I see a therapist too, it really helps to sit down with somebody once a week and just talk about what I'm going through or what I've gone through. I'm glad you took that step, a lot of people won't, they think there's something shameful about it or that they don't need the therapist to begin with. You're strong. Stay strong.
john.prestor
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Therapist can help
by Leopold theseconed inhey everyone my nice new friends.
i had my first visit with a therapist today.
i was totally open with everything.
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Could/should JW Lawyer be punished for deceiving the Judge?
by The Fall Guy inin an attempt to disparage a faded jw and to obtain their personal details, he deceptively partially quoted a statement from the jw.borg web site to the new york judge when he wrote, .
"disfellowshipping does not cause family relationships to be permanently lost: "the religious ties he had with his family change, but blood ties remain.
the marriage relationship and normal family affections and dealings continue.
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john.prestor
Yes, if the man knows he's lying and lies anyway about something like that he should be punished. And if this man is a Jehovah's Witness, particularly an older, senior member (I'm sure they don't let Joe Publisher represent them in court), he knows he's lying.
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'Spiritual food' and the global south
by john.prestor ini'm watching john cedars rebuttal of the annual meeting, and right at the start stephen lett starts going on and on about spiritual food, how nutritious it is, how filling it is, it comes across as weird but it doesn't help admittedly that the guy looks like bozo the clown forgot his act.
but the thought just came to me as i'm eating dinner.. not everybody gets dinner.
not everybody gets three meals a day.
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john.prestor
A necktie? Damn how generous, what's next, a free hug?
Yeah, all of that comes across as cold and callous, what, the first thing you tell the refugees is you won't feed them, what a dick move in and of itself. I'm sure they love needing to pass some kind of sincerity test before you'll talk to them.
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'Spiritual food' and the global south
by john.prestor ini'm watching john cedars rebuttal of the annual meeting, and right at the start stephen lett starts going on and on about spiritual food, how nutritious it is, how filling it is, it comes across as weird but it doesn't help admittedly that the guy looks like bozo the clown forgot his act.
but the thought just came to me as i'm eating dinner.. not everybody gets dinner.
not everybody gets three meals a day.
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john.prestor
I'm watching John Cedars rebuttal of the Annual Meeting, and right at the start Stephen Lett starts going on and on about spiritual food, how nutritious it is, how filling it is, it comes across as weird but it doesn't help admittedly that the guy looks like Bozo the Clown forgot his act. But the thought just came to me as I'm eating dinner.
Not everybody gets dinner. Not everybody gets three meals a day. Not everybody can buy good food. Not everybody can buy food, whether any food or enough food. And while I get that he's making these remarks to people in Warwick I think, or is it New York City... wherever it is the people the organization invites aren't struggling to survive in a refugee camp... but these videos go up on www.jw.org, and people watch them internationally. A lot of these people will watch it from the global South, places where Jehovah's Witnesses continue to grow, the Caribbean, southeast Asia, Latin America, places like that where people struggle to buy enough food to stay alive because they make so little everyday. Many don't even have clean drinking water, and they often live in shacks or shanty towns.
It's in really poor taste to go on and on about how delicious your magazine is when some of the people listening to your speech won't even eat that night.
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Yearbook 2014 NWT is The Finest Translation of the Bible Available to Mankind. 😇
by Fabian inthe is on page 4 of the 2014 yearbook.. a letter from the governing body.
how delighted we are to write you at the beginning of this momentous year!
by late 2014, a whole century will have passed since our beloved king jesus christ began ruling in the midst of his enemies.—ps.
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john.prestor
I don't have any issue calling it a translation, it's fine for the most part if a little wooden and kind of awkward. It's just their change things here and there to fit their own doctrines which turns me off to it, Jesus saying This means my body kind of thing when the Greek says This is my body, because that sounds too Catholic. It's dishonest. Worst thing in the world? Not even close. Problematic? Yeah, a little.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation v Watch Tower Society
by Corney in[disclaimer: the headline is slightly misleading since the eff itself doesn't participate in the case, so read more below].
it's not a secret that during the last two years watchtower obtained nearly 40 dmca subpoenas requiring google, facebook, instagram, twitter, soundcloud, scribd, reddit and other isps to provide personal information of users that allegedly infringed the society's copyright.. since subpoena proceeding is ex parte, almost all the requests were granted.. but one of the affected users contacted, on advice of youtube's legal team, the electronic frontier foundation (eff), and the foundation found a law firm ready to represent him pro bono, namely garvey schubert barer:.
youtube's legal department emailed the user on or about july 10, 2018, five days before the subpoena's return date, stating that it would comply with the subpoena unless it received a file-stamped motion to quash "or other type of formal objection before july 20, 2018.
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john.prestor
Olig, did you just open a can of worms. Be ready to laugh and let your jaw drop repeatedly.
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Did Jesus exist? Probably not
by The 12 Apostates inthreads about this have been made before, but none have been made for a few years.
i was very much on the fence with this one, i never really cared.
but i became curious recently, having had a few interactions with street preachers.
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john.prestor
We don't actually know any of that. We know little about the oral tradition of early Christians because the only records we wrote at that time containing such information that the authors claim they received from specific people (two elders named Johm and Aristo/Aristion) both mysteriously vanished, that being the 2nd century 'Exposition on the Sayings of the Lord' by Papias of Hierapolis and Hegesippius' 'History.' Fascinating ain't it? We know Matthew and Luke based their gospels on earlier written sources, that being Mark and something else (Q probably) but we don't know that Mark did, he might have made it all up for all we know. Did he? I doubt it. A story about a guy who gets himself killed when he plots to take down the Romans doesn't really sound that crazy. Happened all the time back then. The fact that we know about some of the earlier or later false Messiahs from Josephus, while a Christian obviously and all but nakedly interpolated the 'Testimonium Flavious,' only shows how little impact Jesus really had when he came charging into Capernaum that long ago afternoon.
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Did Jesus exist? Probably not
by The 12 Apostates inthreads about this have been made before, but none have been made for a few years.
i was very much on the fence with this one, i never really cared.
but i became curious recently, having had a few interactions with street preachers.
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john.prestor
I'm gonna chime in with Alfred Lousy, the critical Catholic theologian. He claims Jesus came into Capernaum one day, announced the arrival of God's kingdom from heaven, and riled people up enough that he convinced a few of them to go with him to Jerusalem to wait for it. When he got there, he denounced the wrong people and they killed him after they discovered that he made statements implying he saw himself as the Messiah, i.e., threatened Roman rule. That's it, that Jesus. The only important thing he ever did in his life might have taken no more than a week or two.
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New Textbook For Elders
by Lost in the fog ini have to say that i found item 3 on the above page raised questions in my mind.
if an elder is deleted presumably for wrongdoing the hard copy text book is taken off him and destroyed.
but who ensures that any electronic copies of the book in his possession are deleted?
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john.prestor
Somebody's gonna get a 'shepherding call'...
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Yearbook 2014 NWT is The Finest Translation of the Bible Available to Mankind. 😇
by Fabian inthe is on page 4 of the 2014 yearbook.. a letter from the governing body.
how delighted we are to write you at the beginning of this momentous year!
by late 2014, a whole century will have passed since our beloved king jesus christ began ruling in the midst of his enemies.—ps.
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john.prestor
Do these people ever get tired of tooting their own horn? The finest translation of the Bible ever, how the hell do they know that? If somebody else won't stroke their egos they stroke it themselves (yep, that's a double entendre)