since it is pretty clear what all of you do not believe i am wondering what you do beleive?
1) who is the creator of the universe?
3) why do we grow old and die?
Here's one of my personal beliefs:
There isn't just ONE creator, but rather a GROUP of creators. A supreme being couldn't have created everything! I think he must've delegated the creative task to many, thus many share in the credit for the whole creation of all that's in our planet Earth.
DY
is it maybe cause i have only learned the "truth?
" i have a hard time sitting at worldly weddings.
like in the catholic church, up down kneel, up, down, kneel!
I've attended weddings, funerals and other events at different churches, but I could never join any other religious organization.
I've been so deeply indoctrinated by the WBTS that I couldn't fathom remotely the idea of believing in such things as life after death, going to heaven, a burning hell, baptism of infants, etc., etc., etc.
Can't. Just can't.
DY
katrina and now, possibly, rita.
can we afford to stay in this war with iraq?
doesn't homeland security start at home?
YES!!!
GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW!!! GET OUT OF ANY OTHER COUNTRY'S BUSINESS WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!!!
DY
tennessee workers' chain saws help ravaged town cleave to hope .
homeowners welcome these house calls by jehovah's witnesses crew jehovah's witness eric pierce of sparta takes a break at the end of the day with friend jonathan clouse of sparta after a long day of cutting downed and damaged trees in waveland and bay st. louis, miss.
john partipilo / staff .
JWs helping others regardless if they're JWs or not. I like to see/hear that.
Thanks for printing this story.
DY
isnt this just pathetic.
i work for my father (a current jw) and we have some jw customers.
since my recent fading, one particular customer, an elder, has come into work for business and then carried it further to encouraging me offering a hearing ear etc.
Your father and any other JW is in cahoots with this elder that's been after you. You'll have to develop your own strategy.
I feel your pain. As a considered 'spiritual weakling', I have my share of friends and relatives JWs always trying to encourage me to do better spiritually; always asking me to go with them out on service. I always manage to turn them down some way.
During the most recent incident, a group of them was giving me unsolicited advice on how to increase my service hours. I told them ever so politely, with a mild smile on my face that turning in anymore hours than what I already did wasn't my interest at this time. I said that perhaps when I retire from working I'll try to renew the love I once felt for the religion.
You all should've seen the faces of them all. It was priceless!!!
DY
in the final installment of my story, i am done with my local congregation now.
in the past month, i have been df'd, un-df'd attended a meeting where i shook everyones hand and smiled ... and now i have sent everyone in the hall this letter, roughly 60 addresses:.
open letter to the north congregation of jehovahs witnesses.
Kwin,
I sincerely hope you can be at peace now and let this matter rest.
DY
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i was just wondering if you had any doctors, lawyers, pyschologists, psychiatrists, engineers or any highly educated ones in your congregation?
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This congregation I attend (seldom) has a couple of nurses, a doctor, a couple of CPAs. However, many janitors and CNAs, a couple of car mechanics, painters, and plumbers.
DY
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((((welcome)))).
pull up a seat and sit on the floor and tell us about yourselves!!!!!
Pretty cool Legolas!!!
Yes, welcome to all the newbies!!!
DY
do you think the wt has become more lenient or stricter over the year?.
i am 21 and i remember just 4 years ago going to college was looked at as something negative.
girls my age, we had plans to be ft pioneers and become secretaries.
GET YOUR BUTT INTO TO COLLEGE IMMEDIATELY!!!
DY
wow,,, finaly a site that can let a disgraesed and disfellowshipped jw finally, have there say, i had the jw's hanging over my head for years and senior members of my family drop in and out of the sect as and when it suits them, dragging any remaiming members with.
im now free and relived so are you too, .
and im probably kinder and non racial than those left in, and i dont live under a shadow of fear, or wear a flowery dress, or high neck tops and granny shoes,.
Welcome!
DY
