god why me, but she cared for him so more power to her. most people tried to just be nice , the look on his mom's face always drew empathy, ie. she was embarassed enough as it was...so it made you want to atleast be nice to her son. he would blurt out during the meetings, but usually it was just unintelligible.
i'm trying to find the testimony of a lady who spoke years ago at the witness now for jesus convention (i believe in pennsylvania).
she mentioned that her husband (i assume not a witness) came out as a homosexual during the years the org did not consider such to be grounds for divorce.
the elders advised her she didn't have grounds for divorce.
i dont know anything about this, but was just curious. after this whole ordeal the woman took steps to be re-instated, so she was re-instated, but then she da'ed herself anyway? was just wondering what it was that piled up, you mentioned issues she shelved...what was this? just people gossiping about her and shunning her or something?
i heard some analysts on the news recently saying that at the rate the us is falling and china rising, it is expected that china will be the super power within the next 30 or 40 years.
if that happens then i guess there will be another mass exodus of jws from the wt despite what new light they come up with.
but if the witlesses are right then that means god must intervene and the great tribulation and armageddon is coming in less than 30 or 40 years.
fade_away: "and the whole thing starts over"...that about sums it all up. it's all cycles. we live in the realm of destruction. whether we pass on to another realm after death or not i have no clue, nor does anyone. was the beginning of our existence when we were conceived in this physical realm ? no clue. i do kind of like the realm explanation though, it's about as far out of science as i'll go. i always thought those transfiguration scriptures were pretty cool, even if nuts. but they would certainly support a realm notion, and that we exist in different realms, pass on to other realms etc. point being, this realm is just cycles repeated over and over indefinitely. the names change, that's about it.
