Posts by Crabby

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Brooklyn Eagle: JW's put former Brooklyn Heights hotel up for sale. (It's the Towers Hotel - a place we called home for nearly 11 years)

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/5/24/jehovahs-witnesses-put-former-brooklyn-heights-hotel-sale.

jehovah's witnesses put former brooklyn heights hotel up for sale .

welcome to the towers, aka 21 clark st., a brooklyn heights historic district property the jehovah's witnesses are offering for sale.

Crabby

Perhaps the Pope will put the Vatican up for sale too?

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Paranormal Warning

by Cold Steel in

i've heard some weird stories coming from jws about the paranormal.

i know about the warnings about items that come from unbelievers -- those don't interest me as much.

what i am interested in are actual experiences in stories of the paranormal you've heard or experienced yourself.

Need advice

by Drwho in

i'm a middle aged man.

i dated a jw lady for 3 months ., we never had sex, just made out , half naked , well everything except underwear .

she has been a jw for 40 years ., was married to a jw but he committed adultery 13 years ago so they divorced .

I have bad news for you, Jesus couldn't save the World, and neither are you. There are 4 billion other women on the planet, and 99.9 percent of them are not Devil worshipers. So are you going to spend the rest of your life trying to save an already brain dead woman? Do you understand that she prays for you to die? for your family to die? for the mother that lives next door to you to die, with her child in her arms.

Seriously, if you are a Catholic, and I believe that you still are, talk to a priest, and think about going to his bake sale, or flea market. You might be surprised and find a real knockout, who will help you hang the Christmas decorations, and sing carols.........................

She is dead, sure Jesus could bring her back, but you are not Jesus. And the lady at the bake sale is waiting, perhaps for you

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I conclude evolution is guided

by KateWild in

your qualifications are way above mine so i'd love to hear more about the specifics of what you have researched and how that supports the existence of a deity.

k99, i am not really convinced that you're interested in my conclusions.

in nature amino acids formed to then form dna.

Crabby

God is real and I will tell you how one can know this. The main attribute of God is that he brought life to the Earth, sure there are others but this is the main thing. The human race is about to take life to another planet, Mars. On the day that an astronaut first steps on the Mars soil, God is proven as another lifeless planet is about to be colonized and habituated. So God is Knowledge, that can take you anywhere you choose to go.

Have Faith, and study for the World is not about to end, but grow exponentially.

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Need advice

by Drwho in

i'm a middle aged man.

i dated a jw lady for 3 months ., we never had sex, just made out , half naked , well everything except underwear .

she has been a jw for 40 years ., was married to a jw but he committed adultery 13 years ago so they divorced .

Crabby

Excellent, tell her the entire truth, including showing her this. Then tell her to accept the real Jesus or you have to leave, remember you are dealing with devil worshippers who steal souls. That said I do not believe that you are trying to save her, I believe that you want her and the Devil is using her as bait, do you think that you are the first that they have encountered in your position? You are nothing new, and she is just the means to your money. When you sit down in the Devils house with other lost souls they know that you are corruptible.

Same result in the end.

Run for your life, because the Devil does not bargain, though he or she will say whatever it takes to destroy your life.

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Is Pokemon Demonic?

by Saename in

[spoiler: pokemon is an invitation to communication with or possession by demons because... well... pokemon comes from demons.

so... i was looking through different questions on quora, and i noticed one that read, "is pokemon demonic?

" i was interested in seeing what people have to say, especially that not so long ago there was a thread (or a post in a thread?

Crabby

No, it's a money making scam as once you get to a certain level you have to pay. There is anecdotal evidence that it is better than smoking.

However to a schizophrenic JW, anything can be demonic, including the manger at Christmas

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"But WHY??"

by stuckinarut2 in

a thought struck me.

as young children we were known for often asking the question "but why?

" to anything and everything that we were told and presented with in life.

Crabby

JW's are not allowed to ask why, in fact they are not allowed to think it. If they do they are executed from the Cult.

Can you imagine a World where Thomas Edison never ask why?

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Will Jehovah...

by watson in

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when jehovah brings armageddon, will he let me live long enough to witness the deaths of my children and grand children because they didn't believe in him?

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since i've faded and i don't promote worshiping him anymore, i am just wondering.. at least i'd know for sure what kind of god he is?.

Crabby

Is it moral to pray for 7.4 billion people to die?

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Paranormal Warning

by Cold Steel in

i've heard some weird stories coming from jws about the paranormal.

i know about the warnings about items that come from unbelievers -- those don't interest me as much.

what i am interested in are actual experiences in stories of the paranormal you've heard or experienced yourself.

Crabby

So you believe in paranormal demons telling you things and chasing you in the night..............

Catholics generally no longer do exorcisms, not at least since schizophrenia was discovered

http://www.caic.org.au/jws/medical/mental.htm

The Scientific Research

Especially since the 1975 date (which was predicted to usher in God's kingdom on earth) failed, the numerous problems in the Watchtower congregations have received much mass media and scholarly attention. Most intensively studied problems include disfellowshipping, doctrinal disputes, and their recurring prophetic speculation failures. [4] Witness mental health issues have also been examined by many investigators.[5]

The writer, as a former Witness for over twenty years, was extensively involved in various administrative levels of the organization. This gave him first hand access to information relating to most social and bureaucratic aspects of the Watchtower. He has also used his decade of extensive clinical experience with Witnesses and an extensive literature review as a basis for his evaluation. Outsiders have limited access to inside information, and for this reason are forced to rely on official publications, all of which are viewed by Witnesses as quasi-inspired.[6] The literature reveals eight academic studies which explored the problem of Witness mental illness. These will be briefly reviewed by year, the oldest first.

The Rylander Study

Swedish psychiatrist Dr. Rylander investigated a sample of conscientious objectors imprisoned in Sweden. Of the 135 randomly selected cases, fully 126 were Witnesses. Of these 126, Rylander diagnosed 51 as neurotic, 42 psychotic, 32 as mentally retarded, and 5 as brain-damaged (some overlap exists because some cases were in two or more categories).[7] Diagnosis was made solely on the basis of behavior that was clearly pathological, such as irrational paranoia or severe long term depression, and not behavior that resulted from following Watchtower doctrine as non-social involvement with the non-Witnesses. Rylander also concluded from the subjects' medical records and his interviews that their pathological state was not uncommonly evident before conversion, but that the Watchtower's' influence was often detrimental to mental health, sometimes severely so.

About four percent of the eligible armed service Swedish population were judged psychologically "unfit" for military services. The corresponding figure for Witnesses was twenty-one percent, or a rate five times greater. This was very close to the same ratio found by Spencer [8] whose diagnosis of "psychotic" or "neurotic" was made on the basis of mental hospital admission screening. Few of the cases in Rylander's study were marginal Witnesses, and most were actively involved in the Watchtower. Rylander concluded that many of those he studied lacked an education, job skills, emotional stability, and quality social relations. Unsatisfactory employment records often existed because of psychological deficiencies, lack of ability or immaturity. Rylander found that Witnesses committed "...a relatively large number of small crimes and other misdemeanors which generally resulted only in a fine...three [Witnesses] have been imprisoned for stealing or harboring of stolen property, and 36 have been fined for various offenses (traffic violations, drunkenness, unlawful selling of alcohol, poaching, unlawful entering, etc.)" [9]

Neurotic symptoms commonly found in his sample included "feelings of discomfort, general anxiety, poor sleep habits, times of brooding over what they see as the meaninglessness of life, the wrongs they have suffered and the mistakes they have made." [10] Rylander noted that the Watchtower doctrine helped some adherents to explain "all of their problems in life, and has given them a satisfaction and calmness which has brought a measure of stability to their lives." [11]

He also concluded that individual Witnesses tended to be burdened with a variety of serious concerns and often joined the sect in an effort to solve their many problems. Although the results of this study are not fully applicable to today's situation, many of his conclusions are still largely true. [12] A major difference between his sample and today is that the Witnesses are now more middle-class and less socially rejected. Many Witnesses, though, especially those living in developing nations, still experience many of the same problems that Rylander reported.

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Paranormal Warning

by Cold Steel in

i've heard some weird stories coming from jws about the paranormal.

i know about the warnings about items that come from unbelievers -- those don't interest me as much.

what i am interested in are actual experiences in stories of the paranormal you've heard or experienced yourself.

Crabby

25 percent of the people hat fall for the JW cartoons are adults with schizophrenia or some related serious metal disease. This explains all thoughts, voices and visions. The watchtower also selects as many of these people as they can, because they are easier to sucker out of their savings.