Every day is "Tear Down The Watchtower" for me. October 1st, March 4th...it's all good. Let's organize the damn thing
Posts by Sith
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39"Tear Down the Watchtower Day!"
by 144001 inafter surviving what has been a rather depressing week, an idea suddenly came to me.
after being born and raised in the loathsome cult that is the watchtower, i was deprived of many things, including without limitation all holidays and the accompanying joy that goes with them.
as an adult, i've been celebrating all the traditional "worldly" holidays, but although i enjoy and appreciate them, i've noticed that there's something missing.
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Apostates - blood on their hands?
by slimboyfat indon't you think the witness leaders would have given up the blood doctrine and 1914 by now had not apostates made such big things of them?
haven't they been painted into a bit of a corner where, if they tried to adjust things on blood now, everyone would come down on them like a ton of bricks?
if apostates were not so vigilant in watching the witnesses' every move, perhaps the governing body would have tried to drop the dubious doctrines by the back door, like so many others that they have discarded when they did not feel to closely watched (organ transplants, for example).
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Sith
Not too sure about the blood thing, but I used to feel the same way about 1914. Apostates need to do nothing to bring down the Borg. The Borg paints itself into it's own corner. Most recently...the definition of "generation". It will always be with us, but it's numbers will diminish, slowly and surely. Education destroys cults.
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Sith
Good for you, U/D. Glad you had a blast. Pink Floyd and Monty Python...it doesn't get much better.
BTW, why is all the best British stuff named after a guy? -
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Another 607 / 587 BCE question, How do JW's fix the 20 years ??
by run dont walk inok, since all the evidence and people/scholars etc, all agree that jerusalem was destroyed in 587/586 bce and not 607 bce.
how do the jw's get the extra 20 years, i understand the 2520 years and going back from 1914. but alot of the proof goes by adding up the kings reigns, and it gets you to the 587/586 date, do jw's simply add on a few years for each king, or is their a mystery king that ruled for 20 years that only they know about.. hhhhhhmmmmmmm.
hope my question makes sense.
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Sith
"Believe what we tell you to believe. The spiritual food that we give you supercedes anything and everything else. Math and science and research mean nothing if they don't support us. Dismiss everything that doesn't support what we tell you, believe everything that does."
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Sith
Another thread devoted to you? Damn, Steve...who are you blowing here and where do I get in line?
Oh, yeah...H/B U/D...again
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Feeling Guilty...
by hopetofade ini've only posted here a couple of times, but had a tremendous wave of guilt after i did so.
not as far as the "truth" was concerned, but to my husband.
he obviously doesn't know i'm doing this and i almost felt like i was cheating on him or something - ugh!!
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Sith
I am an alcoholic. I am also a recovering alcoholic. I've been going to AA for over 2 years now.
Non-alcoholics don't have any idea what we suffer through. Our addiction harms everyone around us, especially family and friends...those that love us.
Alcoholics will never change unless they want to. Therefore, people that love alcoholics have two choices. 1)Leave them to self-destruct on their own, protecting themselves in the process, or 2)sticking with them, empowering themselves in the process, and calling the alkie on his shit. There is a self-help program for people who love an alcoholic and choose the latter. It's called AlAnon.
I think that a person who loves a JW is in much the same situation. You can't help your JW mate. Only he/she can. Maybe someday they will, maybe they never will. There is nothing to do for him/her. The only thing you can do is empower and educate yourself. That's not cheating on your spouse. That's making yourself better so if they chose to better themselves, you are there for them.
That's how you should view this board.
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grissom-Introduce yourself!
by Sparkplug ini know that you are new here, but have left yourself open to some comments.
i have been curious as to why you post.
do you have doubts?
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Sith
I want to welcome you to the board, Grissom. I haven't been here long, so I'm not much more than a newbie myself. I replied to one of your posts on another thread, and if I sounded insulting, I apologize.
You are absolutely correct. This is a Jehovah's Witness discussion board and you have every right to be here and voice your opinion.
There are a lot of angry and bitter people here. I can occasionally fall into that category if I allow myself. I try not to, but it gets the better of me sometimes. There are also calm and thoughtful people here. I don't fall into that category near enough.
Please do yourself a favor. Look past the anger and name-calling. Think. Read. Use your brain. God gave it to you for a reason.
Robbie
Edited to say: Although it may not seem like it at times, people are encouraged to think and form opinions here. That is the one thing that differentiates us from your WTBTS. -
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Did I miss the grammar test required for this site?
by homesteader ini think i might of missed a possible grammar test for this site.
i used an obscure word awfulize in a previous post and people are still debating about the word.
didn't realize it would cause such a stir.
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Sith
As a matter of fact, Kathy is a very nice monkey.
People here will jump your shit for any number of reasons. The less cause you give them, the better.
I find it best to spell and grammar check everything before I hit submit. These guys are assholes and will call you on everything they can get away with. Personally, I give them as little as I can. However, I give the ladies all that I can. Even that isn't very much -
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are JWs allowed to shave in the under regions?
by tsunami_rid3r injust curious, since they control how we dress, how we're suppose to fuck, how we act.
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Sith
LOL, it happened to me. I fooled around with my JW wife for a year or so before we got married. We were both virgins. We fooled around a lot before we got married. Never any intercourse, but she made sure I figuresd out where her clit was.
Years down the road, after marriage and 3 kids, she felt the need to "confess" to the elders. I talked her out of it. She's now remarried to a different JW husband. I sometimes wonder if she's told him where her clit is -
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Help me handle this louser
by Cupcake inhi everyone just had another situation wanted to know your all opnion on how to deal with this one.
here goes..... i got a dozen roses with ballons the other day at work and it had type written on the card " to someone special ?
"that was on friday.... i called my x and ask others if they sent them to me and everyone said no......including my co workers then tuesday when i went to work, the florist brought me another dozen roses with a teddy bear and said he forgot to bring me the teddy bear on friday so he had a dozen roses a teddy bear and ballons again and the card read " thinking of you".... again didnt know who sent it... i talk to a co worker who is trying to make the moves on me and he said " do you want me to tell you the truth?
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Sith
Son of a bitch! I just saved myself $50.00. Thanks, ladies