Posts by mentalclarity

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My son graduated last Friday

by Captain Schmideo2 in

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i have talked about him before on this forum.

he is now a graduate from mit!.

it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.

mentalclarity

Wow- MIT-lots of great opportunities for him in the future.

Congrats!

Nice that you were able to socialize with some of the other families - people in general are pretty decent despite what we were told.

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Gifts for Father's Day?

by mentalclarity in

anyone have any suggestions for gifts for father's day?

it happens to coincide with my boyfriend's birthday so i want it to be special but i'm kind of running out of ideas.

budget- up tp $150.

Gifts for Father's Day?

by mentalclarity in

anyone have any suggestions for gifts for father's day?

it happens to coincide with my boyfriend's birthday so i want it to be special but i'm kind of running out of ideas.

budget- up tp $150.

mentalclarity

@dubstepped haha-he owns an instapot (and a bread maker too) But I'll check out the gourmet cooking stuff.

@Done- I had no idea what a leatherman was! That's pretty awesome!

I'm not sure if I would get him a gun but I'd definitely go to a pistol range with him - he'd love that.

Thanks for the input!

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Gifts for Father's Day?

by mentalclarity in

anyone have any suggestions for gifts for father's day?

it happens to coincide with my boyfriend's birthday so i want it to be special but i'm kind of running out of ideas.

budget- up tp $150.

I thought about the earphones for iPhone since he likes to listen to podcasts-talk radio while he works. I think the gift certificates are practical and that's my "go-to" gift with coworkers and friends but I want to put some more thought into it for him.

He's not an outdoorsman-He's more of an intellectual/cerebral type and he has an engineering degree. So he loves building stuff (especially electronic gizmos) He likes Star Trek-Next Generation (not fanatically-lol) and war movies. I got him the Band of Brothers series for a gift a few years ago

The drill would be a great gift but he has several already. Home depot is like his Disneyworld for adults-can spend hours there.

If I asked he'd probably say "anything" but I know he likes me too cook for him because i'm a pretty good cook and as a single guy home cooked meals are kind of a treat.

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Gifts for Father's Day?

by mentalclarity in

anyone have any suggestions for gifts for father's day?

it happens to coincide with my boyfriend's birthday so i want it to be special but i'm kind of running out of ideas.

budget- up tp $150.

mentalclarity

Anyone have any suggestions for gifts for Father's Day? It happens to coincide with my boyfriend's birthday so I want it to be special but I'm kind of running out of ideas. Budget- up tp $150. He's a gadget guy so anything along those lines but not too expensive is a plus but a lot of stuff is kind of expensive and outside my budget.

If you're a guy, what's a (tangible)gift that you've gotten that stood out and why?

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RIP Anthony Bourdain

by freemindfade in

so sad to hear about the loss of one of the best storytellers.

such a great unique personality.

he will be greatly missed .

mentalclarity

Very sad- I loved his shows.

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My failed attempts to help my brainwashed family

by Addison0998 in

first of all i just want to say a quick thank you to all of you who’s been listening to my story and my little rants and dilemmas lol.

this website has helped me so much to not feel alone and to keep me from feeling like i’m going crazy.

anyways, i’m defenitly going to try much harder from this point on to play the part until i move out after this summer.

mentalclarity

So now you're in the stage of waking up that I'll call "reality really sinking in that you will lose your family and there is no reasoning with them".

At first there was this naivety that we want to cling to. My family will be different, I'll be able to reason with them. They are pretty bright people and they'll be able to see through the bullshit. Well, I hate to be so cynical but 9 times out of 10 they won't be able to see it. You can't even imagine how many times I have scratched my head thinking "how the hell can they not see this?"...I mean I'm talking about some pretty sharp family members.

I'm sorry you're going through this- the bad news is that your relationship with jw family will never be the same again. The good news is you'll be able to make new relationships in time that are actually based on unconditional love and that is freaking amazing. If you'd never woken up, you'd never have an opportunity to experience that.

If they do wake up it will be on their own time.

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple

by Simon in

seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.

it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.

it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.

mentalclarity

What if you owned a business that made t-shirts for a living and someone came in ordering a dozen t-shirts that supported Trump who you hate? Do you have the right to refuse? Of course! You would lose a sale but you shouldn't be forced to go against your beliefs. Isn't this what America is all about? Take religion out of the equation- this is about personal beliefs. We should be very fearful of a government who takes away our autonomy. Now, that's fascism.

If you really want to punish a business, just take your money and go elsewhere (and maybe tell all your friends).

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A&E - Cults and Extreme Belief - Jehovah's Witnesses

by Incognito in

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i haven't seen this posted.. tuesday may 29, 2018 @ 10pm (new york time zone).

cults and extreme belief - jehovah's witnesses.

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Watched this last night,

Barbara Anderson - what a class act. I mean seriously, such a great representation for ex jws because you can tell all her actions towards the organization came from a place of personal integrity and it doesn't fit the crazy, bitter apostate narrative.

Romy was very brave to tell her story -Warlocks treatment of her speaks volumes. They are such buffoons- even just for PR they should have handled that totally different.

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Anglican Church response to the Aust Royal Commission. What a stark contrast!!!!

by stuckinarut2 in

oh wow...how the gb and the society could learn from this response!.

no victim blaming.

no passing of the buck.

mentalclarity

So I sometimes volunteer for a religious organization and you would not believe the amount of background (fingerprinting) checks and training about protecting children that is required if you are going to have any contact with kids. I see so many institutions implementing this. Even where I work there is a legal contract that I signed basically saying if I am aware of any type of abuse, I must let the authorities know. A legal form signed by me.

Why this is not being implemented in kingdom halls all over just blows my mind. I realize it would shatter the whole "we are different from the world" fantasy, but honestly with all the weird JWs that are populating the halls now- why wouldn't you want to be scrutinizing people to make sure they are safe? JWs have absolutely no room to criticize - I think for the most part, these institutions- whether religious or not- have acknowledged their responsibility and changed their processes to make sure these atrocities don't happen again.

But I realize that's just my naive self trying to apply common sense to a crazy apocalyptic religion that thinks we are all going to be destroyed in Armageddon.....