Posts by Oubliette

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Apostasy Trial - Part 2 - Satan is Using Google

by berrygerry in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373zbncuuoq

Oubliette

Steve: I should imagine if the elders dared to secretly video our friend's "trial", we'd be declaring them to be very deceptive and dishonest.

Yeah, it's all fucked up.

What do we expect: someone with some thinking abilities ask a few hard questions and the elders fall back on the stock answers. The end result is always the same: The elders find the questioner to be an apostate.

Pretty predictable. Tragic for the people whose lives get messed up, but sadly unsurprising.

Let's review: It's a cult!

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At the Kingdom Hall

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

i was thinking of starting a topic on thoughts that go through your mind while attending meetings.... right now i am at the meeting and thinking ... we study about jesus's courage to stand by rightness and truth, about him getting in conflict with religious leaders who thought of themselves as experts of the law, jesus understood truth and god differently of them and he had the courage to speak out!.

so we study this, but after that we draw the concluzion that courage is to go preaching and identify yourself as a witness .... well, this in not what i understand from jesus's courage!.

Oubliette

The Org is nothing less than demon-inspired, and demonic in practice.

That would require demons to be real. They are not.

What "inspires" these beliefs are false understandings of the nature of reality and simplistic philosophies ascribing those understandings to "God."

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Apostasy Trial - Part 2 - Satan is Using Google

by berrygerry in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373zbncuuoq

Oubliette

... their delusion is really a sickness ...

That would be the definition of a delusion:

de·lu·sion

/dəˈlo͞oZHən/

noun: delusion; plural noun: delusions

an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.

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At the Kingdom Hall

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

i was thinking of starting a topic on thoughts that go through your mind while attending meetings.... right now i am at the meeting and thinking ... we study about jesus's courage to stand by rightness and truth, about him getting in conflict with religious leaders who thought of themselves as experts of the law, jesus understood truth and god differently of them and he had the courage to speak out!.

so we study this, but after that we draw the concluzion that courage is to go preaching and identify yourself as a witness .... well, this in not what i understand from jesus's courage!.

Oubliette

PB: you realy need a power that is more than normal human power to continue ....

For God's sake, why don't you find the power to get up off your ass and simply leave!

MAKE IT STOP!

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At the Kingdom Hall

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

i was thinking of starting a topic on thoughts that go through your mind while attending meetings.... right now i am at the meeting and thinking ... we study about jesus's courage to stand by rightness and truth, about him getting in conflict with religious leaders who thought of themselves as experts of the law, jesus understood truth and god differently of them and he had the courage to speak out!.

so we study this, but after that we draw the concluzion that courage is to go preaching and identify yourself as a witness .... well, this in not what i understand from jesus's courage!.

Oubliette

Jesus spoke out against religious hypocrisy.

Try that at your KH and you'll quickly find you get the same results, albeit a 21st Century version. Instead of being impaled on a cross or an upright stake (as if if really mattered) you will be summarily disfellowshipped by a body of elders that make the Pharisees look like amateurs.

Let's review: It's a cult!

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Apostasy Trial - Part 2 - Satan is Using Google

by berrygerry in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373zbncuuoq

Oubliette

"We could spend weeks listening to you blabber on ..."

Nice. Very loving, caring comment.

Let's review: It's a cult!

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I answer a P.M. Old memories

by Giordano in

heres a pm id like to share concerning my story about pioneering where the need was great parts 1, 2, and 3.. hi giordano,.

ive enjoyed reading your story about going to a hall that had a need back in the 1960s.

one thing ive wondered though, what it is like going to a tiny little congregation like that.

Oubliette

Great story. Thanks for bumpin' it Smiddy!

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You are simulation and physics can prove it

by Brokeback Watchtower in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chfoo9nbeow.

a little about george smoot.

http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/george_smoot.

Oubliette

JD: But it I think it's just another human mammal who's unable to accept death.

You can't die if you're not alive. Even your death would only be simulated.

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Disowning the God of the OT is not an Option

by cofty in

it's to their credit that many modern christians prefer the jesus of the gospels to the god of the old testament.. ot god is an embarrassment.

i am not going to list his multitude of moral crimes here but my personal favourite is his brilliant idea that a girl who is raped must marry her rapist.

it's not his biggest crime but it demonstrates a disregard for human feelings that is beyond the comprehension of every moral person.

Oubliette

CalebInFlorida: Actually it may be worse than what any of you are thinking.

That sounds ominous. And then this sounds interesting, suggesting a detailed analysis or some thoughtful commentary:

CalebInFlorida: Critical research suggests that the Jews attributed their own savage warfare and acts to their gods which, under the Davidic dynasty, were condensed into the state religion of the cult of YHWH.

You drew me in, but then you wrote this incomprehensible mess of a sentence:

CalebInFlorida: Scripture is not as bad as the bad interpretations which make it out to be, and these "peculiarities" of Scripture may mean something far more different than many realize.

And completely lost me.

Seriously: what were you trying to say?!?

That last sentence made absolutely no sense at all. None whatsoever.

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"Your bad attitude is evident, because you don't bring a meeting bag to the meetings anymore!"

by stuckinarut2 in

yes friends.....this is the comment said to me by an elder!.

"your bad attitude is evident because you don't bring your meeting bag anymore!".

i calmly replied: "but everything i need is on the tablet now......".

Oubliette

This reminds me the thread about highlighters. I recall one forum member said the elders in their hall forbid blue highlighters.

You'd think they'd be happy you were there and (at least pretended to be) prepared.

Must've reminded them of Satanic Smurfs or something else so sinister.