To answer the subject question, I believe God created humans with the need to worship something/someone. This is why there's some type of religion in all human societies.
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Why do people feel they need religion in their life ???
by run dont walk inafter growing up a jw all my life, i have no clue why people would want to be part of any religion.. i don't get the mormon stuff.
i don't understand the catholic faith.
i really don't understand the muslim beliefs and all their levels and the suicide bombers.
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Do you think the Watchtower makes up experiences by people ???
by run dont walk inin the may 1, 1988 watchtower, on page 22, a witness, matsue ishii, recalls her first encounter with the bible students in 1928: at the back of our house in tojo-cho, osaka, there was a house with a sign: "osaka branch of the international bible students association.
" assuming it to be a christian group, i visited the house.
"do you believe in the second advent of the lord?
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They alter people's experiences to make them more likeable. They 'air brush' it, so to speak.
Or they print stuff like "A renouned doctor/lawyer/specialist says....", and such renouned doctor or lawyer or whomever is a person that is a JW.
They're a bit deceitful and misleading in this regard.
DY
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What songs stand the test of time?
by JV inseeing as i'm dowloading songs so i can blast them at the neighbour kids, i was thinking, what songs stand the test of time?
what songs do you listen to over and over again and never get tired of.
here's my list.. if you tolerate this - manic street preachers.
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Evergreen, by Barbra Streisand
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Are You Happy With Your Life???
by minimus inbasically, are you happily single, married, divorced, separated?
do you wish that your life could be happier?
do you believe that life sucks and then you die, anyway?
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Minimus,
At this present time, I'm so soo sooo very happy about my life: I have an adorable husband that adores me right back, good health, financial ease, a great job with wonderful co-workers, good relations with all my relatives, live in a place many already call 'paradise on earth'. What else could I possibly ask for?!
I only wish many more would have it at the very least as good as I have it right now. That would make me an even happier person.
Of course, as the world turns conditions change. I only hope to have it as good for as long as possible.
DY
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Good Decisions.....
by riotgirlpeeps inso i was curious, besides leaving the organ, what other life altering decisions have you made that have greatly improved your life, that you wouldn't have made were you still under the "sheep" mentality?.
for me, divorcing my ex, taking a chance to get involved with anyone again, and working at fulfilling my lifelong goal of running my own business (non cleaning or menial labor related).
my self worth and confidence has absolutely increased for acting on these decisions..
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I got a terrible case of 'cold feet' on my first boyfriend/fiance and skipped town for a few years.
I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was about him that told me he wasn't the right man to marry. The wedding was to take place in the Summer and one Spring morning I just woke up and said "this is not right. I cannot go through with this", said my good-byes to my family and left the area for a long while. While I was away a friend told me he went nuts for a while, broke down suicidal and all that.
Years later and 2 divorces under his belt, I found out about his little drugs, physical abuse and cheating on his ex-wives. He's even been arrested a couple of times and done jail time for his behavior.
WOW!!! My instincts were right on target about that jerk!!!
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anyone got anything exiting to say?
by PaulJ inits a very dull thursday.
anyone got anything cool to share?
i'll start- the extra's and the catherine tate show are on tonight- absolutlely hilarious.
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It's District Assembly time for me starting tomorrow. It doesn't get any more exciting than that!!!
I'll sit there and take notes so that I don't fall asleep.
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JW just emailed me a new experience
by acuragirl ina pioneer sister just emailed me a new experience this morning.
i just wanted to post is to see if anyone recognized it as a generic jw experience or if it was genuine.
how are things...i hope all is well with each one of you.
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I believe it to be genuine.
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What's Your Status? Christian, Pagan, "I Don't Know", "I Don't Care"??
by minimus injust curious......
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Skeptic Christian.
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How the Watchtower Perverts Compassion
by metatron inthis what jesus said about mercy (matt.
"hence when you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as .
the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by.
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The WBTS is anti-charity. However, they want more and more each day for their coffers.
If JWs go out to eat during the assembly break, they spend more hence less for their coffers. What do they do about this? Behind the mask of Christian association, encourage the R&F to bring their food so that they can have more time to mingle with the other brothers and sisters.
It's so clear to see their real motives!!!
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disfellowshipped for gluttony?
by onintwo inhello jwd board community.
just wondering.. has anyone ever heard of a person being disfellowshipped for the terrible sin of gluttony?
isn't it ranked right up there with drunkeness, adultery, murder, etc.?.
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There is this prominent brother up in New England, with his whole family, that it's of public knowledge that they're all gluttons. There are even stories of how they've been asked to leave from certain eating places because they've abused the buffet lines.
They show it physically too! I'm talking about grossly and morbidly obese, huge as a house, every single one of them!!!
We would think that for their public display of gluttony they would've gotten at the very least privately reproof. NOPE! Instead the head of the family heads some department in the assemblies and all the others are elders and regular pioneers. All are loved and regarded very highly within the Hispanic JW community up in the Massachusetts area.
Talk about a double standard!!!
DY