JT's comment has got me thinking that just as the U.S. Government is going to be going after terrorists and their entities relentlessly, that perhaps the U.S. also should make it against the law to have or be a member of any religious organization that functions "from the top down", or undemocratically. I especially have a certain Theocratic Terrorist Entity in mind.
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FROM THE TOP DOWN
by ricoananas injt's comment has got me thinking that just as the u.s. government is going to be going after terrorists and their entities relentlessly, that perhaps the u.s. also should make it against the law to have or be a member of any religious organization that functions "from the top down", or undemocratically.
i especially have a certain theocratic terrorist entity in mind.
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SENSITIVITY TO HYPOCRISY
by ricoananas ini might have been even oversentivive to things like these:.
(from the km) sp pios, reg pios, aux pios, "publishers".
were we not all "publishers"?
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Re JT: when i was in WT i was truly like your PO- you seee he was merely being a good "Society Man".
I'm confident you've changed for the better, JT.
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The No Subscription StopGap
by metatron inif subscriptions really are due to end in the u.s., i can see.
certain advantages for the society:.
1) they're having trouble getting more slave labor for bethel.
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Maybe also a large reason for dumping subs comes from the current debacles of Hiding Abuse and WT hypocrisy re the UN being made public. The magazines are really a printed record of WT's decades-long trail of lies, false prophecies, doublespeak, hypocrisy, psychological and spiritual abuse, you name it. Rather than own up to it all and gain some respect, they dump the subs, because they can't stop their perverted course. So sub-dumping fits right into their all-too-familiar pattern of Deceit! They know something's coming for them, and all they can do is weasel this way or that.
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SENSITIVITY TO HYPOCRISY
by ricoananas ini might have been even oversentivive to things like these:.
(from the km) sp pios, reg pios, aux pios, "publishers".
were we not all "publishers"?
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I might have been even OVERsentivive to things like these:
(From the KM) Sp Pios, Reg Pios, Aux Pios, "PUBLISHERS". Were we not ALL "publishers"? JW Caste System? Elder comment: "He's just a publisher."
Rigid adherence to a King James Bible type of pronunciation of Hebrew words from the Bible in English: MARA becomes May-ra, BAAL becomes Bay-ul, BACA bushes becomes Bay-ca bushes. I could understand and accept Anglo pronunciation of all the names commonly used or at least referred to in English, such as David, Adonijah, Saul, Abijah, Jeremiah, etc, but the WBTS insisted that's how we should pronounce ALL Hebrew words in the Bible. Very hard when you know real Hebrew pronunciation of Hebrew names. Spanish pronunciation of Bible names not far off from Hebrew pronunciation, so in Spanish it's not too bad. Long time ago I wrote to WBTS saying, "If we're all going to speak Hebrew in the New System, why don't we have some kind of classes in REAL Hebrew pronunciation, for our benefit now and so we can talk to all the resurrected Israelites intelligently?" Answer: "We should not concern ourselves with trifles, brother." So I reveled then in being able to say SHIT acceptably in the congregation (WT pronunciation of SHIT-tim, rather than She-TEEM.
Being so crashingly bored with the usual monthly Accounts Report presentations when I were a MS, I tried giving one rounded off to the dollar so that the cong. would not fall asleep in my face (or so I would not fall asleep on my feet giving the report). Many PUBLISHERS afterwards sed "That Was Refreshing, I Actually Understood The Report Without All The Cents." However, our Gestapo PO ripped me apart for doing it that way, reminding me of the "widow's mite" and how that was perhaps just a few cents and that lots of people in the cong. were poor and that I hurt lots of feelings by eliminating the cents. Yeah, Right.
"I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A ELDER AND NOW I ARE ONE" seemed to be his shtick.
I'll add more when I remember more stuff, unless this New Post gets no replies indicating of course "I'M NOT INTERESTED."
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KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
by ricoananas inwhen one stops using borg publications as a substitute for his own god-given critical thinking faculties and starts reading up on history and countless other subjects that at one time were available only in libraries but now are available also in the treasure trove of the internet on the top of everyones lap and/or desk, one will see that pastor russell and everyone that headed his cause were just next in a long line of opportunists ready to cash in spiritually, monetarily and psychologically on millenarianism hopes and fears.
ray brought out that the bible is silent about food at the proper time coming from some fds organization as opposed to the fds comment of jesus being also applicable to the individual student of the bible.
i was surprised to learn that in anticipation of the year 1000 catholic europe witnessed a lot of behavior akin to the modern-day jw phenomenon of preparing for the end in diverse ways because they knew the end was coming soon.
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Thank
you,
COMF!
You
are
right!
Rico.
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RESURRECTION AND THE NEW ORDER
by ricoananas inwbts insists on jesus' reply to the sadducees as literal about who's gonna marry whom in the new order because of multiple marriages in this life (asked by dudes who did not even believe in the resurrection and were always trying to come up with some riddle to trick jesus) is very important to the wbts and also very stupid.
imagine the vast preponderance of those resurrected as having been married before death.
if they "neither marry nor are given in marriage," that means that the overwhelming majority of people resurrected will constitute a sexless class.
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Thanks on both counts, Dino. If only membership and participation in the "truth" and the Borg and the KH and comradeship with the Bros & Sis felt as liberating and as right as this forum I never would have dropped out. And that's the TRUTH.
Rico.
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GUESS WHAT MOM -- WE ARE IN A CULT!
by freeman inhi folks, .
last week i made a monumental decision; i decided to tell my mother-in-law that we are in a cult.
i just could not keep it in anymore.
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Great work, Freeman. Can you remind us of when that NBC DATELINE will be aired?
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Nathan Knorr ignored me.
by refiners fire ini once saw princess diana.
it was in a nunawading street when her and charlie came here in 83 after the bushfires.
i was stood in the middle of a roundabout, away from the crowds, and she looked into my eyes, smiled and waved.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ................. LOL LOL LOL .....
Ye must keep your I simple.
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Do you get the urge?
by ashitaka inwhen you're in here, and someone is crying about message-board injustice, do you get the urge to say the most sarcastic, caustic thing that comes to mind?
do you have to stop yourself?
i do.. i don't know if it's the old jw 'laugh at the next guy who's not as good as you' syndrome, but i have the silly urges to body-slam people with my words.. before september 11th, i always used to say, "i hate people.
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Could it be PKTSD (Post-Kamakaze-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder)?
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Fossil Man ?
by Escargot inbones of many modern-looking humans have been found deep in undisturbed rocks that, according to evolution, were formed long before man began to evolve.
examples include the calaveras skull,a the castenedolo skeletons,b recks skeleton,c and many others.d other remains, such as the swanscombe skull, the steinheim fossil, and the vertesszoollos fossil, present similar problems.e evolutionists almost always ignore these remains.
j. d. whitney, the auriferous gravels of the sierra nevada of california, memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology of harvard college, vol.
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Maybe it's PPOPTSD (Post-Publish-or-Perish-Traumatic Stress Disorder.)