Theocratic Sedition: Oh my mom (who's a dyed in the wool JW) always says to me that I never made Jehovah real to me. My response was "If I have to make something real to me, chances are it was never REAL to begin with."
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IN HINDSIGHT.................
by Black Man innow that i've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one huge absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an invisible king.
let me repeat an invisible king, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign.
no visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform.
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IN HINDSIGHT.................
by Black Man innow that i've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one huge absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an invisible king.
let me repeat an invisible king, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign.
no visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform.
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Black Man
Now that I've been away from the cult going on 4 years, one HUGE absurdity that sticks out in my mind is that we were doing things out of service to an INVISIBLE KING. Let me repeat an INVISIBLE KING, whose only proof that he existed was through a global public relations magazine distribution campaign. No visible show of this king's sovreignty, no activity by this king to act on his campaign platform. No..........the only active thing to show that this king existed was you and me going from door to door trying to harass people into accepting magazines annoucing the fact that this king was ruling. ISN'T THE WHOLE POINT OF RULING TO SHOW THAT THERE IS SOME VISIBLE MEANS OF AUTHORITY??
And to think this KING has been ruling for nearly 100 years??!! And still NOTHING done by this KING to positively impact the world for the better...or worse (for that matter). In any given scenario, you would have had impeachment or a takeover or removal of this king due to inactivity, lack of getting things done. Right?
Now that I think about it, that may not be the most ABSURD thing looking back at the JWs in HINDSIGHT. After all, the fate of the universe and reality as we know it was determined based on the actions of 2 naked people, a talking snake and a piece of fruit.
What absurdities stand out to you now that you've left the MADNESS??
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1914 - It was the end of the world as we knew it - things got much better!
by TheStumbler ini was having a conversation with a jw relative recently i casually mentioned how much better the world is than a few centuries.
obviously the jw was incredulous.
the next day i found an email in my inbox listing a few qoutes from notable people saying how the world has gotten much worse since 1914 and that 1914 was a pivitol year.
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Black Man
Awesome thread! Bookmarking...........
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It's Time to Dump the Hebrew Scriptures.
by smmcroberts inwhy do christian religions continue to pretend that the hebrew scriptures (aka the old testament) is god-inspired and that it describes a loving god?
don't they see that the ot is largely an embarrassment to its believers?
please read my blog to see why i think christianity should dispense with the ot all together:.
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Black Man
Agreed! Great thread!
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Argument against a GLOBAL Flood
by enigma1863 inhow many people existed before the biblical flood?
in the bible from adam to noah they have around 1600-1700 years.
adam had at least three children (one dies and not counting the daughters) in a 930 year life span.
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Black Man
Again, I ask WHY WOULD THE WHOLE EARTH NEED TO BE FLOODED?? Especially if humans were only living in a certain part of the earth. And if there were people living on OTHER CONTINENTS back then - HOW was Noah expected to PREACH to them without the benefit of modern day multi-continental travel?
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Argument against a GLOBAL Flood
by enigma1863 inhow many people existed before the biblical flood?
in the bible from adam to noah they have around 1600-1700 years.
adam had at least three children (one dies and not counting the daughters) in a 930 year life span.
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Black Man
Why flood the WHOLE earth? This would have included the Americas, Africa, Mexico, North & South Pole, and other continents, etc. Were there people on these other continents? And if there were people on these continents - how did Noah preach to them without the benefit of modern day travel?
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MTS & Gilead: Can we talk about how much of a FAILURE these 2 schools were/are?
by Black Man ini know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments.
graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially burned out.
post your experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions..
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Black Man
I know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments. Graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially BURNED OUT.
Post YOUR experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions.
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Tax Exempt status - is there a way to get JWs to lose it?
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Up!
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Powerful questions to DEBUNK the Jonah and the big fish story
by Black Man injust wanting to link logical, common sense questions that dismantle the jonah/big fish story..
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Black Man
Just wanting to link logical, common sense questions that dismantle the Jonah/big fish story.
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1918: >>> Less than 4 publishers per congregation !!! <<<
by Calebs Airplane inwhen jesus supposedly came down to the earth in 1918 to accomplish his inspection of all religious denominations, he supposedly chose the watchtower bible & tract society.. according to the august 15, 2012 watchtower (page 6, paragraph 12), in 1914, there were only 1,200 congregations worldwide..... this means that jesus was really looking for a needle in a hay stack... (probably had to use a pair of tweezers in the process...).
but notice this gem i found in the watchtower cd library:.
in 1918 there were only 3,868 persons announcing the king and the kingdom in all the world.
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Black Man
But see, they'll say that it was evidence of Christ blessing them as they now have more than 7 million publishers worldwide.