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  What is your favorite Memory?

  by swiftbreeze in

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  i hope this has not been a topic lately.... it was christmas day...and i had went to visit some non-jw relatives i was 15 yrs old...and a group of other kids from the neighborhood had all got together on the block, it was snowing and the snow was so fluffy and pretty, so we all started walking down the street singing x-mas songs (we had sipped some spiked egg nog) everyone exchanged little gifts.

  we went to different houses visiting and eating.

  toward the end of the night we went to my sister's friend house and danced till around 2:00 in the morning..." for the first time in my life i felt free and happy.

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  camping on the top of the cliffs at red river gorge in eastern ky and waking up the next morning to the view.
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  Blessings and Curses? Do they exist?

  by ljwtiamb in

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  jw experiences abound with testamonial proof that god's blessing& favor is on them and the org, as well as, opposing curses that afflict their enemies.

  all sorts of positive things are attributed to god, while anything negative is god's allowance of satan's influence.

  (i was just as good as anybody at telling these kinda stories!).

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  dh

  i think statements like...

  'what goes around, comes around'

  are pretty true...

  i don't believe in blessings from on high, but i think what we do in life effects what life does to us, some people might call it a blessing if because of their generous nature a person is repayed by others with generosity, i just think it's the circle of life.

  and curses... i just think the math is impartial, if you are born blind, you are born blind, it's not a curse it's just that in our species there's a % flaw that comes through to a % of us, and it's just a lottery, like all bad things that happen and are out of human control, in my opinion it's just chance.

  some exceptions would be, if i wanted to curse a person, i could keep on making bad things happen to them, in the physical world, but that wouldn't be mystical, it would just be me causing a person trouble without them knowing, and they would feel cursed... anyway.
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  What are some weird things that you do?

  by love11 in

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  everyone has their own idiosyncrises, mine is- .

  when i get a new book, i'll open it up to the middle of the book and stick my nose in the binding for about ten seconds, and smell how the glue, ink, and fresh paper smell.

  ahhhh i love that smell.

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  if ever eating sweets, like skittles, smarties or anything similar, i have to seperate them into colour groups, first i eat the odd ones until i have an equal number of each colour, i then proceed to eat them in equal numbers, i.e. 2 red, 2 yellow, 2 green, or one of each, until i get to the end... then when i get to the end and have one of each colour left (4-6 colours roughly) i eat them all at once.

  does that count?
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  Has anyone ever wanted to say............

  by whyamihere in

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  that they were one of the "anointed" just for the hell of it?

  i always wanted to do that and see what would happen!.

  brooke

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  ahem... i am of the annointed
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  Would you give your life to get your family out of the Watchtower?

  by zugzwang in

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  i asked this question as part of another thread but i thought i would ask it in a new thread.

  if there were some way to assure that your death would result in your family and friends learning the truth about the wts would you be willing to die to 'save' them?

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  there are plenty of better causes i could give my life for than that. no, and anyway, in this hypothetical scenario, how are you going to give your life? say goodbye and go to an execution chamber? as if. it's nice and melodramatic and all, and it's easy to think of death with a meaning as justifiable suicide because our own lives are failed, but i think it's still suicide and giving up. better to use your life to try and get your family out, and if you can't, you can't, live your life.
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  WHO IS YOU?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the mind is what the brain does; not who you are.

  the soul is an idea that would seem to have testable consequences.

  specifically, if the human mind is the product of a "ghost in the machine" and not simply the result of electrochemical interactions, then the mind should not be dependent on the physical actions of the brain that houses it.

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  I think right here right now in this moment in space & time, I am me. The combination of what I've experienced in this lifetime and my physical body. I think it's possible that there may also be a part of me that lives on and was in another body and had another set of experiences before the ones in my lifetime, and maybe that is or was 'me'.

  I don't think it's insane to think that an immortal 'me' travels through eternity, one lifetime at a time, one life at a time, being a different person each time around, but each time forgetting what went before... of course I don't know if that is true or if it's just imagination. Maybe one day I will be another person saying the same thing.

  I guess my view is that a person may be able to be a different person if they have their memory erased and a new life programs them from birth.

  Anyway.
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  POLL----

  by minimus in

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  how many here have been a jw since the 70's or before?......80's on?

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  born in, in the 70's.
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  Is Jesus God?

  by Honesty in

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  does the bible prove or disprove whether or not jesus is god?

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  i think to each person god is what they choose it to be, their understanding of what it is to be god is what they have created in their head or it's existing beliefs other people created in their heads that a person takes on board, etc etc.

  to me jesus is not god, neither is jehovah inc. ...to my mind if there is a god (in the almighty universal creator sense), it's something we humans do not even have a real concept of, certainly not anything spoken about in any holy book.

  in a general sense, people can worship whatever they want and make anything their god.
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  As JWs, ever met any annointed ?

  by greendawn in

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  2. bible

  in your time as jws did you ever meet any of the annointed?

  did they have good christian personalities and what did they think of the wts and its governing body ?

  i met one and he was very unhappy with the way the gb treated him and generally the way they run this society, he told me he wrote them two letters containing a long list of complaints with full scriptural support but he was ignored, first letter got a reply amounting to "no need to write to us" the second one no reply at all.

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  dh

  yeah, there was one in the congregation i grew up in... she was pretty old and incapacitated, i know her family who are mostly all still jw's, but that's as far as it went. she used to partake of the cardboard and wine on the memorial.
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  What religion have you changed to now that no longer a witness?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  i know many have rejected the idea of organized religion.

  i teeter on that myself.

  but i have toyed with hooking to a little country church with some friendly people to associate with.

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  no religion here, i promoted myself to 'just some guy on the street.'