Posts by Black Sheep

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The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

by THE GLADIATOR in

january 2014 watchtower study article.

let your kingdom comebut when?.

this generation will not pass away.

Black Sheep

... anointed contemporaries of the first group...

Whoever wrote this garbage doesn't even understand what a contemporary is. Like having to redefine 'generation' as their understanding of the meaning of the word had to be stretched way past it's use by date, they are already having to stretch the meaning of 'contemporary' beyond it's breaking point and they have only just started using it. Does the Bethel library not contain a dictionary? or are the writers short of enough brain cells to use it?

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How I recently handled JWs at my door

by Christian guy in

the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

Black Sheep

"I went from the Watchtower to Christ"

You were a member of a high control cult without realising it. Why should we give any credence to someone who has already demonstrated an inability to spot a cult?

"...and a lot of people who appear to hate God, his word, and his people..."

How can you hate something that you don't believe exists?

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Maybe I'm the bad guy after all

by braincleaned in

maybe i'm the bad guy after all.

my mom and sis love me and still talk to me, although i'm clearly an apostate.

their loophole?

Black Sheep

Have you forgotten all that mind control stuff that was unloaded on you for decades while you sat in KHs and arsemblies? They were listening too. They have been taught not to hear you. They don't want to hear you. You have to stop trying to do their thinking for them.

You have to give up on the idea of getting them to listen to you and get cunning. You have to get them to do the thinking, the research, the explaining, justifying their following failed doomsday loonies, etc.. You have to shut up except to make them want to do the talking and realise any dishonesty they indulge in.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey

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Why Eve sinned (WT 8/2013)

by EdenOne in

adamah brought up in another thread an issue i wasn't aware of, and i thought it merged well with something i've been pondering about.

it revolves around the deeper reasons why satan was successful in persuading eve to eat from the forbidden fruit.

why was eve persuaded to disobey god?.

Black Sheep

"Now, we are usually focused on the portion of the argument "you will be like God, knowing good and evil." But, was Eve so naive that she believed that she could really be like God by simply eating a fruit?"

Eve was a new human, only the second in existance. Why wouldn't she be naive? Why would she have ambition? Why had the god not realised that this species did not have any way of reproducing itself? Why hadn't they already had sex?

Sometimes things don't make sense, simply because they don't make sense, not because we are stupid.

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Sheep and Goats

by ctrwtf in

jw
friends

i'm lucky enough to live in a part of the us that many would call "pastoral.

" true to the label, i pass a small farm on the way to talking my daughter to school each day.

the other day i notice the owners had their small flock of sheep out to pasture along witha black goat.. for some reason i had a flashback to all the references the society uses re sheep, other sheep, sheeplike and goatlike etc.

Black Sheep

If you think the sheep and goats get a bum rap, what about pigs? Jesus chases them off a cliff .... and not as a parable. Mark 5:11-13. What do pigs do wrong?

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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

by slimboyfat in

jw
friends

after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

Black Sheep

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New 1975? Jan 1st WT 2014

by notsurewheretogo in

this post was taken from reddit exjw but makes a very good point:.

these are two paragraphs of the watchtower of january 1st 2014.... .

i don't know about you guys, but in my mind, i'm seeing a deja vu of the articles before 1975 i've read.

Black Sheep

It's the 15th Jan, Study Edition.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140115/let-your-kingdom-come/

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Did Cedars manipulate Lee into having a thread closed?

by cedars in

i will happily answer this question if there can be some guarantees this thread won't be deleted..

Black Sheep

This sort of bickering between to opposing egos...

I have never seen it as that. That is how Cedars has portrayed it, but is it really like that?

This wasn't the first time Cedars took criticism as a personal attack on his character and forgot we are all on the same side.

As for why the current public spat on this topic, you only have to read the OP.....

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BEST OF TOPICS CLEANED OUT

by blondie in

jw
friends

can we start over with new topics such as practical ones about how to format on jwn and posting problems and solutions.. historical posts such as those on rutherford and russell?.

doctrinal adjustments/changes.

reference sources.

Black Sheep

Best of Topics has had buggy code for years. I used to have tricks to get around the code problems, but they don't work now.

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Which country is better to migrate Canada or Australia?

by His Excellency in

i am sure nowhere is perfect but if we want to compare these two countries from different prospectives like racism, job, income/spending, quality of life, standard of living etc.

can you please give me a rough idea by sharing your experiences.. .

by the way, i am considering applying for a masters progrmme in any of the two countries.. .

Black Sheep

LOL. Jesus was born in Australia. In his current incarnation he is A J Miller.