Triton_Logic,
what a silly post, I hope your taking the piss because otherwise you've just made a very assanine statement. People suffering, dying, or otherwise hurting as a result of time spent in a high control cult is not spilt milk.
Did you register here to post a stupid comment like that? Are you a practicing witness or something, I bet you are, it comes through in your lack of empathy.
smellsgood
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"My Grief over Wasting 10 Years of My Life"
by scout575 in"ex-christians are angry because they are grieving... i voluntarily spent 10 years of my life pursuing a godly life.
my fantasy was that i was spending my time well and becoming a better person by following god.
my grief over wasting 10 years of my life, is grief over giving up the fantasy.".
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Weird experience
by Dawn inthis weekend i was having a discussion with my husband about "listening to that inner voice" - you know, the one that says you should take that risk because you could be a real success, but you talk yourself out of it.
or it tells you not to trust that office mate, but you convince yourself you're being silly, only to get back-stabbed later on.
that "inner voice" that somehow can notice those subtle, unconscious messages that we miss in our conscious state.. i told my husband that i was going to work on listening to that voice - and stop talking myself out of things when i just know it is something i should do - mostly with career decisions and relationships in mind.. after this discussion i head to the grocery store to get some goodies for the football game.
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Cool experience Dawn!
25$ is nothing to turn you nose up to IMO, but I was sure that after the prognostications of the fortune cookie you would be telling us you were a millionaire! Still, 25$ is enough to buy roughly 4 dozen Krispy Kremes, so congratulations you big winner!
I always get the most vague depressing messages from my fortune cookies, like "The path leads to where it takes you," "You will decide on one thing not the other" or something. Really giving me nothing to look forward too, certainly don't feel "fortunate" after reading them. I like the taste though, like waffle cones.
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How many are like me?
by JH ini still believe in god.
still believe his name is jehovah or something like it.. still believe that jesus is his son, and he isn't god almighty.. don't believe in the trinity.
i believe in the resurrection.
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Hi JH
Well, I never've been a Witness, but in response to this:::
but on the other hand, I don't want to be a JW because of their man made laws, that has nothing to do with what Jesus said, and their lack of love, and the way they control and treat their own followers.
***I'm just wondering why I still believe in so much of what the JW's teach***, except for their false dates, and still I don't want to be one of them because their lack of love and justice ruins the good news of the Kingdom.
smellsgood: I think that probably part of it is that they do such a thorough job in not only dogmatising their own doctrines, but are emphatic and thorough in "disproving" on a continuous basis those beliefs that they have labeled as "un-Christian" "pagan" and the like. I believe the very fact that they are so dishonest in their methods of doing so should make one pause, because if it were so "sure" than certainly they wouldn't be so consistently so dishonestly to prove it.
I think it gets in your head, particularly if you are raised with it. Perhaps the thought stopping with regards to those things still plays a roll, even once someone has come to realise the WT is a cult.
Personally, it strikes me in thinking about it, that if you are to still believe in the Biblical figures, and believe that Jehovah is in reality today God, and has not abandoned his creation etc, and is still interested in the matters of men; how could the WT be wrong about his purpose, timing, about his will (blood transfusion) be completely wrong about what He will DO and then on the flipside, be right about HIM? How could an organization which misdirects, falsifies, lies outright, is in all ways devious and deluded be the bearers of the "correct" view of the Biblical God, when they are wrong about pretty much everything else? Why would a "living" God "reveal" himself and not his ways to an organization that has claimed to be His Mouthpiece?
It's just what I think about. Also, the living forever on earth I don't see why its relevant or such a big hammer point. Certainly I think the 144K and "anointed" is one of the silliest and convoluted beliefs I have ever come across if you want to see it from a Biblical or any other perspective really.
I think they are wrong on every single point if you are looking it from a Biblical, irreligious, other religious, humanistic, disinterested or any point of view. If Jehovah has the attributes that are described in the Bible, or generally understood, I can't see how He would operate in a way to mislead so thoroughly a group of people, but then to confuse things further, to have them have the "correct" view on his "person" :)
I read a JW's ramblings about the future on Paradise Earth, and it literally disturbed me like say a horror movie would. It sounds so unlike any conception of "afterlife" from any religious volume I have ever seen. To me, it sounded so manmade, like the concepts of the 72 virgins are so obviously manmade. It was written in a way to make it sound appealing, something to look forward too, but it just sounded like the world of today, with I guess less sex and less hunger?
Anyways, I do believe in the immortality of the soul. This is something I think everyone has a sense of, currently and historically, unless it is intellectually "repressed" as it were. You may disagree and that's fine. I change my mind about things all the time, its nice just to be able to explore the possibilities. But from my perspective, one thing that is not possible is the WT being right about anything whatsoever. I just can't see how such a repellant organization could point to a "true" God...
I can understand why you would retain those beliefs, and if you still believe in the bible, and the figures in it, and from perhaps your own study without the WT blinders on you have reached those beliefs, that's alright. -
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Reckless,
That is so sad about your son, and your Wife. There is nothing more grievous than losing a loved one. Particularly given the fact your son was taken by the disease that affected you so much when you were a child and you never wanted to see happen in your family.
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"Thats what you get for leaving Jehovah"
by megsmomma inthat is what my mom told me when i got bit by a brown recluse spider.. i was in ohio, visiting my daughter and my mom was there trying to convert me back.
she even said if i go back, we would get custody of my daughter..... well....i drove myself there from ks and somehow had gotten bitten right before i left.
it was right between my eyes, and my head started swelling up on the way there.
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Are you ok today though? I mean, thats nasty. The girl on Extreme Makeover the other night was disfigured from it...Brown recluses have some wicked venom.
What about the people who haven't "left Jehovah" *the 'Tower* and fall ill, have accidents, etc? What about the children who die BECAUSE "of Jehovahs will" aka the blood policy? Jehovah disproves of children riding bikes, and fatally punishes them?
how silly. Could even bust out examples from the Bible, ask your Mom to read about your friend Job.
Well, if something bad happens in her life, you can maybe have that attitude of what have you been doing wrong that Jehovah found out about? Or next time anyone in the congregation falls ill shake your head in the knowledge that they must have been slacking in the FS. -
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Dear God ( warning might not be for everyone)
by lola28 inare you doing this because you hate me?
i know i'm not the best person you've ever created so are you doing this to her because you are angry at me?
why are you so cruel?
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((((lola)))
I'm so sorry for you and your sister. When I wrote that I was relieved that it wasn't cancer on your other thread, I was, but I was quite ignorant as to what Lupus was. I asked my Mom about it, and its much more severe than I could have imagined. I'm so sorry for you and your family, its heartbreaking. The fact that its chronic is killer. It's ok that your angry and hurt, there's no redeeming thing about devastiting news like that. There can still be life though, and joy, keep your head up girl! I'm thinking of you and your sister tonight. It's a shock to the system, but your sister can still have a great life, there's nothing positive about the disease, just hope and possibility in spite of it.
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Please tell me about your Jehovah
by The Stranger inmy dear jehovah's witness, i wish to more about your god, please help me know more.
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Hello The Stranger,
fan of Camus?
If you're studying with the Witnesses, you should stop.
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Am I Being Silly?
by love2Bworldly ini have always loved accents, whether they're british, irish, scottish, australian, whatever.
i think they're so cute.
i have always wanted to date someone with an accent (of course they have to have a lot more than the accent going on).. now that i am to be divorced soon, i keep thinking next time i date (won't be for a while--i am just daydreaming about what i want) i want to meet someone with an accent.. since i don't have a lot of money to travel to other countries, am i just being silly?.
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Couldn't agree with you more! I heart english accents. English and Scottish probably my favorite , followed by maybe Spanish--Castilian.
Well, perhaps if you can't travel overseas easily one will just happen to travel YOUR way. I mean, you live in California, that's a pretty big destination I think. Not like where I live...
I don't think it's silly at all and uhm *nudge nudge*....looky here I think I spot some posters waving a the Union Jack on this very forum....perhaps...
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If you could "intelligently design" yourself, what would you change?
by AlmostAtheist inif you could "intelligently design" yourself, what would you change?.
you're welcome to start from the ground up, if you like.
or just suggest changes to the existing platform.
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I'd want to have the ability to learn all roughly 5,000 dialects existing today, as well as the ancient tongues.
The ability to spontaneously appear at the front of all amusement park lines. Like a celebrity does.
I would like to manipulate my senses, so that say for instance I was forcefed a saltine cracker by an antagonist, It would taste like Godiva Chocolate instead.
I'd like to defy most of the physics we have pinned down. I'll breathe underwater, thank you and not get crushed by the pressure. Gravity is nice when I want to break dance (which I can now easily learn thanks to superadvanced rapid kinetic intellegicence) in various clubs around the world (which I now get into with my powers of teleportation). Would just think of a city and *poof* I'm there. I could grow, shrink, change appearance at will, transmogrify into something cool like a White Tiger, but only when I'm doing menial tasks amongst the ordinary people for my own amusement. Like ordering a sandwich or getting my nails done. Now smellsgood,,,now a purple octopus.
The ability to do nothing and get paid for it. Like Paris Hilton.
And finally, the ability to appear on T.V. when someone who is really getting under my skin is on and say for the millions of other viewers wishing the same thing "please would you be so kind as to never assault my (highly tuned) melodic senses so cruelly ever again Mr. Stapp?" or..Mr. Matthews *ducks the swings*
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We know what she has
by lola28 inan update on my sister, the blood work came back and she has lupus.. .
lola.
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lola,
I saw your other thread on your sister and I am sooooo relieved for you all that it isn't something terminal or greviously life threatening like leukemia! I don't know much about Lupus, I know its in a class of Auto-immune disorders like graves disease, but knowing and having that sure diagnosis will help you so much in the treatment and management of it. Thank goodness! I'm happy for you and your dear sister that it isn't something worse, although from her symptoms you described she probably falls on the more severe side of it I should think. I hope you all are able to treat it and she is able to feel better very soon!
From a fellow 22 yr. old female with younger siblings, I know how worried you must have felt.
God bless for your care and love for her.
smellsgood