Different people enjoy different things. I'm not going to be arrogant enough to say someone's not happy when they are. Some people find the social aspect of being a JW enjoyable - that's fine, I'm not going to judge them for it.
Posts by Landy
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23"Best life ever" ?????
by charity7 inis this a slogan that was recently come up with for jw's?
i've seen it used as a hashtag on instagram for jw's, key chains, cakes, about me biography description... the first thing i thought was, isn't that a little pretentious?
they complain so much about this life.
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What do you think the Australian Government will do?
by Richard Oliver ini am not wanting to start a fight.
i just want to hear what people think.
honestly and realistically, what do you think the australian government will do, with watchtower, when they receive the full arc report?.
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Landy
If NOTHING happens becouse of the ARC at least some eyes have been opened to how the WTS deals with these matters.Karter.
Personally, I think that is the key. The ARC is toothless. Nothing will happen.
I'm also not sure who much effect it will have on public opinion. I've never seen it on the news. I was brought up as a JW and I'd never heard of it until I came here a year or so ago.
If I went out in the street and asked a 100 people what they thought of the ARC investigation into JWs and other organisations handing of child abuse cases I know for a fact I would get 100 blank stares.
It's big news in the bubble that is this place because we all want it to be big news. The reality is that it isn't big news, not at all.
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What do you think the Australian Government will do?
by Richard Oliver ini am not wanting to start a fight.
i just want to hear what people think.
honestly and realistically, what do you think the australian government will do, with watchtower, when they receive the full arc report?.
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Landy
RO has proven himself adept at asking then ignoring answers and at the same time taking another opportunity to articulate his own pro-JW organization views on its response to allegations of child sexual abuse.
He's also adept at providing a more objective version of what is happening in ongoing court cases. I have no idea whether he's pro JW or anti JW, and I don't really care. His posts on the court processes and giving the realistic outcomes are sometimes worth reading and if he's bullied of this site by imbelices that would be a shame.
But, not to worry, if he goes, we've always got Outlaw and his stupid pictures to keep us informed.
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The Evolution of Morality - Jonathan Haidt
by cofty inthe question of how humans came to have a moral sense is one of the more interesting challenges offered by believers against unguided evolution.
even informed christians who accept the reality of evolution feel a need to add an additional step where god imbued man with a conscience.. non-supernatural explanations of the origin of morality usually focus on simple examples of reciprocal altruism and the ability to empathise with fellow creatures.
secular moral systems most often rest on the single foundation of the effects actions have on the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Landy
I remember reading/hearing somewhere (it may have been Dawkins) that morality, or the desire to do what was 'right', evolved because we developed in small groups. We soon came to realise that we got along better by being nice to each other, and because we were in small groups, and we knew everyone very well, it was easier to be nice to them than to not be. It's thought that those who went against the developing social norms were perhaps killed or exiled.
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Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland
by Roberto Carlos inplease sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.
click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).
jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.
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Landy
Disney isn't interested in fixing this. I had tickets and asked them to stop the JWs from doing this or refund my ticket price. They refunded my ticket price........
Good - I would have refunded your ticket price as well. Only less politely.
Where on earth did you get the idea you can blackmail a business into obeying rules you arbitrarily impose?
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-12-2017 WT Study (FREE WILL)
by blondie inexcellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .
bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .
wt publications http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm (old).
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Landy
I think I'd literally shoot myself in the head if I had to sit through a WT discussion on how I should use my free will.
Yeah - best to use our free will by being nowhere near it!
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Don't be afraid to go to college
by LevelThePlayingField ini thought this was a good video showing how the logic is faulty from the gb.
just bare with lett for a minute.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1otsrp0bp4.
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Landy
Just bare with Lett for a minute.
That's a spelling mistake that has brought up a terrifying mental image.
Can someone please pass the brain bleach!
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I have just watched The Godfather movies 1,2 &3 this past week.
by smiddy inmany years ago i had only seen the third movie and had never seen the first two for some reason ,so i saw them on stan this past week and enjoyed every second of it.. their were even occasions i could see the gb being depicted in it s portrayal of the rc church... its 45th anniversary is coming up this week since it was first shown in cinemas.
what is your view of this trilogy ?
what were your fav .moments , comments made in the movies?.
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Landy
Funny you should mention this, I watched the Godfather for the first time yesterday. Really enjoyed it. It's definitely of its time though. Planning to watch 2 and 3 soon.
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The reality of "shunning" and character assasination highlighted at the Australian Royal Commission
by stuckinarut2 inonce again, the arc has brilliantly highlighted the reality that any witness who either fades or disassociates is subjected to active official shunning by the organization.. the "brothers" tried to state that it was the choice of the indiviual who steps away from the organization to shun them!
they actually tried to make it out to be the fault of the one who leaves!
then they tried to say that those who fade are not shunned!.
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Landy
...if it's really the Truth, why do its representatives not feel compelled to tell it?
And I'm sure they'll be that proud of their performance that we'll see write ups in the watchtower and demos recreating it at the assemblies.
When hell freezes over.
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This week's wt paragraph 13 and 15 free will
by poopie indoes forcing people to shun other people violate free will?
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Landy
Does forcing people to shun other people violate free will?
Nobody is 'forced' to do anything. We each have our own free will, whether we choose to use it or not.
If we didn't all of us on here would still be going.