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Maryjane
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Am I weird, in that I actually want the world to end?
by free2beme insince leaving the witnesses, i have noticed that i enjoy movies about the world ending.
they might be movies about major disasters killing off the world (deep impact) or maybe movies about a world after civilization has fallen (the postman, waterworld).
i even like those movies that show society falling apart in alien invasions (war of the worlds, independence day).
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Maryjane
I don't think you're weird. The world is CRAZY. And if you think we have it hard with our 9-5 drudgery 5 days a week, the majority of the planet lives under far worse conditions. I wouldn't be mad if it ended.
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What are you REALLY like?
by jwfacts init is strange chatting on the net, not knowing what everyone is really like.
do you pretend to be someone you are not?
i find it hard to know how to take people here sometimes, as words do not convey as much without seeing the facial expressions and hearing the tonal inflections.
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Maryjane
http://www.myspace.com/maryjanewisdom - my bio in a nutshell
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The Life of an Atheist and Agnostic
by Golf in.
what do you base your hopes,dreams,aspirations and your eventuality on?
golf
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Maryjane
I was "new agey" before I became a JW and I am kinda "new agey" now that I've left. These days I live in the NOW. If I die and there is no consciousness after death I won't be disappointed anymore than I "missed" being alive before I was born.
I don't totally discount the notion of a 'god' but my perception of what 'god' is has changed (e.g. I've been reading all sorts of "out there" stuff like Zecharia Sitchin's "Earth Chronicles" ancient astronaut stuff, books on Quantum physics/psychology/consciousness, etc. etc.)
There are times too when I get into my "matrix" frame of mind and realize this could all be one really sh*tty dream my consciousness is having.
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Describe A Watctower Infiltrator In A Kingdom Hall
by minimus ini believe that a number of witnesses are leadind double lives.
they go to meetings.
they might even be elders and ministerial servants.
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Maryjane
- They arrive at the meetings just after the opening song & prayer
- There is at least one weekly meeting they miss (usually the book study)
- They're out the door as soon as the meeting is over (or sometimes before)
- You never see them in the literature room
- They go out in FS 1 hour a week (after the Sunday meeting) and allocate the rest of their FS time to "return visits" (maybe visiting a hot female neighbor a few times a week...I have a friend who really used to do that!)
- They read straight from their notes when they give their lackluster talks and exit the stage promptly
- Their breath sometimes reeks of Jack Daniels & stale cigarette smoke
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Living proof: Elders are not spirit appointed
by IP_SEC inwitnesses say that elders are appointed by holy spirit.
the bible is the product of hs and when the body prays and uses the bibles qualifications for older men in the context of the perspective candidate hs is involved in his approval or disapproval.
then when the co passes the recommendation on the gb (or who ever actually makes the decision) these spirit appointed men are influenced by hs.. all well and good, the only problem is, it does not work.
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Maryjane
Hey IP...this is the VERY thing that brought me out of the org! It wasn't til I started dating a naughty Ministerial Servant that I started to question the "spirit appointed" claim. After that I started questioning everything the GB said and it wasn't long before I was outtie!
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BIG NEWS!! MONTHS LEFT!!
by Pistoff inhi all just had to shout this from the rooftops!!!
my wife and son went to the ts/sm the other night where divine education was discussed; at the end, brother po said: .
"we don't know how many months are left in this system, so we need to spend them wisely.
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Maryjane
wOwee...does this mean the preaching work is going to stop soon?
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Did Jesus have dreadlocks?
by MsMcDucket inhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/milkshakesrtasti/dreadlocks.jpg .
did jesus (yah'shuah) have dreadlocks?
today, many who have dreadlocks as a casual hairstyle know very little about the origins of dreadlocks.
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Maryjane
You guys are right, but that means that all the pictures that we see of Jesus with "long hair" are wrong. The Nazarites by law were to have long hair and not drink wine. Why do they depict Jesus as having long hair?
Maybe long hair wasn't the sole possession of Nazar-ites/enes. Rastas wear dreadlocks today for spiritual reasons but it's not uncommon to find dreadlocked people with no connection at all to Rastafarianism (sp?)
Who knows how Jesus really wore his hair. Does it matter?
Also, with all the parallells between Jesus' story and that of Krisna, Horus, and other pre-christian deities who knows if he was even a historical personage at all!
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Did Jesus have dreadlocks?
by MsMcDucket inhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/milkshakesrtasti/dreadlocks.jpg .
did jesus (yah'shuah) have dreadlocks?
today, many who have dreadlocks as a casual hairstyle know very little about the origins of dreadlocks.
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Maryjane
They were instructed not to cut their hair...were they instructed not to comb it also? And what's the difference between a Nazarite and a Nazarene? Were all residents of Nazareth Nazarites (or Nazarenes?)
And most importantly, does it matter?
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which actor could play Russel, and which actor could play Rutherford?
by boy@crossroads ini was just curious.
if ever somone would make a film based on the conception of the jw religion.
which actors would be chosen?.
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Maryjane
Great post!
Let's see...for Russell, I'd cast Johnny Depp
For Rutherford I'd cast Kevin Costner
