Darth Yhwh

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  1st post from a former S.O!

  by onesong in

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  i'm 36 yrs.

  old and was a jw for 35.i did everything from pioneer to bethel to ms to elder, school overseer ect.

  , ect.

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  Darth Yhwh

  Hi and welcome.
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  Zecharia Sitchin

  by IP_SEC in

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  ever hear of him?

  do you think he's a nutbar?

  pure fiction?

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  Darth Yhwh

  I read two of his books (cant remember which ones). Threw them out when I moved and needed to lighten my load. Dont remember much about them really, other than that they were somewhat entertaining at that time of my life.
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  While preaching, did you realize that you were also screwing up their lives

  by JH in

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  when you were going door to door, although you had the pure intention of teaching people what you taught was god's will, did you realize back then, that if they listened to you and accepted a bible study that you were also screwing up their lives and that they would suffer greatly by this?.

  it was always in back of my mind.....

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  Darth Yhwh

  To be perfectly honest, I didn't give a rat's as$ about they're lives. I just wanted to do the time so I could get on with my life and persue the things that were personally enjoyable.
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  Evolution or creation.....

  by searching4? in

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  i know what i was taught from the witnesses in the book evolution or creation,but is this an accurate portrayal of what evolutionists believe?

  is it really that black or white?

  evolution, meaning that god didn't have a plan, things just happened, or creation,god created adam, the first man?

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  Darth Yhwh

  Ten thousand years ago, there were no dairy cows or ferret hounds or large ears of corn. When we domesticated the ancestors of these plants and animals-sometimes creatures who looked quite different-we controlled their breeding. We made sure that certain varieties, having properties we consider desirable, preferentially reproduced. When we wanted a dog to help us car for sheep, we selected breeds that were intelligent, obedient and had some pre-existing talent to herd, which is useful for animals who hunt in packs. The enormous distended udders of the dairy cattle are the result of a human interest in milk and cheese. Our corn, or maize, has been bred for ten thousand generations to be more tasty and nutritious than its scrawny ancestors; indeed, it is so changed that it cannot even reproduce without human intervention.

  The essence of artificial selection-for a Heike crab, a dot, a cow or an ear of corn-is this: Many physical and behavioral traits of plants and animals are inherited. They breed true. Humans, for whatever reason, encourage the reproduction of some varieties and discourage the reproduction of others. The variety selected for preferentially reproduces; it eventually becomes abundant; the variety selected against becomes rare and perhaps extinct.

  But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection. That life has changed fundamentally over the aeons is entirely clear from the alteration we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence. The fossil record speaks to us unambiguously of creatures that once were present in enormous numbers and that have now vanished utterly. Far more species have become extinct in the history of the Earth than exist today; they are the terminated experiments of evolution.

  The genetic changes induced by domestication have occurred very rapidly. The rabbit was not domesticated until early medieval times (it was bred by French monks in the belief that new born bunnies were fish and therefore exempt from the prohibitions against eating meat on certain days in the Church calendar); coffee in the fifteenth century; sugar beet in the nineteenth century; and the mink is still in the earliest stages of domestication. In less than ten thousand years, domestication has increased the weight of wool grown by sheep from less than one kilogram of rough hairs to ten or twenty kilograms of uniform, fine down; or the volume of milk given by cattle during the lactation period from a few hundred to a million cubic centimeters. If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of the biological world. Evolution is a fact, not a theory. - Cosmos by Carl Sagan

  This excerpt from Cosmos had a profound impact on me when I first read it years ago.
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  Email I received off mum

  by Es in

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  hey all, i usually pop into my folks once a week so that my son can see his grandparents.

  anyway last week my dad asked if i wanted to go to a country show\fete with them on sat , so anyway a couple of days later i emailed my mum to see whether my fiance (non jw) could come too.. this is the email i received today.

  as you are going to be busy over the next few weeks, we dont want to put added pressure on you, dont feel you have to come to the show.plus we have already explained the situation regarding mike we dont have anything against him personally, but the situation is difficult for us regards associating with him as your fiance because it would be viewed as our supporting your decision to marry out of the truth.

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  Darth Yhwh

  Well, Es, Im not suprised to read this as it seems to be a pretty typical JW type of thing but I realize that it hurts non the less. Hope you can channel your frustration productively.
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  Embarrased that you were a JW?

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. beliefs

  i have finally started to read captive hearts, captive minds.. they say something that got me to thinking.. i used to feel embarassed to tell non-jws that i was a jw.

  it was one thing to tell people at the doors.

  it was totally another thing to tell other people.

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  Darth Yhwh

  I never liked to tell any one. I hated going out in "field service" in my home town territory for fear that I would encounter someone that I knew. I was afraid that if any one found out that they would tease me or make fun of me. Occasionally someone would find out and that was usually exactly what they did.
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  "The friends" came over today.............

  by gringojj in

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  i am so sick of witnesses reserving catchphrases for themselves.. talking to my wifes mother today she kept referring to "the friends".

  "the friends came over today, we went to lunch with the friends".

  well if they are "the friends", then what the hell are everyone else?

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  Darth Yhwh

  I am going to start refering to all my friends as "brother and sister".

  LOL! I like that. Perhaps I'll start doing this as well when my JW mother is present. Too funny!
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  Make it your own

  by gringojj in

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  make the truth your own.

  any thoughts?

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  Darth Yhwh

  Wasn't that a KM song?
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  Super Powers

  by defd in

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  if you were granted by god to have one super power, what would it be and why?

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  Darth Yhwh

  Give me telekinesis and a lightsaber and I'm good.
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  My so-called life

  by riko in

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  2. experiences

  hello everyone..i just wanted to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my experiences.. i'm 23, have been raised in the truth all my life.

  when i was 18, i made a foolish decision to get married, something i knew deep down i wasn't ready for, still being very much in the 'bloom of youth'.

  i reluctantly saw my future as being one of jehovahs witnesses and with all my adolescent drives, i moved away from home to marry a man with about the same maturity as me.

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  Darth Yhwh

  riko, your story reminds me of my sister. Welcom to this forum. You'll find plenty of support here.