Posts by sowhatnow

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Is the ice bucket challenge for true christians?

by hoser in

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http://www.jw-archive.org/post/96026163083/would-taking-the-ice-bucket-challenge-raising-monee.

sowhatnow

one of my jw family members was told this was 'worldly'

lol

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How many did you, personally, entrap in the Borg ?

by Phizzy in

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in my nearly 60 years in the religion, although i "studied" with a good number, i cannot think of any who could lay the blame at my door for being in the religion today.. one lad possibly might, i studied with him briefly as he was trying to get off drugs, he then moved away, and then married a "sister" a few years later, and is still in, but i doubt he would blame me, i hope not.. of the others i studied with none are still in, the last i heard of one of them, a weirdo kid, now weirdo man, was when he was arrested for "flashing" in a local spot frquented by doggers etc.

i guess i was a useless "tutor".

as it happens, that is one of the things i am proud to be a failure at, getting people to join a cult.. i always tried to not do proper r.v's, and never suggested a "study" to anyone, but some, like weirdo, were shoved my way by elders who didn't want the work themselves.. how many are you guilty of getting in to the cult ?.

sowhatnow

in my 35 yrs in as an adult, not a one. knocking on mostly empty doors here in rural pa, couldnt even keep my own two children intrested, cant blame them

never being good enough for the other kids who parents had higher incomes.

now having higher income, still doesnt matter. no one has time for freinds, after all,

every availiable morsel of spare time we find we were expected to sacrifice to the org.

sigh, what dum dums we were.

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Turns out it was true - "the truth" was the only reason my marriage lasted so long

by Shattered Reality in

i haven't really been on here in like, a year.

my stbx introduced me to this site and then a whole buch of life happened and i just sort of never had time for forums.

but here i am at 3am, another sleepless night, and i feel like i am simply lost.

sowhatnow

WOW, for a minuet there, I thought i was reading a post about my own life experience! Oh God Im not alone, but sad that so many feel this loneliness.

staying married out of duty, never falling in love, just thrown together from circumstance, growing distant , feeling like an obligation,

being nothing more than room mates,

then 'facebook' interference, then seperating then getting back together, [out of fear ] then all the promises from one side, to be 'different' as if that ever would happen,

having it go no place, the alchohol in place of a relationship. [ the alchohol, my dear, is how people cope with regret all the 'what ifs', and missed opportunities.]

all too familiar, and outright depressing to have to deal with. especially when your my age at 52.

so what do we all do now? all of us that are in marraiges out of a sense of duty and loyalty that have no emotional backing?

thats what i want to know.

IS there a way to meet people that we might have things in common with, and actually fall in love with at our age? number one problem,

being x witnesses we have such different and higher standards or expectations and moral compasses,

maybe we would feel a lot of availiable people are beneath us.

and many of us remain married for financial reasons, or family reasons, and arent divorced on paper. but we can go if we had someplace to go. and we are so fearful of making yet another mistake were paralized, and do nothing but remain miserable rather than move out of he comfort zone, which is where I am.

so,

where are the ways to meet [or married in name only, wishing to be available ] people in the are we live ?

who is going to go on some dating website and risk talking to people who might have never had a moral bone in thier body? or opportunists? lookig to prey on women who were submissive to thier husbands so they can exploit them again.

or who has a finacially secure background [not wealthy just not broke] how do we know?

so we just sit here not knowing what to do first, and let our life pass us by and wish for our night in shining armor to come swoop us up?

yes where are all the couples who wish they could trade spouses? lol

maybe someone shoud start a web site and call it x 'prince and princesses' , lol.

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Have you ever been called for Jury Duty? before or after registering to vote?

by EndofMysteries in

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i've never been called for jury duty and i'm not yet registered to vote, although i'm hoping to get that done this month.

i know someone who within a few months of registering to vote was called for jury duty.

i've read some articles that said voter records 'used' to be used to call on people but that was a thing of the past.

sowhatnow

i forgot all about registering to vote! but honeslty im too dumb and nieve to make a judgment on someones life. i wouldnt trust me to be in a jury.

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Satan and the demons, ghosts, spirits, fortune tellers. Are they real?

by KateWild in

i believe in god.

i don't believe he punishes or rewards people.

so by the same extention i don't believe any spirit beings can communicate with or influence humans.. many who do not believe in god though, have gone to fortune tellers.

sowhatnow

true true, i also figure if there is a satan and hes in control of the whole world, hes only busy with some and not all.which would be odd

i never ever could wrap my head around why satan would 'take jesus to ne tempted for 40 days' after he was baptised. and offer him kingdoms.or any of the supposed satan stories, what the hell, go into the pigs and run off a cliff. ok, was tha t suppsoed to kill them? if they can GO into the pigs they can go into the air! lol

wha?

turns out the people in that group back then hated pigs. story i guess.

my mom a firm yet pretty unknowlegable jw used to always say to me " satan blesses his own" when id get annoyed that we had it so hard and others had it so good.

I never ever knew what she meant by that, so no matter who you worship, you get blessings? so then who cares?

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I will see you in Paradise....

by jam in

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lets say jw's were right about paradise.

i'm resurrected,.

a mentally deceased dreaded apostate, you look up and there i'am.. now you shunned me for over 10 -20 years when i was .

sowhatnow

armageddon is a place , according to a scripture i read.

the great day of the war of God the almighty already happened when jerusalem was detroyed.

people lived thorugh that great tribulation.

according to hebrews, we all have to die first then be judged.

jesus only died for the nation who were under the law of moses.

he told the apostles [only the 12] to go to the lost sheep of israel , not the gentile nations.

yea, I was surprised too. read it in matthew. [and probably mark luke and john]

paul preaced to the gentiles.

but if jesus does for all mankind and was teh sacrifice for our sins, we are forgiven, no matter what, becasue we are imperfect and cant help it.

even if we do it one purpose, its becasue were imperfect that we do! win win.

oh, and paradise in in heaven, so says 2 cor 12 vs 4

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Surprise Surprise. Got a letter from bethel today.,

by label licker in

sowhatnow

film at 11

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HOW CAN WOMEN BE ANNOINTED BUT NO PRIVELAGES IN HALL?

by NoMoreHustle in

i had listened to the degrading talk by gb heard (on women) & watched a video on evie bklyn channel & there was alot of interesting questions that are raised.. i had always wondered why can't women in the hall handle mics or run magazine counter etc.?

but they (if annointed) will rule in heaven with jesus.

that is a pretty heavy responsibility to help jesus rule millions of people on earth, but yet they can't pass a mic or even run the sound system in the kh.

sowhatnow

i used to ask my mother, where in the bible does it say women are aprt of the 144000?

the bible says they are virgin men.

she called me a name. then said its in acts ch 1 and 2.

isaid, no, it isnt, letd read it together.

so we did,

she was silent and said you need to have a bible study with your aunt she knows all those anwers.

no she doesnt mom, i already asked her.

[in the scriptures there are women in the higher positions of the congregation, its just not in the jw bible].

i said mom, why do the 144000 have no right to give thier opinion on whats taught? why if they are special chosen by God are they not in bethel

writting these books and magazines? why are they not meeting together at memorial, so they can meet and encourage one another?

why are so few of them ever elders?

she has no anwers.

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feeling like a true apostate today

by truthwillsetyoufree in

it was back in 2011 when i was convinced that jws dont have the truth.

i rejected so many teachings and was open about that to members of my family.

it took me another year to pluck up the courage to attend other churches.

sowhatnow

well, the only benefit to an elderly person comming to the kingdom hall would be to add another number to the membershipand another means of cash donations

shed be useless for service.

on the plus side for her, maybe, if she doesnt already have one at all, would be a social life a few days a week.

shes old shed die before she could do anything other than donate money. If she even has any money for that purpose.

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The King of the North is getting Angry...

by rhodesboy in

this topic is of a theological nature.

if you have some scriptural insight, please share.

grievances are not welcome!.

sowhatnow

a we all know history repeats itself, this is why a book like the bible is so hotly discussed.

and i am not different in my opinion. which is,

all these lituriture writings have been written for the purpose of leading the people of the day, to a hope of a savior. all were written after the fact.

many were written from stories told by villaige elders. Ie: grandpas stories.

so, hebrew scriptures are to be interpreted as all being fulfilled, when the Christ supposedly came.

all of those of the political arena at the time, fit the revelation and daniel and ezekiel, prohetic writtings.

this was proven.

however its now firmly believed by many of those in the historical and scientific and archeological fields, that jesus never exsisted, since none of the many writters of history, like josephus, has written anything about the man.

now its believed that Jesus was a roman invention to keep the poplulace in control, a conspiracy. and maybe thats the big secret in the vatican temple.

as for me, well, i still intend to treat my world and all in it. with respect and love. because even if Jesus dod not exsist, you have to admit, the lessons are advantagious. and what a masterpeice of 'divine' deception if it is true!

[sorry for any mispelled words]