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  BOE Letter: Re: Safety precautions when attending spiritual programs

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know atlatis will bring this letter to the forum.

  i just wanted to paste it here and bold the most hilarious, weird thing fro the letter.

  the bold part that i added made me lol.. .

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  You know why women wear high heels? To make them easier to catch!
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  Armageddon Is Right Around the Corner!

  by Cold Steel in

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  2. beliefs

  if one were to poll present day jehovah's witnesses, what kind of a timeframe do you think they have for armageddon?.

  do they still discourage higher education despite the fact they've been wrong so many times?.

  one more thing about armageddon...how do they think it's going to start?

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  A JW told me that it wouldn't be tomorrow or next week, most likely. But that I would see it within my lifetime. That, he assured me of!
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  Joined the YMCA! Start tomorrow on getting fit.

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i joined the ymca.

  of course, i joined it for the gym.

  seriously, the best deal in town for a whole family membership that the gym actually allows tweens and teens to exercise in classes and on machines.

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  The Village People! I am old enough to remember when the song came out, and first seeing them on Casey Casem's Top 10, I believe. What a hoot. Always wanted to be the Indian.

  
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  my first post and some questions

  by wallievase in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is my first post after deciding to finally open an account here after months of 'lurking'.. a couple of issues i want to address-.

  i have issues with people who go from being a witness to losing all faith in god or the bible which seems to be the case with some members of this site.

  i just don't think you can let any religion change how you view god or the bible.. second-i don't feel the gb are bad people, i think most witnesses including them are misguided by something that has been drilled into their heads since they were little and are actually sincere people.

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  The Governing Body is the top of the Organization. They are responsible for setting the policies that shaped the religion. Pedophile, blood, changing core doctrines, outright perpetual misquotes in their literature, spouse abuse . . . . . How much is the Governing Body responsible for allowing these issues to fester? I think alot. All the Governing Body has to do is to set clear rules (see smoking), and they could completely kick out the pedophiles. But, instead, their policies protect and even promote known pedophiles to elder positions. Blood, now they allow all parts of blood. Blood is not sacred to the Governing Body. Yet, they are allowing JWs to die for the mistaken beleif that the Jehovah's Witnesses "abstain" from blood. I could go on & on.

  As for the God issue, I came out and went to a normal "mega" CHristian church. I really liked the message and the interpretation of the Bible. It was a deep interpretation of a scripture, applied to everyday life. I went to North Point Christian Church in Atlanta (you can listen on-line). When I realized that others had a different interpretation of the Bible, I had an "ah-ha" moment about my understanding of all other religions. I realized I didn't know squat, only what my momma and daddy and Governing Body had told me about them. So, I got some books. I started with Buddhism, Hindu, and some dealving into Islam & Judiasm "kosher" laws. Personally, I found Buddhism to be my favorite. It is very similar to the New Testament.

  When I told my JW family that i was closest to Buddhism, they quickly judged, "But, they believe in reincarnation." Well, I retorted, "So do you. What is the resurrection?"

  It was about this time that I started to research the history of the Bible itself. When it was written, how it was written, by whom it was written, were the books really written by teh purported authors, the books that were left out of the modern Bible, etc. Then, I looked at religious beliefs before the concenpt of the God of Abraham, and saw how these earlier gods melded into the God of Abraham. And, that is how I turned "against" the idea of the God of Abraham as any more plausable then Zeus. I am not saying that the Bible is worthless. No. It has good qualities to it. Just, I take it alot less literally then you are used to.

  What I am not saying is that I am the absolute authority. I am undertaking a spiritual journey. How I feel and think today, may be different then how I think tomorrow. Here is where I am at today

  Through These Godless Eyes.

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  Anyhow, I hope i didn't blow your mind. You asked, so I gave an honest answer from my viewpoint.
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  Joined the YMCA! Start tomorrow on getting fit.

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i joined the ymca.

  of course, i joined it for the gym.

  seriously, the best deal in town for a whole family membership that the gym actually allows tweens and teens to exercise in classes and on machines.

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  Thanks for the encouragement.

  Yes, we do parks, hiking, and biking....the YMCA is to supplement these activities. The reason is that it's going to be getting darker earlier soon, cutting off the time to do stuff after school. With tweenagers, they don't want to go to the park with the parents. They've been to that stinking park since they were kiddies, and it's "boring" to them now. Riding bikes, perhaps, over to the friends house to play games (and God knows whatever else). The YMCA has a twice weekly workout program for the tween, 1 hour. Their school has PE, but at only 1/2 of the year, and then only every other day. So, school is lacking. They refuse martial arts, hockey, skating, dance, cheer, flag football, soccer, and every other thing I can think of. These are all "outdoors" or "too cold" or "too hard"; so I am making them do this. If they don't do this, then I'll take them to the Kingdumb Hall where they can learn to appreciate true boredumb.
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  Joined the YMCA! Start tomorrow on getting fit.

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i joined the ymca.

  of course, i joined it for the gym.

  seriously, the best deal in town for a whole family membership that the gym actually allows tweens and teens to exercise in classes and on machines.

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  skeeter1

  I joined the YMCA. Of course, I joined it for the gym. Seriously, the best deal in town for a whole family membership that the gym actually allows tweens and teens to exercise in classes and on machines. $50 registration, and then $50 a month for the whole family, and it includes childcare for the wee-litte ones. Excited about doing the "TRX" class with my spouse on Saturday morning.

  I'll let you know if I find the devil inside the YMCA, ok?

  Skeeter
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  BOE Letter: Re: Safety precautions when attending spiritual programs

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know atlatis will bring this letter to the forum.

  i just wanted to paste it here and bold the most hilarious, weird thing fro the letter.

  the bold part that i added made me lol.. .

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  Last summer, wasn't there an incident of an elderly person who fell at the convention? The group the person was in wanted to leave a little early, before the crowds. Tripped, and if I remember, later died from the fall?
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  Scary Stuff

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today's high school students in the usa:.

  less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

  she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

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  Yeah, yeah, but ask them about Minecraft.
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  my latest UK car registration plates

  by bigmac in

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  I hope your ride only has 2 doors.

  Skeeter
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  Mom & Dad (Uber Dubs) and convo about child abuse within the BORG

  by El_Guapo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so i tt mom and dad via skype last weekend (they live on the other part of the county) and the topic of abuse came up.

  of course they went ahead and blasted catholics for their coverups.

  i mentioned gonzalo campos, now mom and dad know this guy he went to their hall for several years in san diego.

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  skeeter1

  If I tell anyone associated with the JWs, the real truth about the JWs . . . i get the same response. It starts with "imperfet men."

  I thought about it. I think that the JWs get mad becuase they think I am insulting them personally, if I discuss any JW flaw. They hear me as saying, "The WTS is a a stupid religion" and then associate me as saying, "So, Skeeter thinks I"M stupid for following the stupid religion." Since the Truth can't be stupid, the follower retorts with the "imperfect men" counterargument.

  So, for now, I am not talking about religion at all with anyone associated with the JWs.