29 for me. I was on a cruise. I was sitting in a lounge by a huge glass window holding a martini. I was just watching the water go by and letting my mind drift. All of a sudden, the world seemed so much bigger and more complicated than I had ever been told. I shook my head and laughed inside at the notion of one tiny group of people thinking they have it all figured out.
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Magic moment
by Phil infor all the persons that have been lured into the jw organization i was wondering if there is a magic age level or maximum exposure time where such a person comes to the realization that what he /she has been filled with information and doctrine that only hurts families and is the major cause of their breakup with their families.
i have seen some people that have come to the realizationaround the age of 40. would this be the age of realization?
is it something else?
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The wonderful answer: WOJ
by mustang inyep, waiting on jehovah.
this statement has really good potential as a "catch-all" phrase.
it is a useful palliative and "anti-inflammatory"; it's general but agreeable vagueness is magnificent.
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Thank you for that golden nugget. That just became my fail-safe reply to nosy jws.
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WHO R ANOINTED TODAY?
by PMJ ini personaly belivive the people who r anointed on earth today would be lovers of god and they would be united in thought of the only true god jehovah and his son jesus christ
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pmj, I suggest you read and reread AuldSoul's post. It contains more wisdom than you have probably gotten your entire stint as a witness.
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About Tattoos...
by Mastodon insomebody was asking me about tattoos and what the biblical rules about them are.
i also remember that a magazine (an awake!?
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I think tattoos are sort of like the beard thing for witnesses, except even worse.
I've been thinking about getting a tattoo of the cross and crown symbol that Russell used at the beginning. Sarcastic, yes?
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has your language changed since you left?
by fullofdoubtnow ini know mine has.
i went back to my flat earlier this afternoon to pick some things up, i am moving out of there slowly, and was carrying a heavy box out to my car when i stumbled and dropped it on my foot.
it wasn't too painful, thankfully, but i came out with a stream of expletives, most of them beginning with f. when i was a jw, even thinking those words would have filled me with shame.
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Dr. Phil?
It's also nothing to be ashamed of in certain company, imo. I wouldn't curse around children or women, but I'm old fashioned. When I'm with a group of men, I don't see anything wrong with it, and I never did.
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2 Samuel chapter 24 - Don't mess with God!
by nicolaou ingod tells david, "don't count my people".
david counts the people.. god tells david, "'cos you were naughty you gotta pick your punishment, will it be 'a' 7 years of famine, 'b' 3 months of national humiliation or 'c' 3 days of pestilence?
choose davey boy!".
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Do all those seeking truth arrive at the same conclusions as you, Raphael? That is truly jw style arrogance if I've ever seen it.
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WHO R ANOINTED TODAY?
by PMJ ini personaly belivive the people who r anointed on earth today would be lovers of god and they would be united in thought of the only true god jehovah and his son jesus christ
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atypical
I guarantee you Kirk Cameron gets more "witnessing" done through his corny tv show on the religious channel than the watchtower does. If someone shows you proof in numbers that another group is doing more "witnessing", would you switch your loyalty to that group?
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WHO R ANOINTED TODAY?
by PMJ ini personaly belivive the people who r anointed on earth today would be lovers of god and they would be united in thought of the only true god jehovah and his son jesus christ
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I'm just harping on this point because it's a question I was asking even when I was still active, and nobody could give me a reasonable answer. The society teaches that the FDS is the worldwide annointed class. They teach that the FDS uses the governing body to direct the organization. But what would happen if a so-called "annointed" person tried to teach something contrary in any way to what the governing body says? What if an "annointed" person printed up their own spiritual material and passed it around the congregation? They'd be escorted out before you could blink. But doesn't the FDS provide spiritual "food at the proper time"?
It seems to me that the society contradicts their own teaching outright, because obviously no "annointed" person has any authority whatsoever in the organization unless they have a title that the society gives them.
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WHO R ANOINTED TODAY?
by PMJ ini personaly belivive the people who r anointed on earth today would be lovers of god and they would be united in thought of the only true god jehovah and his son jesus christ
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Doesn't that work both ways? What if the governing body goes against their annointed brothers? The unity is still gone. Do you think the governing body is higher than the rest of the Faithful and Discreet Slave?
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WHO R ANOINTED TODAY?
by PMJ ini personaly belivive the people who r anointed on earth today would be lovers of god and they would be united in thought of the only true god jehovah and his son jesus christ
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Focus, PMJ, focus. Just answer the question: Can a person be truly annointed and disagree with the watchtower society?