| it is, greendawn, you're right... but I'd add to that that it's a fault we many many people make, not just JWs... I'm thinking about young people - most of us think we're invincible when we're young, we have life ahead of us and we don't really think it will end - or rather we don't think about it at all. So, it's not just a JW failing - it's a common belief in immaturity. |
alotlikemay
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Have you let go of waiting for Armageddon?
by Fisherman inalthough, after experiencing many disappointments and failed dates, i cannot let go and i cannot dismiss the expectation that god will intervene somehow.
i still hold on, hoping that maybe i will not experience sheol and neither will some of my loved ones.
how about you?
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alotlikemay
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Have you let go of waiting for Armageddon?
by Fisherman inalthough, after experiencing many disappointments and failed dates, i cannot let go and i cannot dismiss the expectation that god will intervene somehow.
i still hold on, hoping that maybe i will not experience sheol and neither will some of my loved ones.
how about you?
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alotlikemay
cool, mate, but as I just replied to steve2 - just factor into your reasoning how it'll be if you happen to be wrong, if what you conclude now is science happens to be wrong... just think about it, that's all
as for me, I believe what I believe and thank you for not being dogmatic or preachy :-)
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Have you let go of waiting for Armageddon?
by Fisherman inalthough, after experiencing many disappointments and failed dates, i cannot let go and i cannot dismiss the expectation that god will intervene somehow.
i still hold on, hoping that maybe i will not experience sheol and neither will some of my loved ones.
how about you?
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alotlikemay
steve2
- let people be what they want to be and believe what they want to believe
- stop thinking you must be right.... just because you've decided you're right
- start imagining what it may be like if you happen, by some quirk of fate, to be wrong...
- stop giving orders lol, you sound like an elder !
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Have you let go of waiting for Armageddon?
by Fisherman inalthough, after experiencing many disappointments and failed dates, i cannot let go and i cannot dismiss the expectation that god will intervene somehow.
i still hold on, hoping that maybe i will not experience sheol and neither will some of my loved ones.
how about you?
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alotlikemay
cultswatter, thanks so much for that quotation! I actually remember that! yeah, I'm that old haha
I also remember a circuit overseer saying that A was definitely coming in September/October 1975 and I sat there working out that I'd be 21 when it happened.
Frankly, I don't think I ever believed it would happen then. I didn't change my life or anything when I heard that - I just remember thinking it was kinda cool I'd have 'come of age' that year. I believed pretty much what one of the ladies earlier described - whether A came first or my death, the most important thing is how I stand with God.
but I loved that memory, cultswatter, thanks!
PS does everyone remember what the Bible says is the fate of those who are false prophets? hmm
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Have you let go of waiting for Armageddon?
by Fisherman inalthough, after experiencing many disappointments and failed dates, i cannot let go and i cannot dismiss the expectation that god will intervene somehow.
i still hold on, hoping that maybe i will not experience sheol and neither will some of my loved ones.
how about you?
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alotlikemay
yes and no
yes because I realise it's entirely possible and even probable that I'll die a natural death (as opposed to at Armageddon) and I'm OK with that
no because I think something like that will happen, but I have every confidence that if there is a loving Creator he will not go against his own nature and he will not let one person or thing be destroyed just for the sake of it - having said that, if there is a creator then he has a mind far more sophisticated than mine and I won't be able to understand everything he does
I don't live my life in anxious anticipation of the end - but if it comes, well, no-one will be happier than me because this world is awful, there's such terrible suffering on all sorts of levels and the sooner that ends, the better.
I don't fear his judgment either
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alotlikemay
a psychopath = mentally ill or unstable person; especially: a person affected with antisocial personality disorder (Merriam-Websters online dictionary)
erm, no more than any other member
what's your own opinion, badboy? and why did you ask?
PS not sure why I have this formatting problem - sorry folks
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I cant continue to live like this i really need help
by Tryin2FindAnewMe inok im trying desperatley just to be done with everything.
i'm so depressed because it feels as though i'm living my life wrong.
why cant i get from under the dark cloud, that keeps me down.
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alotlikemay
Crumpet - thanks but how sad is that for you!
such a lot of sad things to be read on this forum - makes me annoyed sometimes when people think JWs are harmless, just freaky people who are laughable... it is not harmless or funny at all! it's responsible for some real tragedies ... so sad
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Matt 24:14 NOT fulfilled
by Zico ini had my special assembly day today.
(yay!
) i actually missed most of it because i went for some long walks :) but i was present during the last talk, which was given by a speaker from bethel.
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heathen... not sure what you mean...? it's set up as I bought it... or have i misunderstood? I'm not overly techie! -
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I cant continue to live like this i really need help
by Tryin2FindAnewMe inok im trying desperatley just to be done with everything.
i'm so depressed because it feels as though i'm living my life wrong.
why cant i get from under the dark cloud, that keeps me down.
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alotlikemay
some great advice here, I can't add to it. Junction and geevee made good points, too....
thing is, while ever you're thinking you left God, you will torment yourself! if you really believe that, then actually I'd advise you to go back to it... under no circumstances do I think anyone should ever leave God....
but in fact, you didn't leave God - like Junction said, you left an organisation. In so doing you may actually find God!
I 'wasted' 22 years (ages 15-37) in the organisation. Lost a lot of opportunities - but got most of them back, it's been incredible. The one thing I lost and will not get back is (as I've posted elsewhere) the ability to have children - didn't get married and have kids 'cos i pioneered and thought that was the right thing to do. Now it's too late, can't have kids 'cos I'm going through the menopause, and it's a real cause of grief in many ways because I'm a woman and it's built into me to bear children. I won't ever hold my own baby in my arms or have the challenge of bringing a child up.
Life can be full of regrets. The thing is to overcome the regret and sadness and get on with the future, take the new opportunities life brings us - because it surely does.
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They finally found me...
by P&C inknock on the door this morning.... a nice little witnoid lady is at my door... hands me a tract (i think it was a memorial invite)...and says.... "i'd like to give you an invitation to an "event"...that the whole community is talking about".... how sad... they resort to lying and misrepresentation... on the simplest of matters.. i handed it back and said no thanks... she turned and left.. that is the first contact the borg has had with me in almost 5 years... hope it's another 5 before i see one again.... p&c.
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don't see much of JWs around here either. Last time was about three years ago and I think they'd been sent by an old 'friend' .... hmmmm.... anyway they regretted it - I'd been in the truth way before they'd come into it so I could talk with first-hand experience about 1975 mania and various things the WT has said about prophecy and so on. They hadn't any argument back because I'd been there!
I think I'm a DNC but I don't see them around here at anyone else's door either. Maybe they're tiring out? lol