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  22. I can relate to and verify every single point that Ali mentioned regarding JW beliefs and tactics. Absolutely 100% accurate, not one iota of exaggeration. I was born in and made it to age 35 before I left. I'm 57 now. I did maintain visitation with my then 6 year old daughter, which was wonderful and we were very close, until her 18th birthday. At that point I received a "Dear John" text from her stating that she was going to take the truth seriously and could not see me anymore. That was 9 years ago. We've never spoke since. The rest of my immediate family lives within a 15 mile circumference of me, I'm also not spoke to a single sibling or parent in at least 10 years. I only assume they are all living or even still live in the area. Just after I'd quit, I did have a short relationship with a woman who was not a JW, but members of her family were. Unfortunately, she became pregnant simultaneous with the relationship ending. I saw our daughter a few times over the next 2 years, but ultimately, she ended up being given to the JW family members as her guardians. They told me that I was not allowed to see her solely because I was disfellowshipped. The last time I saw her she was 2 years old, she will turn 17 in December. By the way, the male in that guardian dynamic, her fleshly uncle, was arrested a little over a year ago for molesting her and she was given over to another non-related couple in her congregation as her new guardians. I've only learned this through public court records, still have never had contact with anyone involved. Generally, having been a JW well into adulthood and then leaving has absolutely ruined, not only ever single relationship I'd ever had, but the scar makes it impossible to stomach the thought of trusting another person ever. Since the birth of my 2nd daughter, I've not had even the urge to have another relationship. I've been single now since 2010 and likely will spend the rest of days as such. The damage that this horrid religion does, even if you can leave it, is just more than some people can recover from. Ever.
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  23.  @JIRM88  LOL. You really like the sound of your own font, don't you? You speak in complete generalities and maybes. You get zero points for that. "maybe a pair of dentures"? Seriously? How about hell no, there is not one tooth in that bunch be it organic or manufactured. Period. I don't need a dumb list from you of what you wish they maybe might could spend money on. My concern from the very beginning was never that these people did not need 30k to get some very few aspects of their life in order. I clearly supported that in my original comment. My concern was to give people who've never properly managed a jar of marbles and suddenly just hand them 30,000 dollars without some form budgeting assistance. If that makes me a monster, then BOO! Mark said he gave the money to Betty "in pieces". That was actually sufficient for in regards to some form of budgeting. You have zero insight as to what this family is too proud for. Don't lecture me on their pride being too strong to ask for help. That is nonsense. Betty clearly has a grievance that her neighbors will not "do anything for ya". The neighbors used to give them rides, and now they do not. So let's not inflict upon the Whittakers the pride that you imagine for them. Regarding your response to their receiving state assistance for food or medical expenses, read this article and become exceedingly educated. https://247wallst.com/state/this-is-how-much-west-virginia-spends-on-your-health/. Here's just a taste, "People living with disabilities and those 65 and older are the ones who most commonly need health care and receive state Medicaid spending. West Virginia’s 65 and over adults comprise 20.5% of the state’s population, the third highest share and compared to 16.5% across the U.S. as a whole. About 19.8% of West Virginia’s population have a disability, the highest share in the country and compared to 12.7% nationwide." So, when I suspect that a family that has survived to be in their late 60's on the average and ONLY received this GFM money in the past year has somehow managed up to this point on assistance, well I feel that is the greater possibility considering West Virginia's stats. Allow me to say that I am happy that you, Lady Jay Mac, have a kind and generous attitude. I applaud that and am not interested in tearing you down for that fine quality. I do, however, take issue with people having only an emotional response to these types of stories and damned be the facts. Have a good day.
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  40.  @zatomlzxzanamolzy1253  Wrong. I can't stand how people like you assume nobody has already experienced life before you have. I was a devout xtian for 35 years. You have no secrets or information that I have not already lived and discarded. Religion itself is the worst kind of manipulation of reality. I mean, look at you being the shiniest example if being under comolete mind control. What is your reality? Faith in a deity you have never seen nor heard and only know about due to hearsay, folklore, and third-hand manmade tales of pure fictional literature. The bible is so amazingly rife with contradiction, misogany, approved rape and slavery, and zero comprehension of proven science. It thinks the Earth has edges, corners and pillars. The two accounts of creative days in Genesis don't even match. The flood account us too stupid to even debate seriously. EVERY generation reads "this generation shall not pass"...and then it passes over and over and over. Nithing changes. Good people and innocent children go unprotected from harm or disease since the beginning if man. Your god's mindset? Kill 'em all! If you knew a human that behaved like your god, you would not associate with that person. Irony!! You feel his presence? In what form? Oh, you straight IMAGINE IT because there is not one tangible shred if evidence you could ever provide. Let me guess, you just feel it. Yeah, that is called make believe, my friend. You have failed to be even the least bit persuasive with your comment.
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  45. Well, this is where belief systems get in the way of reality. I realize we all just do what we gotta do to navigate one life that we are born into fear of ending for the entire ride. Yeah, that sucks. But, I can't go along with the "other side" stuff. It is a completely contrived philosophy that I don't blame some people for needing as a placebo, but I don't subscribe to it. That she feels her brother is "safe on the other side" is something she needs to tell herself, but even if there was an other side, there is no evidence that it would be better or safer. What if THIS is the other side? Is it safe and happy? When you get to the other side, is that it forever or is there yet another side after that ride? Nobody can answer that. I get it, it's a defense mechanism that people need so that they can simply deal with things. It angered me when she explained that this was her karma because she had done the same things to others in another life. Fuck that concept entirely. She's trying to make sense of it, that is the normal part, but the truth is that people are selfish and shitty and her parents were horrid people. That's it. It's not cosmic whatever when shitty people abuse other people. Why in the hell would someone want to believe that they're paying karma for deeds in a previous life that you do not now control nor remember? That's insane. "Karma" is no more than good things maybe being born from good intentions and deeds...mostly. However, bad things happen to good people and there are scars and damage that come from that. Aside from that, I do appreciate her positive attitude and it will hopefully go far in keeping her on some form of a normal path. I don't think being financially secure really plays a role in anything. It affords her access to some tools that she may now be advantaged to have, but even rich people are depressed, broken, addicted, and die young. Regardless of my criticism, I think she's a nice person and I wish her all the best in THIS life.
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  81.  @markbowman2890  Well, I have to disagree again. There's one thing that cannot be cherry-picked or debated. Jesus never, ever wrote a single word. There is no book of Jesus. True, I do not speak for Jesus...but you would believe that Paul does? A man who never even met Jesus? That seems like a low bar. It would seem that you are guilty of the very thing you're accusing other of doing, which is selecting only the parts of the bible that support your preconceived ideas and ignoring the rest. It's not a good platform to be on if trying at all to be convincing. Now, when you say you've been close to countless people from cults, but then say that atheism is also a cult, it immediately nullifies whatever you think you understand a cult to even be. Atheism is one thing. The lack of belief. That's it. We have no leader. We have no unified theory or beliefs. To simply use the BITE model against atheism pretty much dispels whatever point you were thinking you're making. Behavior control through manipulation and domination of members through strict rules, rewards and punishments. NOPE. Atheism does not fit. Information being controlled or censured, restricting members' access to outside perspectives. NOPE. Atheism does the opposite of that. Thought control through psychological techniques used to shape beliefs and attitudes, suppressing critical thinking. NOPE. Atheism is literally the opposite of that, too. Emotional manipulation, fostering dependency and loyalty through love-bombing, guilt and fear-based indoctrination. NOPE Atheism does not do that, either. Actually, these traits describe nearly every single faith-based religion on the planet, especially Christianity. You lost this one, friend.
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  487. ​@ Fact: a thing that is known or proved to be true. Or, something in actual existence. It is a fact that no part of the bible canon is written by Jesus. It is a historical fact that no NT gospels were penned less than 40 years after JC's death. It's another historical fact that prior to writing, these tales were passed along by oral tradition...aka game of telephone. As the need for the "story" to hold water grows over centuries, and even the morphing of the stories in only the first decades considering the degree of contradiction between each gospel writer, then follow that with over THIRTY THOUSAND translations, you think you even remotely know what any original text, which we do not have, ever said? C'mon. That's just silly. I respect Bart Ehrman and I've learned a lot from him, but he's only one scholar. He's not my priest, I accept fully the things he has solid arguments for and some others are merely entertaining hypothesis. Was JC a real person? It's plausible, and only plausible. It's NOT a fact. Was he a son of god born of a virgin? No. He was a charismatic individual that stirred only one small portion of one country and got himself killed for it, which was not the plan all along. Many disciples were deflated from his death because it was not what he preached until he knew he'd got himself in too deep. As far as faith goes, what would you allege that an atheist has faith in? Faith being a belief in something unproven. I can jump to certain conclusions that are good enough to satisfy my curiosity, but I have no wager against any of it. How did the universe begin? I DON'T CARE. It's irrelevant and we simply, as humans, do not know. We've got some pretty reasonable explanations and theories that sound good enough, and it really doesn't matter beyond that. I don't have or require "faith" if I merely accept evolution as, not fact, but highly plausible.
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  509. "overabundance of red kool-aid in the area". That was good. Now, on a more serious note, I feel it's nearly impossible that Eric would've even maintained any accurate recollection of the details of that event for the next 28 years. What he was feeling, thinking, or even every movement made. That's why I don't put much stock in what his responses would've been 20+ years later on how he felt about something he did at 13 during his parole hearings. I'm not saying any slack should be cut, I'm just saying it's no shocker that people can't/don't recall everything they've ever done, especially as a near child. Even at 13 years of age, it sounds like he was clearly not remotely mature for his age. As far as being released, he served some serious time. People drone on about justice, but that has been served and paid according to the law. Let's not forget that he was only 13, and again, not giving a pass, he rightly should've been punished and has been. Many people, especially in other countries with different maximums, get out a lot earlier for having done a lot worse. Yes, it can be much worse than this. I don't really care how his integration goes, but I do hope that he will not kill again. It seems to me that if he was so inclined to do so, he would have done it while in prison. There are plenty of opportunities and and environment that would have fostered it. He will forever be a train wreck and need to be monitored. Oh well, some of us in society have crossed wires and are just unlucky in that way. The rest of us have to keep an eye on those. EVERY parole release is a gamble. Every single one. The recidivism rate for 2nd degree murderers is 18.5%. That's pretty low compared to other crimes. So, it is more than likely that everything will be just fine. If not, like Daniel said, arrest him again if he reoffends. No big deal. There are roughly 50 murders every day in the USA alone.
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  581.  @markbowman2890  Your bible. Is that good enough authority? Here we go. For example, water into wine. Told in the book of John as a third person story. The author is not claiming to have witnessed it. Jesus heals official's son. Never even went to the kid, just told the dad that the kid would live...from a fever. And of course he lived. Nothing miraculous what-so-ever happened here. Natural occurrence, people got over fevers all the time. Jesus drive evil spirit out of a man. Well, I've seen this done on TV, not very impressive or hard to find someone willing to shake around a little bit and the act like something just went down. Not even remotely interesting and quite commonplace as a public display. Anyway, this could go on 30+ more times, but the point is made. That being, firstly, these claims are all written as if folklore and not as eyewitness accounts by the authors. You speak of 500 witnesses? Where are their 500 testimonies? Oh, there isn't a single one. It's just one more claim in a bible book by someone who was not there and there is absolutely no evidence for these witnesses having even existed outside of the narrative that an author is trying to push. My credentials for dismissing the bible is the bible itself. It fails at every turn regarding science, human rights and blatant misogyny. It's hypocrisy knows no limits. Don't murder...unless it can be justified by religious disagreement or maybe your child has a sassy mouth, in which case, take him to the streets and let the neighbors stone him to death. You can't have plant life before you have sun light, therefore, the creation account is the dumbest thing ever written. Context aside, which is rife with contradicting nonsense, scholars have shown us the degree that these writing you now call the bible, have been wildly tampered with through the centuries. You actually think that 2,000 year old writings, that are completely gone, are even remotely the same as the more than 3,000 translations that have been pooped out since the third century? That's absolutely insane to believe. Numerous bible characters that simply never existed and have no secular existence in history what-so-ever. There was no Moses. There was no exodus from Egypt. The archeological scourings of the area prove this. It's just all made up stories. All of it. The bible has no credibility and a simple mouse possesses the authority to dismiss it.
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  603.  @lorean7268  Oh, that's rich. OF COURSE since I don't see the bible as clearly as you do, I'm a confused idiot. You are not a follower of christ. You claim to be, but it's a fictional character that didn't write one single word of the bible. Not one. Everything you think you know is 2nd and 3rd hand folklore. There is no book of Jesus. He literally has zero input in the bible. First, it's Gravette, not Gravatt. Second, Murray has been dead for seven years. Third, "he built the largest independent Christian television network in the world". That tells me all I need to know about just one more snake oil salesman and confirms what a patsy you've allowed yourself to be. Sad. You have NO CLUE what changes were made to any version of the bible. You're doing nothing more than taking someone's word for it, someone who likely sold you the bible to begin with. In fact, KJV has a TON of changes, it removed god's name almost entirely and replaced it with "lord". That's not very original, it's tweaked. Yes, I'm bitter. This bullshit ruined my entire life. I've lost my children, siblings, parents, cousins all in the name of religion, bible, god, it doesn't matter what you call it, it amounts to selfish conditional love and constant judgement. Just like now, you're judging me. YOU are the wise one. YOU are capable of absorbing information, but not me. LOL. Do you know what it takes to be god-inspired? To merely claim it. That's all. OF COURSE the bible self-proclaims to be inspired by god. No proof, of course, it is it's only own testimony. You know, David Koresh was inspired by god, too. So was Joseph Smith, he had plates and everything! It's really sad, that you would adopt such a haughty and self-righteous attitude. It's par for the course. You should listen less to some filthy rich TV evangelist who embodies everything that your Jesus rebuked in the temples and spend more time actually reading for yourself. Not cherry picking, reading, being critical, force the bible to prove itself to you, like I did. What did I learn? I learned that in the first two chapters of the bible there are two accounts of creative days that contradict each other. Right out of the gate! I learned that your neighbors should stone your children to death if they misbehave. I learned that a man "righteously" had children slaughtered by a bear just because they called him bald. I learned that god's answer to some allegedly bad adults was to drown EVERYONE! Do you realize how many 2-5 year old bodies of innocent children were floating around in those flood waters? For what reason? Do you really think that toddlers can be so evil they need destroyed? God does. I learned that if any parent showed the disregard for their own children that god showed for Job, they would be imprisoned. And for what did god allow all of this to happen to Job? For his own ego. He was challenged by an adversary and allowed one of his loyal and faithful followers, which is what you claim to be, to be used as a pawn to win a bet regarding loyalty to himself. WOW! That's your role model? That's who you think will save you? Sad. I'm fully aware that you will not be changed by anything I could ever say, you'll have to reach your conclusion by your head finally slipping out of your ass when you at some point will allow yourself to actually READ it truthfully and not have it interpreted and cherry picked for you by some money changer on TV. Good luck with all that. Meanwhile, I can only hope you don't pass your disease onto children and infest their lives with nothing but a constant sense of guilt, judgement, unnecessary restricted life and more than likely sexual molestation by the rank and file of almost any religious denomination. This is no longer a reply to you, this is a warning for anyone else who might read it. Your eyes and ears are closed because of your haughty attitude, this isn't even for you anymore.
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