Posts by return visitor

i feel i've been out of the witness organization long enough to have developed some pretty good idea of what my beliefs are now in regards to a higher power and organized religion that i felt comfortable to share it with you , my friends here on jwd.

i respect you all have your takes, religious and non- religious, but just wanted to share a little of myself with you folks , wondering if any of you have felt what i feel.

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I agree with you Mr. Flipper with regard to religion. However, I am finding it harder and harder to believe in god. I don't see the need for a god, except that the universe had a begining.

But that leaves me with the "which came first, the chicken or the egg" dilema. If the begining of the universe means that their must be a god that started it, then how did god get his start? See my quandry?

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On the way back from the grocery store....afternoon chuckle!!

by sweetstuff in

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we went shopping this afternoon, my two little girls and i, on the way home, they were both excitedly talking about halloween.

my youngest, who is seven, lets out this comment that nearly had me veering off the road with laughter.

she said, "i know what i want to be for halloween already, a jehovah's witness" well, i started to laugh right away, my eldest girl asked her why, she says, "they knock on people's door all the time and they are really scary".

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Too Funny

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first post

by enz in

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hi everyone ( "a great crowd ....

") with my first ever post .... i discovered this site a couple of wks ago and have lurking nearly every day since!

wow - what a fantastic forum - really impressed with the support and validation i see here.

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Welcome. Looking forward to the rest of the story.

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bookworm?

by John Doe in

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i was just counting, and i've read 16 books over the last three months, not counting text books.

average length is 550 to 600 pages, which means i've read 8800 to 9600 pages this summer, plus another 1000 or so of textbooks, plus all the online bs i read.

think i'm going to wear my eyes out?

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You need to get out more.

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So you're unhappy with the President by Jay Leno...

by zeroday in

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edited to add: jay leno did not write this.... .

subject: read jay leno's letter.

''what we are so unhappy about?''.

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I have to agree with you zeroday, we are sheeple. We are, as a nation, lead along by a media with an agenda, (if you believe that their only agenda is making money that's still an agenda) and we, as a nation, think as a group. We, as a nation, no longer get both sides of the shory and make up our own minds.

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Iraqi official says video shows Blackwater guards firing on civilians

by nvrgnbk in

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iraqi official says video shows blackwater guards firing on civiliansbaghdad, iraq (ap) -- iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows blackwater usa guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior iraqi official said saturday.

he said the case had been referred to the iraqi judiciary.

iraq's president, meanwhile, demanded that the americans release an iranian arrested this week on suspicion of smuggling weapons to shiite militias.

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But I must ask, what motivates and maintains this media-wide conspiracy against America?

In my opinion 2 things. First, I think there is a liberal bias in colleges and since all jurnalist attend college at a time in their life when they are forming their oppinions, they learn this liberal bias. When I only listened to the society, and read their literature I believed it, when you are only exposed to one side of an issue you tend to believe it.

Secondly the media is a business. When their is a "story" its better business then when there's a slow news day. So they try to get a story going by showing the faults.

Don't most journalists enter that field because by their nature they want the truth to be told?

I don't know why most journalist get into the field, maybe they just want to travel the world, or maybe they want to be on TV. Maybe they had honest intentions in the begining but were corrupted by the system.

I think most people that go into the priesthood have good intentions at first too but that doesn't mean that that doesn't change somewhere down the line.

Besides, this story isn't about the US military per se.
It's about a contractor that has spun out of control.

Yes but it is meant, imo, to throw dirt on the entire war and say its just another reason for us to get out.

To add another point, I feel that more than half the US population feels they were lied to from the very beginning of this invasion/occupation.

I don't disagree with this, I too feel that more than half the US population feels they were lied to from the very beginning of this invasion/occupation.

But this just proves my point. The congress had the same intelegence as the president, it was wrong, our reason for going in (WMD's) happened to be wrong, but that doesn't mean the president lied to us, that is the spin that those who now want us out have put on it. Many Dems. in the congress say they were lied to but they were out their pushing the war at the start. Now that its turned into a quagmire they are trying to distance themselves from that decision.

I agree that we maybe should have never gone into Iraq but to leave now would just lead to mass genocide. How can we as a country say that we have to do something about Dufar and at the same time say that we have to let the same thing go on in Iraq?

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