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this always seems to be one of those questions i've asked before but which never quite gets answered by jws.
do you believe that jws need a mediator beteen god and men?
say it with me...."Jesus"
Not a bunch of punks at the Golden Calf Factory in NY. Is that much different than praying to Mary or the Baby Jesus? Catholics consider them mediators.
I am no longer a JW (weeeee! Jesus gets to be my mediator now) so maybe you don't want my answer.
I don't beleive in Santa Claus, a Greater Moses or the Faithful and Disapionting Slave.
do what you can to get your friend out NOW
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outaservice (enquiring minds want to know)
if you had faith in Jehovah's spirit directed organization, you would know that the light will be back on...in his time not ours...in fact, this is one of Satan's snares...so in the mean time, allow us to comfort and cunfuse you with our interpolated doctrine based off of the scripures-the ones we translated lovingly for your benefit
but i like the comment from garybuss!!!! very good
are there any principles of the faith that you have kept... do you try to maintian a high moral standard?
did your views on abortion change?
would you go to war?
xjwms -- Well, no one has to have values. I just wonder what "apostates" believe in. I would find it hard to believe that once people leave a Christian cult they lose all sense of values/ virtue/ ethics. Unless, of course, it's too hard living in a "spirtual no-man's land" to keep from turning into a horrible person (an elder used that phrase when he and my older sister came over to my apt. because it turned out my then husband and I were using drugs---it was decided that since I didn't tell anyone I was a practicing Witness I would not have to be disfellowshipped, which is so unheard of!!)
it's turning out that many apostates work a better Golden Rule than the multitudes of JWs
NO! Do any of you say "bless you" after someone sneezes?
I think the custom should be to say "bless you" only after a fart.
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perhaps i would.. struggeling with doubts of course, but going to the meetings and turning in 2 or 3 hours on my report every month like i used to.... what about you guys?
I left a while ago, but I would still defend the religion- saying crap like: "I'm not living like a JW. If I ever go back to religion, I would go back to them." I didn't want to "bring reproach" when I was going in and out of the dope house or totally drunk in some bar. So, no. BUT, I would not have know about them joining the UN. It was "bennyk" who helped me out. He is well versed in the scriptures- he's read the bible 13 times and the New Testament and additional 8 times. He knows a little Greek and studdies various commentaries. In the beginging of the year I have had at least nine 3hour calls w/ him about the scriptures- that kind of interest was never there before or after I got baptized. I'm trying to live better, but am not yet abiding by all of the scriptures. I've bneen clean almost 3 years and intend to stay that way, but not to keep from being disfellowshipped I dispise "the truth" but love God and his Son (who is the head of the congregation, NOT the Faithful and Discreet Slave).
how many of you brothers and sisters in the united states will be going to the cementaries to hand out literature at the gravesites this year?.
this was always my favorite form of witnessing unless of course 'street witnessing'!.
outaservice
!!! I've never heard of that. Lame. I always thought it was lame when they went out on X-Mas.
Geno--you rip! welcome.
are there any principles of the faith that you have kept... do you try to maintian a high moral standard?
did your views on abortion change?
would you go to war?
GBL- the values of which I speak are whatever you believe in. I'm curious what integrity ex-JWs hold. Do you "love thy neighbor"? You don't have to have have religion to have ethics. Just as we all know that having a religion does not mean you become a pinnicle of virtue.
and completely unrelated --where did this post show up? I am just trying to feel my way around the board, blindly. I have only made one other post and a few people found it but my brother had to got to the member directory to see it. I'm feeling a little inept...i would apreciate any information on how the magical forum works. thanks
are there any principles of the faith that you have kept... do you try to maintian a high moral standard?
did your views on abortion change?
would you go to war?
Are there any principles of the faith that you have kept... Do you try to maintian a high moral standard? Did your views on abortion change? Would you go to war? What is your core values?
if a jw has to turn in a time report each month then it seems like compulsion--when is it out of love that one goes out into service?
hold on tight, the Governing Body will soon take a big dump of new light and tell 6,000,000 people prayer time needs to be counted (this way sheparding calls can be made).
and everyone will thank God that they have the Body as a high priest to give them spiritual food poisoning
i enjoy reading the bible on my own since i left the jw's.
i get extremely irritated when other people talk to me about how satan is causing certain things in my life--example is if i'm not getting along with a coworker or anything like that.
(my husband also blames satan).
Hey, man, it's a great way to blame something other than yourself for a lack of conscience and integrity.
What I hate more is someone telling another that if they only had a strong relationship w/ Jehovah they would not be sick or depressed.
...and then there is the "everything happens for a reason" crap. I know a 6 year old girl who was raped at 15 months--what was the reason? Satan gives too much at the office.
