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  What message of Goodness do they teach?

  by ozziepost in

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  the latest study article encourages witnesses to display goodness in their everyday lives.

  (january 15, 2002).

  nothing wrong with that, you may think, but what motive is being fostered in the article?.

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  How well I remember those feelings of "helping someone so that
  I could get in a sideways witness" to them. It is almost as though
  a JW should feel guilty if they do something nice for a non-witness
  and then NOT attempt to "give a witness". SO MUCH GUILT!!!!!

  What a confinement of one's spirit!

  I think that this is one of the most lovely new sensations for me, that of helping people, befriending people,
  simply, BECAUSE. No strings attached. No guilt feelings for NOT droning on about the Bible. No dread
  feelings for forming natural friendships, not friendships stifled by the constraints of "doing good" together.

  Undine
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  I never thought about jealousy

  by metatron in

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  as i look back over the trials and tribulations of.

  being a witness, there is one aspect of it that i. never gave much thought about.. jealousy.

  it just never occured to me.

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  Undine

  ~Metatron~

  EXQUISITE post. Thank you for it.

  Undine
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  Your best (one sentence) description of the WT

  by moman in

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  here iz mine:.

  #1) "a cancer of the soul".

  #2) "a fools paradise".

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  Undine

  Or, a movie title,

  "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

  Undine

  (I really like the one Mulan wrote!)
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  ~Mum~

  I think that perhaps the phrase "genius within" can sound
  rather haughty and pompous, and I don't like that at all...but every person has some
  intrinsic natural ability that, Imho, qualifies as "genius".

  I have personally experienced the stifling of these
  "natural abilities" as a result of being one of Jehovah's Witnesses
  for so many years. And I am sure that I am not alone in feeling this way. (?)

  And learning that it really is allright to cultivate such abilities was/is
  pretty wonderful, for me anyway.

  Thats all,
  Undine
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  ~Siddhashunyata~

  Thank you for your latest post. It is intriguing to me and
  I will think about it some more.

  Sweet Dreams,
  Undine
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  ...or maybe you mean conditioning of the "intellect" ... pertaining
  to what Celtic posed, that of "how one hangs on to "genius"???

  How DOES one hang on to genius or for that matter, ANY semblance
  of "reason" after the jw "experience"??? (and it IS an EXPERIENCE!)

  ah, hmmm ~¿*

  Undine
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  conditioning of...?...the spirit...?...or, the senses...?...or, both???
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  Siddhashunyata,

  Pardon?

  Undine
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  and...ah,yes...the "glug glug" part...
  good white wine...~¿~
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  Unplugging Glug Glug The Genius Within

  by Celtic in

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  from the more intelligent of you out there, how did you accomplish hanging onto your genius within?.

  any views?.

  peace.

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  Undine

  Celtic,

  Holding on to the "genius within", eh?

  Well, I do not count myself as one of the more "intelligent ones"
  as we ALL have intelligence to share in different ways...but...as far as
  holding on to my own "genius"??? Well, truth be told...I think that my "genius" lay buried and
  I was able to "recover/discover" it rather than consciously "hang on to it". Either way...it is an
  exquisite "thing" to have unearthed! I like your post...made me think. ~ ! *

  Namaste,
  Undine