a very close friend of mine has gotten his letter.
although he was planning to leave willingly, he told me that he can't help but feel a sense of being stabbed in the back by a bunch of self righteous traitors.
he gave tours for years, always telling the visitors "this is the best way of life, i would never change anything here and i'll never regret making this decision to come here.
Then continue. My objections have been clearly stated and based on an analysis of the data. My findings have been presented; I change nothing about them.
But you have an opportunity, if you are who you say you are and if you know this soon to be ex-Bethelite, to prove your case. I suggest you leave the circumcision issue to its own OP.
a very close friend of mine has gotten his letter.
although he was planning to leave willingly, he told me that he can't help but feel a sense of being stabbed in the back by a bunch of self righteous traitors.
he gave tours for years, always telling the visitors "this is the best way of life, i would never change anything here and i'll never regret making this decision to come here.
Gilbeath,
Not buying it. Your avatar could be a guy but being so tiny it looks like a girl. You have to build back some credibility, and that will take a few more months and a lot more posts that show something approaching bona fides for ME. Or continue this OP and provide something resembling evidence and rational argument. Class, be warned, if Mr. Whore-a-lot continues and you continue to engage him, ask 'probing' questions (double entendre intended) that will reveal who he is and what his objectives are.
Otherwise you are most certainly the butt of his joke. Double entendre intended.
a very close friend of mine has gotten his letter.
although he was planning to leave willingly, he told me that he can't help but feel a sense of being stabbed in the back by a bunch of self righteous traitors.
he gave tours for years, always telling the visitors "this is the best way of life, i would never change anything here and i'll never regret making this decision to come here.
This is Ima Whore, I mean Pussy Galore, I mean Alotta Vagina, I mean Gilbeath Whoralot's SECOND post. She has been on the site for less than a month. She has learned enough in this short period of time to create the perfect OP that would hook us.
But he/she (I'm betting it's a he) thinks they are much smarter than everyone on this site, and they had to place rather obvious clues so that they could laugh at us when we missed them and drone on and on and on for 200 posts in response to her comedy routine. We didn't miss them. At least I didn't and probably Slimboyfat.
We are being spoofed. And if we aren't, Ms. Whore-a-lot has one chance to fix this. So far it seems that silence IS golden.
a very close friend of mine has gotten his letter.
although he was planning to leave willingly, he told me that he can't help but feel a sense of being stabbed in the back by a bunch of self righteous traitors.
he gave tours for years, always telling the visitors "this is the best way of life, i would never change anything here and i'll never regret making this decision to come here.
You had me at hello. Really, you did.
You lost me at the circumcision tag line. Is that like Bob Barkers old 'have your pets spayed and neutered' tag?
Another OP perchance?
Is the chopping block reference a clue to this being a spoof? A double entendre? Ouch, btw.
Just female circumcision or males too?
Or are we playing "One of these things is not like the others'? Or Where's Waldo ..s foreskin?
Is this somehow related to Bethel? Did the evil Dark Lords require your friend to be circumcised to gain entrance? So he's mad that they chopped him coming and going? Double entendre intended.
You have seriously raised questions about your credibility with this tagline. You being a newbie with a double entendre sounding screen-name and a picture with your hand over your mouth as in response to a joke are also clues.
if only every ex-jw could reach this same audience with videos and other avenues!
but this is truly remarkable.. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ex-jehovahs-witness-schoolgirl-exposes-organisation-as-a-religion-that-destroys-lives-10273064.html.
a schoolgirl who left the jehovah’s witnesses after learning of its alleged failure to protect vulnerable women has blasted the organisation in a powerful speech to her classmates.. holding back tears, she recalled her personal experiences as a member of the church and how she was taught everyone outside the religion, including her father, would be sent to armageddon.
Thanks Gnd,
A very brave young lady.
Oh Former Brother, where art thou. You need to read this. All these accounts have the ring of truth, because we all know many stories just like ithem.
The Dark Lords breed and hatch these events in their Dark Tower and send them across the planet to cause death and destruction in every congregation.
I will accept your silence as aquiescence.
i know this sounds like a ridiculous question but i was talking with my mom in the car today and of course we got on the topic of getting babtized again.
she told me that jehovah holds me accountable for my sins regardless of wether i am babtized or not so i have no reason to be holding back because it won't change anything.
my parents are the type of super strict jw who will shun you just for not being a witness.
Blackwolf,
Getting baptized in the JW religion changes EVERYTHING. It formalizes and 'legalizes' your cult hood, making you subject to shunning, marking, labeling and the ever prying eyes of the elders and under the oppressive rule of the pharisees in Brooklyn.
DO NOT GET BAPTIZED. EVER. You will live to regret it, likely sooner than later.
No, I still think your'e a lil mad puppy. Ok, maybe a big mad puppy.
i posted this on another thread, and decided it deserves its own...thoughts?.
an unfortunate artifact of evolution is that belief can, and often does trump fact.
survival is at the core of what belief is about.
LisaRose,
There will always be a place for every personality type. None of them are right or wrong. They just have different strengths and weaknesses. Right now the planet needs a lot of help with rational thought based on evidence. If that changes and Grog the caveman in all of his emotional, reactive, fight or flight glory is required, rationals will not fare so well.
i posted this on another thread, and decided it deserves its own...thoughts?.
an unfortunate artifact of evolution is that belief can, and often does trump fact.
survival is at the core of what belief is about.
d4g,
"I have hypothesized this correlation has a lot to do with why we left to begin with."
Yes, we have discussed this previously on this site. I'm an ENTJ. It is a predicted outcome. Intuition, it appears, is an advantage in today's world when it is coupled with Thinking. When it is coupled with Feeling, Houston, we may have a problem. The contributing factors for those who leave religion, become irreligious, a-relgious or atheist are: Intelligence, Personality Type, Education, Prosperity and Culture.
Culture is a contamination factor that skews all data, as Muslims aren't likely to lose their religion because they might also lose their head in the process. And dubs lose their families. And so on. The other 4 are the real factors. Prosperity seems to be a minor factor (look at the US as an example).
Intelligent people are more likely atheist or irreligious, as are Rationals and those with Graduate and Post Graduate Education (as they are exposed to the analytical, empirical evidence process). Lots of empirical studies suggest these correlations. But again class, these are nothing other than correlations; there is not a cause/effect.
i posted this on another thread, and decided it deserves its own...thoughts?.
an unfortunate artifact of evolution is that belief can, and often does trump fact.
survival is at the core of what belief is about.
LisaRose,
YOU are a very special Feeler/Perceiver. Of course there is much more to personality types, and each type has its strengths and weaknesses. The data only suggests correlations over large populations. If the survey had been taken 15,000 years ago, the Feeler/Perceivers would have ruled!!!!I
It's evolution, albeit by a very slow process. The 'fittest' today are more often those who can think analytically and rationally and understand and require evidence for the decision making process. That may not make them a greater % of the population for a long time, but it at the very least is more likely to place them in decision making positions.
