Not in the least, not in my life anyway. The only way it influences me is what I will and won't say to my family which is 98.9% still in. Obviously I'll refrain from discussing all my holiday plans and the like with them.
Big Dog
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Do You Still Allow The "Organization" To Affect Your Life?
by minimus indo you stop yourself from doing something you might otherwise do because a witness is within vision?
does the watchtower still "watch" you?
does your conscience kick in because the organization's ideas are still within you??
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One last act of separation
by jeanniebeanz inwell, i was cleaning out the last of the boxes from our move to texas and i came across my old new world translation.. i stopped and looked at it for a while, leafed through the pages to see the notes, hastily scribbled during some talk or another, little pieces of my life and world... some of the comments triggering memories of conventions, or relatives, mainly though, triggering feelings of... nothingness.. nothingness... that is what my time as a witness has boiled down to.
years of my life offered gladly to an organization that i believed would show me, and those whom i loved, the way to a better life where there would be no, "sickness, death or suffering" all meant nothing.. it used to make me mad or sad thinking about these things, but now there is just nothing.. not even when i think about my dad.
i used to get so upset at having lost him; i'd cry and hope that he'd see the light and leave the organization.
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Big Dog
What's the popular truism? Hate isn't the opposite of love, indifference is. When you become indifferent towards something or someone any emotional attachment is over.
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Newbies
by TallTexan inis it just me, or does there seem to be a flood of new people on the board lately?
i think it's awesome!.
welcome to all newcomers.
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Big Dog
It seems like it goes through cycles, every couple of months there is this huge flood of newbies. I like to think of it as the WBTS hemmoraging, yeah, I like that image a lot, the WBTS bleeding to death because they won't accept any real truth.
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Why did Jehovah give the job of writing the BIBLE to the Catholics?
by gumby inthis is a thread which was inspired by our own hot little mary.. jehovahs witnesses claim that since pentecost of 33 c.e., there has been a faithful and discreet slave class that was appointed by jesus himself and that this slave class was "entrusted" with all of jesus belongings ( dispensing spiritual food to his followers and the rest of mankind).
oddly, when it came to gods own word to mankind being compiled ( the bible), ......jehovah chose the catholic church to dispense, audit, compile his message!
imagine that!
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Big Dog
Could it not magically reproduce as many copies as it wanted, bind them together and then distribute them to the true christians at the time?
I think you are confusing the Holy Spirit with the Gideons.
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IT HAS BEGUN "BIG" NEWS ON AP NEWS WIRE
by DannyHaszard inreligion today
monterey county herald, ca - 2 minutes ago .
new york - jehovah's witnesses are renowned for teaching that jesus is not god and that the world as we know it will soon end.
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Big Dog
Anything that makes the WBTS look bad, makes me feel good. It will be very interesting to see where this goes. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Brooklyn.
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My Dad died this evening
by Mulan ini thought i would let you know that my dad, passed away a little while ago, tonight, january 23. they called me at 6pm to tell me.
he had been failing rapidly for the past month, and had completely lost his hearing and was totally blind.
the dementia was extreme too, and he still knew me on thursday, but didn't wake up to know me in the following days.
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Big Dog
Deepest sympathies to you and your family.
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Do we "graduate" from the boards?
by wanderlustguy inclass of 2005 for me maybe?
i remember so many names fondly, and not the regular names most people name off every day like george or robert, etc, but strange sounding ones: .
skully, puternut, seven006, teh, richie rich, bigdog, dragonlady, jenniebeans, valis, prophecor, little toe, james thomas, sassy, defd, slipnslidemaster, alanf, brenda clouter (ok, that ones normal), hadenuff, buttlight, schne belly, stickypantz, p2k, incence and peppermints, whyamihere, devinsmom, harleyquinn, es, simon, eyegirl, joannadandy,i could go on all night, but the point is these people were in what i think i will call my school of real life graduating class.
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Big Dog
Well don't I just look like a dumbass, Tetra, thanks for pointing out how I missed JH's post. Well I just feel like freaking blow hole.
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Do we "graduate" from the boards?
by wanderlustguy inclass of 2005 for me maybe?
i remember so many names fondly, and not the regular names most people name off every day like george or robert, etc, but strange sounding ones: .
skully, puternut, seven006, teh, richie rich, bigdog, dragonlady, jenniebeans, valis, prophecor, little toe, james thomas, sassy, defd, slipnslidemaster, alanf, brenda clouter (ok, that ones normal), hadenuff, buttlight, schne belly, stickypantz, p2k, incence and peppermints, whyamihere, devinsmom, harleyquinn, es, simon, eyegirl, joannadandy,i could go on all night, but the point is these people were in what i think i will call my school of real life graduating class.
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Big Dog
WLG,
Its like the Hotel California, you can check out, but you can never leave.
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What do you believe now?
by NowImFree ini have been out of the jws officially for over 3 years now, since disassociating.
after researching the history of the organization and reading the bible (without) the watchtower, i am now a christian.
i am just curious what happens to most ex-jws as far as their beliefs go, after they leave the organization.
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Big Dog
To quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in the Beatles, I just believe in me."
Works for me.
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NFL Playoffs
by Gretchen956 inwhy is there no thread on this???
omfg that was an awesome game!!!!.
first time ever a 6th seed team has won the first two games of the playoffs.
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Big Dog
Stilla, how about Indy? What the heck were they doing out there, that was not the offensive juggernaut we have seen all season, Manning looked lost, same thing with Brady who is usually anything but lost.