here's my movies that suck list.
battlefield earth .
mission to mars .
There are a lot of movies that make my worst list, but Joe Verses the Volcano had to be the most pathetic and lamest movie that I ever plunked down money to see. It starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. I expected a lot more from these two then this colossal stinker.
Mr. Shakita
what are your understandings or knowledge about this?
are the jw's the only ones that were given "insight" as to who the saints are?.
for a jw info board it is interesting that there is so very little on this subject of the anointed here.
Hey Comf,
Nonono. We carefully examined the bathwater, pouring it out through a sieve. There was no baby.
LMAO. High five on that one. Mr. Shakita
my story .
well, i am new here, and i have a very long story.
i don?t even know where to begin.
Hey Big Shooter,
Welcome to the board. Your story is very common. The pressure that the WT puts on all its adherents can easily result in a nervous breakdown. I too felt that I could never do enough. I always felt like a failure. Like I couldn't measure up. I also expected my children to do the impossible. Farkel's point is right on the money:
Jesus said his yoke was kindly and light. Is the yoke of the WTS kindly and light, or is it an almost impossible yoke of endless demands and rules that literally wear people out, or cause them to become mentally ill. Is this the kind of life that Jesus wants you to have?
I have been a baptized Witness for over twenty five years. If I could start all over again I would never have gone down this road. I also have deep regret over what I put my children through. I wish that I had just tried to live a normal life without all the relentless pressures of being a Witness. The biggest favor that you could do for your children is to let them grow up free of Witness requirements. It's hard enough growing up without feeling like a freak.
I just recently asked a Witness friend of mine: Is God so petty that he would require his worshippers to be so isolated and different from others that they would feel like outcasts? I told him that I don't want to worship a God like that. I personally don't feel that God is like that. However, that is the way the WT presents its' view of God. The WT's take on God is more consistent with the Pharisees take on God than with Jesus's take on God.
Don't be taken in by WT propaganda. It is never a sin to think for yourself. That is their way of scaring the pants off their adherents so that they won't have the nerve to look outside the box. Taking the first steps away from the WT is scary at first, but in the long run it will bring you and your family freedom.
Mr. Shakita
i am back from underground ... i have more to tell you than you can imagine ...
i cannot use my old screen handle for now, but we are working on that, and it will be restored as soon as simon and i can get it done.
so, simon has allowed me to create a new screen name for the time being.
Amazing,
So glad that you are back and are doing well. It is enlightening to see that the WT is only concerned about covering their own backsides. I hope that the world will soon see what the WT has been covering up for so long. Keep fighting my friend. We are all behind you.
Mr. Shakita
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Hi Blondie,
Great points as usual, Blondie!
I appreciated your opening paragraph:
"Why did the disciples want Jesus to teach them to pray? Didn?t the Jews already pray personally to God? (re: Hannah praying for a child) Of note, the Jews at that time and those who followed the God of the Bible had been praying to him directly without going through anyone else to do so. Even here, Jesus does not say to pray through him. Notice that Jesus? model prayer starts out addressing God as "Father" not by his personal name. Snippet alert: Notice that the WTS doesn?t quote Luke 11:1 in its entirety leaving out "just as John taught his disciples." What and how did John teach his disciples about prayer?"
Wouldn't the model prayer have been the perfect opportunity for Jesus to emphasize the use of God's personal name? Why didn't he use the name Jehovah instead of Father? I personally feel that addressing God using the term Heavenly Father or Father is far more personal and intimate than using the name Jehovah.
And isn't it true that when we address God using the name Jehovah we are essentially saying: Hey, he who causes to become, what's up? That phrase just doesn't cut it for me. I'm sure that God is not particularly impressed by such a phrase. A rote recitation of the divine name does not mean that the reciter of such necessarily has a close relationship with God.
Also, as to the use of the divine name exclusively by Jehovah's Witnesses, I have heard other ministers use that name as well. Not to the obsessive degree that the Jdubs use it, but they sometimes use it. Using that name in prayer as some sort of lucky charm is something that Jesus did not have in mind when he gave us the model prayer.
Mr. Shakita
i saw the photodrama of creation in bethel in color.
i didnt care for it.
To Kill a Mockingbird starring Gregory Peck.
Mr. Shakita
all you who have left the organization were wrong, it's time to go back and rekindle your first love!
this is the second study article: .
"the faithful slave passes the test!".
Hi Truthseeker,
When I read the heading "The Faithful Slave" Passes the Test!, I was furious and at the same time I laughed at the absurdity of that declaration. I thought Christians were supposed to be humble. I thought that they were not supposed to elevate themselves unless God himself did the elevating.
This statement is the equivalent of the GB declaring: "Look at us, ain't we the greatest!" "We are just all that, aren't we?" Since I'm telling all you lowly grunts out there that we passed the test, we passed the test, now don't you forgit it. This clinches it all you other sheep guys and gals-since we passed the test all we want is just a wee bit of your worship. Whaddya say?"
Articles like this shows up the desperation of the GB to hang onto their remaining adherents. Serving up this hog slop is just the nourishment the rank and file needs to remain healthy, wealthy and duped. Ya gotta love those geriatric-just-wanna-be-worshipped-like-God boys. I have to give them one thing, they sure do have chutzpah.
Mr. Shakita
once again, there's a lot of new people on this board as well as us "oldsters".
what was the original reason for you looking at this site and why did you make your first post?
and why do you stay here?
I read more than post lately...there just doesn't seem to be the time. But, I love seeing the posts of those who I have come to enjoy reading....so many intelligent and well thought out posts... I do miss a few who have left...but that's life, huh?!
And, Happy Holidays minimus to you and your family!
Mrs. Shakita
today i had an interesting conversation, not with a christian believer but a muslim believer, .
he was trying to recruit me into the faith--so i thought i would pose the question to him about why his god watches as 20,000 believers (muslims) women, children, etc lost thier lives-.
his explanation i thought was straight out of a christian handbook on.
Sipping his Ice Tea, or just plain watching with interest....the "almighty and all powerful" seems to be in his rest day... Major earthquakes since 1923:
* Dec. 26, 2003: Southeastern Iran, magnitude 6.5; Government estimates at least 20,000 killed.
* May 1, 2003: Southeastern Turkey, magnitude 6.4; 167 people killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory.
* Feb. 24, 2003: Western China, magnitude 6.3 or 6.8; at least 266 killed.
* June 22, 2002: Northwestern Iran, magnitude 6; at least 500 killed.
* March 25, 2002: Northern Afghanistan, magnitude 5.8; up to 1,000 killed.
* Jan. 26, 2001: India, magnitude 7.9; at least 2,500 killed. Estimates put death toll as high as 13,000.
* Sept. 21, 1999: Taiwan, magnitude 7.6; 2,400 killed.
* Aug. 17, 1999: Western Turkey, magnitude 7.4; 17,000 killed.
* Jan. 25, 1999: Western Colombia, magnitude 6; 1,171 killed.
* May 30, 1998: Northern Afghanistan and Tajikistan, magnitude 6.9; as many as 5,000 killed.
* May 10, 1997: Northern Iran, magnitude 7.1; 1,500 killed.
* Jan. 17, 1995: Kobe, Japan, magnitude 7.2; more than 6,000 killed.
* Sept. 30, 1993: Latur, India, magnitude 6.0; as many as 10,000 killed.
* June 21, 1990: Northwest Iran, magnitude 7.3-7.7; 50,000 killed.
* Dec. 7, 1988: Northwest Armenia, magnitude 6.9; 25,000 killed.
* Sept. 19, 1985: Central Mexico, magnitude 8.1; more than 9,500 killed.
* Sept. 16, 1978: Northeast Iran, magnitude 7.7; 25,000 killed.
* July 28, 1976: Tangshan, China; magnitude 7.8-8.2; 240,000 killed.
* Feb. 4, 1976: Guatemala, magnitude 7.5; 22,778 killed.
* Dec. 26, 1939: Erzincan province, Turkey, magnitude 7.9; 33,000 killed.
* Jan. 24, 1939: Chillan, Chile, magnitude 8.3; 28,000 killed.
* May 31, 1935: Quetta, India, magnitude 7.5; 50,000 killed.
* Sept. 1, 1923: Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan, magnitude 8.3; at least 140,000 killed.
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21 million from the Spanish Flu, 25 million from the Plague, and it just goes on and on and on....If there is a God and he is watching, he is guilty of abandonment and neglect.
Mrs. Shakita
The only true punishment for Saddam would be to inflict just a small amount of terror and horror that he subjected his own people to. I say he should be raped in front of his family, have a few arms or legs cut off or crushed, starve him just to the point of death, lower him into a vat of acid, have his eyes gouged out, then behead him.
Mrs. Shakita
