so there's an indoctrination session tomorrow......any tips for getting through with my sanity intact?
I recommend ear plugs. It is important that you keep that dumb shit from fouling up your neuronal networks and spitting out garbage; like the old saying garbage in means garbage out. You don't want to listen too closely to what these delusional lying CEOs are offering as spiritual food because it shrinks your brain though lack of use and faulty logic.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/religious-experiences-shrink-part-of-brain/
Also practice drawing mandalas they help center the mind.
so, i am reposting this video from wifibandit's thread since it is a bit off topic.
i watched this video and i have to say that this guy really creeps me out.
his slow and methodical gestures coupled with with his over-annuciation of every word makes him appear absolutely crazy!.
the "don't buy ice cream give us the money video" that is the subject of other threads.. i am not very good with computer stuff - would someone tell me where it is to be found on jworg please?
i can't find it.. thanks..
just when you thought may's jw dot org video featuring wide-eyed cult lunatic gb lett guilting the masses into giving every last dime they have couldn't be topped, your children will now be fed a guilt-inducing cartoon in which they are guilted into giving every last cent they have to the wt cult.
the wt entitles this one, "give us your money!
even your children are to be shaken down!
Give us greedy fucks at the Watchtower Corporation you ice cream money kids we are very desperate. What a bunch of cheap shot losers these guys on the Governing Body really are.
They surely are not in their hay day when they could make a buck from their crappy magazines. They are pond scum sucking losers.
just when you thought may's jw dot org video featuring wide-eyed cult lunatic gb lett guilting the masses into giving every last dime they have couldn't be topped, your children will now be fed a guilt-inducing cartoon in which they are guilted into giving every last cent they have to the wt cult.
the wt entitles this one, "give us your money!
even your children are to be shaken down!
inappropriate.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1fkow6zw8.
so, i am reposting this video from wifibandit's thread since it is a bit off topic.
i watched this video and i have to say that this guy really creeps me out.
his slow and methodical gestures coupled with with his over-annuciation of every word makes him appear absolutely crazy!.
He's definitely got the look and the mannerisms of a genuine mega cult leader. How fitting for him to give regular semi yearly broadcasts for internet fodder. He's a genuine Dumb Ass who believes all his own hyped up bull shit about not asking for money by certain forms of used by the churches.
as some already know or perhaps guessed i'm interested in jung's ideas on the psyche, have been since a teenager and then the jws got me at and closed my mind.
after leaving mental "the truth" in my forties, my intrest renewed very quickly, a post leolia made to me on some subject unknowingly gave me my first prod, thanks leo.. well i was exploring my mind soon as i left the jw with some lengthy excursions into being a semi hermit in order to give myself over to much inner time, it even feels a bit selfish to do now so i gave it up,, for how long?
still probing but at a reduced rate.. jung studied all the religions, and all the ancient text he could get his hands on, and his knowedge of mythology was extensive.so he also is very understanding of what is enlightenment, as he said the experiences he had with the unconscious nearly tore him apart but he manged to survive it without loosing his sanity, jung also said that he was surprised at how much of the unconscious the buddha had made conscious without going insane.
jesus was a jew who apparently thought he was the messiah, however, after dying, his disciples began to propagate the lie that he would return from heaven during his generation.
but, his generation passed away, and it was clear that it was a false prophecy, then a dishonest christian wrote the second letter of peter so as to condemn those who realised that the prophecy was a fiasco.
interestingly, and sadly, this religion survived,....why????
Because people want to live
Because people want to live forever in a paradise be it in heaven or earth. It like a carrot you dangle before and animal to get him to move in a beneficial way for profits.
We will suspend critical judgement if we engage in wishful thinking and lots of times we were born into a religion and so not having the critical thinking skills we naturally fall into the delusions of christianity, It is like the old computer saying garbage in = garbage out in other words we have been feeding our minds with pretty much useless information and now we are getting garbage out.
i have been at the university library the past few month reading books about carl jung.
i think he has some interesting things about the unconscious,,as well consciousness.. i been reading that the unconsciousness has the ability to form this new personality and then hatch it on the ego consciousness by means of an religious experience,, or perhaps we can say mystical experience , but the problem is that if the original ego consciousness was very one sided there is a tendency is for the new personality to be too one sided in the opposite way.. one of the chief problems for the human species as i see it is that the evolution of the human consciousness has cause a very drastic change in in our life style in such a short period of time just look at the last 2 or 3 hundred years and this accelerated change this has cause the majority of us to deviate the from the "way of the blood",, or from the way our genetic code would work the best for us both mentally and physically,, this deviation is the reason for a neuroses,, or even worse a psychosis.. but jung and others who think like him say that a neuroses is actually a very good thing as it is natural process that works to restore balance in the psyche.
sometimes in healing his patients from a neuroses he would only go as far as the personal unconscious find the problem with the patient and they were cured other times he had to go deeper and into the collective unconscious to get at the problem.. many patient came to even after they had been cure and wanted to go deeper to find whatever.
