Posts by return visitor

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Your God - "Lewis Black"!

by AlmostAtheist in

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if you haven't met lewis black, your life is not complete.

please visit youtube.com and enter "lewis black" in the search box!

it wouldn't hurt you to enter "jimmy carr" while you're there, but check out "lewis black" for sure!

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I accidently typed in louis black... you should see where that takes you, I had to turn it off.

RV

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Getting married next week!

by gymbob in

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yes folks, i'm headed to hawaii this sunday and while we're there, we plan to tie the knot, barefoot on the beach.

for those of you who don't know, my ex-wife left me when i couldn't support the wtb&ts anymore a few years back.

i hate living alone....lisa and i have been together for a year now and she's just like mary poppins..."practically perfect in every way"!

The screwed up things we've done to others and had done to us.

by wanderlustguy in

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i was reading up on some posts today and saw a few that got me in the mood to write down what i've been thinking about lately.

i think about the things that i've done to other people and the bad decisions i have made, as well as the kind of person my choices made me into.

sometimes it's easy to lapse into thinking i'm still that person from only a few years ago that didn't care about anyone else and walked all over people just because i could.. then i go further back and remember why i was so vindictive and hateful, it was from my heart knowing everything my head beleived was wrong, the irreconcileable differences between what i was taught to be the truth, what i thought family was, and what i saw it to really be.

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Do you suppose a person can ever really lose the guilt they feel for hurting so many others, or is it something that at best becomes like an old broken bone that never really heals right and always aches, especially on rainy days?

My father died about 25 years ago, when I think about him I am still saddened. But I don't think about him that often anymore. I think guilt is the same way, as long as you have a consience you will feel guilty when you think about what you did, but time will lessen it. Feeling guilty is a good thing though, at least you're not a sociopath!

RV

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BBC story about JW

by Norm in

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anyone seen this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/tv_and_radio/onelife_series7prog4.shtml

norm

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Poor girl won't take blood because the WTS says not to, today. Tomorrow who knows, it may bo OK. How would you like to have been the Mother or Father of the last child to not take an organ transplant before the Borg said it was OK. They will certainly have to account - Jehovah is a just God!

RV

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Do you hate Jehovah's Witnesses?

by The wanderer in

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do you hate jehovah's witnesses?

since becoming a member of this board, it has often come.

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nope, I feel sorry for them.

RV

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Really bummed out!!

by crazyblondeb in

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i'm just really venting here!!

some of you know work has been a bit slow!

i work for a company that makes parts for 3m.

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Shelly

This is my first christmas with my granddaughter!! And with my sisters!!

They will be glad to have you with them, job or no job.

RV

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New, lost & opinionated

by Shanna Korin in

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first let me say i'm new to this forum, second wow!

as it is i have spent at least an hour and a 1/2 just reading different topics and wow!

i never in my life imagined for one minute that it would be so hard to leave the organization.

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You wouldn't be DA'd because you were not baptized. A disassociated person is one that is baptized and Leaves (or disassociates) himself from the org.

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New, lost & opinionated

by Shanna Korin in

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first let me say i'm new to this forum, second wow!

as it is i have spent at least an hour and a 1/2 just reading different topics and wow!

i never in my life imagined for one minute that it would be so hard to leave the organization.

return visitor

I'm relitivly new too. So let me be one of the first to welcome you.

RV

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God's Channel of Instruction = "trusted & loyal followers"

by yaddayadda in

the oct 15 2006 wt, main article about getting to know god, page7, under the subheading, 'identifying god's channel of instruction':

"where can we find assistance in understanding the word of truth and then in living in accord with it?

in israel of old, god provided leadership through trusted and loyal individuals in positions of responsibility.

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Draw the unsuspecting public in first, then once committed bring in the class distinction. That's the trap.

RV

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Mom nearly ate me alive!

by Anony-Mouse in

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we had a major talk about jws today.

i couldn't use the un or pedophiles, as this is 'outside' information, and she would never belive me.

then she would question my source, and i'd be killed by elder firing squad.

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A.M.

So I pull out my 'secret weapon'. The one thing that can destroy a JW in one shot. If 1914 was the year they were to have the 'proper food at the proper time', why were they teaching lies like the cross, blood, etc.

That should be your secret weapon, *1914*. For that to be the year they were to have the "food at the proper time" Jerusalem would have to have fallen in 607. I chalenge you to find a sorce outside the WTS who uses this date. You won't be able to because evidence shows that it actually fell in 586BCE not 607. When I realized this I was free of the WTS. If the WTS is wrong about this date,607, then 1914 is wrong, 1919 is wrong, Christ didn't start ruling in heaven, no faithfull and discrete slave at this time, the whole premise crumbles.

good luck,

RV