I know people have posted on this thread for a while, but Quotes -- you are the man! You presented yourself quite well on the radio station! Don't be hiding no drugs, now? :D ;) lol
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"Quotes" website owner-Radio Interview on the Net-Sept. 24, '05
by sf inhttp://www.drewmarshall.ca/listen.html [ open link to select player best suited for your computer ].
having grown up in a jehovah's witness family, { quotes } came to the realization that what he was being raised to believe, wasn't standing up to scrutiny.
subsequently, he put together a fantastic website, simply showing primary resource material (stuff jw's say about themselves and their beliefs) then simply highlighted various points of interest... things to make you say "hmmm!
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"Quotes" website owner-Radio Interview on the Net-Sept. 24, '05
by sf inhttp://www.drewmarshall.ca/listen.html [ open link to select player best suited for your computer ].
having grown up in a jehovah's witness family, { quotes } came to the realization that what he was being raised to believe, wasn't standing up to scrutiny.
subsequently, he put together a fantastic website, simply showing primary resource material (stuff jw's say about themselves and their beliefs) then simply highlighted various points of interest... things to make you say "hmmm!
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I know people have posted on this thread for a while, but Quotes -- you are the man! You presented yourself quite well on the radio station!
Don't be hiding no drugs, now? :D ;) lol -
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Other Than D'Fing or Disassociating, How Did You Get JWs To Leave U Alone?
by minimus inhow do you keep them from bothering you?
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jgnat
I can't GET JW's to pay attention to me. One or two questions, and they fade like vapour in the wind. Or maybe I just don't count, being a woman and all
Maybe JW's are like cats. They purr and run between your legs if you are allergic, and run away from anyone pursuing them.
Inquirer -- LOL! I have seen you post many times on this board, and I know you would ask them quite normal questions!
:D RUN! RUN! JGNAT IS ASKING A QUESTION! I might leave now too!!! I am so afraid of what you might say! You'll split me right in two!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D -
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"I've decided to block your e-mail" (response from an almost-JW)
by AlmostAtheist inthere was a poster on jwd that left her email address in a post.
she was clearly a study, not yet baptized.
she was on jwd, so it sounded like she might be open to a maybe-they-don't-have-the-truth sort of discussion.. i emailed her my birthday write up with a note explaining that i didn't think the watchtower "lied" (as was mentioned in the jwd post she was responding to), but that they made disengenuous comments in order to keep people in the organization, sincerely believing that it was necessary for them to please god.. she responded, thanked me for the note, and said that she had stumbled onto jwd by accident, looking for an online copy of the km.
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@AlmostAtheist,
Get off this board you Satanist!!!!!!!!!!! lol ;) :)
Really though, What an awful thing to happen to you. No wonder I left the org. What a load of sewage. :( -
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Since you left Jehovahs................................
by defd inorganization and the faith.
what hope do yall entertain for the future....the everlasting future?
do you still believe, want to be on a paradise earth or what?
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googlemagoogle
hi inquirer, indeed there are a lot of things that suck (which proves there is no loving, all-knowing, almighty god), but there are a lot of things that don't suck. this world is the best world i know, and i'm really happy that nature mixed genes and chemicals in a way to create my conciousness.
Inquirer -- Keep all the interesting comments coming! :D lol It's the way you express them! lol I won't say "God bless you," I'll just say "all the best with you."
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Why do jws need Jesus?
by gringojj ini was just thinking if jesus is only the mediator for the 144000 then why did god even bother sending him?
i am an atheist so i dont know much about the bible.
up until jesus time and i think after jesus died god was sending his message through other people.
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jstalin, Probably one of the best avatars I've ever seen! :D LOL
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Since you left Jehovahs................................
by defd inorganization and the faith.
what hope do yall entertain for the future....the everlasting future?
do you still believe, want to be on a paradise earth or what?
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googlemagoogle
i hope that when i die i'll leave enough space for new human beings. death is just giving other people the chance to live and evolve.
With my opinion about paradise earth... I surely hope it will come. This world stinks! Terrorism! People earning a dollar a day, people who are living on the poverty line, people who have to pay maintenance because they are divorced, starving people (some people eat rats for goodness sake!) the planet is overloaded of people, they want to dump this nuclear wast in the middle of Australia, people blow themselves up for little or no reason, people take up arms and kill other people... there's loads of new technology nowadays and it doesn't seem to make people happier.... There's so many things that suck about this world, I just mention some of them... hardly any of them. :( I would love to see the day when all these things are done away with. I don't think human beings were suppose to live like this. I don't think God upstaris approves of it. I hope all the good-hearted people of this world get given another chance on a paradisaic earth...
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How Different From Jehovah's Witnesses Are You Now?
by J Mason Emerson in20 ways jehovahs witnesses and christian witnesses differ
jws use magazines etc for studying the bible; cws use the bible itself for reading.
jws stay focused on lots of rules; cws focus on the principles of love, joy etc.
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oldflame
I'm a total 360 from then
Inquirer -- Wait dude! YOu have to be 180 degrees different from them -- 360 deg is back where you started!!!!
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How Different From Jehovah's Witnesses Are You Now?
by J Mason Emerson in20 ways jehovahs witnesses and christian witnesses differ
jws use magazines etc for studying the bible; cws use the bible itself for reading.
jws stay focused on lots of rules; cws focus on the principles of love, joy etc.
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I'll say this before I read the posts
I am surprised how left-wing I feel! In a Christian way anyway. lol I feel a bit strange now, because... well... I won't comment on my "political wing." :) I'll just say I am a "broken wing," like what Kurt says in "Milk It" of his last album "In Utero." When I use to be fan, that was my favorite album by them, by the way. And, yes, I use to listen to them as a JW. :)
But now I have reintroduced the idea of:
*birthdays (I don't mind New Year's as long as you don't get drunk and over do it... but that is not a practical opinion I guess. lol I still dislike Christmas and Easter... one obvious reason it's too commercial...)
*blood transfusions,
*marrying anyone
*picketing, (sorry I know that sounds stupid, but I remember Ray saying in his book, why as a JW you can join a union but not protest on the streets about the governments!)
... Um, so not much has changed, but I don't shun people. If I ever saw one of you people online, I'd just talk to you normally and say "how are you doing?" If you said you were atheiest, I wouldn't care, because I'd be thinking (and saying) yet another thing which is not JW-like "only God knows what your thoughts are." Or I'd be philosophical and think "maybe he is only atheist temporarily," or "maybe not all people want to live forever," it's their choice after all.
*saying "God bless you."
*emphasising Jesus' name more.
*Being philosophical -- only denouncing philosophy like the "immortal soul," and other religious philosophies that contradict the Bible. NOT ALL PHILOSOPHY IS BAD. The guy who invented the wheel, or the guy who invented the light bulb or car -- that's philosophy on a high level (yes even the wheel back then because no one else thought of it! Bit like the KJV being good for it's time, way of thinking.)
*re-considering also about "magic" in TV shows -- it depends on what context it's in, particularly if it's sci-fi. I try not to get fussed about it so much. I still don't like the subject, but sometimes you have to "tune in" to the story to understand what I am saying.
*I definetly don't care if someone has tattooes or long hair and a beard -- they can do what they flaming will like.
*I don't have a problem with smurfs or transformers -- once I had a transformer (one of those robot toys and a JW came around and told me to throw it out immediately -- she thought it was "demonic."
*Don't have a problem with "playing cards." Even torochi cards, which people mistake for "tarot cards" who were influenced by the innocent torochi cards, which are mainly played in countries like France and Hungary...
*If I got a role in a movie, wouldn't think twice if was a gun slinger in a movie -- it's called historical silly! People did do things like that.
I guess, mine is more mental attitude that, practicallity. Some of the things I said might sound a bit tedious, but that's all I can think of right now... I always wonder what I would be like if I wasn't born a JW!!! NOW THAT'S QUITE A QUESTION! AT LEAST FOR MYSELF!!!! -
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Is God's name Jehovah, Yaweh, or simply Lord?
by pr_capone ini am sure that most of you here are familiar with psalms 83:18. .
so, whats the skinny?
what is the christian god's name?
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Sorry gumby, I've already gone over this issue many times and I will not answer that question.
I just want to say one final thing and that's by saying that even though "Yahweh" is much preferred here than saying "Jehovah," I think it's better than saying "LORD." An attempt is being made to render what they feel is the transliteration of the tetragrammaton YHWH/JHVH. People should translate accordingly. I find it awful that 90% of the translations out there refuse to render God's proper name at all -- whether it would be "Yahweh" or "Jehovah."