OneEyedJoe

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  I loathe authority

  by punkofnice in

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  now i'm not preaching hatred here i am just expressing how i've felt for years even when i was a jw.. i totally loathe the police/policticians...any authority......anyone that is over anyone else.

  i have a total hatred of them all.

  i wonder if it's because i was raised a jw?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  I don't loathe authority per se, but I do loathe misplaced and misused authority, which seems to be the most common form. Hipocrites are also up there on my list, and there's a lot of overlap.
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  My Wife Now Questions God

  by Jon Preston in

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  2. bible

  well my wife and i have been through a roller coaster of life since i convinced her the dibs werent the truth.

  the hardest tests have been lived but we are closer than ever now.

  now recently shes read "the shack" nd watched some movies about god and just cant seem to inderstand why god would allow all of this suffering just to prove to satan that hes "the man" (or woman).

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  OneEyedJoe

  This comes up time and again, but it boils down to this: religion is man-made and thus morality is too. Clearly morality doesn't require a judge/jury/executioner in the sky. There are devout Christians that cheat on their wives, murder their neighbors and steal from their friends, just as there are atheists who are genuinely moral people. Belief in an imaginary friend doesn't automatically make you a better person, and even if it makes you behave a little better, I'd still contend that you'd have to be a pretty shitty person if it takes threat of eternal torture to get you to be nice.

  Once you give up belief in god(s) you may reevaluate aspects of your morality (views of homosexuality is a common one) but most will remain intact because it just makes good sense. There may be a period where you feel a bit lost, but once things settle down you realize you're the same person you always were, if not better off.
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  Was Charles Russell delusional or just a con artist?

  by keyser soze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've seen him referred to as both on this forum.. did he sincerely believe that he was an inspired prophet whose end-time predictions and biblical interpretations came from god?

  or was he just a shrewd businessman who saw a market of disillusioned christians who believed that armageddon was imminent that he could exploit?.

  i personally lean toward the latter.. .

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  He lied under oath in court over the Solon Society and got caught red-handed. That was not the actions of a conscientious believer.

  I don't know, sounds like theocratic warfare to me
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  Goal for new service year

  by Daniel1555 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the secretary of the congregation said in a talk, what the congregation should have as goal for the new service year: attend field service meetings!.

  he explained in a sad tone, that he visited all of our 3 or 4 service groups.

  and what happened at the field service meetings.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Maybe they knew he was coming, and didn't want to get stuck in his car group.

  You might be on to something. At least in my cong, getting stuck out in serve-us with the serve-us coordinator (or whatever they're called these days, since they seem to like changing titles for no reason) is about the worst fate there is.
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  Was Charles Russell delusional or just a con artist?

  by keyser soze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've seen him referred to as both on this forum.. did he sincerely believe that he was an inspired prophet whose end-time predictions and biblical interpretations came from god?

  or was he just a shrewd businessman who saw a market of disillusioned christians who believed that armageddon was imminent that he could exploit?.

  i personally lean toward the latter.. .

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  OneEyedJoe

  Probably a bit of both. Things are hardly black and white. From what I've learned since waking up, it seems as though the cult started out much more benign under CTR. It wasn't till the Rutherford took over that things started getting super culty and oppressive. I tend to think that Rutherford was a con-man who'd deluded himself into believing he was doing god's work just so he could sleep at night. Not a particularly unique story.
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  Yet Another "Worse and Worse" Thought

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/09/child-mortality-rates-have-dropped-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3a+blogspot%2fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29.

  worldwide, child mortality has plunged remarkably...................because of the success of human efforts !.

  "worse and worse" yup, yup, yup..... .

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  OneEyedJoe

  This old system can't last much longer.
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  Scottish independance in two days what do you think?

  by barry in

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  2. friends

  one thing i would like to say is will the union jack be changed because the scottish flag is incorpreted in it.

  if the union jack is changed will we change our australian flag because the union jack is in our flag?

  even hawawi has the union jack also fiji and many other commonwealth countries.. .

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  It doesn't affect me much, but if it will cause scotch prices to go down in the US I'm all for it. From what I understand they're planning on keeping the pound as their currency so that's not likely to happen...
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  Are they still teaching christ millinial 1000yrs then letting satan loose again????????? sheech

  by dugout in

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  what are ur thoughts on this subject just wondering.

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  Yes, still being taught in that it hasn't been changed, but it doesn't get brought up much. I believe the last time it was mentioned was about 6 months back when they did the #4 on the topic of the abyss. Apparently satan will actually be dead for 1000 years, not just trapped but conscious.
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  St. Louis police are asking for your help in finding a man who set fire to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Sol Reform in

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  st. louis (kmox) - st. louis police are asking for your help in finding a man who set fire to the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses at 2428 north grand.. the fire occurred saturday september 13th at 6:15 a.m.. a surveillance camera recording shows a suspect: a white male with a beard and mustache wearing a green jacket and coveralls.. anyone with information is asked to call crimestoppers at 866 371 tips.. man sought for setting fire to jehovahs witness building.

  man sought for setting fire to jehovahs witness buildin... fire was set at 2428 north grand early saturday.

  view on www.thenewscommen.... preview by yahoo.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Skin - my kh has 3 cameras outside and one in the lobby.
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  Why are alot of JW's Fascinated with Sci-Fi?

  by NoMoreHustle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am still in & gradually fading.

  i have always wondered why alot of jw's that i know are really into alot of sci-fi stuff like star wars, i robot, x-men stuff etc.

  i mean they take it another level with this fantasy stuff.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Being a jw sucks pretty hard, so it's not surprising that a good number want to escape into an alternate reality.