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  I have a theory. Please take my poll!

  by changeling in

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  i'd like you all to tell me 2 or 3 things:.

  1- were you raised a witness or not?.

  2-if you were, was your family very "theocratic" or not so much?.

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  1. yes

  2. extremely theocratic

  3. agnostic
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  Where have you turned to?

  by Robert7 in

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  i am very curious, since i am myself trying to figure out where to turn to, if anywhwere.

  (i am still debating if i am truly an atheist at heart and religion in general turns me off at least as of now) where have you turned to since you left the wt?

  i would imagine that many people who became witnesses had spiritual needs (which is ironic why i am feeling atheist, lol) but have you gone to other churches, stopped going to church, become atheist, etc?

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  I've got my own moral compass to steer by
  A guiding star beats a spirit in the sky
  And all the preaching voices -
  Empty vessels ring so loud
  As they move among the crowd
  Fools and thieves are well disguised
  In the temple and market place
  
  Like a stone in the river
  Against the floods of spring
  I will quietly resist
  
  Like the willows in the wind
  Or the cliffs along the ocean
  I will quietly resist
  
  I don't have faith in faith
  I don't believe in belief
  You can call me faithless
  I still cling to hope
  And I believe in love
  And that's faith enough for me
  
  I've got my own spirit level for balance
  To tell if my choice is leaning up or down
  And all the shouting voices
  Try to throw me off my course
  Some by sermon, some by force
  Fools and thieves are dangerous
  In the temple and market place
  
  Like a forest bows to winter
  Beneath the deep white silence
  I will quietly resist
  
  Like a flower in the desert
  That only blooms at night
  I will quietly resist

  Faithless - Neil Peart
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  Best Concert you ever went to!!!

  by purplesofa in

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  2. friends

  im listening to moody blues right now, remembering a concert i went to of theirs in the early 90's when i lived in missouri.

  it was by far the best concert i even have been to....they are not my favorite group but i do like them.

  i wish i could bottle that night up and bring it out to play again and again.

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  Best Concert - Rush, Moving Pictures Tour and Snakes and Arrows Tour (its a tie)

  Kansas put on a good show too (around 1980)

  Ted Nugent was interesting........I also liked seeing Blackfoot back in the day.

  Molly Hatchet was a good live southern band (I own one the guitars they used in studio for the Flirtin With Disaster album). Never got to see Lynard Skynard.

  But yeah, best concert, Rush, those guys are at the top of the profession as musicians.
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  Why no theme yet for 2008 convention?

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's usually announced by the time of the january km at the latest.

  anyone know why it hasn't been released this year?

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  I heard that the Saturday afternoon smyposium will be a follow up to the Watchtower article about oral sex, entitled "Giving the Proper Lip Service to your Mate".
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  Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ...

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects,.

  culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the .

  great papal system; and thereby the 'gospel,' the 'one faith,'.

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  Quick to judge
  Quick to anger
  Slow to understand
  Ignorance and prejudice
  And fear walk hand in hand...
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  Quote of the month. . .

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  2. friends

  intelligence is the righteous use of truth.. (from my boss's bag of useless phrases and quotes came this goody--was very meaningful to me).

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  Like a solitary pine, on a bare wind blasted shore

  We can only grow the way the wind blows
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  The official "Reminisce about your most hated convomition site" thread

  by B_Deserter in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i cannot think of any worse place to have a convention than the pontiac silverdome.

  for years my family went to south bend, indiana to avoid it.

  then when south bend stopped having conventions (probably having something to do with the catholics not appreciating the brothers slamming the religion that financed, built, and hosts the lovely arena they were using), we tried madison, wisconsin for a year, before finally trudging back over to silverdome.

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  Atlanta, GA, Fulton County Stadium (outdoor), 1969 (I think). That assembly (5 days) is legendary in the southeast US. Heat, intense afternoon thunderstorms (think monsoon), people passing out left and right, tossing their cookies in the bathrooms. Sisters were wearing flip flops becuase there legs and feet were so swollen they couldn't put their shoes on. The speakers podium was on the pitchers mound and I remember one particular bolt of lightning struck so close that everybody ran for cover, except the speaker, he didn't miss a beat.

  Outdoor assemblies in the southeast, what were they thinking......
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  Feb 15th Watchtower Study Edition - NEW LIGHT - Article in PDF

  by AlphaOmega in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the generation seeing the sign .

  ' previously, this journal has explained that in the first century, "this generation" mentioned at matthew 24:34 meant "the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving jews.

  not the whole magazine, but this is the new light article.. .

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  Did somebody call my name?
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  Made contact with an old jw(now exjw) boss of mine

  by Jourles in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i come on tonight to see i had one new pm.

  come to find out, it is from evidently who has been signed up on the board for over a year but has never posted.

  this guy used to be an old boss of mine from way back when - i'd say around 12 years ago or so.

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  Well Dagney, good catch, that is exactly where I came up with that name......The WTS always used that word as a way of trying to use circular logic to prove their point, unfortunately, their logic was usually flawed and I always cringed when they used that word. In some ways that word made me start thinking about what I was really having shoved down my throat as a JW, and as you can now see, I'm now a ex-JW so I owe a big thanks to "evidently"

  I appreciate all of the welcomes, after lurking on here so long I knew that you guys wouldn't have done any less.

  I'll keep my rock handy, but I'll try and be a little more interactive with all you bad, bad apostates.

  Evi
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  Made contact with an old jw(now exjw) boss of mine

  by Jourles in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i come on tonight to see i had one new pm.

  come to find out, it is from evidently who has been signed up on the board for over a year but has never posted.

  this guy used to be an old boss of mine from way back when - i'd say around 12 years ago or so.

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  OK, first of all, I was quite comfortable under the rock I was hiding under......

  Secondly, where do you get off calling me "OLD".

  Thirdly, you better be nice to me or I'll tell everybody that you do a great "Beavis and Butthead" imitation......whoops sorry, I guess I already did.

  OK, now where's my rock.