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  Kind of looking for a quick update

  by free2beme in

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  i have been out of the religion since 1996. i used to come to former witness boards a lot in the distant past, and then i lost interest in the subject.

  however, with a couple relatives still in and passing the 1914 one hundred year mark, i find myself looking to see what a modern jehovah's witness is believing.

  could i get kind of an update on some things.

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  2015 Predictions

  by free2beme in

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  well, i got none right in 2014. dang it!

  maybe i need to be a little more realistic and not predict so much with people dying, ufo sightings and so on.

  but got to have fun.

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  Working on Thanksgiving

  by free2beme in

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  every year now, we all get story after story of the cruel practive of taking people away to work on thanksgiving.

  while i was not raised to celebrate the holiday, and even after taking it on, i still see it as a dinner and at best a few friends and family members eating together.

  yet for most americans, it is not really that big of a deal to work on thanksgiving.

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  Heaven, where you are?

  by free2beme in

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  so in the last couple of months we lost robin williams and joan rivers and i have heard something a lot.

  i bet they are loving the comedy shows in heaven, or they are now performing with no pain and so on.

  so is this the image christians have of heaven, that what you are on earth is what you will be doing in heaven?

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  Drug addicts and Christianity

  by free2beme in

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  i will make this clear, i am not a christian (but i am a former jw).

  i have noticed a trend among christians and something i wanted to discuss.

  it is that those with the strongest faith, the deepest emotional connection to hope and swallow the stories of the bible the deepest.

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  Conventions

  by free2beme in

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  as the conventions are in full swing, and my relatives who are still in make a point to tell me what their vacation will include.

  i am reminded of a couple of things about conventions i do not normally think about.. one, the people who would protest the conventions.

  some with bags on their head, others just holding signs.

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  The Generation of 2014

  by free2beme in

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  "surely i tell you today, the generation at saw the events of 2014 will surely not pass away before the end comes.".

  damn it!

  someone hit the reset button, i feel we have all been here befor a hundred years ago.

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  Predictions 2014

  by free2beme in

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  i always like to toss a few predictions out there for the coming year.

  i did it last year too and every year since 2005.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/244467/1/2014-predictions.

  normally it pisses off a couple posters, which creates a single tear down one cheek, but over all i am sometimes shocked that some are not completely inaccurate.

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  Two prespectives on the year

  by free2beme in

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  having family still active jehovah's witnesses, i know they see things in my life a lot different than i do.

  as an idea, give a perspective of how you think people see you and how you see them, as the year closes.

  i will go first..... witness relative.

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  Personal rules I live by when talking to Christians

  by free2beme in

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  as a former witnesses, i have spoken to tons and tons of christians since my exit.

  some want to convert me to their faith, heal me of what they see as false information in my youth and so on.

  when ever i speak to them, not being a christian now, i have certain things that guide me.

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