Posts by City Fan

The game has been good so far. The wife has let me stay up to watch it, and it seems like it could go either way. But what was all that half-time entertainment all about - Janet Jackson singing some of her 80's stuff - then Puff P Daddy Diddy Twiddle Tweedle being a prat, then Nelly doing a bit, then Kid Rock doing god knows what... At least it ended with Justin Trousersnake singing something I knew!!!

Anyway, Come on Patriots!

CF.

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Who has despised the day of small things?

by Know_You in

as the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.

many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.

others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.

City Fan

the day of the FA cup

Blue moon... You saw me standing alone.... Without a dream in my heart.... Without a love of my own...

Can you tell I've just got back from the pub?

CF.

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Who has despised the day of small things?

by Know_You in

as the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.

many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.

others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.

City Fan

Big Tex,

Tell us something we don't know....

CF.

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Who has despised the day of small things?

by Know_You in

as the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.

many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.

others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.

City Fan

Hi there Know-You

apostate dogs

All I can say is WOOF WOOF...

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When Did Things "Click" With You About The "Truth"?

by minimus in

jw
friends

my wife asked me that question yesterday and i really didn't know how to answer that.

for quite a while i knew this religion was getting more bogus by the minute but i'm not sure what defined "it" for me.

do you remember what got you to know that this was simply not the "truth"?

City Fan

During my mid to late teens I would often pass the time during boring service meetings and even more boring Watchtower studies by reading through sections of the bible. What I read there convinced me that the god Yahweh of the old testament didn't exist and if he did he could carry on without me. All I saw was injustice and unfairness caused by his own almighty meddling.

I saw the bible as a book of myth and legend and I found myself disagreeing with the Watchtower society's literal interpretation of it. I also began to hate the double life and hypocrisy of most of the youths I mixed with in the 'troof'.

I believe now that true spirituality cannot come from fear.

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the seven times of Daniel chapter 4

by dustyb in

in the model nebuchadnezzar was the definite direct object in the account.

that definite object took the simple action of being cut down from the subject, god.

thus the larger or antitypical fulfillment describes how god cut down satan's rule over the earth until seven times passed over him.

City Fan

I'd like to add that the story was originally about Nabonidus who spent a number of years away from Babylon in Teima.

The Qumran Dead Sea Scroll text 4QPrNab (The Prayer of Nabonidus) talks of Nabonidus being stricken with an evil desease for 7 years by god, while he prayed to idols. His sins are forgiven, and a Jewish diviner tells him to give honor to the name of God. Another Qumran fragment refers to a disturbing dream of the king.