Posts by Xanthippe

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loneliness.

by zeb in

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"loneliness is to endure the presence of one who does not understand."--hubbard..

and,.

"loneliness is to be in close propinquity of someone who has ceased to communicate"- germaine greer.. any others..?.

Xanthippe

'Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room'. -

Douglas Coupland

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Share the meal

by Diogenesister in

watchtower belonged to the un and yet i guarantee they offered no help to the needy .

theres an app you can download onto your phone called.

share the meal.

Great idea Diogenesister! I give to UNICEF every month by direct debit. It's only about £4 but it's what they need, regular money so they can help hungry and sick children. They also have a fantastic immunisation program, with workers sometimes walking into mountainous and far flung places with syringes in packs on their backs! Brilliant organisation.

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Subliminal Messaging

by truthlover123 in

for over 20 years subliminal pictures showed up in most books, wt, and awakes- eighties, nineties and into 2000's.... demons, gods, you name it-- .

question: is anyone seeing anything like this in todays publications?

.

Xanthippe

Xanthippe - There is something there. But what the intent is - joke by a bored artist - revenge by a pimo artist - the king of Evil known as the WT - shrugs.

Yeah it is difficult to know what the motive might be. If it is a PIMO what are they trying to achieve?

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Subliminal Messaging

by truthlover123 in

for over 20 years subliminal pictures showed up in most books, wt, and awakes- eighties, nineties and into 2000's.... demons, gods, you name it-- .

question: is anyone seeing anything like this in todays publications?

.

Xanthippe

Irrefutable eh Benny? Yeah well nobody can refute it if you don't say what it is so I guess you're right

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Subliminal Messaging

by truthlover123 in

for over 20 years subliminal pictures showed up in most books, wt, and awakes- eighties, nineties and into 2000's.... demons, gods, you name it-- .

question: is anyone seeing anything like this in todays publications?

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Xanthippe

So what ďo you see Benny? I can see a watercolour painted background, maybe wet on wet technique. It produces splodges like that. What do you see?

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Were You A Gullible JW?

by minimus in

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i think every congregation has their group that sees everything as a sign that they are god’s chosen people.

if a witness didn’t go to a meeting and a storm came and destroyed their house and killed them, and only the kingdom hall was saved, that was a sign that we should be in jehovah’s house.

if russia persecuted jws , it’s proof we are living in the last days.

Xanthippe

I was ignorant rather than gullible. I left school at sixteen so had very little education. We had two books in our house apart from the JW literature, Jane Eyre and The Water Babies. There was no money for books, we were dirt poor. We did have library tickets and borrowed books but it was only a little village library. My parents didnt buy national newspapers. The internet didn't exist.

I knew nothing about anything but I was intelligent so I worked it out eventually and left at thirty. This is why the cult targets ignorant, poor people, especially in developing countries. It's so easy to make fun of evolution to such people when they know nothing. So easy to say the bible is historically accurate because Babylon, The Hittites and Ur have been discovered. Although I have to say I did worry about that, I knew it didn't necessarily mean the rest of it was true.

I will say this, I followed my belief system from the heart and lived it. I didn't do it to please anyone else and I really believed I was saving lives in FS. I am genuine and not a hypocrite and there is something to be said for that. I believe it's what got me out.

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Quick question to ALL members

by Tenacious in

as a witness, when you thought about jesus christ, what was the first thing that came to your mind?.

Xanthippe

I felt horrified that he was tortured to death for me. I struggled with that teaching from age sixteen.

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What music are you enjoying today?

by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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1.just been listening to this lady's innovtive tool as music instrument.

incredible story too.. https://youtu.be/_nlmm9kcbks.

2.listening to this gives me so much peace and relaxes me .

Xanthippe

The Gladiator soundtrack is amazing!

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What music are you enjoying today?

by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

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1.just been listening to this lady's innovtive tool as music instrument.

incredible story too.. https://youtu.be/_nlmm9kcbks.

2.listening to this gives me so much peace and relaxes me .

Xanthippe

I've finally got to the age where I don't have to pretend I like pop music anymore. My first record was Ravel's Bolero. I listen to classicfm all day while at home and in the car. Movie night on Saturday evening is my favourite. Film themes are among the most beautiful classical music IMO, Gladiator, Avatar, Titanic, Lord of the Rings.

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Let's Talk Horror Movies

by LoveUniHateExams in

horror is easily my favourite genre of movie so i just thought i'd start a thread on it.. horror can be done badly and there are plenty of crap horror movies, no doubt about that.

but horror can also be done very well, too - often on a low budget.. plus, there are quite a lot of subgenres - slasher, supernatural, monster movies, body horror, psychological horror, zombie, vampire, etc.. so, do you like horror?.

what's your favourite subgenre?.

Xanthippe

What I love about the Alien films were the false frights where a light fitting or piece of electronic equipment would look at first glance like the alien. So many 'made you jump moments', brilliant.