"If you spent 15 minutes reading each of Rutherford's books you would get more pleasure than you would reading the Bible for a whole year." (Vindication volume 3 p. 383)
Village Idiot
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"Whilst the bible is important, the Watchtower is God's main way of communicating with people today"
by stuckinarut2 inyes, i'm not kidding!.
this gem was stated today in the talk!
(shortly before i walked out).
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Who is Gog of Magog? - Watchtower May 2015
by jwleaks inhere we go again... let's study... news report... comment.... who is gog of magog mentioned in the book of ezekiel?.
for a number of years, our publications have explained that gog of magog is the name given to satan the devil after his ouster from heaven.
this explanation was based on the fact that the book of revelation identifies satan the devil as the leader of the worldwide attack on gods people.
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Village Idiot
Gagh, a Klingon delicacy of live blood worms:
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Who is Gog of Magog? - Watchtower May 2015
by jwleaks inhere we go again... let's study... news report... comment.... who is gog of magog mentioned in the book of ezekiel?.
for a number of years, our publications have explained that gog of magog is the name given to satan the devil after his ouster from heaven.
this explanation was based on the fact that the book of revelation identifies satan the devil as the leader of the worldwide attack on gods people.
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No... I wasn't mind controlled
by Zoos inthou shalt not stay at a hotel that is not on the rooming list.
work prevented me from attending our assigned district (regional) convention so i arranged my schedule to attend in a different city/weekend.
i know that's not a problem, brothers and sisters do it all the time.
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God does exist here is my nonbiblical reason:
by Curious Kitten in(before you read i hope no one gets offended by the word retarted...that s how i thought when i was 13)my mom and dad are divorced and my father never helped my mother on raising us, so basically she was a single-mother.
he just abandoned my three brothers and me and my mother had to work two jobs all of the time so we never got to see her.
when we did see her it was after school, but all she did was yell at us, make food, and leave to her next job.
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Village Idiot
Welcome Curious Kitten.
I'm not a believer but I appreciate your posting here.
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Exposing one's identity. When?
by kairos ini've been toying with the idea of just coming out and posting my name and location as an attempt to be available to locals that secretly browse the forum that have known me for up to 25 years.
( "reaching out", so to speak ).
i'm not da'd or df'd, so this most certainly could end in a dramatic confrontation.
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Village Idiot
kairos, when I first posted my JW experiences I had, within two days, a 'still in' doubter, lurker of JWD, and former neighbor recognize me and come to my door - he knew who I was right away. I live in a large apartment complex just full of JWs and I've been keeping a low profile up to now. I myself don't care too much although it could affect me in the future.
Be careful what you say and if you want to get in touch with anyone limit yourself to the city you lived in; the dates you were a JW; and other peoples names that might be lurking here. Still dangerous but if you've got nothing to lose go for it. Oh, use the PM for maximum discretion.
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So you were just trying to make an analogy with the Witnesses I gather? -
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gda, Anarcho-Capitalist or Libertarian? -
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What comforts you when you no longer believe in a ressurrection ?
by EdenOne inour family just lost someone dear and very close, a faithful jw.
as we went through the entire funeral services and meeting long time brothers and sisters, who in general have been very kind and warm towards us, we realize that the hope of resurrection is a meaningless utopia for us, like a fairytale for little children.
we don't have faith in it anymore, and serves us of no comfort.
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Village Idiot
"What comforts you when you no longer believe in a ressurrection ?"
Acceptance.
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The believable and unbelievable
by James Mixon inhave you ever been told something that was so unbelievable, like angels having sex with humans, demons attacking someone, floods, talking animals, cutting someone ear off and reattaching it within minutes without the aid of a surgeon.
we accepted it without a second thought.. the other day watching home &garden house hunters (folks buying homes in other states and other countries).. today after leaving the borg i don't trust anyone or what they say.. a family buying a place in alaska and they announced, alaska has about 3,197 officially named natural lakes out of 3 million unnamed natural lakes.. i told the wife bs, how can that many lakes be in one state.
it was hard for me to believe that minnesota have 10000 lakes.. it really feel good to check out a source, to investigate for yourself.. i know this is a small thing, the numbers of lakes in alaska.. years ago when i was in the borg, and they told me alaska have a billion lakes, i wouldn't have question it.. what happened!!!!
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Siberia has millions of lakes and increasing every month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKyRHDFKEXQ&feature=player_detailpage
