Posts by love11

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Create your own diety...

by love11 in

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this was pretty fun.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?

Create your own diety...

by love11 in

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this was pretty fun.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?

love11

Hey candidly- you did great! I wonder how many hits a jw would get?

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Create your own diety...

by love11 in

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this was pretty fun.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?

love11

Battleground Analysis

Congratulations!

You have been awarded the TPM service medal! This is our third highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity without suffering many hits and biting no bullets suggests that whilst there are inconsistencies in your beliefs about God, on the whole they are well thought-out.

Click at the bottom of the page and fill out the battleground analysis, it's fun.

I guess I got a direct hit because I agreed that IF there was a god it would be capable of doing anything. Then it asked could god make 1 + 1= 75, I said no. Hence, the contridiction and I got a direct hit.

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Create your own diety...

by love11 in

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this was pretty fun.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm it said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 what did you get?

love11

This was pretty fun. http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm It said that the chance of my god being real was 0.7 What did you get?

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So how long has everyone been out?

by tyler m in

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i stopped all jw activity on june 12, 1996. my 18th birthday.

i made arrangements to stay with some friends and they even lined me up a summer job.

i snuck out in the middle of the night and left my parents a note.

love11

Since Dec. 1993

Only recently decided to look up other ex-jw's this year.

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So sick and tired of the double standard

by ValiantBoy in

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for a group that constantly bitches about people needing to accomadate it's beliefs and practices, jw's sure are inflexible and intolerant.

i realize that we all already know that, but is of special irritation to me right now.

my oldest sister, who is faded and now regularly attends a worldly church, is getting married.

love11

That's too bad that you are going through this. I hate to see family betray each other.

HEHE I'm sure Jehovah would not want her to go to her daughters wedding. Out of all the things going on in the universe, I'm sure the Almighty is going to kick her out of the paradise (afterlife) for going to her own daughters wedding. Yet it was ok for Moses, David, Solomon,etc to be a politician, went to war, and ordered people to death.

This is the kind of reasoning a jw has.

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The Money Is Drying Up In The Organization!

by minimus in

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my mother told me that the congregation has been pretty much begging for money for the local kingdom hall.

after the presiding overseer expressed the state of debt and severe lack on contributions, he then asked the congregation to approve a resolution to send mor money to the society!!!

i don't know how they are able to function.

love11

he then asked the congregation to approve a resolution to send mor money to the Society!!!

Wow, why don't they just pass the collection plate around?

Does anyone know what the Society does with the profit?

After books are paid, utilities, paychecks, food for bethel, shipping costs. Then what? What happens to the savings? Who has control over that? Does anyone use the money for personal use, property, etc,?

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confused

by sugarbritches in

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question-- if a jw is disfellowshipped for having too much association with a non-witness- is this jw likely to be refused a reinstatement as long as he is associating with her-- and if so- will he be allowed to talk to her again to some degree after he is reinstated?

love11

Ok this makes sense now. It's not just that he was talking to you, it was for extra curricular activities.

I know of a boy that was disfellowshipped for joining a football team at his school.

So ya it can happen, I just think everyone was shocked because it seemed like a new reason to get disfellowshipped for.

My congregation was disfellowshipped happy. They loved to disfellowship people. Yet the elders were cheating on thier wives and none of them were disfellowshipped. Makes you say Hmmmmmm......

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Help Me Come Up With a Domain Name!

by FMZ in

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ok, i'm gonna buy a new domain... i want it to be something along the lines of www.kjsblah.com .

ideas anyone?.

fmz / kj

love11

kjslookyhere.com HAHAHAHA

Sorry I couldn't resist.

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Obliteration of the ego

by logansrun in

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at long last i feel i have come to a great spiritual truth: the human ego stands as an impediment towards self-realization and must be obliterated, or at least diminished.

i have seen this as a running thread throughout many of the readings i have done -- from buddha and shankara to meister eckhart to arch-skeptic and atheist dr. albert ellis, the idea is to get beyond this concept of i. .

what freedom this could be!

love11

We use this expression often, you know: "I just got lost doing..."

Sometimes when I am reading or going to the beach, I lose track of time and forget that I am there in front of people. I get lost in the book or looking out onto the water and I forget about everything going on around me.

My husband says that when he draws, it's like he's in his own little world and hours go by without knowing it.

Is that what you are talking about?