Posts by Dismissing servant

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The rank and file and mentally diseased!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

this sounds like the typical rank and file jw, it's actually a mental disorder, i and many others were once in this state.... delusional disorder is an uncommon psychiatric condition in which patients present with delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.

[ 1 ][ 2 ] delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis.

non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs that involve situations that could potentially occur in real life; examples include being followed or poisoned.

Dismissing servant

The problem is that the diagnostic system of psychiatric disorders makes explicit exeptions for religious beliefs. If you believ that Jesus was born by a virgin you are not delusional, but if you believe that your became pregnant by some godly interventin you are delutional. This is a bit illogic, I agree, but the vergin bith of Jesus is so established in the western culture so we cannot say people believing i it are delutional in a strict way.

This one is a bit harder... someone believing that Jesus returned invisibly in the year 2011 is probably delusional......but a group of poeple in an established religion stating that he returned in 1914 is probably not delusional in a strict psychiatric meaning. Even if we both, and probably most people here and everywhere find that belief just outright crazy.

Neverthess, my point about scaring people back to the kingdom hall is about how to interact with believers.......calling them delusional doensn't make them listen to us...........they just identify us as aggressie apostates.

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The rank and file and mentally diseased!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

this sounds like the typical rank and file jw, it's actually a mental disorder, i and many others were once in this state.... delusional disorder is an uncommon psychiatric condition in which patients present with delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.

[ 1 ][ 2 ] delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis.

non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs that involve situations that could potentially occur in real life; examples include being followed or poisoned.

Dismissing servant

Sometimes I wonder if some posters just wish to scare every lurking active JW back to the kingdom hall.

And yes, organized religion/belief per se is not classified as delusional in psychiatry...a patient have to have more severe symtoms that belief to be classified as delutional, e g hearing gods voice or acting out their belief in a strange/atypical way. I don't think the people in Al Qaeda or ISIS would primally will be classified as delutional in the traditional psychiatric sence. In some way they are acting rational in their system of belief. And they don't have any (other)symtoms of psychosis/delution.

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Disturbing or amusing?

by JWdaughter in

anyone here notice how the icon that comes up in your tab for jehovahs-witness.net is almost identical to the one that the wt chose for jw.org?

coincidence?

i wonder.

Dismissing servant

Yes, I nociced it when I haad a look at my mothers tablet! The org seem to have copied the logo from here! :-)

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JW GB MEMBER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

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gb member and so called "annointed" person geoffry jackson is caught red handed on video doing some worldly dancing and sexual gyrating (they have spoken against such manner of dancing on several occasions) with a woman who is not his wife!!!

i can only imagine what they do off camera now!!!.

i would not have even considerd doing such a thing on the dance floor with a woman, especially if it was not my wife, and i'm not even one of the so called "annointed" smh!!!

Dismissing servant

You know....it's excellent that this video is put up at Youtube...maybe it will have a much greater effect than the whole August tract campagne? I hope every rank and file JW will be able to watch this...

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JW GB MEMBER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

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friends

gb member and so called "annointed" person geoffry jackson is caught red handed on video doing some worldly dancing and sexual gyrating (they have spoken against such manner of dancing on several occasions) with a woman who is not his wife!!!

i can only imagine what they do off camera now!!!.

i would not have even considerd doing such a thing on the dance floor with a woman, especially if it was not my wife, and i'm not even one of the so called "annointed" smh!!!

Dismissing servant

Come on..Jesus turned 720 litres of water in to wine...when people already were drunk....sure he liked partying...and girls.......remember...he was a perfect man! :-P

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Anyone else notice the new Terms of Use on jw.org?

by leaving_quietly in

i first noticed it today... slides up at the bottom.

i wonder why they felt the need to do this?

this is just silly for a religious website..

Dismissing servant

I see some reasons. The WTS doesn't want their own people creating own websites for preaching quoting the org.s webpage. The org probably prefere people being liknked to the JW.orgy website.

And yes there is also that apostate thing......and the mocking...we all remember that sign-language video that went viral some year ago!

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JW GB MEMBER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!!

by ADJUSTMENTS in

jw
friends

gb member and so called "annointed" person geoffry jackson is caught red handed on video doing some worldly dancing and sexual gyrating (they have spoken against such manner of dancing on several occasions) with a woman who is not his wife!!!

i can only imagine what they do off camera now!!!.

i would not have even considerd doing such a thing on the dance floor with a woman, especially if it was not my wife, and i'm not even one of the so called "annointed" smh!!!

Dismissing servant

He seemed to like it..........:-)

Nex one might be Lösch! :-D I would like to see old Gerrit make some moves!

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Armageddon is only a few weeks away...

by Calebs Airplane in

"which generation is this?

why, the one that saw the beginning of fulfillment of jesus prophecy.

that means people alive in the year 1914. how many remain?

Dismissing servant

The interpretation of the "generation" has changed 3 times (at least) since the 1980's! Now the generation is several overlapping generations! :-)

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Why was such a GREAT, GREAT, GREAT thing as Internet not foretold in the Bible?

by Pinku in

jws claim that even such a small thing as proclaiming 1986 as the international year for peace was foretold in the bible.

this raises the question: why was such a great thing as internet (the influence of which could not even be compared with anything in the history at all) not foretold in the bible?

with internet and tv the world has become literally a global village!.

Dismissing servant

I might be wrong, but I think that Russel had an interpretation that the steam locomotive was foretold by Job!

I myself think it's really strange that the bible mentions such a great thing as the human brain! The kidneys that produce you know what ......are mentioned, but not the brain! :-D

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Members of the writing department has resigned

by hardtobeme in

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this is what i found at anointedjw.org.

i don't know if it's true.

on august 25, 2014, we received the following comment and inquiry: .

Dismissing servant

Some people must have seen those COs and elders partake......and COs resigning would also be easy to verify......have we got that kind of information from another source? Where did this happen? Was it in the US, or are these figures worldwide?