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  Gay ex-Bethelite

  by Chip Williamson in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just now finding this web site and have enjoyed reading the comments.

  i've never written down my story and it could be a jerry springer episode but here goes.

  i was raised as a jehovah's witness from as early as i can remember.

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome Chip.
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  Government turning on religion - or - I how I learned to stop worrying and love Drumpf

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?

  i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.

  with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  Village Idiot

  Vidiot: I'll say this for Trump; he may be right-wing, but he doesn't seem beholden to the Christian Right.

  Huh?
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  Aliens exist and YHWH (Jehovah) was one of them.

  by Jehovah Was An Alien in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "the constellation of the seven stars forming the pleiades appears to be the crowning centre around which the known system of the planets revolve even as our suns planet obey the sun and travel in their respective orbits.

  it has been suggested, and with much weight, that one of the stars of that group is the dwelling place of jehovah and the place of the highest heavens; that is the place to which the inspired writer referred to when he said: "hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven" (2 chronicles6:21) ; and that it is the place to which job referred when under inspiration he wrote: "canst thou blind the sweet influences of pleiades, or loose the bands of orion" – job 38:31"

  the constellation of the pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man.

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  Village Idiot

  It's not April 1st yet.
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  Worldwatch Institute vs Watching the World

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  part of the "last days" in the bible teach book indicates that : "a report from the worldwatch institute states: “three times as many people fell victim to war in [the 20th] century as in all the wars from the first century ad to 1899.” more than 100 million people have died as a result of wars since 1914.

  "that seems to be quite the statement, given mankind's history of war, which, for the most part, seems to have only dimished since 1945.fact-checking that quote shows that, first of all, it is not a quote by the worldwatch institute, but is actually a paper written by one of its contributors (michael renner) in 1999.

  ( http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/wp146.pdf ) additionally, that paper references a table (done by a different researcher) that indicates that the 20th century not only has the most war-related deaths, but far and away the greatest ratio of deaths at 44.4 per 1,000 population.

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  Village Idiot

  One must keep in mind that the world population was much less in the first 1900 years since the 1st century than those living during World War II.
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  Government turning on religion - or - I how I learned to stop worrying and love Drumpf

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?

  i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.

  with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  2+2=5: "Say anything negative about Trump and you will have your comment disliked."

  If it will make you happy I liked your comment.
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  Richer Though Poorer

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have become stagnant in heart, mind, body.

  nothing fits nor operates as it should.

  i recollect, without emotion, the heights that had, at one time, been my surrogate guardian.

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  Village Idiot

  Thank you compound. You just released similar memories in me.

  It is of the private school I used to go to. The whole school was housed in a refurbished apartment building with an apartment for each class. My eighth grade was in a second story apartment that had the walls between two bedrooms knocked out in order to make room for the class. The whole school was a jerry rigged conglomeration of classes with similar 'design'. Some people would have considered it tacky but it had personality. More organic than regimented architecture.

  I would enjoy quiet moments, all alone, day dreaming when the class was away for Physical Education (I never went and nobody missed me). I would listen to the girls of my class during lunch period play the guitar and sing. One song that they sang was Those Were the Days which was about a person reminiscing on her youth. When they sang that I told myself that I would someday be looking back on that moment. Of course, I am now.

  In this classroom there was a cat that used to belong to the school principle's mother (She used to live in that very apartment before it was converted to a classroom). That cat got pregnant and had kittens squirreled away in a box inside a small room where no one went. One fine day momma cat decided to bring her kittens in to our classroom. She was carrying them using her mouth to gently bite the kittens neck and walk. One by one they came and were placed in a small out of the wall closet immediately by my desk. I enjoyed the beauty of that moment more than any class lessons I ever received.

  Now I'm 3,000 miles and almost 45 years away from that memory. Blessed be the things we later appreciate.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y3KEhWTnWvE
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  Would/Do you wear a Cross around your neck ??

  by Prisca in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after all that we had drummed into us about not the cross, and particularly about not venerating the symbol itself, i have been wondering about this issue.. so, what are your views about wearing a cross around your neck ?

  is it just a fashion accessory, or does it mean something to you ?.

  inquiring minds would like to know

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  I once thought of getting an Ankh, not for the religious symbolism - I'm a hard core rationalist not mystic - but simply because I liked the geometrical shape of it. Decided not to wear it because people might get the wrong idea about my beliefs.
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  Government turning on religion - or - I how I learned to stop worrying and love Drumpf

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where, exactly, does the bible say that government(s) will turn on religion?

  i mean, other than interpreting some crazy visions/dreams from revelation as such?.

  with one megalomaniac leading the gop race for nomination to vie for president of the usa, i've noticed that paranoia has ratcheted up a notch or three.

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  Village Idiot

  As one can see by perusing rightwingwatch.org, Fundamentalist Christians believe that Obama is a sign of the end times maybe even the antichrist. There are more of those kooks then there are JWs and they've got political clout which the JWs don't.
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  10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for saying he was an Atheist

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  the tide of disbelief is rising and only fools think they can stop it.

  but some are too stupid to understand that fact, as this news story from saudi arabia demonstrates:.

  american ally saudi arabia is the perpetrator of this crime against humanity.

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  In Saudi Arabia the minister of religion got fired because he criticized the small but powerful Salafi (Wahhabist) establishment. It is they who are the spiritual ancestors to ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram etc.. Fvck 'em.
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  Do the GB want the JW religion to fail?

  by Grey Goose in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  basically what the thread title says.. do you guys think the gb want the jw religion to fail?

  of course failing in the ultimate sense is just not going to happen.

  no matter how bankrupt they went, there is always going to be a percentage that holds on.. but downsizing the membership?

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  Maybe Trump could help them out.