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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

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  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  OneEyedJoe: Everything happens for a reason. Physics is the study of those reasons.

  No, it is not.
  

  Physics is a branch of science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. It is based on empirical observations and measurable data with reproducible results.
  

  It is most definitely NOT a bullshit, pseudoscience that tries to come up with contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims, mistaken and illogical support for the nonsensical belief that "everything happens for a reason."

  Just don't.
  
  
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  Wow! That is great news. Thanks for sharing. Those of us with kids still-in can take hope from your good news.

  jp
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

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  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  jp1692

  Causes and reasons are not synonymous, particularly in the context of this type of discussion.
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  Everything Happens For A Reason

  by Charles Gillette in

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  does everything happen for a reason?

  i hear this from so many people without any explanation as how this is so.

  what do you think about this belief?

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  jp1692

  No.

  Paragraph breaks, please!

  By the way, love Pinker. He’s one of my favorite authors.

  You should read his book, The Sense of Style.
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  Watchtower Spies and Secret Agents

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  i'm posting this link:http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/spies.htmlonce you start reading it you won't be able to stop.fascinating and well-documented citations which give credibility to the belief that such a sneaky, underhanded, and often illegal practice has been secretly promoted for decades by watchtower society world headquarters..

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  jp1692

  Oh, I’m sure the “upper management” of this cult knows this stuff goes on. I’m just saying it’s not a formal, well-planned or executed thing.

  I was an elder for over two decades and I can tell you on more than one occasion a CO encouraged the elders to engage in this sort of amateur-hour, “private-eye” nonsense. It’s more Keystone cops than anything.

  I personally never did it because — well it’s just wrong. But there were always at least a few elders eager to play at “cloak and dagger,” spy-vs-spy. It’s pretty immature actually.

  For example, the Orwellian and Puritanical WT mandate that “if two people of the opposite sex spend the whole night together they can be presumed to have fornicated” is all many elders needed as an excuse to pretend to be cops on a stakeout. Some of them just loved that shit. I guess it’s the only excitement in their otherwise dull and dreary lives.
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  Watchtower Spies and Secret Agents

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  2. scandals

  i'm posting this link:http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/spies.htmlonce you start reading it you won't be able to stop.fascinating and well-documented citations which give credibility to the belief that such a sneaky, underhanded, and often illegal practice has been secretly promoted for decades by watchtower society world headquarters..

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  I doubt this is any kind of formal, organized thing. It’s just a bunch of wannabe-important, uneducated janitors and window washers that feel empowered by the cult’s insane rules that makes them believe that they have both the right and the duty to overstep appropriate boundaries and act in ways that violate the privacy of others.

  The worst part is that many of us allowed the elders to do this to us and to others when we were members.

  All I can say is this, if any elder tried following me or my family now they’d get a quick lesson in the laws of physics followed up with a restraining order.

  Let’s review: It’s a cult!
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  Spiritual "Protection" - a Menace on Psychological Development

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

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  not quite a week ago, @lost in the fog created a thread entitled: do you have this illness?.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5187824140681216/do-you-have-this-illness.

  in my year of being on this forum, i have browsed many a disillusioned thread of ex-jehovah’s witnesses expressing similar symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder when detailing their awakening - my own story included.

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  Wake-me: You were one of the first people to reach out to me via PM on here and I've never forgotten our exchanges.

  Nor have I.

  I just took a look at your introductory post again. Do you remember writing this about a year ago?

  

  Look how much you've changed in a relatively short period of time! I am very proud of you. You show what can be done in reclaiming our lives once we leave the cult. No one can continue to make us feel weak or bad about ourself without our permission. And we're not going to give it to them ever again. Never again.
  

  You're no longer a "feeble nobody," a "toddler with a water pistol," you're a bad-ass women that can take care of herself. A real force of nature.
  

  I said it then, but it bears repeating: It takes courage to live an authentic life. But it is worth it. Once you've awaken, there's no going back.

  Well done!
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  Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out Of Restaurant For Supporting Trump

  by minimus in

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  i think it’s ridiculous to kick people and families out of a restaurant because of politics.

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  you make the point that no one should do that but you also suggest that you can understand that those who are receiving this treatment should expect it

  Hey, I feel bad when someone gets bit by a dog. But if that dog was barking and growling and you antagonize it, you were asking for it.
  
  
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  Encouraging the nasty angels of our nature

  by Lee Elder in

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  i see stories like this one, and think we are losing our way as a nation.

  reverting to tribalism and racism.

  i wonder if its always been there lurking beneath the surface, and it just took someone to encourage it a bit.. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/woman-berates-man-viral-rant-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-26t08%3a30%3a04&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbcnn.

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  These incidents show why (and those of us that have studied history know) the hostile, divisive rhetoric of those in leadership positions is so dangerous.

  There are a few voices of reason that rise above the din, but sadly there are quite a few that seem to deliberately incite hatred and violence.

  In any organization the person at the top steps the tone and the standard for what is acceptable.
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  Sarah Huckabee Sanders Kicked Out Of Restaurant For Supporting Trump

  by minimus in

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  i think it’s ridiculous to kick people and families out of a restaurant because of politics.

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  Minimus: no one should do what Maxine Waters is recommending.

  And I completely agree. And I made that point. Clearly.