Posts by blindnomore

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What it takes to become an atheist.

by dontplaceliterature in

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i was pondering this today during lunch, and to me it seems that it comes down to whether or not you can accept that you will one day be permanantly gone and anyone you have lost in death will never be alive again.

once a person becomes comfortable with these two ideas, there isn't really any incentive to believe.

maybe it's an over simplification, but it seems to me that this is the heart of the matter.

blindnomore

what it takes to become an atheist? hummmm...

was an atheist first 20+years. then converted to JW. and become a 100% theist. for 25 years. and then,

have personally witneseed sheer wickedness done without any remorse or conscience by the spiritual leaders and some of their followers who believe in God that sees everything.

also saw how injustice prevail and thrive every time while the helpess inocent viticms being thrown under the bus by evil religious JW leaders.

make me to compare these God fearing people to my atheist family members and my formal etheist association.

I starting to have more respect for my atheist family and friends for their humanity and sincerity. I found myself embarrassed for what and who I have become.

Some how I become judemental, self righteous myself as a theist. I had been naive, innocent, and mild as an atheist. Now I want to be who I used to be.

If God was there why and how He would lead or at least let his worshipers be less human! Why these god fearing people become deteriorate instead of making progress in their behaviour?

Or have I just had been mislead by false theists?

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shucks, where's Blondie this week?

by stillin in

i don't see her review of today's study article.

the "experience" of the person who was shunned by his family until he got himself reinstated really bothered me.

no mention of repentance, no mention of his wanting to restore worship of jehovah back into his life.

blindnomore

Stillin, talking about utter nonsense! Let me tell you real story what happened to that DF'ed person.

He got reinstated after enduring 10 years oh inhumane shunning treatment by his own family. He got df'ed again within 2 years for smoking. He got reinsted a year and half later but only to find himself facing the Judicial Committee once again less than 2 months.

After the 3rd Judicial Hearing, he ended his life the same night he got punished for the 3rd time. He couldn't do it again!

This is the real ending the monsterous Watchtower left out. IT IS A TRUE STORY!

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Today's WT: A Warning To You Loyal Witnesses

by metatron in

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it happens without warning.

you have a stroke.

you get ms. you are in a car accident.. they put you in the hospital.

blindnomore

mynameislame, Thanks for the link. Interesting reading! It remindes me of a MS who was invited to West Point but turned it down. He is struggling from job to job today. What a waste!

How about infirm elderly JW couple in their 80's being taken care by their DF'ed ex-daughter-in-law and her df'ed husband(not their son)! The most hypocritical part of the whole thing is that local JWs are actively shunning this couple who are a only caretaker of their own JW elderly (local elders don't mind about this arrangement as long as they don't have to do it), but glorifying uncaring JW family member who are elder, pioneers, and ms who abandoned their own hepless elderly!

How things can be so twisted and wrong? I am going crazy!!

Edit: Cadellin, that means local JW family and elders will finally going to take over their resoponsibility of taking care of their JW elderly and make sure no DF'ed JW ex-family be around them?

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Quote where WT says people can leave org. without repercussions?

by ronwashington in

months ago someone here mentioned a quote from some sort of interview where a wt spokeperson (brown?

) said a person can leave the org.

without repurcussions.

blindnomore

Welcome, ronwashington!

I do remember reading something similar to that effect from 'Awake'(?)...

I learned a few years ago not to take seriously what the WTS posts or claims in public. I personally know a JW who was accused of promoting appostate material and was ended up being disfellowshipped over the material. Guess what meterial a df'ed JW accused of was? It was non other than J.R.Brown's Public statement on the WTS policy on Child Sexual Abuse. The local elders refused to read it and later accused a JW for having tried to promote apostate material.

The borg says anything publicly and will punish current JWs for bring it out elders' attention on them. They are double standard hyporcrites!

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Was Any Part of it Real?

by Big Tex in

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i'm sort of following a stream of consciousness so bear with me.

i was flipping around on tv and ran across an old movie.

a couple had a one night stand and when she realized he had just used her she was shocked and told him he had said he loved her.

blindnomore

Of course I am not talking about shunning itself. What I am disgusted is their cruel behavior in cooperation with the elders schem. It was very obvious what elders were doing but all gave in to fear of human and not one stand up for the right thing. I witnessed utter coruption and persecution.

As an active uber JW, not once had I treated any ex-JW inhumanly. I hugged and welcome them when I saw them at the Convention or at the grocery store. I did not afraid of elders or any fellow JWs for doing it. I wasn't eating or associating with them. I was simply welcoming and let them know they are cared.

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Mental Illness & Suicide In the Organization

by What Now? in

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this topic has been discussed before ... i just wanted to put my two cents in.. i will start off by saying that of course mental illness exists outside of the organization.

blindnomore

How sad what this orgarnization is doing to real people.

Bipolar disorder, panic attack, depression, nervous breakdown, phobia, paranoia, split personality, schizophrenia,..... Significant numbers of my former KH are suffering with one or more of these mental illness. We had 2 people committed suicide. My own immidiate family committed suicide over disfellowshipping hearing....

The Biggest Watchtower's lie is blaming on the System, Government, and Satan on issues they themselves have brought on to their followers.

Once I was accused by a fellow JW of trunning her husband to the Government Agency for treason. I was investigated by the BOE for being a Govenment Spy. I still have no idea what was that bulls**t all about. One thing I know is that both she and CoBOE have been suffering with an advanced case of paranoia.

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If you got apostate vids on Youtube take em off now!!! Legal Dept to Sue!

by smithmandy1 in

i've posted this on the wrong section so i'm posting it on here cos its sort of to topic as i know many of you have vids on youtube.

legal department are beginning legal action against google and its uploaders regards to apostate vids that slander the watchtower and/or contain copyrighted material!!!

my hubby knows people who know so heres my warning lol.

blindnomore

Welcome to the Internet Era, Watchtower!(No whining and throwing pit allowed!)

OP, I don't believe you can afford to worry about others. You have a long overdue homework yourself to do that can cost lives of you and your family. What Rev. 18:4,5 said! Hurry get out of her if you don't want to share with her in her sins and receive part of her plagues.

One more thing, OP, Get a life! You got to have better things to do than being an internet troll. You have 15 posts on this site with 5 started posts all with 'troll Alert'

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Was Any Part of it Real?

by Big Tex in

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i'm sort of following a stream of consciousness so bear with me.

i was flipping around on tv and ran across an old movie.

a couple had a one night stand and when she realized he had just used her she was shocked and told him he had said he loved her.

blindnomore

Chris, how sad that you thought you were the only one being treated a such way! At the same time, I see where you are coming from. It's utterly cruel how one being treated in a such way by so call your 5, 10, 15, 20, or life time friends who had been eating, crying, sharing with you day in day out.

I can write the book on this topic alone based on my very own experience on it.

But it does make sense. Think about it! Who were you then? You were simply a Cult member. They were your fellow cult members. They weren't your friends in the first place. Now you are no longer one of them and that's it. You and I were once belonged to the extreme Orgarnization.

What those so called friends have done to my family were so cruel and heartless that I am actually thankful to their shunning policy ironically in the aspect of knowing that I never have to deal with these people again. I've wasted my precious years, resource, energy, sincerity to worthless and fake.

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How Do You Deal With The Shunning You Receive From "Captive" Witnesses?

by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

i am liking don's term "captive to a concept" more and more, it explains so much about the mindset of average dubs.. to those who are being activily shunned, how does it affect you when you see former friends and family, do the sideway's crab-walk to get away?

you are not alone, shunning is happening to weaker witnesses in the congregations, this practice is not sanctioned by the watchtower society, this trait is straight from satan the devil, it pure evil and cruel!

as i post, this new trait is being taught to the power player's apprentices, teaching them how to do the "weak witnesses exit stage left!

blindnomore

If a mere JW woman think such sickly and cruelly, you can only imagine what JW men in charge locally and world wide can come out with!!

What a sick and twisted Society! She would never come out with a such ideology as normal human being. Her list reminds me of what's happening in North Korea right now.

A New dear leader Kim Jung Eun(=the newly reigining 7 GB) is weeding out(executing=disfellowshipping, shunning) any potential troublemakers from his kingdom Hell(Kingdom Hall).

Every egomaniac brutal dictators use the same but guaranteed methods, punishing and controlling the information, to secure their reign of terror wether in the name of Sovereignty or Religion.

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Watchtower Farms Cemetery gravestone photos - sad

by BonaFide in

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first of all, if anyone is offended by the photos, then i will ask this topic to be removed.

i am posting the photos because i get sad sometimes about people being forgotten who tried so hard, even though they were wrong.

the cemetery is pretty easy to find, if you have any interest in finding it.

blindnomore

I am sad but in personal level. I didn't know any of these indivisuals personally as some of you have.

I am sad in recognizing names of some now laid in dead who once so arrogantly denied dignity of fellow humans for the sake of their way.

These men are become nothing just like their deceased victims. None of them could wear more than one cloth, dwell more than one space at a time. What made these few men feel so special about themselves that thousands of thousands lives had to suffered miserably till their death in order to meet desires of these few men. Yet, even more sadly, millions livings now are in continued in following footsteps of their preceeders' fate and being explploited by the successors of these few men.

I don't know any these caused men but do know several their victimes who were real human just like them that took their lives in facing the harsh and heartless rules and procedures of these few men created so cheerfully.

I do know countless living human beings who are suffering greatly right this very secound because of these few men had to lived for a few years that is now long gone. I am truelly sad and hurt.