Posts by freemindfade

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Light Getting Brighter

by awokenjw in

hello, maybe someone on here can make some sense out of this:.

one of the reasons why jws are so quick to believe any changes from the gb is that they believe the light is getting brighter.

now there have been some teachings that to my knowledge changed at one point but then were reverted back to the original teaching.

The answer is none of the above. They misuse the light brighter scripture out of context bending it into their own idea. Prophecy or knowledge is not revealed progressively and that scripture was taking about the ways and paths of a righteous person. Not a publishing companies failed stabs at understand bronze age foundation myths and the desert god.

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City of Sodom discovered

by Saved_JW in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html

freemindfade

Good one pumpkin

I was trying to read this madness on my phone and the article seemed insanely redundant I thought I kept starting over at the beginning. Seemed like I was reading the same sentences over and over.

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Bygone Days of Old Bethel...

by freemindfade in

something occurred to me last night.

people that made their pilgrimage to jw mecca (bethel) would often be excited about some silly things, i say silly because for those of you who were there or lived near enough to be involved in these things regularly they lost their magic.

i am talking about on tours one of the most memorable things people talked about or looked forward to... lunch.

freemindfade

Something occurred to me last night. People that made their pilgrimage to JW Mecca (bethel) would often be excited about some silly things, I say silly because for those of you who were there or lived near enough to be involved in these things regularly they lost their magic.

I am talking about on tours one of the most memorable things people talked about or looked forward to... LUNCH.

I have to admit the first time I went to bethel many years ago, I was pretty excited seemed like a great privilege of sorts. Seems as though those days will be a thing of the past with the great downsize of 2015-2016. Also the wonders of impeccable house keeping "oooooh ahhhhhh". The great laundry operation "wow jehobie is amazing!". I just thought there will be a new generation that will not be in intrigued by these mundane things previous generations used to hang the hat on of "this has to be jehovah's organization look how it operates".

Its also funny to know that while to outsiders Lunch is so cool, my experience with bethelites is they didn't care for it at all! having to stop work, change, go sit with people they get zero time away from, make conversation with visitors, etc. When you really find out how it is, people there were not happy. Many were miserable in fact.

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City of Sodom discovered

by Saved_JW in

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3270999/has-biblical-city-sodom-monstrous-site-jordan-matches-descriptions-area-destroyed-god.html

freemindfade

I watched something on this stuff once before, it shed a lot of light on bible myths. Many places may have existed as object lessons that lend to "stories". How so? Likely there were two cities (such as these) that were destroyed, either in a war, or by rock falling from nearby volcano, or astroid as someone said, and as it was abandoned on a popular route, people would make reference to it along with the myth, to reinforce the "moral" they were trying to promote.

"see those burnt cities over there son, god burnt the shit out of them with fire from heaven because we didn't like what they did".

Also Lott's wife in the same vein. Along the sea shore there are these spires of salt, that you can clearly see would inspire vision of people turned into or were trapped in them. So you have a similar scenario.

"see that pillar of salt? that's lott's wife, she didn't listen and BAM! salt..."

This is not uncommon with bible myths or other culture's myths. Could finding prehistoric bones in Greece inspired things such as the Cyclopes? We know native Americans have myths for rock formations in the southwest, or for mountains in other areas. Because these mythological places exist, doesn't make the fantastic stories facts. Myths were reinforced by visible objects to explain them, not the other way around.

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Hello. New here.

by ULFBERHT in

jw
friends

new around here.

wanted to say "hello".. +ulfberh+t.

freemindfade

Welcome

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Call For Children To Get Baptised From CO

by freemindfade in

so i've been pretty good at not going to meetings lately.

yesterday i went for the co's last talks.

older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.

freemindfade

When I heard the Co talking I heard my mom when I was 10. Sounded like they were reading the same script.

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Not on a WTS Cover - Famine Continues to Decline

by berrygerry in

that darn satan keeps confusing those horsies in apocalypse - they seem to be going in reverse.. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-hunger-calamitous-famine-eradicated-last-50-years.

freemindfade

The only thing there is more of today is exposure to the times we live in, atrocities still happen, and problems persist, war, famine, disasters, but now faster and clearer than ever they are beamed in real time into our homes, our desks and our hands. We are more aware.

things can get bad and worse, this has been all of history. JW's are like fox news, BE AFRAID!!!!

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If you were ‘God’, what would you do?

by JWchange in

this post is not meant to be blasphemous to non-atheists on this forum , just philosophical.

i refer to a god rather than the creator.

it;s 10,000 years in the future and you are a phd student with a brain the size of a planet, that has incredible technology at your fingertips to create life, similar to humans living today or better, intelligently and physically.

yesterday i went for the co's last talks.

older co. his last talk was absolutely shocking.

freemindfade

A recording has been requested, lets see what happens...