Posts by Backed away

i was just pondering how the wts has, for over a century, been able to convince people to do what is contrary to their best interests with fear tactics that armageddon is coming soon, and i came up with what is going to be my pet phrase for a while:.

"only religion has the power to compel people to embrace sheer stupidity in the name of faith.

" ~ scully, december 28, 2006. i googled it, and didn't see that anyone else has claimed it, so until someone else finds an attribution for it, i'm claiming it as my own.

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"Here's to Alcohol, the cause of AND the solution to all of lifes problems".

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Did anyone ever rebel to play school sports

by Billzfan23 in

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how many of you who grew up in the truth truly loved a sport and fought hard against your jw parents to get to play it?

post your experience here.

my determination to play come hell or high water led to my mother turning me over to the state as a youngster, which then lead to foster care and freedom until i foolishly came back to the borg as an adult.

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I love Basketball and after repeated pleadings to my parents was allowed to play in middle school and Freshman and JV in high school because the games were during the day and weekdays. my Sophmore year I was given a opportunity to jump to Varsity.

Once my parents found out I was forced to quit because of the night games and occasional Saturdays. I was devastated and to this day friends from school still bring it up. it still hurts..

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What's the most stupid comment a JW told you?

by JH in

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i remember when i was new in the "troof", i was walking in a mall and a jw window washer saw me, and asked, "what are you doing here"?.

yeah, he had a good reason to be at the mall, cause he was washing windows, but i had no business there.... i guess he thought that i was being seduced by material stuff.... and i was stupid enough, not to tell him, mind your own business fu**er....

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I asked a elderly sister once who claimed to be one of the "anointed" how she knew she and her response was, "I just do, you wouldn't understand" and walked away.

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Have you abandoned the hope of everlasting life?

by Fisherman in

do you still believe or nurture in your heart "living forever in a paradise earth" and even never having to die in "this old system"?

or do you now belive in life after death as a spirit being in heaven?

or have you abandoned the hope of everlasting life?

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Thank you FHN,

Death is not love to me.

I still cannot pick and choose portions of the Bible to believe as inspired or not based on if its cruel or not. death is cruel and we will all face it. if you could remove death right now, would you? I know I would if I had the power to spare my children.

Like I said, I respect everyones right to believe as they wish and I have 6 children. they can all believe differently and THEIR Father will love them and never favor one over the other.

The fastest way for me to get rid of my demons was to remove God. but.. if God does exist and gave us a free will, I'm just exercising it.

We may disagree, but I appreciate your response.

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Have you abandoned the hope of everlasting life?

by Fisherman in

do you still believe or nurture in your heart "living forever in a paradise earth" and even never having to die in "this old system"?

or do you now belive in life after death as a spirit being in heaven?

or have you abandoned the hope of everlasting life?

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YES!

When I left the DUB's, I wasn't about to trade one Fairytale of beliefs for another one. I maybe most familiar with the Bible, but whether you believe in the Jehovah version of God or the born again trinity, the bible is still filled with scary stories of death and destruction, the flood, sodom and gomorrah,tower of babel nonsense and lets not forget good Old Hell! forever in torment is still TORMENT regardless of how people want to explain it.

I guess if God exists I just want to give it the benefit of the doubt and believe something whose love is greater than anything we could ever give our own children couldn't destroy me, you and anyone else FOREVER just because they obeyed their parents and their country of origin and and followed that belief system. you can have the needle in a haystack search for truth. just open a phonebook and look up churches to see how many are out there and thats just local. I stopped playing hide and seek for God.

Regardless of the religion, faith is required in teachings none of us were around to witness first hand and prayers being answered isn't enough as ALL religious folks including Jehovah's Witnesses believe their prayers are answered.

Everyone has a right to believe however they want and for me it's day to day.its funny, once I stopped believing in everlasting life, fear went with it.

Good subject..

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My Baby Boy

by mrsjones5 in

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joshua is on his first fieldtrip.

his class is at the children's museum.

i know he will have a lot of fun.

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Thank you for sharing this with us Josie!

Your one terrific Mother and Joshua ( I've ALWAYS loved that name ) is one fortunate young man. my Children and Grandchildren are my world so these posts brighten my day.

Just the other night he said to me "I love you"!

That comment alone brought tears to my eyes as hearing this from our little ones means everything!

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Name only One - one only - the best only!!!!

by AK - Jeff in

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your absolute favorite song of all time.

no lists.

just your absolute favorite and artist.. mine:.

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I am so terribly sorry, I wanted for fun to add a gif from a animated site. please all, except my aplogy as I saw something entirely different.

I am so shaken by this, Ms Mcducket and Msjones5 alerted me and thought I did something intentional. never again will I attach anything, thank you Scully for minimizing this by removing it.

I am backing away now for real. anyone who knows me knows this is not me. Msjones5 wanted me kicked off without a explanation, no need to ask, I will oblige

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Name only One - one only - the best only!!!!

by AK - Jeff in

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your absolute favorite song of all time.

no lists.

just your absolute favorite and artist.. mine:.

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Sorry to all, It was just a dancing man in a bear suit. I don't understand what you say. honest. please except my apology if something else came up. what were you seeing?