Topics Started by dynamiterose77

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How stupid were we??
by Crazyguy in
1. jw
2. friends
its unbelievable to me that one verse in the bible blows up the entire jw dogma and its amazing to me that with all this bible reading we jw's did we missed it.

even faders and people who quit for many reasons missed it.

what verse am i talking about it verse 9 of chapter 5 of revelations.
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Just ordered this
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. entertainment
i just ordered this book.

(ok... it's not linking, it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed: tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing" by kyria abrahams).

i came across it when trying to explain to a coworker about the end of the world images that would be in watchtowers when i was growing up and why they gave me horrible nightmares.
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Interesting read about "Visions" and the brain
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
years and years ago, i had read something in a book that clinically examined joan of arc and gave a hypothesis regarding her visions, using her own descriptions of the episodes and using what she experienced as symptoms.

i can't remember if they had said it was epilepsy or a brain tumor.. i saw this article today and it got me thinking again.

i also started thinking about how in the past, gb has talked about visions/divine inspiration/whatever... russell even endorsed a woman's book where she supposedly spoke to a "fallen angel".. kinda made me wonder....
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Is it my imagination...
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. humour
or are the beasts in this photoshop alteration familiar... and very funny.. http://boingboing.net/2014/05/12/hardy-boys-no-199-the-hard.html.
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A Mansion for the Resurrected, in Kensington
by dynamiterose77 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was roving around the internet looking for articles about a completely different topic, when i came across this one.. i found it very interesting.. here's a quote.. "in a 1920 book called "millions now living will never die" he'd predicted that biblical leaders like abraham, isaac and jacob would be resurrected in 1925 and become "the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.".

while this didn't occur, rutherford still chose to be prepared for the return of the patriarchs.

he moved into the newly built house in kensington around 1930, calling it beth sarim (house of the princes).
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Tattoo Ideas
by Jon Preston in
1. social
2. entertainment
so listen i am getting a tattoo.

if you arent familiar with liverpool fc and "youll never walk alone" then you may not understand what this represents to me.

see, it is t just a football (soccer in usa) club.
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Books!
by dynamiterose77 in
1. social
2. entertainment
i feel like i wasn't allowed to read a lot of books when i was younger, a lot of which i'm discovering are positivly phenomenal.. i was allowed to read edgar allan poe, who remains my all time favorite writer.

but, i've discovered the joys of stephen king, anne rice, joyce carrol oats, neil gaiman, george r. martin, david sedaris... and so so so many more.. i'm currently getting through "the shining" so i can move on to "doctor sleep".

i'm interested to see if anyone else that discovered the many joys of "worldly" literature, jumped immediately into what they weren't allowed to read... and what was your favorite?.
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Watched 3 season of game of thrones - I want those 25+ hours of my life back
by will-be-apostate in
1. social
2. entertainment
this is the worst series i've ever watched in my life.

whenever things are starting to get smooth and good characters seem to gain advantage, the writers just kill them.

i've wasted 25+ hours of my life watching how the writers make the bad win over the good.. they make you continue watching by planting the seed in your head that "just a few more episodes and everything is gonna be all right", but no, painful death comes upon anyone who is not cruel and perfidious enaugh.
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This is my first post
by Make Lemonade in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.

there are resources here that are deep.

like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?
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Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?
by mynameislame in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
not sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.

after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.

but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..