Posts by GoneAwol

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Where did Jehovah go ?

by Deleteandrestart in

for the many years i was mentally " in " the congregation, i equated the organisation as interchangeable with the persona of jehovah, in effect whatever the organisation said or thought, that was what jehovah thought and that was what jehovah said.... it was that simple.

so when i found out the ttatt and the cynical moves of the organisation over the years,including 1975 , the donation arrangements, the united nations, etc i was devastated and thought " where's jehovah in all of this?".

the god who i'd poured my heart out to on many occasions and who i thought was silently listening and hearing my pleas ..... was not there , .

GoneAwol

......he`s on the lav.

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Were you beaten as a child?

by purrpurr in

i've been confronting my mother with her dubious parenting skills (abuse) of me as a child.

particularly the beatings i would get with the wooden spoon.

not a light smack but hitting me as hard as she could for as long as she could.

GoneAwol

Me and my brother got the cricket bat, yes thats correct, the cricket bat. A silver coloured Sondico full size. Anything that riled our step dad, that was it. We used to have bunk beds made of angle iron, he would make us bend over under the top one, then wack! Sore arse and bonse at the same time.

I turned 13, my bro 18 months older. I smashed the kitchen window larking about, and my step dad came running after me with the bat. My bro grabbed it and beat the crap out of him. Never touched us after that

Oh yeah, hes 69 now. And he works for me. Happy days.

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The Freedom to Learn

by TheLiberator in

since i have left the watchtower's dung behind, reading and learning has accelerated at an unbelievable pace for me.

i am sure that is true for most here.

i have always been a big time reader.

GoneAwol

"Christianity is such an evidence based faith like no other." yep, still got a LOT of reading to do........

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Evolution is a Fact #36 - Mass Extinctions

by cofty in

250 million years ago a plume of molten basalt gushed up from the earth's core.

it erupted in an area now known as the siberian traps - back then it was part of the supercontinent pangaea.

a curtain of lava a mile high and hundreds of miles long lit up the sky.

GoneAwol

Hi Hippie.

So your concept of a creator is that he developed a system where he made certain lifeforms, and then allowed them to evolve into whatever we see today?

Which means that he didn't really have much say or control of how lifeforms turned out.

Which means then, that god is not in control of happenings in the world.

Or is it just animal lifeforms he can't control, and he still has the destiny of this earth in his grip?

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Forget Prince, the chimp from the PG Tips advert died.

by punkofnice in

i always liked the pg tips adverts on uk tv.. cooeee, tea mister shifter?.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36103383.

GoneAwol

"Can you ride tandem?"

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Evolution is a Fact #34 - Hiccups and Tadpoles

by cofty in

hiccups are a weird phenomena.

they are a combination of two involuntary actions - firstly a rapid inhalation of breath followed 35 milliseconds later by the glottis at the back of the throat suddenly closing off our airway.. our normal breathing is controlled by a "central pattern generator" in a small region of the brain stem close to the boundary with the spinal cord.

a signal is sent along the vagus and phrenic nerves resulting in a rhythmic contraction of muscles in chest, diaphragm and throat.. these nerves branch off right at the top of the spinal cord and follow a convoluted path through the chest cavity.

GoneAwol

troofexplorer.......eh?

O.............kaaay....

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Evolution is a Fact #34 - Hiccups and Tadpoles

by cofty in

hiccups are a weird phenomena.

they are a combination of two involuntary actions - firstly a rapid inhalation of breath followed 35 milliseconds later by the glottis at the back of the throat suddenly closing off our airway.. our normal breathing is controlled by a "central pattern generator" in a small region of the brain stem close to the boundary with the spinal cord.

a signal is sent along the vagus and phrenic nerves resulting in a rhythmic contraction of muscles in chest, diaphragm and throat.. these nerves branch off right at the top of the spinal cord and follow a convoluted path through the chest cavity.

GoneAwol

Quarterback: "I'm not interested in it myself."

So, you're not interested in facts? Facts mean nothing to you? Your whole life is ruled and run by conjecture, superstition and fantasy?

Really? Think before you type a reply.......

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I went to see my Dr about the blood card issue

by purrpurr in

i booked a double appointment so that she wouldn't be rushed.

i explained that i'd been brought up in the jw's and woken up to what a load of shite it was.

i explained that they have changed the blood card and that the elders in the cong are being told to effectively force people into signing it.

GoneAwol

Purrpurr, have a look at my post from the other day, let me know what you think..ta

...In the interest of clarity, both my wife and daughter are registered nurses in the Uk.

To access medical records is a lengthy drawn out process, mostly because everything at the moment is being slowly transferred from paper to electronic. (system 1 or EMIS)

The max charge to access paper from NHS is £50. Electronic, if yours have been fully transferred, is £10. You have to pay this to get access. It can be more if practise is GMC or private. They can charge what they want.

Who you then give it to is up to you. (Why would you?)

If however you have no interest in looking at your own records, but still give permission on a jw/hlc form for them to gain access, it is ONLY access to immediate care notes, not the whole med file. ( ie a car crash victim.) The hlc would also have to pay the above costs to have a written copy.

No health professional is allowed to distribute your med info electronically without a power of attorney in place.

The hlc would not be allowed access to all records unless they went through legal channels. They would have to have a VERY good reason to obtain all your records even with your consent, eg power of attorney.

So, its not as simple as just signing over an nhs number and they have everything about you on tap.

If there is something to this letter, it would be interesting to say in the least how it pans out.

Hope the info is useful.

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Cognitive Dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.

by Sledracer in

cognitive dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.

this is what is wrong with me, i have a love hate relationship with the jw's.

GoneAwol

Sorry, my spelling today is atroshus....atrouchias......................terrible! Meant to say 'poison'. Duh

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Cognitive Dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.

by Sledracer in

cognitive dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.

this is what is wrong with me, i have a love hate relationship with the jw's.

GoneAwol

Its an awful process to go through, and some cope better than others. Or should I say, come to a quicker conclusion than others.

If there is poisen in the drinking water, however small an amount, would you drink it?