Posts by onesong

After making it clear to everyone that I no longer wanted anything to do with the Borg (I haven't been to a meeting in 9 months) . I moved across town and told no one , not even my family. Within 3 weeks I saw a van slowly driving by with elders in it scoping out my car. Three days later they came a'knockin.

I wish these poor brothers could step outside of themselves and see what this religion turns them into.

I invited them in and calmly explained that I simply no longer believed what they believed any more.(This is all after I had the CO and DO visit my old place twice and I didn't bother answering.)

By the way there is a great new book out by Harold Bloom called "Jesus and Yahweh". I heard him give a lecture on it recently at Harvard. It was excellent. He concluded by saying that he thought the world would be a better place if we took the maniacle god Yahweh, buried him and never heard from him again!

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anyone ever wonder whether IT could be the TRUTH?

by Cordelia in

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i cant believe im posting this either!.

but ive got a huge decision to make wont go thru it all again its on my last thread, and i have decided that i am stopping going to the meetings completly (ive been dfed 7 months and because i didnt want to hurt my family even more i continued going to all the meetings and hid my boyfriend, wno was wonderful about it, put a letter of reinstatement in which they refused but relised by the way i paniked when i thought they might reinstate me that it is not what i want!).

i love my bf and want to be with him without any secrecy but i also want my family to accept him and still speak to me but i know that will not happen, so i have two choices either get reinstated and then leave (and risk losing mybf) or tell them now i dont want it and stop the meetings altogether before i go insane.. thing is to be free of the meetings and be with my bf, i will lose my family they are all so strong in the 'truth' they will not have any contact with me and my husband is divorcing me so ill lose finacially and my house and have to share time with my daughter, not to mention all my old friends who are wanting me back, and if i stop now all those months of trying to be reinstated will be wasted id be set right back,.

onesong

What keeps people undecided and clinging is fear. Fear for your eternal salvation. Remember Jesus said whoever seeks to save his soul will lose it. It's because you fall victim to men's teachings to save yourself. Let go, have total trust in your Creator and don't worry about being wrong. He's not killing anybody!

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Another dream...

by toby888 in

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i have been having what i think are some rather theraputic dreams, had one again last night... mind you i have never been interested in dream anaysis or believed that dreams are anything more than mental garbage but since my mental trauma a few months ago when i discovered my belief system was false, well, have been occasionally having dreams i can remember.

i suppose some of you may recall my last post about another dream i had... but here is my new one.. i am in an open grassy field when snow, wind and lighting begins, very fiercly.

the wind becomes so strong i feel i must anchor myself somehow.

onesong

Toby- THAT is cool. I wish I had dreams like that.

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Ideas for bumper stickers/signs...what can you come up with?

by AuldSoul in

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from kid-a's post on another thread: millions once living are now dead!.

607 bc?.

watchtower bedded the beast (1991-2001).

onesong

RELIGION IS A SNARE AND A RACKET!

courtesy WBTS

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A brief History of Me...

by Truth.Seeker in

i was studying with jehovah's witnesses during my college years.

i found that they somehow was able to make me understand many of the meanings from the bible that i had never understood before.

i had a clearer sight of what it was to walk as a christian.

onesong

Welcome Truthseeker, I can relate well to how you're feeling. It wasn't long ago I was there myself. The fact is there is a place God's word hasn't been tarnished. It's all to close and it's called your heart! The very thing they teach you not to trust. You're intellect can be fooled but not your heart.

Simply ask yourself how something makes you feel. For me if it's true or from God :

God, True : you feel joyous, happy, strong, peaceful, free, alive

vs.

Man,false: you feel sad, guilty, weak, anxious, fearful, bound, dying

Or just make comparative statements and reason on which rings "true"

Example: God is not partial, loves all his children equally

or

God is partial, has favorites, loves some more than others

Another: God's love is unlimited and unconditional

or

God's love is limited and conditional

For me finding "truth" is easier than ever. Trust yourself! No one else.

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Penton & the drama this year

by carla in

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in the book apocalypse delayed by james penton he describes a 'drama' on pg 101-. the greatest emphasis was again placed on the preaching work, and jesus was described as a pioneer.in an assembly drama or 'morality play' on the apostle paul's companion timothy, young persons fresh from high school were strongly discouraged from attending academies of higher learning, and an always laten watch tower animosity towrads university education bacame more evident.. this sounds just like the drama from this summer.

i was under the impression that some jw's thought this was a new drama.

do they just recycle this stuff all the time?

onesong

It bothered me viewing a drama that depicted Jehovah performing an execution (ex. punishing Korah) and having 6000 people gleefully applauding. We wouldn't want to view violence like this in the privacy of our homes but at the Assembly anything goes!

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