Topics Started by Devils Advocate

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Were there any cliques in your congregation?
by badboy in
1. jw
2. friends
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hope i spell cliques right?.

know what i mean?
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Who Does Jehovah Resemble?
by Englishman in
1. jw
2. friends
as a small boy, i pictured jehovah as resembling finlay currie, the kindly old boy who played roles in solomon & sheba and the 10 commandments.. .

later on, probably thanks to paul hogans influence, i started to picture jehovah as resembling charlton heston.. .

i still picture him as a bearded gentleman, wearing a dressing gown and sandals, surrounded by billowing clouds.. then again if i think of the creator, or lord, he doesn't seem to be the same entity as jehovah.. strange, isn't it?.
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They ain't all bad.
by Insomniac in
1. jw
2. experiences
i live in a fairly small town, and i run into the witnesses from my old cong with some frequency.

in general, they ignore me, or give me dirty looks, or, in one memorable instance in the ladies' room at the memorial, call me a whore.

just for the record, i'm not even close to whorish, i'm pretty straight-laced; this gives me an idea of how much hatred they must be feeling toward me.. today, however, i was walking out of a store, when i heard my name being called.
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Meditation still evil?
by Bryan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i remember, it seems, years ago the society inc. taught that meditating allowed satan into your mind.

yoga was bad!

i learned after a fall in '92, with the help of a bio feedback dr., that with meditation i could adjust my body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure.
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They came by today
by czarofmischief in
1. jw
2. experiences
so my wife is standing at the door, waiting for me to finish my morning ablutions so that we can go out, and she asks me to go to the door.

i met a very friendly couple who wanted to talk to me about jehovah.

i informed them that i was raised as a jehovah's witness and that i had been disfellowshipped for about (and i had to think about this) five years now.. and the dude was offended by my existence.
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If Something Bad Happens To A JW, Are You Happy?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
every so often, i read that some posters have such contempt for jehovah's witnesses, that they are happy when they hear that one died or suffered from cancer or some other disease or tragedy.

they rationalize things by saying, "jws are so corrupt that getting rid of them in any way is good!".

or, "i'm glad that this bad thing happened to them.
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World's Worst Century?
by City Fan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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with events in iraq seemingly going from bad to worse, and with what i see as an increasing number of end-time 'prophets' posting on this board, i thought i would bring this programme to everyone's attention.

it may put today's events into perspective compared to some of histories more turbulent times.. would anyone here rather go back and live in the 14th century?.
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The Awake's Lying Image of Witnesses (Oct 22)
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
if you didn't know that the watchtower society published the awake magazine, you might.

think it was published by some semi-liberal born again group.

doesn't give a realistic representation of most witness families i'm aware of.. .
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JW foul play.
by avishai in
1. jw
2. friends
what instances do you know of jw crime, particularly jw on jw or jw on xjw?.

i know of several instances.

my own po, elder grandfather ripped off tons of dubs.
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How?
by Lostreality in
1. jw
2. friends
how did you go from celebrating no holidays, to celebrating them?

what changes did you make in your household to accomodate this change?