Posts by 5go

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Symposium: Beware of Apostates! - 'God's Word is Truth!' District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses 2013 - not on JW.ORG

by mindnumbed in

symposium: beware of apostates!.

satanhuman apostates also of interest ..... the truth brings "not peace, but a sword" .

they did everything wrong they could, and then some on the big xbox one reveal.. talking about going bust i have been seeing xbox fan boys saying it's over already and they are getting ps4s.. if you know anything about that part of nerdom, ms xbox fans are beyond die hard loyal fanatics..

5go

Wow

They did everything wrong they could, and then some on the big Xbox One reveal.

Talking about going bust I have been seeing Xbox fan boys saying it's over already and they are getting PS4s.

If you know anything about that part of nerdom, MS Xbox fans are beyond die hard loyal fanatics.

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Please explain why the elders are doing this to us

by label licker in

got a phone call today from a couple from our ex congregation.

he was visited again by two elders(one in training) again.

third shepherding call within two months.

5go

Yeah the soceity has been putting on a low level witch hunt for a while. There is nothing you can do, they can kick you out of the club if they want for any reason.

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Circuit Overseer's Talk: " We need 5 meetings a week and weekly mags"

by truthseeker in

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at the circuit overseer's talk last week he made the comment that some "of the friends" are finding it difficult to move ahead with jehovah's organization (tm).

the co said that a few had asked, "is it necessary to have 5 meetings a week, and a magazine every other week?".

"couldn't we do without one meeting a week, and have monthly editions of the watchtower?

5go

Yeah I was WTF they shortened it to two plus an opitional one.

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missing the JWD glory days

by fresh prince of ohio in

don't get me wrong, this forum currently has plenty of interesting discussions and posters, but, for those of you who weren't on the old jwd board in the early-to-mid-00s, man...i'm sorry but you really missed out on the glory years of this forum.

it was really a special, unique place then.

again, not dissing the current, but, that huge exciting wave of ex-jw internet activity that occurred in the early part of this century seems to have leveled off.

5go

Glory Days?

I have seen people come and go (heck I have) but really there wasn't any glory day.

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Why we have Conspiracy Theorists......

by cantleave in

everyone knows a conspiracy theorist (let's face it we have a few on this board).

my attention has been to drawn to an article in the new york times, which i have pasted below.

apparently people with propensity to create conspiracy theory narratives are quite sane, even though they may have low self worth and cannot fully ascertain their place in the world.

5go

I would have to say the main reason that there are more of them here in the good ole USA is simple. They don't get called out on it and lampooned like in other countries. In fact they may get a AM radio call-in show and a pay check.

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Atheism IS a religion! My profound apologies to Xians.

by return of parakeet in

in the course of my continuing research on why believers insist that atheists are religious, i stumbled upon a website (link below) that proves beyond any doubt that atheism is a religion.

you can imagine my chagrin upon discovering that i, as an atheist, belong to a religion after all.

i'm not exactly a member in good standing yet, but i'll work on it as hard as i can.

5go

Yeah I have become a pagan after my athiest stage but I still identify with them so I don't have to explain my beliefs. Simply put I think of in the way Christian myths and writhing much like they think of Pagan myths and writings. Which is to say something to steal ideas from them while casting off the stuff that clearly is looney while making up some other looney stuff to make myself feel good and fits my modern life better.

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How Religion Can Ruin A Nation

by metatron in

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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-muslim-brotherhood-is-ruining-egypt-2013-5.

i expected this when i heard their parliament declare israel their greatest enemy.. not disease.

not poverty.

5go

Well religion has been doing a good job of ruining this one.

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A JW husband emailing his ex-girlfriend after his wife reveals her apostasy

by JimmyPage in

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a woman i've known for years recently confided in me.

she told me she found out her jw husband had been secretly e-mailing his jw ex-girlfriend.

he was telling his ex about how difficult it had been for him since his wife was now basically an apostate.

5go

When I hear the words "emotional affair" I suddenly remember why I never tried to get married.

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Bible Writers not just ignorant "goat herders"

by applehippie in

really, the bible was written by nothin' but goat herders?

i don't post much but this does irk me.

yes a few may have been shepherds or fisherman, but a fair amount were far more educated and were professionals in their fields of occupation.

5go

No, they were very smart con artist too!

Calling science, suedo-science is to say politely giving away your level of education.

Let me educate you on where science came from. It came from religous clergy (muslims then spread to christians) trying to find truth in scripture. They would ask a fellow clergy to read a scripture and then tell them what they thought without telling them their conclusion first to see if it matched the original one. If it didn't he knew he was wrong and moved on. That evolved over time into the scientific method we use today to find out facts and theories. Unfortunaly it fell out of favor with religion as it tended to clashes with established religous traditions and leadership.