I got sidetracked on Part II today, writing two other things instead.
As Scarlett O'Hara was fond of saying, "Tomorrow is another day."
TerryWalstrom
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FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.
link to hard copy.
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TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World
by TerryWalstrom intop ten reasons.
(why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.
the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.
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Dismember, if you sign up for a free Google account, everything will work in that format. A Google Documents app runs as smooth as the contents of a baby's diaper:)
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CAN you remain Human and be a Jehovah's Witness?
by TerryWalstrom intwo ball bearings manufactured at the same time, in the same factory, by rigorous engineering standards, and produced to serve the same function inside a particular machine.. question: are they identical?.
the practical test of identity is separateness which identifies some reason for a rational distinction our mind demands!.
you can replace one ball bearing with any other ball bearing of the same batch.
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____________What do we have here?_____________________
Two ball bearings manufactured at the same time, in the same factory, by rigorous engineering standards, and produced to serve the same function inside a particular machine.
QUESTION: Are they IDENTICAL?
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The practical test of identity is separateness which identifies some reason for a rational distinction our mind demands!
You can replace one ball bearing with any other ball bearing of the same batch. This replaceable quality, practically speaking, makes them interchangeable and identical. A batch of 8 million are ALL the same!
The same may be true of a jar of pennies! Ten cents is any set of ten pennies. Although each penny may have distinguishing characteristics of date or location of origin--for all practical purposes--they are identical in value.
Question: How could a penny become MORE than just a penny?
Note: One tiny distinguishing difference at the time of manufacture can dramatically change the collector value of that individualized penny.Why? Because a “distinguishing characteristic” is most valued above all things!
This penny, for example, is valued at $1 Million dollars!
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The problem of IDENTITY
To exist is to be something somewhere rather than nothing nowhere, both functionally different from the surroundings and actually distinguishable (not merely hypothetically.) To be unique is to STAND OUT among others. (Did you ever notice how "special" the GB is? It is "distinguished" by being anointed and appointed like NOBODY else but them. Once upon a time, other anointed were part of the FDS, but that was stripped away. Now the GB has a special, elite identity distinguishing them from EVERYBODY else in the universe. Get it?)
Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. However, IF our story tells us we are a Jehovah’s Witness-our human value becomes a list of liabilities to be overcome. Being human, you see, is a problem.
________________PHANTOM LIMB SYNDROME_______________
A phantom limb is an amputated or a missing limb which a person’s brain feels still attached to the body. The human senses an imaginary reality as though it were actual.
The limb that isn't there can 'itch" or ache.
No, it is a false report by your own mind giving you false evidence which you then BELIEVE.
When our mind hallucinates imaginary information about our self and surroundings, we are fooled. False reporting equals false conclusions.
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noun: non-entity
1. a person or thing with no special or interesting qualities; an unimportant person or thing.
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES may well be nothing more and nothing less than non-entity 'things' like ball bearings denied distinction in their thinking, behavior, and mindset.
Do you (really) EXIST you Jehovah’s Witness?
Is each JW replaceable, functionally identical, exactly sharing the same characteristics? You know--like those ball-bearings at the top of the page?
If JW’s are active and in good standing, their human differences are cosmetically unimportant. They are seen more as a flock, congregation, group of slaves, a Great Crowd, or an anointed remnant. They are Publishers, Elders, servants, friends, and other generic non-entities who can’t wear stylish, trendy, unique clothing. You can’t obtain distinguishing tattoos. You can’t wear your hair in a self-identifying flashiness. Forget about a beard. Do you possess attractive physical attributes? Well--for God’s sake--HIDE THEM!
Should we protest and declare, “But to their family and friends they are irreplaceable, unique, and invaluable assets!”
Oh really? Would you care to test that assertion?
What happens when a JW is disfellowshipped? What happens to those irreplaceable qualities of uniqueness--the invaluable place they hold in the hearts of others?
The answer is shocking!
The Brother or Sister who enters the Kingdom Hall before Disfellowshipping is all those things until they walk out. Then, the announcement strips away that person’s artificial human identity and value as though they now consist of a worthless nothingness in the mind of others.
They are labeled in categories of cursed and forbidden “things.” Apostate, Satanic, accursed, Evil, and mentally diseased.A DF’d “person” isn’t worth praying for or speaking to or being casually friendly with!!
Why? Because they dared to THINK as an individual!
Each JW is a statistic whose importance is a function served in the congregation, a cog, a machine part--a tool, and mostly a wingnut!
If an Elder has a personal problem, they are treated as though they are a fuse in a fuse box: Removed and Replaced.
A Publisher with personal problems can be “Marked” like a tire with thin tread warily tolerated and considered unsafe to rely upon.
Human qualities are of little importance. Talents, ambition, education are irrelevancies.
WHY?
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Conclusion: You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You aren’t your clothes or your reflection in the mirror. What you are is WHO you are when you think unique thoughts outside the box of conformity and expectations of others.
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“Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
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FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.
link to hard copy.
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TerryWalstrom
Introvert 216 hours ago
Amazing Terry, good links have seen the latter one before thanks ! Are there any more available from the source of first link ?
_______________________________If you start at the beginning and work you way through these, a congruent BIG PICTURE emerges which brings it all into focus.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9VnjJta4SF7aE5OR0dCNGxMTGs&usp=sharing
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TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World
by TerryWalstrom intop ten reasons.
(why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.
the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.
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TerryWalstrom
I don't think I became cynical so much as I became skeptical and eager to research from exhaustive angles each new thing I encountered.
Naturally, the first thing I examined was the Bible itself. That was another bombshell, to say the least!
Lately, I've been reading about the chicanery in our financial system (especially the Stock Market) and the political pay-off systems, and I'm totally flummoxed.It's no longer a question of Whom to trust, but why anybody should actually trust at all. Better is vigilant wariness and optimism whenever possible.
Hoping for the best in others and expecting the worst is as close as I can get to a creed.
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FOLLOW THE MONEY WatchTower style
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_cfvw1myb8xo0vbh_eepl3antwd5uj-o-fkwfayppe/edit?usp=sharing.
link to hard copy.
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TerryWalstrom
Part 2 is in the oven.
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What happened to Marvin Schilmer and his Blog against the JW's?
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspoturl=https://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2013/07/complete-donation-what-happened.html.
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Perhaps he was translated accidentally while on Google.
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TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World
by TerryWalstrom intop ten reasons.
(why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.
the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.
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Having been immersed for a great many years in the online society of EX-Jehovah's Witnesses, I've grown accustomed to something which is easily taken for granted. What is that thing, you ask?
IT IS RARE to meet people in everyday life who have been forced to face being dead wrong about a "certainty."
Once that has happened, you have a completely reset personality.
Without it, you just drift along happy as a self-assured clam.
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TOP 10 REASONS (Why JW's can't cope with the Real World
by TerryWalstrom intop ten reasons.
(why) jehovah's witnesses can't cope with the real world____________________.
the watchtower organization denies access to reality, substituting its own version instead.
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TOP TEN REASONS
(Why) JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CAN'T COPE with the REAL WORLD
____________________The WatchTower Organization denies access to reality, substituting its OWN propaganda version instead
Only Watchtower approved publications are allowed.
No higher education is to be pursued.
No non-JW friends or associations are encouraged with worldly "outside" POV.
No free-style questioning of doctrine is permitted nor is constructive criticism.
Threat of being "marked" or disassociated is wielded to discourage insubordinates.
2. Between every real-world event and the JW's mind, a roadblock has been placed.
The interpretive moment of free thought is interrupted by RE-LABELING in Watchtower-speak, jargon, and doctrinal rhetoric substituted.
World events are twisted into a narrow storyline and propagandized as End Times signs leading to Armageddon.
3. Individual tastes for Personal IDENTITY are expunged and replaced by a collective PERSONA. You are not yourself. You are to be viewed as a representative and example.
Private thinking is red-flagged as selfish and sinful.
Personal ambition is crushed. Only door-to-door ministry substituted as "worthy" endeavors. Beards and tight-pants are glaring demonstrations of satanic ego.
JW’s are coerced into a public spectacle of theocratic performance for judgement.
No individual is allowed a right to fall in love and marry or educate or earn without prior approval. You are the property of the Kingdom Hall and the Governing Body.
4. Both History and Future cease to be objective occurrences
Every human endeavor is judged as to whether it is part of Jehovah's Plan
Great Leaps of advancement for humanity are disregarded and minimized.
c. Terrorist atrocities are proof positive of a Satanic doomed world.
d. Individual triumphs and tragedies have no particular value; only Armageddon matters.
5. Talent, Creativity and Genius are transformed into useless ego obsessions.
No personal achievement is praiseworthy since all glory is for Jehovah only.
Neither Musical, Artistic, Scientific or Mathematical ability is encouraged because the preaching activity supersedes all else.
Critical Thinking leads to skepticism and eventual disfellowshipping. Even intelligence itself is marked as suspicious.
6. Ignorance, poverty, disease and psychological disturbance are NOT worthwhile for charity, education or institutional tasking for JW's.
Building hospitals or colleges diverts precious time away from the JW ministry. Besides, Paradise implies repair and perfection anyway.
Becoming a physician, social worker, volunteer in the community or joining any established task-oriented organization DISTORTS rather than solves human problems because Armageddon is coming quickly anyway.
Humanitarian activity, disaster relief and institutional charity promote secular and false-religious creeds instead of Jehovah's solutions.
Personal financial concerns aren't important to the congregation. Your finances are a symptom of End Times eventuality, not a focus of brotherly remedy.
7. Human perception is untrustworthy, corrupted by sin and worldliness
Only thoughts which come from official Governing Body writings are safe.
Personal opinions, life experience and original analysis constitute hubris and running ahead of Jehovah's plan for his people.
Calling attention to doctrinal irregularity, questioning "new light" and repeated calls for clarification red-flag spiritual weakness and danger.
8. There are no "Good" people in any other religion. If they were good they'd join Jehovah's Witnesses.
The appearance of goodness, charity, benevolence and selfless devotion to others by Catholics, Baptists, Buddhists or other religious types is only an artificial misunderstanding of Jehovah's permanent solutions to mankind's true problem: sin and death.
Most do-gooders are religious fakes, imposters and money-grubbing charlatans who should be exposed and not admired.
There is no one good except Jehovah anyway
9. Everything you read, see, experience and think is a distortion by Satan for the purpose of deflecting you from Jehovah's TRUTH.
Watchtower study replaces corrupt images, thoughts and ideas with clean, purified and approved replacements.
The human heart is desperate and corrupt. What you "feel" is probably sin and not compassion. Don't trust yourself to know anything.
The entire world is in the control and power of invisible demonic forces hellbent on destroying humanity
10. Doubting Jehovah's organization isn't the result of logic or awareness of errors
They never said they were perfect or inspired or prophetic
Jehovah eventually repairs any damage (Wait on Jehovah)
Disloyalty to the Organization is disloyalty to Jehovah himself. Armageddon will settle that score.
In view of the Ten reasons above, there can be no doubt that the Organization has completely REMOVED REALITY from JW awareness.
_________Being denied a right to reality is to have one's mind taken hostage.
Without thinking your own thoughts you cannot ever be an actual real person.
The group thinks FOR you and instructs you what to do and say and how to be.
Without that GROUP there is only doubt, emptiness, and longing to be cocooned by the "other" and cradled away from fear.
________Why it is hard to break free?
You wonder why JW family member won't listen to reason?
You wonder why the obvious isn't at all obvious?
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CAN'T ABIDE REALITY.
For them......it isn’t allowed to exist!
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But where else should we go? Can you answer this question?
by purrpurr inhaving watched many jc youtube videos one question that gets asked is "where else would you go?".
in other words if not jehovah's witnesses then what other religion or organisation would you go to?.
it's one that i have trouble answering, what would you say?.
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TerryWalstrom
Let's indulge in essentialism for a wee moment, shall we?
Being Christian is being Christ-like.
It is a symbiotic / supernatural alignment of different species of being.
If there truly is an existential reality to God, Christ, and Holy Spirit, we should understand that THEY HOLD ALL THE POWER.
For us to assimilate the personality of Christ is to take on that power individually and enter a relationship for keeps.
Your proximate Location has nothing to do with it. Attitude, gratitude, and noble-minded activity will create an environment others will desire to inhabit. You will become the focal point of a Brotherhood just as did Jesus himself.
Otherwise--this is all just fantasy camp.
