i no longer throw everyone into two groups 1. ''the truth'' and 2. ''the world''.
and i have realised that apostates arnt actualy as scary as they were made out to be.
Sam87
Posts by Sam87
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28What are some personal truths you now believe in after leaving the WT?
by lovelylil inthese are things i hold as personally true for me:.
1) there is no religion today that has the only truth about god.
2) the bible contains truths for christians but other religions have books that contain truth for them.
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Is it Friday yet?...........
by kittyeatzjdubs inpretty please?.
can't.....go on....much.......longer.....brain.....is fried....fingers....numb...from...typing...ears....bleeding...from screaming...angry....customers...... please god.....hear my prayers..... .
**crawls to breakroom to make more coffee**.
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Sam87
far out jojo! you sure as hell did beat me! you must be wrecked! itll take you the whole weekend to rest and by the time your ready to party itll be monday! but the money is a good incentive though! lol
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Did any of you ever have "overzealous"parents?
by Ex-Jo Ho inthis may have been discussed before but did any of you have crazy strict parents...i mean did they have even more strict ideas than what the religion already had put restrictions on?.
my stepfather had been a crazy drug/alcohol addict before dragging my family into the "truth"...then it seemed he became obsessed with the religion.
honestly...i don't know which was worse!
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Sam87
no i personaly didnt have that but one of my good friends did have similar, she wasnt even allowed to go shopping with us boys because her parents were scared that we would go and try on exotic underware! we were only about 15-16 or so! lol!
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Possibly overdone topic - panda world
by XU inwhat did you think you would be doing in the paradise?
like after all the garbage was picked up and the 2nd dead were buried?
i thought i would get a house with a creek running through it and play with animals.
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just the usual for me i guess, build a house in some exotic part of the world, play with all the animals, eat good food, generaly just live it up.
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Old Rutherford vinyl records...
by Sam87 inmy mother found some old jw records a couple of months ago, they apparently were what the dubs used to use when they were witnessing, theyd go out with a record player and play these records to people to preach to them.. just wondering if anyone else has any of these?
im guessing theres probly not that many of them around, i think i have about 6 or so of them and they are quite old, (im at work at the moment so i cant really tell you any more about them) i was thinking that i mite sell them on ebay, maybe ill get a bit of cash for them.. .
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thanks for the help guys, i think i mite keep them for a while, i mite even record whats on them and then burn it onto a cd or post it on the web, i bet theres alot of people here that would like to hear them.
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Who is DF/DA or Fader???
by mama1119 ini was just wondering, how many dfed to we have on here compared to da or faders??
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Sam87
fader, i was never baptised, (im still only 19) although i was slowly starting to think about it, but being born into the org its never as much of a rush to get baptised as it is if you are studying, thats strange though.
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A Message To All The Lurkers
by Anitar inin recent weeks, i have seen several posters that some call the jw "lurkers," meaning the witnesses who read the articles of this site, and are perhaps questioning what the watchtower has been teaching them, yet are still very defensive of the watchtower's actions.
as a result, i have seen and participated in several heated debates.
it seems the main criticism of us is that we focus too much on the "negative," that we dig up the past too much, and worst of all, that we have nothing to really complain about, other than the personal vendettas some of us have against the watchtower.
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bttt
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Is it Friday yet?...........
by kittyeatzjdubs inpretty please?.
can't.....go on....much.......longer.....brain.....is fried....fingers....numb...from...typing...ears....bleeding...from screaming...angry....customers...... please god.....hear my prayers..... .
**crawls to breakroom to make more coffee**.
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Sam87
i know exactly what you mean, my job requires a full day of typing and walking to the photocopier its 8:20 over here and ive still got till 4:45! ARGHHH!
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What planted the seed of doubt that lead you to leave or think of leaving?
by NanaR ini've been thinking of this a lot lately.
the following experience ties my first doubt in with my present life.
as a backdrop to this, you should know that i was a 5th generation "raised in the truth" jw through my mother (her great-grandfather got "the truth" from pastor russell).
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Sam87
for me what started it was probably the fact that the elders are so sneeky, and they lie and cover up facts about child abusers, that led me to think that there is no way that they are appointed by Jehovah, so i never beleived that, then a bit later it was the UN relationship that put the final nail in the coffin for me.
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Sign of the Times/the End is Near!!!!!!!!!!
by mama1119 inmy dad told me a story today about a dub he works with.
my dad is a huge spots fan, and he was talking to this dub about the incident a couple years ago when some baseball player wrote a book about all the steroid use in sports...just normal conversation...and this dub shook his head and said..."just goes to show you the end is near, its a sign of the end of system of things".
where in the bible did it list baseball players steroid use as a sign of the end???
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i dont think theres anything that they dont consider to be a sign of the end, everything that they see they reflect in some way to how the end is coming.
Sam87