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  Explain Your Avatar

  by new boy in

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  i know this thread has been done before.

  however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.

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  jp1692

  My avatar is a photograph of Daniel Day Lewis in the role of John Proctor from the movie The Crucible.
  

  For those that don't know the story, it is based on the events of the Salem Witch Trials when--in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692--19 men and women, and two dogs, were accused of witchcraft and subsequently hanged for it.

  My user name, jp1692, is John Proctor's initials and the year of the Salem Witch Trials.

  The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller based on these actual events, but adapted to reflect the then current hysteria in the United States during the Second Red Scare. This was the period of McCarthyism from the late 1940s through the 1950s when many people were being falsely accused of being communists and having their lives ruined. Two people, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were actually executed as a result.
  

  I thought this avatar and my corresponding username appropriate due to my final experiences with the JW Cult.
  

  • "Falsely accused and convicted of witchcraft, I was hanged because I refused to say I believed in something which I did not." - John Proctor

  In my case, I am shunned because I no longer profess to believe in the doctrines of the JW religion or unquestioningly follow its leadership.
  
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

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  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  “Besides masturbation weakens the hands and arms lessening their power and usefulness such as using a hammer at are construction sites."

  Au contraire!

  
  

  
  
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  The One-Electron Universe | Space Time

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  richard feynman's idea.

  that's the guy who said if someone claims to know quantum physics doesn't know quantum physics and just shut up and calculate.

  maybe everything is just one thing like the mystics claim.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtw9mslfk.

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  “If we could phase shift and match the atomic frequency of other atoms we could walk right through a wall.”

  Um, no.

  As fun as that pseudoscientific, Marvel comic bookish idea sounds, it shows a profound ignorance of the basic physics of atomic structure and the forces involved in the chemical bonding of molecules and compounds.

  If you really want to understand the real science behind this, you might find a rudimentary course in atomic theory to be very informative. Be sure to include a basic chemistry course which discusses the composition of molecules and compounds (chemical bonds) and how they are the building blocks for larger structures, ie.: organic chemistry, biochemistry and biology.

  There’s a whole lot more than just electrons going on in an atom.
  
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  Is that a calendar year, a fiscal year or a solar year?

  I’m asking for a friend, obviously! 🙄
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  For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

  for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

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  jp1692

  I gave it a lot of thought and followed the evidence to where it inevitably led. God—at least along the lines of the one portrayed in the Abrahamic traditions—simply does not exist.

  Frankly, this is a good thing. Why?

  As Richard Dawkins so clearly explains, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

  This does explain, though, why “true believers” of the fundamentalist ilk are as nasty and horrible as they frequently are. They are made in “His” image.

  They are simply imitating their vile god.
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  After watching A&E Leah Remini on Jehovah Witnesses I am going to stop hiding behind my Avatar

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  just got done watching this program and what impress me the most was the bravery of those x-witnesses to sit there on national tv and tell everyone how the wt.

  cult affected them.

  no hidden faces, no avatar names and no disguise.

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  Great to meet you, David and Barbara!
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  Conversation with my Dad today concerning the Leah Remini show

  by joe134cd in

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  joe : i don’t quite know how to tell you this dad.

  dad : what daughter .

  joe : dont get mad or offensive, but there was a documentary that aired a few nights ago on prime time tv in the usa concerning the jws, and there was some very nasty stuff mentioned, and it certainly wasn’t positive toward the organisation.

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  What TBK said!
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  Cart Witnessing along with dramas on the big screen?

  by Tahoe in

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  https://youtu.be/f40ukvgjsqw.

  is it the first of april already?.

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  Being a Witness used to require some actual knowledge and personal skill in talking people. Now you just need to be able to set up a cart and a video screen then stand next to it.
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  Can you ever see a time when Govt`s of this world will attempt to abolish all religions ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  we are now in the 21st century of our common era with its insights into the potential of what can be achieved in the near future to benefit mankind for years to come .. the co-operation of governments around the world on so many levels has never been better than it is today and it is at least encouraging to see this .. whether it has to do with the climate , the environment ,food production ,safe water for all ,and the better health for all in the near future, and in the future space exploration.

  however the problem today is still religion !

  in its many extreme forms that divides us in no ways that politics divide us .. politicians learn how to compromise and work with their opponents for the greater good ,whereas religions don`t.. religions divide humans like no politicians ever did well not to the extremes religions will go anyway.. is their going to come a time in history when governments politicians say enough is enough and try attempt to abolish religion ?.

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  I certainly hope not. That would be terrible because only a totalitarian nightmare of a government would do such a thing.

  I'd much prefer that as a species we outgrow our childish need to believe in superstitions, myths and lies and embrace reality for what it is, or at least as much as we can know it.

  If and when this happens, then religions would just naturally fade away and then eventually die out. This trend is already occurring in many Westernized societies as a result of education.

  Here's a link to a not-too-recent article about this very phenomenon:
  

  • Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says - BBC

  
  
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  It feels really odd

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.

  i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.

  https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.

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  Steve2, that is a bizarrely dysfunctional relationship you have with your unknown relative.