Posts by kid-A

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JW told me today that I was bashing his religion

by moshe in

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i used skype to chat with a jw online today.

he told me that he wouldn't look at the www.silentlambs.org website, because i didn't have the right motive.-ha!

i was just bashing his religion, he said.

kid-A

" Now why am I still here? I will leave when the Holy Spirit gives me leave. As a faithful lover of God and one he has given a warriors spirit too , I am often called to places I'd never go if given the choice. Its confirmed I was called here."

Good-bye, Peach.

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The Difference between being a Convert and being raised a Witness

by The wanderer in

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the difference between being a convert and being raised a witness having come from a single parent family, i realized the need.

for some sort of structured and organized way of life.

roman.

kid-A

Being raised a JW from birth makes you a member of a very special minority. Its impossible to describe, with a few paragraphs, the sheer misery that comes from being raised with the Watchtower corporation as your "real" parents. Perhaps a few highlights:

1) From the moment you begin school, you live in constant humiliation. You are forced to be the class 'freak' by having to physically leave the room while the national anthem is played. You are forced to leave the room during any normal holiday activities related to the "evil, pagan holidays". Your friends, if you have any, either pity you or mock you behind your back. This continues from Kindergarten until the end of high school, by which time the psychological damage is so ingrained and intrinsic, it is difficult to form normal relationships with anyone outside the cult, which is, of course, the entire purpose of this lifelong humiliation: make the JW kid hate being in school so much, they are desperate to leave and naturally, avoid university.

2) You live in constant envy of your "worldly" friends as they enjoy holidays, trick-or-treating, parties, school dances, the Prom, all the normal events that make adolescence tolerable.

3) From the moment you take your first breath, you suckle at the tit of the Watchtower propaganda machine. The endless boredom and psychological torture having to endure hour after hour of mind-numbing Watchtower studies and "talks" at the Kingdumb hall or even worse....the dreaded ASSemblies which cut into your few precious weeks of summer holidays.

4) Also from the moment of birth, you learn to fear the wrath of the big Watchtower (tm) bogey-man in the sky, Lord Jehoobie, watching every move you make, monitoring every thought you have, ready to strike you dead on a whim for questioning the wisdom of the senile old fart-knockers in Brooklyn.....

Hmmm, 4 little points, that barely have even scratched the surface in terms of describing the experience of being raised a dub.....

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DID ANYONE ELSE GET PASSED OVER W/THE KN TRACT?

by juni in

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i live in a small, rural town pop.

2000. my daughter and i did not get any visit or tract.. i thought this was supposed to be a final warning - a life saving work.. not complaining, but just curious if you didn't get one.. juni .

kid-A

Nope. Nada, zilch. To boot, there is an active JW family that lives 2 blocks from me that host a thursday night bookstudy!

However, I did receive an excellent menu from the new Chinese restaurant down the street and a 2-4-1 coupon from my local Pizza place! Yummmm!

I guess fast food delivery really IS more important than the imminent end of "false religion" !! LOL.....

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Why all the Athiest/Christian bashing?

by AK - Jeff in

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i know i am different than many, and though i accept christianity, i just don't understand the constant debate and haggle over the matter.

not a week goes by without one side starting a fight with the other, then the other retorts with it's position.

lots of wordsmiths appear and try to reason above the other persons head, and make naked accusations about an entire class of persons unknown.

kid-A

Why do fights arise between these camps? Usually due to self-serving, self-righteous comments like this from god-fanatics:

And what the Heck? Even if you never can find him and you spent a fraction of your 70-or-so pitiful years, searching in vain, for hope on this Godless rock….. what difference does it make???? Get busy living or get busy dying… but please, don’t pull anyone else down into your hopelessness with you!

When the fight is just....I will take up my 'rhetorical' sword and do mighty battle with my foes....LOL........

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--- A Question for ALL Atheistic ex-Dubs----

by gordon d in

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which child is wiser?

while starting a hunt for easter eggs one child runs to a big tree and finds nothing then that childs brother says, go look under that rock i promise youll find one there!

the child throws down their basket and says, i give up!

kid-A

"Look around you, All of creation screams it…. Your very eyes and ears take it in. Are you going to let these liars continue to fool you? Or is the reason for not believing in God that he cannot exist because his actions are not reasonable or loving to your personal standard of amazing wisdom and advanced intellect?"

Um, no. Looking around me proves the NON-EXISTENCE of your fantasy-god, Gordon. What you have presented here, in PERFECT JW fashion, I might add, is a contrived and pitiful attempt to elicit some irrational, emotional reaction. You have no proof of any god, none whatsoever. You have as much proof for god's existence as I have proof for purple Unicorns, Leprechauns, Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy. Like your god, they are merely literary creations.

You are more than welcome to exist in a self-constructed bubble of illusion. Its your right in a free society. Its also MY right to reject your beliefs, lock stock and barrel.

And for the record, my experience being born into the Watchtower cult had very little to do with my evolution towards atheism. Once I began to THINK and develope critical reasoning skills, I quickly realized the absurdity of such a belief structure, and found peace of mind, intellectual and psychological freedom.

Gods are social constructions, Gordon. If you doubt this, perhaps we should pay a visit to the historical cemetery of the gods and walk past the headstones of:

Zeus, Thor, Ra, Neptune, Be-elzebub, Baal, Artemis, Samhain, etc etc etc......all once loved and worshipped, now long since dead.

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Who else finds the internet slow

by JH in

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since a few months, it's on and off, but i find that the internet is very slow sometimes, like now.. i click on a site, and nothing happens, then i click on anoter site, and it's the same, then i come here and it's slow but i get it.. sometimes i think that the internet is under attack !!!.

so this leads to this question.. if you couldn't access this site anymore or if you had no more internet service, would this bother you a lot?.

kid-A

The issue is your computer processor or connection, not the internet itself......switch to a pentium dual-core processor with DSL, all will be fine.

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Where do JW's take their breaks today?

by moshe in

i was at a buffet restaurant on saturday for lunch and noticed a boy around 10 years old at the ice cream sundae bar- he had a suit on- .

i was curious as to where jw's take their breaks today and what times they stop for one.

i am on paid leave from work and would like to look for more opportunities to talk to them..

kid-A

Right here! LOL.....

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tell me about the forum?

by wvpeach in

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i do not belong to any denomination of men.. i am a true fan of god and his son jesus christ though.. i found this forum looking for some christian freinds to talk with.. so far in looking around the forum , most of what i've seen is bashing of jehovah's wittness's.. i am never one to go for slandering my fellow brothers and sisters in christ.. so if thats what this forum is all about i better just leave now.. responses appreciated so i know..