Posts by kairos

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Have you ever gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

by stuckinarut2 in

just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

(perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).

with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.

kairos

I will never attend again for ANY reason.

I'll skip my wife's JW funeral.
I will likely protest outside on the street, however.

Good times...

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if you had 2 minutes with an old witness friend or with a family member to convince them the 'truth' is a lie and the gb isnt being directed by god what would you say to get their attention that might make them question their beliefs?.

kairos

How about this?

"Are you still a JW"

"Yes"

" Hahahahahahahhaahhaaaa. Don't you have the internet?
Hahahhhahahaaaaaaa" < walk away >

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Trump and the MEMO

by ducatijoe in

those of us here wasting our time trying to show who trump really is .... it's like trying to reason with all those still in the organization.

they have found a new person to fill their heads with lies and control they way they think.

in many ways this ts amazing to me.. i am out of the wbts and free.

kairos

There's a very good chance Trey Gowdy will be installed to run the show.
You watch...

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Trump and the MEMO

by ducatijoe in

those of us here wasting our time trying to show who trump really is .... it's like trying to reason with all those still in the organization.

they have found a new person to fill their heads with lies and control they way they think.

in many ways this ts amazing to me.. i am out of the wbts and free.

kairos

Trump is proving that there is a swamp in DC.

Get ready to lose your minds.
Justice is coming. The memo is going to be released.

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You are watching history in the making.
Wait until the Trump DOJ drops the hammer.

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"‘Alien’ manuscript from 15th-century decoded using AI"

by glenster in

voynich manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/voynich_manuscript.

scientists have harnessed the power of artificialintelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancientmanuscript that has baffled experts.. discovered in the 19th century, the voynich manuscriptuses “alien” characters that have long puzzled crypto-graphers and historians.

now, however, computingscientists at the university of alberta say they aredecoding the mysterious 15th-century text.. computing science professor greg kondrak and graduatestudent bradley hauer applied artificial intelligence tofind ambiguities in the text’s human language.. the first stage of the research was working out themanuscript’s language.

kairos

A favorite topic.

I hope something amazing is revealed.

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"To whom do you belong?"

by stuckinarut2 in

prompted by one of our fellow posters- jrjw who started a thread asking how to remove "kingdom melodies" from our head, this song title came to mind!

(sorry for the earworm everyone😉).

it got me thinking.

kairos

Kingdom Melodies suck.

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What was your trigger to waking up ?

by CovertsadJW in

good afternoon , .

i wanted to ask everyone here , what was your trigger to waking up ?

i have been waking up for a long time , but in looking back it’s hard for me to look at one event and say “ ah ha “ , i think mine is like a slow leak - like a crack in a damn - and then hold on , because after that it’s just a flood of information.

kairos

I had finally had it with the local hypocrites.

I couldn't take it anymore.
It was only after leaving that I gave myself permission to research.
That sealed it.

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Changing verses in the new RNWT to suit an agenda

by freddo in

it's increasingly obvious to me that part of the reason for the "new" rnwt of 2013 is to increase the authority of the organisation and the gb.

yes, the old one was becoming dated but they have taken opportunities (liberties?

) with translation to increase their control.. an obvious one is micah 6 v 8 where "to cherish loyalty" has replaced "and to love kindness".

kairos

Removing John 8:1-12 keeps down the questioning about men judging each other.

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Why are the GB and JWs scared of "apostates" and "research"? Romans 8: 35-39

by stuckinarut2 in

i was just pondering this passage of scripture:.

romans 8:35-39 (new world translation).

35 who will separate us from the love of the christ?+ will tribulation or distress or persecution or hunger or nakedness or danger or sword?+ 36 just as it is written: “for your sake we are being put to death all day long; we have been accounted as sheep for slaughtering.”+ 37 on the contrary, in all these things we are coming off completely victorious+ through the one who loved us.

kairos

I read this and came to a conclusion that troubles me deeply.

The JWs are the persecutors. The ones that judge. The ones that follow men ( putting trust in nobles instead of God ). Forgive? no, punishment.

When people at the door would tell us the most unbelievable thing we'd ever heard:
"Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian". We'd scoff with full arrogance on display.

*Spoiler Alert*

They were right...

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Also Romans chapter 8 contains many warnings about 'fleshly desires', etc.
Which JWs have a big problem with organizationally for over a hundred years.

Cuts to the heart

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The FISA Memo, To Release Or Not To Release

by freemindfade in

was the doj, nsa, and fbi weaponized?

the biggest scandal of this era, or a false alarm by the gop?

i am skeptical what will come of it, however, some very strong reactions and words are coming from its existence and those who read it, also the fight to keep it secret is telling (reminds me of any cult trying to prevent people from reading damaging information).

kairos

I still wonder: Anyone has an idea what might be in the memo?

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Sure. The previous administration used the various agencies to attempt to fix the election.
They not only found nothing, now they are getting caught and will be going to prison.

Sweet, huh?