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  Insanity

  by joelbear69 in

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  i am quite insane.

  i am able to function only because of medication.

  what has driven me insane?

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  joelbear69

  I am quite insane.
  
  I am able to function only because of medication.
  
  What has driven me insane?
  
  Fear and doubt. Fear and doubt about myself. Somehow
  this was instilled in me at a very young age and has
  eaten away at my brain for 50 years.
  
  Guilt. Guilt over deceiving my parents by telling them
  that I actually believed what the JW's taught.
  
  Loneliness. I cannot feel love. I just can't. I can
  feel love for others, but I don't feel it back.
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  What do you think of todays youth?

  by dawg in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as many of you know, i live in a college town and therefore i'm around people much younger than me almost all day.

  here's one thing i've noticed, the youth today have left the god of the bible behind.

  they have been brought up in a world where information is available at a very rapid rate and have already figured out the biblical god is a fairy tale.

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  joelbear69

  I am also around a number of younger people where I work
  and in the board gaming group I am active in.
  
  I agree that the Bible does not appear to influence their
  life very much. I doubt that many of them have done much
  Bible study or research.
  
  However, there is a desire to be moral. I think kids still
  have a sense of justice and fairness. They tend to have
  small groups of friends with similar interests.
  
  Younger people in general have had more patience with my
  illness than those closer to my own age.
  
  By politicizing the Bible the extreme right have made a
  critical error. Now the youth associate religion closely
  with politics or "the establishment", which in general
  they do not trust.
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  got 7.5 inches last night!

  by chickpea in

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  2. friends

  and you'd think i would be smiling..... except it isnt the 7.5 inches that would make one smile..... .

  it was snow!

  a mother nature kind of april fool prank gone wild..... wet, thick, heavy, unmovable except by brute force ... .

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  joelbear69

  sex is like snow. you never know how much you are going to get or

  how long its going to last.
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  When you went out in field service

  by megaflower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  how often did you have to talk yourself into going out?.

  how often did you wait till the end of the month to get some time in?.

  how often did you fudge your time?.

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  joelbear69

  I pioneered for a little over for about 2 1/2 years on both sides of my short Bethel service.
  
  I had 3 years total of full time service.
  
  I hated going from door to door as did my pioneer partners. We had been working the same
  territories since we were kids. We basically knew 1/2 the people in the neighborhoods
  where we were calling. We would argue over who had to go to certain houses.
  
  I did enjoy Bible Studies. I had studies with some very kind people who were in very
  bad situations. I had a study with an 80 year old woman who I became close friends with.
  She was very kind. Once she went to visit her sister and brought me back some well water
  because I had told her how much I loved the taste of it. I got to enjoy that for
  several weeks over the hot summer of 1980. I also studied with a man who had cerebral
  palsy. It was very difficult. I studied with an elderly woman who was very relieved that
  her husband was not in hell, because she didn't think he had led a very good life.
  
  The list goes on. I had a lot of Bible studies in those 2 years. 3 of which got baptized
  and 1 of whom is now studying with my father 20 years later.
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  Disfellowshiping only began in 1952!! Before this Witnesses were immoral!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  many witnesses lived together in sin or had many wives before 1952 during the rutherford era, this was frowned apoun but no one was disfellowshiped unless they did something major like critisize rutherford!

  then in watch.

  may 15 1944 and finally watch 1/3 1952, disfellowshiping was invented.

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  joelbear69

  Solomon also wrote Ecclesiastes. just saying.
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  The end of marriage?

  by BurnTheShips in

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  from a piece in a london publication:.

  the proportion of men and women getting married is below any level found since figures were first kept nearly 150 years ago.. and the number of weddings held in 2006 was the smallest since 1895, when the population was little more than half its present level.. the evidence that marriage is withering away at an increasing pace was met with a furious response from critics of labour's benefits system, which disregards the status of husbands and wives and pays parents extra to stay single.

  the causes of the collapse of marriage range from the rise in the western world of a highly individualistic ethic, to a profound shift in moral and religious attitudes, to the sexual revolution, to the widespread use of abortion and the pill, to changes in law, among other things.

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  joelbear69

  men can get sex without long term financial commitment. women do not need men's money to create a secure life for them and their children. thus. less marriage.
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  Repudiate "Valueless Things" 4/15/08 WT

  by bud2114 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hot off the presses - just some of the latest garbage coming out of brooklyn as found in the 1st study article - repudiate "valueless things" (4/15/08 koolaid edition wt): .

  par 17: another example of valueless words is found among the religious leaders of christendom.

  these claim to speak in god's name, but most of their utterances are not based on the scriptures, and what they have to say is basically worthless.

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  joelbear69

  their words are empty and meaningless silly really.
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  Do You Find Anything "Logical" About Religion?

  by minimus in

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  is there such a thing??

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  1. I think that it is logical for a person not to want to cease existing. Therefore religion gives that person a way to rationalize that they are not actually going to cease, but that death is simply a transport device. As far as I know, every religion transports you somewhere somehow at death. 2. When you think of how people are grouped (geographically, racially, by workplace, by income level, family, religion and by interest group) religion is one of the strongest binders because it has a list of requirements that people follow.
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  Let's take a poll

  by ldrnomo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many partakers were there in your congregation if we get enough of a count, we can average them out over the 100000 cong's and see how close we come to predicting the total number worldwide.. sadly i could not attend because i am out of the country.

  not, lol, imjoeking, about the sadly part.

  ld.

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  joelbear69

  when i was a kid you didn't meet annointed under 65 or 70.

  now I am 50 and I know of 2 people younger than me that

  now partake.
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  Shunning taken to the extreme

  by unbeliever in

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  2. friends

  there is this xjw i know that i grew up with and we have kept in touch over the years.

  he was df'd as a teenager, moved away and never looked back.

  "k" has family he keeps in touch with.

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  joelbear69

  Jehovah's happy people strike again.