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  How to Avoid the Faithless Spirit of most here-

  by DocHouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1- pray to god (whomever you may imagine him to be) asking for understanding.

  2- study the background about the bible (from non-religious sources) to see where it came from.

  3- discard (or at least set aside) chuyrch claims and dogma.. 4- read it, looking up archaeological/historical sources about the places and peoples referred to.

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  but in this stressful world with sooooo many sects, faiths, religions, philosophies.....most of us should be given a "pass" just for surviving this mess without losing our sanity and trying to do the best we can to "play nice."

  Certainly if we can cut each other and ourselves slack, then a god could, too. Hopefully God would be as aware of these factors as you or I am. If I am intelligent enough to see there are extenuating circumstances to everyone's unique story, then we hope that God is, too. I'm a theist, but I know that the god portrayed in the Bible is at worst a monster bully, a cretin and an abusive parent. At best he's alienated a lot of people with his inconsistent, split personality. You might find it helpful to look into the concept of universalism. If you need some ideas of good things to read on it, PM me.
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  Saw Paul McCartney at Candlestick in San Fran

  by love2Bworldly in

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  saw the paul mccartney concert last week and it was amazing.

  almost 3 hours of non stop music, a mixture of beatles, wings & newer music.

  i was smart & planned ahead-- drove to san francisco in the morning to mess around the city & checked into a hotel 6 miles away, got to the concert over 2 hours early.. anyone else attend?.

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  Fun. I love the Beatles. I love Paul. I haven't been able to see him. I got to see George though, when he was on his Dark Horse tour in 1974 with Billy Preston and Ravi Shankar and his orchestra. My ticket cost $8.50 and I was close enough to see him walk down to get water, beside the stage. I had just got my leg out of a cast, so I couldn't go down the stairs to speak with him, like others near me were able to.
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  Your "Things That Make You Go Hmmm?" List

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll wager that the number is close to 100 percent.

  what number?

  the number of jws who have lists--lists of things that make them go hmmm or even wha'???

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  The myth is that JWs are the only denomination that studies the same things at the same time. The Roman Catholic, the Anglican and Episcopal prayer books are used to guide what will go on every day of the calendar, what readings will done, what eucharistic prayer will be said, what Saint will be remembered, etc. There are different colors used at different parts of the year, for instance blue for advent, white for Christmas, Epiphany – Green, Lent is purple, Good Friday is black and pentecost is red. The churches are generally much more organized than the JWs know. The big difference is there isn't pressure to be uniform.
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  How to Avoid the Faithless Spirit of most here-

  by DocHouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1- pray to god (whomever you may imagine him to be) asking for understanding.

  2- study the background about the bible (from non-religious sources) to see where it came from.

  3- discard (or at least set aside) chuyrch claims and dogma.. 4- read it, looking up archaeological/historical sources about the places and peoples referred to.

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  FlyingHighNow

  Don't let anyone else do your thinking for you.
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  Your "Things That Make You Go Hmmm?" List

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll wager that the number is close to 100 percent.

  what number?

  the number of jws who have lists--lists of things that make them go hmmm or even wha'???

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  FlyingHighNow

  One of the best threads ever! Thanks to the OP

  It's been good reading everyone's lists and comments.

  Yes, amongst the MANY things that made me wake up was the constant jabbering about "jehovahs's united people etc"

  What they meant was:

  we expect UNIFORMITY which is different to UNITY!

  I remember being so impressed with the scripture they used to support this: "Fitly united in one line of thought." It's profound of you to realize how this entrapped us. When they brag about this scripture, a new person doesn't understand that someday, he or she may be kicked out and shunned over the most innocent questions and doubts.
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  Who loves a good laugh? Comedy thread.

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  2. humour

  post some comedy.

  we all need to laugh.

  i'll start with:.

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  Funny jokes, guys.

  From an old Slappy White record:

  A lady goes into the doctor and pleads for help: "Doctor, doctor, every time I drink, I want to make passionate love." The doctor, not missing a beat, "Well, let's sit down, have a drink and talk it overrr."
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  I now have a law degree!

  by digderidoo in

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  hi guys, i don't really post on here much anymore, having been on here since 2001. this site helped me out in the early days and has been a great support system for all of my past jw issues.

  like many others i was discouraged from an education so that i could window clean and pioneer in my youth during the 80's.

  having spent many years post my jw exit in alcoholism and periods of drugs, i decided to clean myself up 7 years ago by attending aa, i was still a window cleaner ... at the time i wrote extensively on here about my issues.

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  Congratulations, this is super encouraging and you have to much to be proud of.
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  I had an encounter today...

  by lriddle80 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.

  she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.

  i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.

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  FlyingHighNow

  I don't tell JWs I used to be one. I truthfully tell them that I have family members who are JWs. I don't argue with them. There is a pioneer couple that comes into where I work. They smile when they see me. They have a good level of comfort with me. They will talk to me and ask me questions. They don't feel threatened by me because they don't know I ever studied or was baptized. I have empathy for them because I once stood where they stand. I see the human side of it all. If they ask me questions, I give them well thought out answers. Hopefully they will think about the answers.
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  Who loves a good laugh? Comedy thread.

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. social
  2. humour

  post some comedy.

  we all need to laugh.

  i'll start with:.

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  FlyingHighNow

  I've been getting a huge kick out of Second City Network's you tube videos. The Sassy Gay Friend videos are very funny.

  Here's one for starters:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnFE_NpMsE
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  Low Disk Space Persists

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my c drive is running out of space.

  and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.

  i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.

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  I'm not so knowledgeable. I just learn things through personal experience and then like you, researching remedies for problems I have with Windows or my PC.