Posts by Anitar

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'DA BIRDS' will getcha!

by DannyHaszard in

my reason for this thread is to provide a bird food backup source growing up jw da birds were big.if i misbehaved as a small child my adult jw family members would 'put the fear of jehovah in me' by reminding me of jehovah & da birds.

da birds will getcha!--------a few words for mr. rember.

idaho mountain express and guide, id -8 hours ago.

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I think the guy in the middle falling into the pit is either Mickey Rourke:

http://horror.about.com/library/weekly/SinCity/pages/ab02sincity-marv.jpg

Or maybe it's Nick Nolte?

http://www.happinessonline.org/MoralCode/images/nicknolte4.jpg

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'DA BIRDS' will getcha!

by DannyHaszard in

my reason for this thread is to provide a bird food backup source growing up jw da birds were big.if i misbehaved as a small child my adult jw family members would 'put the fear of jehovah in me' by reminding me of jehovah & da birds.

da birds will getcha!--------a few words for mr. rember.

idaho mountain express and guide, id -8 hours ago.

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Notice how the first thing on their mind after armageddon is to move into all the dead rich people's houses, they care nothing about God or salvation, it's all about the material things with them. That hardly sounds like Jesus's idea of humility and how the meek shall inherit the earth.

As for the birds, I don't see them having a taste for human flesh for we are far too crunchy and no good without ketchup.

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Why The Time Limit?

by Anitar in

hi everyone, it's good to be back.

last thursday, as i lay on the couch stuffed full of turkey, i had the sudden idea for a discussion, and please forgive me if this has been asked before.. when my brother came back from college and we began to clean the apartment for the impending arrival of the rest of the family for thanksgiving dinner (my mom was of course not calling it that), he asked her why she had so many stacks of watchtower magazines everywhere.

they were all organized by date in zip lock bags, not including her bound volumes and study books.

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Thanks to everyone for the response, Finally Free, I think I remember that scan and I appreciate that, it must have been hard work to find it.

Code Blue: I totally agree, I just don't see how JW's reconcile this descrepancy. There's no way of getting around the truth, absolutely nothing the watchtower predicted has come true, yet they still claim divine intervention. Go figure.

Ded poet and New York44: I know it sounds strange, actually even for the JW's she hordes an unusual amount of magazines. Her friend, who was responsibile for converting her yelled at her the other night for having too many! Talk about choking on your spiritual food!

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Gay Marriage Cause No Real Defections In UCC Church

by Enigma One in

six months after becoming the largest christian denomination to endorse same-sex marriage, the united church of christ (ucc) reported that less than 1 percent of its churches have separated from the denomination.

the ucc report, issued thursday, noted that 49 churches -- out of 5,725 churches total -- have voted to disaffiliate, and nearly all of those cited disagreement with the ucc marriage equality resolution, adopted in early july.

"the number of departing churches is far fewer than some had earlier expected," said john h. thomas, president and general minister of the ucc.

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Hi Enigma, it's nice to see you. I was just wondering if you could clarify what are the percentages of denominations in the UCC Church. I'm guessing the Watchtower has nothing to do with it? My applause to them for being so open and understanding.

By the way, on a totally unrelated note, is you avatar really a picture of yourself? Not that I'm looking or anything...

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Is your happiness thermostat stuck?

by Dogpatch in

jw
friends

is your happiness thermostat stuck?

(11/27/06) the daily breeze.

studies of simple, long-term strategies to raise people's spirits suggest it doesn't have to be.. by malcolm ritter .

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Hi Randy, hope you had a good holiday, and I'm glad to see your happiness thermostat is well adjusted. I wish I could say the same for myself. In fact, now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time I was happy...

That's weird...

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Racism in the Jehovah Witness Watchtower

by fokyc in

http://www.progressiveu.org/161523-racism-in-the-jehovah-witness-watchtower.

"watchtower society members claim to be different and better than the worldly people that they refer to as bird food.

society members refer to non-witnesses as bird food because they look forward to the time when the birds will feast on the flesh of dead non-witnesses after armageddon.

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What the hell is this?

Jehovah is no respecter of persons. Neither are his people. But the world in which we live is.

So let me get this straight. We're supposed to believe that worldly people are the slaves of Satan because they believe in equality for all and since found segregation to be illegal. Furthermore, Jehovah and the JW's are superior to us because they believe in the inferiority of blacks and hispanics?

So I suppose Martin Luther King was the servant of Satan and Judge Rutherford was Jehovah's chosen disciple? Please. These people would feel right at home with the Nazis.

I'm literally speechless...

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Why The Time Limit?

by Anitar in

hi everyone, it's good to be back.

last thursday, as i lay on the couch stuffed full of turkey, i had the sudden idea for a discussion, and please forgive me if this has been asked before.. when my brother came back from college and we began to clean the apartment for the impending arrival of the rest of the family for thanksgiving dinner (my mom was of course not calling it that), he asked her why she had so many stacks of watchtower magazines everywhere.

they were all organized by date in zip lock bags, not including her bound volumes and study books.

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She says she needs five copies each for "anyone who's interested," which means she gives them to us whenever she can.

Ironically, having them around allows me to take them without her noticing and show them to cult counselors, therepasts, not to mention my psych professor. The results are the exact opposite of her original intent!

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Why The Time Limit?

by Anitar in

hi everyone, it's good to be back.

last thursday, as i lay on the couch stuffed full of turkey, i had the sudden idea for a discussion, and please forgive me if this has been asked before.. when my brother came back from college and we began to clean the apartment for the impending arrival of the rest of the family for thanksgiving dinner (my mom was of course not calling it that), he asked her why she had so many stacks of watchtower magazines everywhere.

they were all organized by date in zip lock bags, not including her bound volumes and study books.

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Hi everyone, it's good to be back. Last Thursday, as I lay on the couch stuffed full of turkey, I had the sudden idea for a discussion, and please forgive me if this has been asked before.

When my brother came back from college and we began to clean the apartment for the impending arrival of the rest of the family for Thanksgiving dinner (my mom was of course not calling it that), he asked her why she had so many stacks of Watchtower magazines everywhere. They were all organized by date in zip lock bags, not including her bound volumes and study books. We found at least five copies of each Watchtower publication from each month for the past seven years. Taking into account this is only a small, two bedroom apartment, I literally see Watchtower material in every single corner of my home, even the bathroom. In fact, I have an ongoing joke that if we ever run out of toilet paper, I know just what to use as a substitute.

Anyway, her response was that she wanted to keep them for "research" and did not want to throw them away. My brother, trying to find the logic in this, said if she's such a zealous JW, than why doesn't she just give them away? To which she responded, she was not allowed to give away literature that was more than three years old. This no doubt led to many questions that I'm hoping someone can answer here:

1) Was she telling the truth? Are JW's not allowed to give out literature more than three years old, or is this just a tradition in her own congregation?

2) I'm aware of the old light verses new light doctrine, but since when does Jehovah's Word have an expiration date? If Jesus was directing the "faithful slave," than why would he waste time telling them things that he knows would be proven false in three years?

3) If this is a new development by the WTS, than what is the difference between the bound volumes and the individual magazines? Can they change one or the other to suit their changing doctrine? If so, does anyone have any examples?

4) Finally, did I misunderstand her? Am I perhaps looking too much into it, or do I have the wrong idea altogether?

I would appreciate any answers anyone might have. Thank you!

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Why is the Watchtower Society so cruel to teens?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my mom just informed me that a 17 year old has been disfellowshipped at her hall.at least 7 others have been kicked out within the last 5 years.the publisher count is only 56 .why do they let the teens get baptized so young?

i was 14 and only got baptized because of pressure and the end was coming.if you weren't baptized you would be destroyed.. why don't they wait until everyone is at leat 21?

all these teens haven't come back and you won't ever see them unless they return.i haven't seen my cousin in over 2 years.no one went to his wedding,isn't invited to any family functions and is to be avoided at all costs.. the watchtower society should be ashamed that they act that way and the parents let them get away with it..

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Why are they so cruel to teens? Because with all the pedofiles in the watchtower, they hate it when the children grow up and rat on them.

In more ways than one, the watchtwer likes them young.

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The Science of Belief

by LittleToe in

time and again the refrain is heard that belief and science are mutually exclusive, that belief somehow corrupts good science, that belief is not empirical.

i'd like to throw another slant on that, if i may.. belief is an inherent part of the human psyche.

the desire to know more about our environment and how it all works is also an inherent part of our psyche.

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Little Toe:

I'm not sure how much this relates to your topic, but I have a question for you.

Is it possible for a person to live their entire life and be totally unaware of the world around them?

I'm sorry that sounds a little vague. I'm referring to someone like a devout jehovah witnesses in reference to your comments about the human psyche's desire to know about the enviornment. It seems to me that my mom, who is now 60 years old, seems to know nothing more about life than she did when she was 15. I know that sounds quite harsh but I can't help what I see. She does nothing except the witness work and barely takes care of herself and frequently forgets how to think and behave like a norman person.

I ask because I've always firmly believed in making myself better than what I am, and to learn something new everyday. My mom doesn't believe in such things.

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