Posts by Scully

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Hulu’s ‘The Path’ portrays family life inside a cult

by freemindfade in

this looks great for people who are both cult survivors and aaron paul fans!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/slow-but-emotionally-creepy-hulus-the-path-portrays-family-life-inside-a-cult/2016/03/29/43840c46-f2c5-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html.

slow but emotionally creepy, hulu’s ‘the path’ portrays family life inside a cult.

Scully

I've been watching it from the start. The similarities are so intriguing - and kind of echo my thoughts on the JWs, in terms of how the loyalty factor has been ramping up for much of the last 20-30 years, and now with so much scandal and blood on the hands of Watchtower, there seems to be no graceful way for WT to weasel out of the pile of $h!t it is now drowning in.

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Cooking With Cast Iron

by Simon in

i can't even remember what got me interested in pans, probably wanting to try cooking more and watching some cooking videos on youtube, but i kind of started wanting to get a cast-iron skillet specifically so started reading up on them.

hey, if you're going to spend $50 on something you need to study them and create a comparison spreadsheet ... right?.

not only did cast-iron look great for cooking but there are some studies that show risks to aluminium / teflon cookware ... not that the wts was "right" about aluminium, but teflon can give off carcinogenic chemicals if overheated (so what if it chips off into your food?).

Scully

Simon, I think I bought the same set that you have. And the same disappointment with my first fried egg on it. LOL

It's been about 6 months since I bought it, struggling with food sticking to the pan, and have been resorting to using parchment paper between the stuff I cook and the pan. I was okay with that because I like the pans. I'll have them forever.

Like you, I didn't realize that "pre-seasoned" meant that more seasoning was required, until I saw your thread a couple of days ago. Thanks for sharing! My pans are now seasoned to the point where things don't stick to it, no matter how hard I try! ;)

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We are becoming champions of grief. We lost twin B.

by Darkknight757 in

last week we had a reassurance ultrasound with our ob.

she was just supposed to check heartbeats on the two little ones and they were going strong!

but because she had extra time and she can be quite anal about her work (which is a good thing) she decided to take some measurements.

Scully

So sorry to hear this

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If you had to choose

by dothemath in

if you had to choose to belong to 1 religion, i was curious as to what any on the forum would pick.. i realize most here are likely atheist (i would have to say i'm agnostic), but if any would like to share their opinion, and maybe why?.

Scully

I'm atheist. It chose me, I didn't choose it - it was the result of realizing that almost all religions are for sheep who needed someone or something to follow.

My philosophy is grounded in love, kindness, dignity, respect (for myself and others). Secular humanism seems to fit those criteria rather nicely.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WT buildings in Brooklyn shown in clip

by Scully in

jw
friends

see the video clip, at approx 2:55 in this segment:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rbaqwz1xc.

i don't know what it means that donald trump's son-in-law's father (charles kushner) bought those buildings, but thought it was interesting..

Scully

Not knowing, apparently, is not a good enough excuse according to the law, and especially not according to WT.

Surely their massive legal team did their due diligence in researching the source of the money??

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WT buildings in Brooklyn shown in clip

by Scully in

jw
friends

see the video clip, at approx 2:55 in this segment:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rbaqwz1xc.

i don't know what it means that donald trump's son-in-law's father (charles kushner) bought those buildings, but thought it was interesting..

Scully

Finkelstein:

You're right: in the big scheme of things money and property changing hands is really not a big deal. But, from the perspective of a JW who believes their Organization™ is above all reproach, and would *never* take money from anyone whose values didn't mesh with their published values, it is a pretty interesting scenario.

After all, if you can be DFd and labelled as corrupt beyond redemption for smoking or using the swimming pool at the YMCA or buying a lottery ticket or accepting a bribe or selling cigarettes in your corner store, how can they justify selling their property to someone with such a corrupt history? Could it be that they are party to a money-laundering scheme?

All I'm suggesting is that this transaction could possibly raise some eyebrows and maybe even open some eyes among some JWs and cause them to investigate other scandals within the Organization™, such as the ARC and other sexual abuse scandals, the UN Library Card scandal, the stocks held in trust that brought them dividends from Phillip Morris (tobacco products) and so on.

The WT has a lot of do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do rules, but the one that comes to mind is related to "a little leaven (corruption) ferments the whole loaf (renders the entire [whatever] corrupt)" Gal 5:9. Individual JWs are expected to aspire to the most stringent and rigorous standards in their day-to-day lives, yet the Organization™ itself just does whatever it wants in order to further its own aims. Also recall the story of Jesus throwing the money changers out of the temple, due to their corruption, and defiling their Holy Place with usury.

I think it might be an interesting episode to share with JW family members (with full disclosure that John Oliver has a potty mouth and isn't afraid to use it).

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WT buildings in Brooklyn shown in clip

by Scully in

jw
friends

see the video clip, at approx 2:55 in this segment:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rbaqwz1xc.

i don't know what it means that donald trump's son-in-law's father (charles kushner) bought those buildings, but thought it was interesting..

Scully

See the video clip, at approx 2:55 in this segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6RbAQWZ1Xc

I don't know what it means that Donald Trump's son-in-law's father (Charles Kushner) bought those buildings, but thought it was interesting.

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Jehovah Witnesses Unaware They Are Fulfilling Bible Prophecies

by Wakeupcall2u in

jehovah witnesses unaware they are fulling bible prophecies.

for many of us witnesses that have left either as stricken lost sheep or unlawfully disfellowshiped please consider that our brothers & sisters in the synagogues of kingdom halls are misled & need our help in trying to pull them out of the fire.

the test now on them is about just how they are treating their unlawfully excluded (disfellowshiped) brothers & sisters, as foretold at isaiah 66. at present they sit in judgement on us the growing great crowd who have come out & they are prepared with hard- heartedness to condemn their brothers & sisters to a final everlasting death, by running away as spiritual cowards refusing us a cup of life giving water (truth) matt 10: to explain the apostasy in their temple the disgusting thing in the holy place.

Scully

Simon:

Religion is a touchstone for mental illness and illiteracy.

If all caps titles and lack of punctuation doesn't convince anyone, I don't know what will.

OUTLAW:

Be grateful he knows what a period is used for......LOL!!

My Kingdom for some flipping paragraphs!

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Being homosexual in a JW house hold

by Jean in

i could not find a topic about this if there is one ooops.

it is hard to speak with my mother or any other witnesses about this, their response is "its ok to be gay just don't ever 'act out.

acting out = being with someone even if its a healthy consensual legal relationship between two adults its still wrong.

Scully

Don't allow the JWs to sell you the mind-f*ck of believing that by pursuing your own happiness is somehow a rejection of them. They're the ones who choose intolerance and conditional acceptance over accepting a person for who they are.

I wonder how they'd respond to the thought that some scholars believe Jesus was gay?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/apr/20/was-jesus-gay-probably

There are other scholars who believe that David's relationship with Jonathan was homosexual, even though he married women and had children with them. Maybe he was bisexual, or was gay but needed a 'cover story' in order to protect his kingship. Given that he was God's Chosen One™, you'd think that if God objected to his relationship with Jonathan, he would have picked someone else - the same goes with Jesus.

Just some food for thought. YMMV

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Special Public Talk - 2017

by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

during yesterday's public talk, i noted the speaker did not make a full reference to the first outline point following the second reference to romans 12:21 - "but keep conquering the evil with the good".this first outline point as i call it, is as follows: "be willing to forgive others whenever there is a basis for doing so".

interesting conditionality i thought!

it references the aw of june 8th 1995 page 10 paras 6-7. in part it says there... "what though, if others sin against us in a more serious way, deeply injuring us?

Scully

"Christians are not required to forgive those who practice malicious, willful sin with no repentence."

Does that include The Seven Loathsome Things in Brooklyn/Warwick (and their predecessors) for bald-faced lying to the millions of JWs around the world for over a century??