The link provided is apparently a fake one. His real site is http://www.joelosteen.com/Pages/About.aspx. The link in the article has "olsten" instead of "olsteen".
Posts by donny
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11Joel Osteen...come again?
by SophieG inalright then!.
http://joelosteenministries.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/joel-osteen-resigns-cites-lack-of-faith-leaves-christianity/.
i don't know how to make the link clickable.
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A personal message to you lurking Jehovah's Witnesses out there
by Terry inwhile you were sitting in that uncomfortable folding chair the other night.... listening to something you've heard already a thousand times before.... do you know what was happening at the same time?.
somebody somewhere else was studying a real textbook.
somebody was cramming for a college exam.
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donny
Good post Terry. I shared it on my Facebook page.
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donny
LOL! I'll have to use that one!!
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Does Pat Robertson really believe the crap he spouts?
by cantleave inhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/01/robertson-god-gives-less-miracles-to-too-educated-americans-who-learn-science/.
televangelist pat robertson on monday explained to his viewers that sophisticated americans received less miracles because they had learned things that says god isnt real like evolution.. on mondays episode of cbns the 700 club, robertson responded to a viewer who wanted to know why amazing miracles (people raised from the dead, blind eyes open, lame people walking) happen with great frequency in places like africa, and not here in the usa?.
people overseas didnt go to ivy league schools, the tv preacher laughed.
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donny
Overseas where? He defininitley was not referring to Europe.
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My Encounter with a JW couple this Morning
by cantleave ini was shopping with nugget in sainsburys and i saw them in the bread aisle.
a couple in their late 70's / early 80's who really i do have an affection for.
he was an ms when i left, not sure if he still is, and she was just a very genuine person with decades of "faithful service" to the cult.. when i was a newly appointed elder, their grand-daughter had accused her step-father of sexual abuse, he was eventually df'd but has since my leaving been reinstated.
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donny
It shows that some let their humanity shine through the Society's dark filters.
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donny
What I see in this and similar other earlier threads is that people will look at a current situation and find a way to fit God in it as if he had a hand in what happened or is currently happening. Since leaving the Society 20 years ago, everything I have experienced can be laid at the fott of random chance.
Sometimes good things happen and sometimes bad things happen. Sometimes those things occured as a direct or indirect result of your own actions and sometimes it just happens.
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donny
If there was an all knowing God, it would know that there are more efficient ways to communicate its will than via old texts and personal anecdotal revelations. I have yet to come across anything that proves to me that the God(s) in the Bible has any more credibility than the thousands of other gods created by man.
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Could the JWs sway you back...?
by new22day inop based on mr. freeze's topic - could attending the meetings/studying again sway any of you back to the org.
hearing the propaganda over and over again is pretty powerful i'm sure.
(i'm a non-jw, non-christian (no offense), stubborn as a bull and even i had moments of pause based on some of the doctrine (lasted 30 seconds) but i never had family/friends at stake or a background in this.
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donny
No way. I could never suspend all of the logical thinking required to accept their "truth."
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Alvin Lee from Ten Years After, Woodstock fame passes
by designs injust 68, he and the band lit up woodstock with i'm going home, one of the great songs to drive across the desert at sunrise.
i'd love to change the world had great vision and social commentary.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzruqatucpu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5m5xljdci.
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donny
Wow, how Ironic. I just ordered the best of Ten Years After 4 days ago.
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No one who leaves "the truth" is ever happy?
by El_Guapo infor years, i was told this..... " anyone who leaves the org is bitter, sad, and worse off, why do you think they come back???
guess what guys i am the opposite, now i quit cold-turkey (looking back, i should have faded correctly) i am planning on going to the memorial this month just to hear all "the friends" tell me how much they missed me.
since i have left the meetings, (jan. was my last meeting, i think).
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donny
I remember the year I began attending meetings (1982), they released a brochure called "Enjoy Life on Earth Forever." I remember reading its contents and looking at the pictures and thinking "wow, this is pretty cool."
Years later as I was waking up to reality, I was going through the brochure again and noticed how much BS was in its pages. The pictures depicting a meeting in progress show everyone with this gleeful smile on their faces. Another picture is of a young man witnessing to friends who are eagerly hanging on to every word he says.
I sat back and wondered "Why have I not ever seen these kinds of smiles in my congregation?"
I soon realized it was because it was all propoganda. It was all crap to keep one in the fold.
I definitley felt happier upon leaving the Society and I have never regretted it.