Posts by truthsetsonefree

This is such a well written letter. Amazing how so many exits begin with an "interested" person calling 1914 into question. Your feelings on your JW friends mirror mine. I hope to see them again outside of the "organization".

Isaac Carmignani

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How Old are You ?

by flipper in

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i know- you aren't used to seeing me ask a simple question like this.

so- i'll start .

i am 49 years old, will be 50 in october .

truthsetsonefree

The one on my profile is real. 42, feel like 20.

Isaac

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Where's Terry?

by John Doe in

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who else misses his posts?.

truthsetsonefree

I miss him too.

Isaac

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What Are Your Favorite "Comfort Foods"?

by minimus in

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personally, i love chicken pot pie with a real pie crust---not the flaky puff topping..

truthsetsonefree

Valilla Swiss Almond ice cream by Haagen-Dazs. That pot pie isn't bad either.

Isaac

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Jehovah's "STRANGE" work

by cameo-d in

jehovah of armies.. blackwater has officially changed their name, claiming they now have a "new focus".. "the company is pushing ahead with plans to protect commercial ships, traveling through pirate-packed seas.".

(see any symbolic terms here?).

their name has been changed to xenon.. this name derives from the greek word [xenos] = strange.. .

truthsetsonefree

Yeah he's strange alright.

Isaac

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Has anyone seen this Watchtower article before?

by T.F. in

hi, my first post here.

i stumbled across something in the watchtower 1981 magazine (in my wbts library cd) showing the faithful and discreet slave is "a composite individual".

i have never seen this anywhere before, but the wbts set-up of the fds as "a composite individual" looks somewhat similar to the trinity of three divine persons in one true god.

truthsetsonefree

I had never considered that that explanation is somewhat similar to the "Trinity."
I think that it is an interesting viewpoint.

Indeed, very interesting. JW's have no problem with any explanation so long as they are the ones coming up with it.

Isaac

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Closet apostate on the writing committee?

by sir82 in

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i haven't seen any comments on this yet.... in the december 15, 2008 "study" version of the watchtower, in the last study article (the one to be covered march 1), paragraph 14 reads thusly in part:.

"...one january evening, the man asked his wife, jodi, what she knew of jehovah's witnesses.

she was a catholic, and she said that the only thing she linked to the witnesses to was "door-to-door preaching".

truthsetsonefree

I think the comments about them trying to be hip and the one that dubs will see this as a great provision are probably right. But it can backfire as curiousity may get the better of them.

Isaac

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Big news: Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes

by truthseeker in

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this is big news from the vatican.

they now accept charles darwin's theory of evolution.. it still doesn't explain why there are monkeys living today - surely they would have evolved by now into humans?

can anyone explain this?.

truthsetsonefree

Further just because SOME of a species evolve into something else, it does not follow that all will.

Isaac

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Whay did Gilead teach about CTR? ... my latest video

by Awakened at Gilead in

see here: please comment here or there... i welcome your feedback.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw0mgl0eew.

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truthsetsonefree

Excellent job A@G. The arrogance of the WT is absolutely disgusting. Their actions remind me of the following Scripture:

(Matthew

23:1-12)23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying: 2 "The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the seat of Moses. 3 Therefore all the things they tell YOU, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for they say but do not perform. 4 They bind up heavy loads and put them upon the shoulders of men, but they themselves are not willing to budge them with their finger. 5 All the works they do they do to be viewed by men; for they broaden the [scripture-containing] cases that they wear as safeguards, and enlarge the fringes [of their garments]. 6 They like the most prominent place at evening meals and the front seats in the synagogues, 7 and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called Rabbi by men. 8 But YOU, do not YOU be called Rabbi, for one is YOUR teacher, whereas all YOU are brothers. 9 Moreover, do not call anyone YOUR father on earth, for one is YOUR Father, the heavenly One. 10 Neither be called ‘leaders,’ for YOUR Leader is one, the Christ. 11 But the greatest one among YOU must be YOUR minister. 12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Isaac Carmignani