Good, I had Christmas cards that needed mailing.
Village Idiot
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You're welcome ...
by Simon ini figured i'd shut the site down for a couple of hours to encourage everyone to do their xmas shopping.
the error message was a subtle hint, that's what "500 error" means ... go shopping.. whatever rumours you hear, it definitely wasn't that someone deployed a quick update before going on a 1.5 hour car ride to pick someone up and didn't think that the page they tested, to check it was all working after the update, happened to be cached.
no siree bob, not that, na hah.. anyway, you're welcome for the extra chance to, erm, shop..
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Village Idiot
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JWs vandalizing homes/property of apostates
by StarTrekAngel ini have read over the past few years of many cases of elder harassment and unwanted visitations.
however, there is a couple of stories out there where it has been presented that eventually the apostate in question comes home one day to find that their home has been trashed or covered with graffiti, which by the words written, seems to imply that it was a jw taking "revenge" or seemingly delivering divine justice against the apostate.
most of these are stories i've read online from several years ago.. have you individually or the group ever heard or stumbled upon these cases?
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Village Idiot
StarTrekAngel and Simon, that's scary. I thought that all Witnesses were too passive to do such a thing.
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Has waking up ever made you physically ill?
by fizzle inhas waking up ever made you physically ill?
perhaps because of the emotional strain etc..?.
if if so what were / are the symptoms?.
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Village Idiot
StarTrekAngel,
...it all looked like it was just panic attacks as he had experienced them in the past himself.
Me too and I also felt those panic attacks in my chest. I felt them when I was in field service.
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Disassociation - shunning - can we all lobby Government that it is against freedom of religion?
by stockholm_Syndrome inif jws want to inflict shunning on members who want to remain -- knock yourselves out.
but if someone wants to leave - dont believe in an evil almighty god, bible ...or just dont agree with the rules- they should be free to leave- even after being 'disfellowshipped'.
i think it was pre 1980 that you could disassociate yourself without shunning repercussions.
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Village Idiot
The Media will treat any issue about the JWs like a tempest in a teapot.
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Survey: Are you Agnostic or Atheist or Christian?
by Iamallcool ini am agnostic.
i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.
please answer my question.
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Village Idiot
A Believer,
Jehovah witnesses are Christians in that we follow christ.
Your organization doesn't even believe that the Ransom applied to the ordinary Jehovah's Witness ("Great Crowd"). What's more they make it overt by not partaking of the emblems which is Christianity's holiest ritual based on the idea of a ransom.
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Survey: Are you Agnostic or Atheist or Christian?
by Iamallcool ini am agnostic.
i will count how many agnostics, atheists and christians that are reading this forum regularly.
please answer my question.
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Village Idiot
You should have added in your title "Theist". There are those who believe in a god but not in the Bible.
As for me, atheist with a pantheistic leaning.
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Question for believers here, Ecclesiastes 1:4 and Psalm 105;5 "Earth remain forever".
by James Mixon inwhat is your understanding on the earth remain forever???
today it's a fact (99,999%) that the earth will be consumed by the sun in the future be it 3 million or 3 billion years.
a topic we have been discussing here on paradise earth in the last two or three days and i notice no believer chimed in.
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Village Idiot
One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
But the earth abides forever. - Ecclesiastes 1:4 New King James VersionOff topic but...
That verse from Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite Bible verses. It is also the Bible verse that the title of the book Earth Abides is inspired by. Earth Abides is an apocalyptic fiction book that shows how nature and humans living in nature can reconquer the earth after 99.99% of humanity dies. No blood and guts like modern sci-fis, just a peaceful transition to a state of nature. It is one of my favorite books.
As for the Earth getting vaporized 5 billion years from now, it will first undergo runaway greenhouse effect by a warming sun in just 1 billion years. The sun gets warmer throughout its lifespan.
As for the contradiction between those Bible verses and science, it would be stated by an apologist of the Bible that God will prevent that fate from happening in a perfect universe.
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Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?
by Iamallcool inany elder has never asked me that question so far but i want to be prepared to answer that question if any of them ask me that question in the future.
i hope that they will never ask me that question.
any suggestions on how to answer that question would be very much appreciated.
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Village Idiot
Elder: Do you believe that Jehovah is using the Organization today?
Iamallcool: On what basis do you say that the organization is Jehovah's?
Elder: Look at all our doctrines, it must be The Truth!
Iamallcool: Can't Satan use a doctrinally correct false prophet to mislead others?
Elder: ???????????
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Learning Other Languages
by Disassociated Lady 2 inthe jw org keeps its servants busier than ever these days so that their minds are occupied 24/7.
they ensure that there is no time for anything "worldly" to distract them.. in last week's watchtower article on spiritual health they are putting pressure on the congregation to learn other languages on top of everything else they do.
they allude to the fact that their spiritual health will suffer if they cannot understand the talks and publications in other languages.
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What is "The Truth" which the Jehovah's Witnesses are really missing ?
by Finkelstein ini personally think the truth which the jws are missing all together is that the wts has devised and constructed a doctrinal gospel (1914) specifically to assist toward the proliferation of the literature of which this organization publishes itself.
they allure people with them then exploit these ones further in the distribution of those pieces of literature all while stamping the information as bible truths.
i see jws as well controlled robotic sales representatives for this unscrupulous religious publishing house.
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Finkelstein,
...I cant help be dismayed that people today in this age of information are still believing in ancient mythology, words and activities expressed by forgiven ignorant humans, 2 to 3 thousand years ago.
“The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."
Thomas Jefferson - Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823.
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams page 594. Edited by Lester J. Cappon