Posts by reneeisorym

tell holocaust memorial museums all over the world they should stop hiding the truth about the watchtower societys decades-long anti-semitic/pro-hitler stance.

while individual jehovahs witnesses were suffering at the hands of the nazis, its mother organization was outspokenly supporting hitler and demeaning jews.

reneeisorym

I can't. I use Foxfire. I tried IE and I get an error message.

I use firefox too. But when I get on this site, I have to use IE and it gets annoying. How can I make paragraphs with firefox?

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If you could repeat your life.

by DJK in

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sorry for the edit.

this may have been a topic before.. i got the idea for this from crumpets thread "if i could make your dreams come true what would they be?".

i have been asked many times "if i could go back in my life and change it, what would i do?

I would go back to age 12 and not get baptized. I am glad I didn't find out until I did how the JWs were a lie or I couldn't have made it through childhood. I just wish I would have told them that I wanted to wait until I was more mature is all.

And I wish I would have never told my fiance to try World of Warcraft.

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Symbolism in Revelation Points to the Watchtower - Leolaia HELP

by jgnat in

we're studying rev.

grand climax, chapter 14 (revelation 4:5).

amazingly, tongue-in-cheek, much of the symbolism points to the watchtower.

reneeisorym

The Will Smith had me giggling at work ...

Anyway:

John wrote Revelation at a time when Christians were being persecuted by Romans, so the book was very anti-Roman, and John possibly wrote it then as a book predicting the downfall of Rome (Babylon the Great) but wrote it in 'symbols' and 'visions' so that any Romans reading it wouldn't understand, but using language a Christian at the time would understand. In that case, I doubt the writer intended it to receive interpretation 2000 years later. I don't know if it's right, but it makes sense to me.

If you ever read some stuff from a theologist who is a preterist, they say that the events in Revelation fortold the distruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. I read a comparison between what Josephus said in Wars compared to the book of Revelation. It made me believe that the events in Revelation have already been fulfilled except maybe the last part about the resurrection and the new heavens/new earth. Its scarey about how many of the details of that war sound exactly like what Revelation says. Another good point is that Revelation refers to those things taking place in a short time from then. And in one place it says not to seal up the scroll because the things would shortly happen. But in Daniel the prophecies are to take place way off in the future and God said to seal up the book until the time.

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MANY PBS STATIONS WON'T SHOW KNOCKING !

by DannyHaszard in

some pbs stations won't show knocking .

even though knocking is scheduled for a national pbs broadcast on may .

2007, as many as one-quarter of local pbs stations will not show .

reneeisorym

Its on our schedule and I even wrote them to ask that it not be.

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Interesting What the Gay ex-JWs think of "Knocking"

by ApostasyDuJour in

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worth a read: http://www.gayxjw.org/knock.html

reneeisorym

Thanks for sharing. That was worth reading.

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It sucks to be hurt on purpose ...

by reneeisorym in

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i sent out wedding invitations last week.

apparently they caused my parents to get a divorce.

i got an e-mail from my mother saying that she left my dad, is filing for divorce, and that dad thinks she left because she wants to go to my wedding and he won't let her.

reneeisorym

((((Annie))))

Thanks for caring -- I needed someone to tell me that its ok to feel like I do. People who don't understand are quick to tell me that I should keep helping them... I am tired of it all!!!!!!

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Weird things relating to females at the KH

by Tatiana in

with all the news concerning the child abuse lawsuits, and from reading many comments concerning the wts' view of women, i started remembering lots of little things that were brought up at my kh in the many years i attended.

i don't remember anything pertaining to the brothers.

but, there were things brought up from the platform that just seem ridiculous.

reneeisorym

They didn't do that at my KH. Everything was fine as long as it didn't show your knee. My grandma fussed about people obsessing about the length of skirts because she said they would wear short skirts in the 1950s. It was kinda like -- as long as you looked modest they were fine. They were anal about stupid things like the men not wearing kacki's or sport coats on stage.