Posts by zack

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Mr. Flipper turns 48 on Oct 15th....

by flipper in

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i can't say enough about my beloved young husband -he's the best.

he would love to hear from y'all on his birthday.

he loves all of you, thinks you're the best things since sliced bread!

Nothing Impossible for Man

by zack in

there was a thread recently about "universal soveriegnty.".

as a dub i never really thought about the concept, i simply accepted it.

it was a nice, neat sound bite of an answer to the.

zack

There was a thread recently about "Universal Soveriegnty."

As a dub I never really thought about the concept, I simply accepted it. It was a nice, neat sound bite of an answer to the

age old question: Why does God permit suffering?

Why wait so long to prove a point, mainly that man cannot rule himself succesfully apart from God?

SO I was away this weekend and had a chance to think about it.

Has man at any time really been able to rule himself? If you beleive the Bible, then the answer is "No." Either the bad spirits have been influencing him

or God has been intefering. The whole flood story has been on the forum recently, and it reinforced this beleif I am coming to that man, according to the Bible,

never had a chance. Right after the flood, within a few generations, God himself says that "there is nothing that they want to do that will not be possible

for them to do." And so, he confuses their languages. HE THWARTS THE ABILITY OF MANKIND TO RULE ITSELF. How can any point be "proven"

when man has never stood a chance against unseen forces, whether those forces are good or bad?

I know my questions are nothing new. I was devastated when I learned the truth about the troof. At least I had the fundamental beleifs of the Bible left. But the more

I think, the stronger the feeling that it's all made up. It's not a very comfortable feeling, but if I had listened to that little voice decades ago, I wouldn't have wasted decades

in the Borg. I beleive in God, but no explanation of Him that I have ever been given seems to fit the evidence.

Peace.

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News from the Circuit Assembly

by ThomasCovenant in

it has been our local circuit's two day assembly this weekend.

it takes place at bristol assembly hall.

from what i recall seating capacity is about 1200. .

zack

When we got a new circuit assembly overseer in these parts, he quickly banned the brothers from bringing in their coolers and such and setting them down in the cafeteria prior

to lunch time. Too much like "saving seats." So this meant that now you had to go out to your vehicle, bring your cooler in, have lunch, take your cooler back out to your car,

and then come back into the session. Many decided it was too much work and ate at their cars.

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WHAT QUESTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO ASK A BOOK STUDY CONDUCTOR?

by badboy in

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any takers?

zack

How come the Book Study isn't at your house?

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Are we being conned re new light?

by why144000 in

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i have been reading with interest the news of the next change in the generation teaching.

does anyone have any substantive proof that this change will be made?

it could be a big con to get us all excited and tell others about it and reveal that we are, wait for it, apostate!!

zack

We were all conned with new light and old light. As for the story about a new direction with the generation thing from Brooklyn, I think it's on the up and up.

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nine pages of BS from October AWAKE

by purplesofa in

i hope that some of you lurkers out here really take a look at some of the thread in this section of the board.

this awake magazine says not one thing about how families are asked to trust their elders and how these very elders were and are abusing their children.

it mentions nothing about watching out for these trusted men in the congregations.............oh it brings out the internet, other family members and fathers and males in particular.. it will tell you how much your child needs to do to prevent something like this from happening.

zack

I noticed with interest how they remark that secular governments are now recognizing what the Bible has said all along regarding forcible rape and child molestation: that they are in essence the same even if force is not used. Why?-- they ask. Because children do not have the intellectual capacity of adults and therefore are vulnerable to an adult's greater intellect.

First, secular governments have recognized this for decades, at least in this country. It's statutory rape.

Second, they correctly state that children just cannot think and reason like adults. They lack capacity and guile. They are easily led and taken advantage of. All true.

Then, HOW COME YOU PRESSURE THEM TO BE BAPTIZED--- THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF THEIR LIVES ACCORDING TO YOU----- WHEN YOU YOURSELVES ADMIT

THEY LACK THE CAPACITY REQUISiTE OF SUCH A MONUMENTAL DECISION? AND THEN YOU SHUN THEM WHEN THEY GAIN SUFFICIENT CAPACITY TO ACTUALLY

UNDERSTAND THEY WERE DUPED!

These guys are sociopaths. Every motive of theirs' is beleivable to me except one: goodness.

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Trouble with the Paradigm

by RollerDave in

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ok, so if i follow the paradigm, the afterlife goes like this:.

all the good little folks go to heaven where they sing, float around, maybe watch over some clueless schlub back here, and are permanently joyous because they are wired that way and have no choice in the matter, but are basically 'staff'.

the wicked, who got to have a bit more fun while alive, go down to hell where they are poked, prodded, and buggered by demons, they are 'clients', but not 'staff'.

zack

Oh, and I forgot to mention, all the demons, including the head demon--Lucifer----, gets to stay in heaven for thousands more years until Judge Rutherford declares

that he and the others were cast out of heaven.

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Trouble with the Paradigm

by RollerDave in

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ok, so if i follow the paradigm, the afterlife goes like this:.

all the good little folks go to heaven where they sing, float around, maybe watch over some clueless schlub back here, and are permanently joyous because they are wired that way and have no choice in the matter, but are basically 'staff'.

the wicked, who got to have a bit more fun while alive, go down to hell where they are poked, prodded, and buggered by demons, they are 'clients', but not 'staff'.

zack

I here Thursday nights are hell in Hell!

Seriously, Uncle Bob cannot be a demon because he proved himself faithful enough to go to heaven and receive immortality--- thus he would be wired to also be good and joyous, never

being able to rebel. Immortals apparently receive some sort of angelic lobotomy. Only pre-human angels get to rebel, have indiscrimate sex with pre-flood humans, super huge offspring,

and then when the party is over, get to possess the bodies of Jews in Jesus day, the "chosen" people of God, the seed of Abraham.

That makes much more sense to you, right?

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Ok you "Bee Gee" Fans.....what is your favorite?

by REBORNAGAIN in

"world".

linda.

zack

Everything.

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News from the Circuit Assembly

by ThomasCovenant in

it has been our local circuit's two day assembly this weekend.

it takes place at bristol assembly hall.

from what i recall seating capacity is about 1200. .

zack

Thanks for the info.

So, we must be followers, yet no hierarchy exists? I guess when you follow other people around in a circle it really doesn't qualify as a hierarchy. Maybe the Witness

leadership will give new light into the "circle jerk" and how "you can be counted worthy of lending a hand to your brother."

Thanks again.