Posts by RichardHaley

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Sport Motorcycle riding anyone?

by SpeedRacer in

just curious to see how many on here like to carve up roads.

if so what type of bike and where do you ride.. 1987 yamaha fj1200.

1986 yamaha fj1200.

BORG running low on $$$??

by fader77 in

dear brothers:.

re: personal literature supply.

reducing existing stock at the branch office before the revisions are released.

JWs reduce/eliminate their libraries and become more dependant on the website for digital litrature and at the same time all hardcopy evidence of past doctrine is shoved into to public shredder for a more complete destruction of their history.

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US Marines Praise Jehovah

by Pterist in

http://youtu.be/0mtdyrdy4fu.

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RichardHaley

notice the conscientious objectors standing with hands folded...

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How old were you when baptized?

by Coded Logic in

i was baptized at the age of 11. like most of us, my commitment wasnt to honor god but rather i was gang pressed into the service of the wtbts.

and, at such a young age, it was impossible for me to appreciate the enormity of my actions.

honestly, how could i possibly have known any better?

RichardHaley

16 and it was because of my rush to go up and become an adult. My parents were heavy handed in all areas of my life and I wanted to break the chains and get out of Dodge. I was not allowed to get a car even though I was holding down several jobs and riding a bicycle over 30 miles a day to accomplish school and work. I was told that I could get a car if I pioneered. Well you have to be baptised to pioneer. I got my car, pioneered one month and was on my own in a year.

To be fair I will add that I did believe it was the "truth" and wanted to be baptised. However I never wated to pioneer or go to bethel and the more I was pressured the more I hated the idea. That was decades ago and although my parents are still JWs they are much better people now. I was just their first child and they had a lot to learn. My other 4 siblings worked them over pretty good.

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A rose by any other name..............

by sparrowdown in

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friends

i'm curious, why and how did you choose your username?.

does it hold any special significance for you, is there a share-able back story?.

for me sparrowdown is a playful reference to matt 10:29 and the title of the movie black hawk down.. matt 10:29 was my go-to scrip to "prove" that god cares about us as individuals.

RichardHaley

Mine is a fake name I used to use when spamming craigslist ads... one that didn't get ghosted permanently. Means absolutely nothing.

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People Believe Jehovah Is A God Of Love Because He Is A Bully

by frankiespeakin in

yes the god of the bible has done his share of being a murderous bully(according to the mythology found in the book), his holly motto seems to be through out: "do what i say or i will kill you".

of coarse cringing christian's because of their fear of the deity will proclaim that all these acts of slaughter that the bible ascribes to god as an act of love, and chime in with approval and superlatives when 1john 4:8* is read.

and i atribute it mainly to god being a bully in the bible and threatening to kill every one not having faith in him.. 8 l anyone who does not love does not know god, because m god is love.. .

RichardHaley

OK, so... God has the right to destroy whom he chooses... but why make the Isrealites do some of the dirty work for Him?

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The More I Think, The More I Lose Faith In BIBLE!!

by NoMoreHustle in

sitting through this weeks wt study.

paragraph came up about how "a fire came out from jah & consumed (korah and) the 250 men offering the incense".

i said to myself this supposedly happened couple of thousand years ago.

RichardHaley

Long ago I came to the conclusion that I didn't believe the biblical account of the flood as literal. I knew that archaeological, geological, biological and other evidence does not support the account. My hang up over the years was that Jesus referred to it.

Life has a way of stalling the thought process, earning a living, raising a family etc. consuming all your time. Now that I am older I have a little more time to actually "think about things." One day, a few years back, it dawned on me that if Jesus was willing to create fictional stories to get his point across (good Samaritan etc.) then why wouldn't he be willing to refer to one created (or plagiarized) by someone else to make a point? This brought up an even bigger debate in my mind, how do you determine what is literal true and what is figurative fiction in the bible?

You can see where this was headed...

I started to question everything I had been taught and blindly accepted as "truth" measured against the available evidence. If in the process the Bible falls from being "inspired" to "writings of men" then what is the point of arguing whether or not my religion of birth or any other is the best at following or understand it? One thing the evidence proves is - it is a "tool" that has been and is being used by many groups for their own personal agendas.

I still believe the Bible has value just saying I look at things a lot different now.

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Want to make Money $ with a Web Site?

by sarahsmile in

has anyone had success with a high traffic website or blog ?.

it might take a team of people to accomplish.. ads pay and people count, lots and lots of people.

does jehovahs-witness.net make money every time someone looks at the web site?

RichardHaley

Simon has a great site here (except for that dam* captcha) but I seriously doubt he makes any real money with it... if he does, more power to him. As far as making money with websites it is not as easy as it sounds and probably less than 1% who try are consistanly successful at it. Sounds like Dis-membered is in that group, I know I'm not but will keep trying.

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Governing Body Worship in the WT: July 15th, 2014 issue

by Oubliette in

the july 15th, 2014 issue of the watchtower has the "life story" of gb member gerrit losch on pages 17-22.. think about it.

this losch love-fest is 6 pages of the current wt!.

that's nearly 20% of the ragazine.. is this the beginning of a series of idolatrous articles indoctrinating jws with gb worship?

RichardHaley

... ragazine.

I like that!

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Lying about Shunning! jw.org conceals the "truth"

by Skinnedsheep in

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friends

http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/shunning/ .

"those who were baptized as jehovahs witnesses but no longer preach to others, perhaps even drifting away from association with fellow believers, are not shunned.

in fact, we reach out to them and try to rekindle their spiritual interest.".

RichardHaley

What of a man who is disfellowshipped but whose wife and children are still Jehovah’s Witnesses? The religious ties he had with his family change, but blood ties remain. The marriage relationship and normal family affections and dealings continue.

I would say that the above example is at the very least dishonest. It is a best case senerio that allows family interaction because of the WTS not wanting to violate the "family head" principle. Things get a lot more complicated if it is the wife or one of the children or worse yet, one of the kids move out in that state etc. This short article is just a sanitized version and doesn't realy answer the question.

And yes... only DAs or DFs are no longer considered members whereas inactive or walk aways are considered "inactive members" or "spiritually weak members" ones to be re-activated or spiritually strengthened. So the information really is deflection (red herring) and dosen't specifically address the question. IMHO