Spot on mate.
Jon Preston
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10 Pragmatic facts why Jehovah's Witnesses can't face reality
by Terry in1.the organization itself denies access to reality and substitutes its own version, interpretations and meanings.. a.only watchtower approved publications are allowed.. b.no higher education is to be pursued.. c.no non-jw friends or associations are encouraged with their "outside" points of view.. d.no free-style questioning of doctrine or criticism permitted.
curiousity is verboten.. e.threat of being "marked" or disassociated looms over them.
2.between every real-world event and the rank and file jw's mind is a roadblock.. a.the moment of identifying is short-circuited by an interpretive moment of re-labeling in watchtower-speak.. b.all things happening are forced into a narrow storyline and propagandized as end times happenings leading to armageddon.. 3.social and personal identity is expunged and replaced by a collective persona: "jehovah's witness".. a.private thinking is red-flagged as selfish and sinful.. b.personal improvement, welfare and ambition is crushed and door-to-door ministry substituted as "worthy" endeavors.. c.self-conscious obsession permeates witness awareness as each person is transformed into a public spectacle of performance for judgement.. d.since you aren't an individual you don't really have a right to fall in love and marry or educate or earn.
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The official COSMOS thread
by Jon Preston inso what does everyone think this far?
please theist feel free to add your opinions if you e watched so you can also appreciate certain facts weve learned....and hey theres speculation too!
but non judgmental speculation;-).
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Jon Preston
So what does everyone think this far? Please theist feel free to add your opinions if you e watched so you can also appreciate certain facts weve learned....and hey theres speculation too! But non judgmental speculation;-)
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Ahhh Dagnabbit
by Jon Preston inwell afyer two months i get a message from an elder wanting to go out in service a few nights a week and to hang out more....i must now be labelled in the spiritually weak and reach out to group in my hall.
my hall is very nice and so are the people but dagnabbit i hate small towns.... i wonder if i should say no or just nite the bullet on behalf of our fade...hmm decisions.
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I think im going to do what i planned and just DA maybe....
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Any faders/x-jws from orlando area?
by Jon Preston ini am looking for work around orlando fl area, altamonte springs, winter park, longwood, winter garden, kissimmee areas.
any locals or people who relocated able to give a good idea about wheres best?
or a meet up one day?
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Jon Preston
I am looking for work around orlando FL area, altamonte springs, winter park, longwood, winter garden, kissimmee areas. Any locals or people who relocated able to give a good idea about wheres best? Or a meet up one day?
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Witnessing to a Theologian
by exWTslave inwhen i found my fellow traveler reading theology today magazine, my pioneer spirit acted.
i started witnessing to him without knowing he was a professor of theology.
he patiently listened to me.
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Marked
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Ahhh Dagnabbit
by Jon Preston inwell afyer two months i get a message from an elder wanting to go out in service a few nights a week and to hang out more....i must now be labelled in the spiritually weak and reach out to group in my hall.
my hall is very nice and so are the people but dagnabbit i hate small towns.... i wonder if i should say no or just nite the bullet on behalf of our fade...hmm decisions.
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Jon Preston
Yea he laid it on thick for sure.
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Ahhh Dagnabbit
by Jon Preston inwell afyer two months i get a message from an elder wanting to go out in service a few nights a week and to hang out more....i must now be labelled in the spiritually weak and reach out to group in my hall.
my hall is very nice and so are the people but dagnabbit i hate small towns.... i wonder if i should say no or just nite the bullet on behalf of our fade...hmm decisions.
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Lol awesome guys thanks
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Ahhh Dagnabbit
by Jon Preston inwell afyer two months i get a message from an elder wanting to go out in service a few nights a week and to hang out more....i must now be labelled in the spiritually weak and reach out to group in my hall.
my hall is very nice and so are the people but dagnabbit i hate small towns.... i wonder if i should say no or just nite the bullet on behalf of our fade...hmm decisions.
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Jon Preston
Well afyer two months i get a message from an elder wanting to go out in service a few nights a week And to hang out more....I must now be labelled in the spiritually weak and reach out to group in my hall. My hall is very nice and so are the people but dagnabbit i hate small towns...
I wonder if i should say no or just nite the bullet on behalf of our fade...hmm decisions
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Bible Atrocities
by Trapped in JW land ini really can't wrap my head around how people can still consider god loving with such atrocious biblical accounts such as, 1 samuel 15, (god ordering the slaughter of amelikite baby's and children) 2nd kings 2, forgot the verses (god sending bears to maul 42 children) and many others.have you ever asked a witness or anyone elsewhat they think about these accounts?
what was their response?
i'd love to ask one, but unfortunately i'm still physically in the cult and i wouldn't want to raise any suspicions.
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"As for the Midianites that Moses ordered slain, by the Lord's command, note that he spared only virgins and that he killed the boys. Why would God do this? Because the Midianites were a horribly wicked culture with sexual depravity intertwined with their religious worship. Boys were drawn into it at an early age and were devoted to it for a number of reasons. They certainly would not constrain themselves, but introduce these pagan rites to the Israelites. The same for the women who had engaged in these ritualistic orgies. Only virgins were safe to bring into the Israelite society. The others would have surely polluted it. Check out verses"
So save the virgins, kill the lads? Why not just kill the source of the cultist brainwashers? Nope not good enough! Eradicate them all and be done with it, but save the girls for sure ;-)...Wipe them out before they commit anything, yet we are all sinners and imperfect. Its like an ancient minority report where we stop the crime before it happens! Surely the great Lord God couldve come up with a more "intelligent" (after all, he created us right?) intervention since hes so loving and all.
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Abiogenesis takes another step forward.....
by snare&racket inspark of life: metabolism appears in lab without cells19:42 25 april 2014 by linda geddesfor similar stories, visit the evolution and human evolution topic guidesmetabolic processes that underpin life on earth have arisen spontaneously outside of cells.
the serendipitous finding that metabolism the cascade of reactions in all cells that provides them with the raw materials they need to survive can happen in such simple conditions provides fresh insights into how the first life formed.
it also suggests that the complex processes needed for life may have surprisingly humble origins.. "people have said that these pathways look so complex they couldn't form by environmental chemistry alone," says markus ralser at the university of cambridge who supervised the research.. but his findings suggest that many of these reactions could have occurred spontaneously in earth's early oceans, catalysed by metal ions rather than the enzymes that drive them in cells today.. the origin of metabolism is a major gap in our understanding of theemergence of life.
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Ps i really like the way Perry gives answers that are untestable scientifically...like "or, it suggests an intelligent designer".
But if God created all things just so, the Bibles in shambles mate. Dinosaurs, cruelty to animals and children, global flood, four corners of the earth, earth is round (not a sphere?).....need i keep going?
Talk about bias. Hmph