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  I just finished The Silmarillion. Any suggestions on next Tolkien to read?

  by sd-7 in

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  i've read 'the hobbit', 'the lord of the rings' (including the appendices, well, except the shire calendar and elvish language), and 'the silmarillion'.

  i was really impressed with 'silmarillion'.

  almost seems like it could be a movie in itself.

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  thecrushed

  Big tolkien fan here till I got married and my wife made me throw out my LOTR series books because it had magic in them. :P
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  A personal message to you lurking Jehovah's Witnesses out there

  by Terry in

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  while you were sitting in that uncomfortable folding chair the other night.... listening to something you've heard already a thousand times before.... do you know what was happening at the same time?.

  somebody somewhere else was studying a real textbook.

  somebody was cramming for a college exam.

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  JW's are just plastic manikins, hollow and screaming bloody murder behind those glassy eyes and fake smiles. Deep in their gut they are screaming to be let free but because they are told that they cannot EVER trust their own treacherous hearts they ignore those voices inside and keep painting that smile on day in and day out hoping beyond hope that it all ends soon.
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  A personal message to you lurking Jehovah's Witnesses out there

  by Terry in

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  2. entertainment

  while you were sitting in that uncomfortable folding chair the other night.... listening to something you've heard already a thousand times before.... do you know what was happening at the same time?.

  somebody somewhere else was studying a real textbook.

  somebody was cramming for a college exam.

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  thecrushed

  I love this one liner! " Friends aren't friendly and brotherly love is so conditional there is no way to meet the conditions!" - terry
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  A personal message to you lurking Jehovah's Witnesses out there

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  while you were sitting in that uncomfortable folding chair the other night.... listening to something you've heard already a thousand times before.... do you know what was happening at the same time?.

  somebody somewhere else was studying a real textbook.

  somebody was cramming for a college exam.

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  thecrushed

  Very nice! Terry I always enjoy your dark and snarky humor.
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  Good Signs from my wife? maybe? She wants to improve her thinking ability!

  by thecrushed in

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  so after the memorial hell http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249700/1/memorial-hell my wife totally missed the special talk and i only just realized from jwn that she has.

  in fact last sunday i took her out to a park and we had nice time in the fresh air enjoying nature.

  also she has taken up improving her congnitive skills on luminosity and today said she might actaully go and study some algebra on khan academy which i had suggested instead of spending money on luminosity.

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  thecrushed

  Lost GEnwierd thing is she has a college degree already but it has been a long time for her. We are both really busy so mostly I'm thinking internet free courses and stuff. I'm the one with no degree LOL but with the critical thinking skills and Independant mind.
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  Good Signs from my wife? maybe? She wants to improve her thinking ability!

  by thecrushed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so after the memorial hell http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249700/1/memorial-hell my wife totally missed the special talk and i only just realized from jwn that she has.

  in fact last sunday i took her out to a park and we had nice time in the fresh air enjoying nature.

  also she has taken up improving her congnitive skills on luminosity and today said she might actaully go and study some algebra on khan academy which i had suggested instead of spending money on luminosity.

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  thecrushed

  sd-7 just because I couldn't think of your name doesn't mean I don't wanna hear from you. :) I don't know what you mean about the paranoia?? Anyway you said one doesn't just wake up to TTATT but I DID! ??? I should have said I want to hear from my fellow Athiest, Agnostic, Humanist, Intellectual and non religious perspectives. I can't argue doctrine with her anyway because that will just dig her hills into the JW theology.

  I need suggestions or experiences of what has worked for others when it comes to critical thinking skills. Hopefully I can keep this neutral and over time bring in more touchy subjects over time.
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  Good Signs from my wife? maybe? She wants to improve her thinking ability!

  by thecrushed in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so after the memorial hell http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249700/1/memorial-hell my wife totally missed the special talk and i only just realized from jwn that she has.

  in fact last sunday i took her out to a park and we had nice time in the fresh air enjoying nature.

  also she has taken up improving her congnitive skills on luminosity and today said she might actaully go and study some algebra on khan academy which i had suggested instead of spending money on luminosity.

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  So after the memorial hell http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/249700/1/Memorial-Hell my wife totally missed the special talk and I only just realized from JWN that she has. In fact last sunday I took her out to a park and we had nice time in the fresh air enjoying nature. Also she has taken up improving her congnitive skills on luminosity and today said she might actaully go and study some algebra on Khan Academy which I had suggested instead of spending money on luminosity.

  This is the same behavior I engaged in right before I fully woke up to TTATT. I believe this very intense excersizing of the mind is a good window of opportunity to plant some subtle critical thinking into her. Any suggestions or theories on this? Maybe I can get her to study Logic and Critical thinking courses with me now and then her own mind will start to see the bullshit written in the pages of the WT like I did.

  For some reason she has become obsessed with improving her IQ and feels like she has gotten dumb over the years. I felt the same before I woke up and just felt like my mind was turning to mush. I seriously see some kind of subconcience connection here.

  I ran into so many questions in my life that screamed to be answered that JW's only had one sentence platitude answers to. Over and over I heard "wait on Jehovah" Don't run ahead of the Org" and We will have to wait till the New system to find out when our minds are perfect" After a while the inquisitive mind either shuts down or drives you crazy till you get some satisfiying logical answers. Mine drove me nuts and lead me to search for science and reason. I see the beginnings of this in my dear wife but I must tred carefully. Again please dialog on this. Can't Leave, Billy the Exbethalite, Capt. Obvious, Cofty??

  Maybe its wishful thinking I don't know this might be my moment to start a dialog and involve her in intellectual discussions. I just don't know how much she can take or how to do this in the right way. I'm an info dumper and I can't just lay down evolutionary theory to her.
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  thecrushed

  This is the reason i removed myself from facebook long ago.
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  Will AAWA Become another cult?

  by His Excellency in

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  please sorry for english, i have only been learning for 18 months.

  everyone please think about it, and beware of any initiative designed to solve "a community problem".

  becasue russel also started his own cult on a similar premise like this , claiming to have all the answers to issues whose solutions seems obscured to the majority in his days, and here we are today, constantly bashing our fingers on the keyboard in a bid to finding comfort from the mess he had put all of us into.

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  thecrushed

  Oh brother! Herding cats again are we.
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  AAWA is here!! (The Association of Anti-Watchtower Activists)

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcic4g5tulw.

  http://www.jwactivists.org.

  facebook the association of anti-watchtower activists.

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  thecrushed

  I believe that no matter what the name is mind controlled JW's are conditioned to view everyone in the world with suspicion and or outright disdain. It could be the most PC name you can ever come up with and the mind set will still be that anything against the WT or its policies is of satanic origin plain and simple black and White thinking. It is only when you begin to question and think for yourself that this new and wonderful organization can help anyone. This is just my humble opinion.