Posts by GetBusyLiving

Hey tetrapod, feel free to tell her that that guy that always sat in the back laughing when everyone else was serious and grimacing when everyone else was guffawing (me) is an apostate now too. LOL!

GBL

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What Silly Things Do JWs Woo & Ahhh Over?

by minimus in

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witnesses are a special breed.

did you ever see how excited they get when they are driving to a convention and spot a fellow jw?

they get so excited!

GetBusyLiving

A circuit overseer visit. Hearing bullshit about how they have some advantage over worldlings (ex.reading the Awake magazine gives you the equivilent of a university education). Unverifiable tall tales used to promote thier wacky way of life. Disfellowshipings, disassociations and reprovings.

GBL

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Without the Internet. Would you still have been a active believing dub??

by Samuel Thorsen in

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perhaps i would.. struggeling with doubts of course, but going to the meetings and turning in 2 or 3 hours on my report every month like i used to.... what about you guys?

GetBusyLiving

I'd probably still be dragging my ass to meetings, yeah. I'd just have pent up hardcore doubts for years but still think they had the 'truth' somehow. I have always been a skeptic.. sitting in the back row questioning things and having bouts of laughter in all the wrong places during the meetings. I learned about Franz' books, read about the misrepresentations in the Creation book from AlanF, the 607 B.C deliberate lies, the child abuse fiasco, and the ridiculous blood policy in detail - all from the internet. It helped push me over the threshold.

Thank you, internet.

GBL

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That's here. That's home. That's us.

by SixofNine in

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the photo above was taken by voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance.

having completed it primary mission, voyager at that time was on its way out of the solar system, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the solar system.

ground control issued a command for the distant space craft to turn around and, looking back, take photos of each of the planets it had visited.

GetBusyLiving

That was absolutely great. Thanks Six. We really are so fortunete to even be here at all.

GBL

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Strange things about Jesus

by Stephen John Gault in

1. has it occured to you that nowhere in the old testament is the holy spirit mentioned.

it did not exist.

do you not find it strange that when joseph was told it was the holy spirit that made mary pregnant, he did not ask "who the f--- is the holy spirit?

GetBusyLiving

:What is even more amazing, is that we once wholeheartedly believed that such a contradictory mess, was without question, the purest form of truth.

What is even MORE amazing is that we believed that the contradictions only served to clarify other contradictions. Blows my mind, man.

GBL

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My adventures to the Kingdom Hall

by ColdRedRain in

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my story begins like this.

i was missing 2 important peices of mail.

one was my credit card, the other was a cell phone i'm getting from a friend.

GetBusyLiving

I hate the stupid snotty way they treat people. What a group of dip-shits. I got treated the same way for months after reactivating myself once. I had drifted away and was trying to come back, and it was like pulling teeth trying to hang out with some of them. The only people who would hang out with me were the fringe sitters because the good examples thought they were in some sort of exclusive club, and I didn't know the secret handshake. Idiots that thought they were closer to God than everyone else. lol. I can't even believe I subjected myself to that crap now.

GBL

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Sex & the Evolution vs. Creation debate

by tetrapod.sapien in

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i was just looking back over some of the evolution vs. creation debates that have taken place here on jwd in the recent past.

and i was struck by something.

sorry if this has been done already.. practically all posts (i could almost safely say "all") in the debates are authored by males.

GetBusyLiving

I've noticed that some woman on this board seem inclined to believe in God without evidence moreso than a lot of the men. I don't know if it's an emotional attachment or what. Maybe they just don't care about the details of evolution or whatever.

GBL

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Explain you religion/beliefs in a nutshell

by devinsmom in

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lately i have been pondering my lack of a belief system.

i think that being a jw really turned me off to believing in anything since it was all crammed down my throat.. i have been feeling a need to believe in something.

i think i believe that something created us but not sure if it was one god or many.

GetBusyLiving

I don't believe in God. I think religion of all types are just crutches. I believe in me, the world that I live in, things I can touch, my family and friends.

I try to live in the moment, to always improve myself, to remember that life really is "but a dream", and to be greatful that I somehow managed to come to be here, right now.

GBL

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Creationism - is purely a myth that is untestable - maybe not!

by Qcmbr in

i've been doing my homework having been stung by the vehemence of the evolutionary believers - i've got some interesting things that maybe science in the classroom could approach.

some premises - .

evolution is only a theory - its not a fact any more than newtonian physics was a fact.

GetBusyLiving

Thanks for taking the time to post this info you guys. I love reading about this shit.

GBL