Posts by freemindfade

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April video online, "endurance"

by bohm in

april video online.

at around 42 minutes, a women find jehovahs witness, but her husband is not too hot on the idea and so she has to study with her children in secret.

however eventually the husband prays to jehovah that if jehovah will help him find a leak in a construction he is working on, he will go to a meeting and presto, the next day jehovah help him find the leak so now he is a witness..

freemindfade

They forgot the part about where he prays to god to forgive him for kickbacks to government officials and union corruption for bids...

Because if you pray to god for work he won't give it to you, but if you pray for forgiveness......

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I've decided to join neurotology. enjoy

by freemindfade in

neurotology music video - snl: https://youtu.be/fopapex6vzs

freemindfade

Neurotology Music Video - SNL: https://youtu.be/fOpapeX6Vzs

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How many members left the Watchtower because of all the Hatred and Anti-christian behavior? Were you exposed to betrayal, lies and slander against your family?

by PokerPlayerPhil in

i am trying to wrap my head around 2014 and all the evil we experienced while the elders and overseer said "wait on jehovah because that's what all the true believers do!

" and i explained it's too painful to see the wicked people who brought my family suffering giving talks and providing other witness families with instruction we are to use when the end comes.

why are the quite members those who get treated like trash while members who call down evil upon the organization get everything they want so they will keep their mouths shut?.

freemindfade

Experiencing it now... and I am still "in" on paper. Strangely enough, the last two halls I have been in have some pretty "christian" elders that are actually not @$$holes. Non-judgmental understanding and compassionate. They are still apart of the machine, but they are not wanting to do any witch hunts, or give more than their standard pressure they are obligated by the board of directors to do. So in that regard I am fortunate, my family on the other hand have made their stand against me, in their effort to throw me under the bus and make sure they are uber righteous, they have made HUGE assumptions, they have lied to my wife, they have shared my private conversations with others. its been a hot mess.

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Question on Genesis 6:5

by Ricardopf in

in genesis 6:5 jehovah confirmed to jehovah that all actions from man would be bad and only bad and all the time.

does that not make genesis 6:8 a bad thing?

a willingly forced respect toward jehovah that was enough foundation to build love from.

freemindfade

But the witnesses mindlessly parrot God doesn't force us to do anything... Just like when you say you are stuck in a cult... you are free to leave and do whatever you want...

Who is so f---ing stupid as to say God doesn't force you to love him, he'll just kill you if you don't...

cult brain damage.

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Active posters: What education have you had, what degrees do you possess?

by EndofMysteries in

jw
friends

from so many posts and conversations on here, you'd think over 1/2 the posters here possess doctorates in theology, physics, biology, etc.

i'm curious aside from the books and research people have done here, what degrees they have.

to start, i just got an aa and going straight through full time to an mba.

freemindfade

Bachelors degree in business.

I needed it to get where I am, but I feel unless you are learning a technical skill, its just an accomplishment. Super successful people often have no university degree, and some people that have them become wealthy because they are the same type of person, educated or not.

A formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune...

Learn to hustle.

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The end

by Garrett in

jw
friends

oh...my...god.... i can't.. well, i am officially done trying to explain things to them.

they talk in circles, and their excuse for everything is "imperfect men".

imperfect men!.

freemindfade

All witnesses need a plexiotomy. Thats where you install a window on your front abdomen so you can see with your head up your ass.

The two things I see they rely on to get away with murder is 1. imperfect men,but they are trying!, and 2. god is revealing things gradually because we can't handle the truth up front.

All nonsense. The gradual light brighter BS, when has he ever let his servants in the bible believe ongoing lies and changes in his "doctrine"? Maybe on some grand scale, but little truths were not constantly re-understood over time.

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I'm confused about the Memorial? Great crowd?

by thedepressedsoul in

this was my first memorial thinking outside of the box.

last year i was starting to have questions but this is the first year i noticed a lot of bs.

can anyone clarify a few things for me?.

freemindfade

It was the Jewish passover. That night every one was eating matza and drinking wine

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Well...I blew it

by Garrett in

jw
friends

(follow up to my last post).

i let it rip.

i can't take stupidity from people i thought were capable of using their brain.

freemindfade

I did the same thing. I lost my cool. When I had a bunch of half wits corner me and question me and call me names and accuse me of apostasy and talk about how ignorant I am I came unglued. The after affect from the hypocrites..."how dare you insult us" the sad thing is before I would have never called my family half wits. But their inability to differentiate truth from cult has left me baffled. Not even that they want to believe the org but that their answer is to act childish and go BEYOND the org in the super self righteous judgement.

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LOL Deut 13:1-5

by Jonathan Drake in

omg i've never read this before or if i did i never caught it... .

13 [a]if a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,2 and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them, 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the lord your god is testing you to find out if you love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul.

4 you shall follow the lordyour god and fear him; and you shall keep his commandments, listen to his voice, serve him, and cling to him.

freemindfade

Witnesses asume in genesis when god is speaking and says "us" he is talking to his angelic children, or Jesus. But there is really no proof of that to my knowledge. Who is "us". I think there were slip ups. and the monotheism was written in later on when it was all Rewritten or made up way later on.

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Worst Memorial Talk Ever!

by The Searcher in

i honestly have never heard such claptrap being delivered in a memorial talk.. the speaker repeatedly put down the way other religions administered the bread & wine, and claimed that witnesses do it exactly as the bible describes.

oh yeah????.

he forgot to mention - when reading aloud 1 corinthians 11:25 - that after passing the bread, a full meal was to be shared, before the wine was passed around!

freemindfade

There was a lot of don't partake propaganda (I think its embarrassing to them the number increases, now they just threaten).

Also in my extra faded state and a new hall I would say at least half the audience were us, faders, slackers and exjw's. wild to think that many in this hall don't attend any meetings, the org might be in worse shape than I imagined.