Posts by logic

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KNOW ANY JWS INVOLVED IN DUBIOUS BUSINESS PRACTICES?

by badboy in

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any takers?

logic

My son was cheated out of his wages when he was a teenager by so called brothers . Three different brothers three different times. I educated my self in contract law including labor law because of being a contractor, so I worked with my son on each occasion to get his money. Each brother had to face the labor board, they ended up paying dearly. No more was heard from them again. No crooked brother wants to face you legally, they could end up disfellowshiped and I use that to my advantage. I personally also had problems working with brothers when I was young, except my dad did things differently, he went to the person personaly and collected the money if you know what I mean. It is best not to do buisness with so called brothers.

The worst kind of dishonesty is when some one clains to be rightious but lies and cheats anyway.

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I was told I have diabetes today

by noni1974 in

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my doctor told me i have it.

i have to test my blood to see if it can be contorlled by diet or if i have to take meds for it.

for the next 2 weeks i have to test my blood 2 times a day.

logic

Stay completely away from processed foods. Educate yourself as to what is in you food. Doughnuts and other pastries are not only are addictive they are deadly. If you stop them for a few days , which is hard to do, you will finally lose the addiction. Stay away from alchohol. I have been diabetic for many, many years now. I finally learned not to cheat it does not work well for you. The best I ever did was when I was on the atkins diet. I had to actually quit taking all my prescriptions, but then I started cheating again and was back where I started. I am back on a modified atkins diet now and now am getting back to normal again. The blood test thing just finally becomes second nature and you don't pay much attention to it. I worked in construction with this condition for many years and I did just fine. It never really bothered me that much, I think it is just how you look at things. You will find that you will that you are going to learn things about food that makes the whole thing very interesting. Good luck to you.

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Speaking of WTBTS illustrations, what's up with all the dress clothes?!

by Lady Zombie in

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gruesome armageddon illustrations aside, what's up with never drawing women wearing pants (unless they're worldly)?!.

picturing them at the kh is one thing, but picturing "christian" women (i.e.

jw women) outside of the kh wearing dresses is a bit ridiculous.

logic

The governing body just has a thing about women. I hate the way women are treated in this organization. The women would probably do a better job of running the organization anyway . I hate it when women put up with men who treat them like they are inferior. When my wife and I first got married we went to a get together and for the first time I realized that the women would go get the food for their husbands. My wife asked me what she could get for me, and I said that was able bodied and could get my own food and have been for 43 years. To me there is nothing dummber looking than a woman waiting hand and foot on a man just sitting on his ass doing abusulutely nothing.

My wife and I are partners in the buisness of life. She does the finances because otherwise we would be destitute. We are different but we are equal. I have alot of people ask what my secret to a happy and long marrage is, I tell them in a serious but jokingly manner,'just do what your wife tells you to do and do it with a smile on your face, it will not kill you.

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How Long Did It Take You to Realize It Wasn't "The Truth"?

by minimus in

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i see some posters still aren't 100% sure that the jehovah's witness religion might not be "the truth"....was there a moment when things became very clear for you regarding this religion?.

do you still think, maybe----jws aren't all that bad??

?.

logic

I was born in. I too was never convinced, I just assumed that they were really inspired, I mean how else could they come up with these ideas. There were so many crazy ideas that just weren't logical. I never was considered strong in the truth and didn't care. I always felt I was just along for the ride. If it weren't for my family I would have probably just faded away. I did the pioneer thing but it didn't mean much to me. I became inactive for about 20 years and should have stayed that way. The things that always bothered me were, how did they know they were chosen in 1919, was god talking to them or not. the date things just never made any sense. Keeping time records. All the made up names which created more of a class system. I don't care what anybody says , pioneers think they are better than everybody else. I always thought of them as worse. That is why I stopped the pioneer thing , it was all bull crap. I got tired of people thinking I was great because I was a pioneer.

Then came the things that started my research. Both were odd and ironic. An email was circulated by jws from an long time elder. In the email he brought up how he had always just read scriptures at meetings etc. and never really sat down and studied the bible. At the time I didn't think of what his purpose was but it got me to thinking. The second thing was when I reading about the great pyramid and came across the part about russell and his lunacy concerning dates. Believe it or not these two things started me on a very large research on everything to do with the society. I began to say to myself, 'now all the doubts I always had were making sense to me , it really was just a bunch of crap.

I was never really upset about it and I did not go through the feelings that alot of other people went through, I was prepared for it all my life, I just wished that I done this many, many years ago.

For any of jws that may be reading this, please do some research, there is nothing to fear from the truth. There is only one reason that the society tells you not to miss meetings and field service , it is not because you will become spiritually weak it because you will become spiritually strong. I feel so good now that I don't go to the meetings, etc. where I was so blasted bored and miserable. Study the bible at home where you are confortable. The longer you miss the meetings the more clear your mind will become and then you will be able to think on you own and all the things you have read here will start to make sense to you.

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Society to start laminating paper backed publications

by Lady Zombie in

at the wednesday night ministry school meeting, a letter from the society was read announcing that wtbts paperbacked publications will begin to be laminated.

according to the letter, this "will save approximately 2 million dollars per year," "lengthen the life of the publications," and "increase the attractiveness" of the publications.. so there's that.. .

also, will someone please explain to me why 85% of the congregation started smiling and nodding at this.. i sometimes think that headquarters could send the congregations boxes of turds and the jws would act like it was the best thing ever..

logic

My wife wanted to spiral bound hers because she said it would be easier to use. I told her to take a razor knife and just cut out the pages for the study each time, then throw away the pages that are done, then when you are done you can get another one for the hundreth time. That way you always have new pages.

I wanted a large print bible many years ago, but I hated the large print hardbound copy of the nwt. So I priced the cost of having it rebound , the price is ridiculous and you still end up with a cheap bible. So I just bought myself a very large print bright print kings james bible in leather, cost me 35.00 bucks , it is a really nice bible and way much easier to read than the nwt.

The society always bragged on the quality of their literature, but the quality is actually crap. I have some that have never been used that just start to fall apart. I think the society knew there was no need for endurance. The book shouldn't have to last any longer than the old light.

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Accurate Knowledge and the "Faithful Slave"

by Honesty in

page 24 paragraph 14 in the april 1, 2006 watchtower magazine says the following:.

gods organization plays a vital role in our spiritual growth.

it provides a wealth of bible publications that help us to grow in accurate knowledge, to act wisely when we are faced with problems, and to cultivate a close relationship with god.

logic

First they got it from the holy spirit then from angels then back to the holy spirit then it came from some kind of weird osmosis.. They were inspired then not inspired, they are prophets but not real prophets. They also get alot of their information from actual bible scholars and from alot of speculation on their own part, then they take all this and mix it up a great big black pot and then call it the truth. In other words the so called jw ain't got a clue where they get it from.

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Acts 7:59

by civicsi00 in

riddle me this about acts 7:59.. ok, so last night i pulled out the 1985 kingdom interlinear and just started perusing through it.

after a while, i arrived at acts 7:59 where stephen "appealed" to jesus.

this is what i also found:.

logic

One question I had with this scripture was if Jesus had been given all power and authority , then who do you ask . If Jesus is our mediator for God, then do we bypass Jesus. Jesus said ask anything of me in my name. Did God put Jesus in charge of us. It seems to me that it is as if you would go to the supervisor on a job and then he goes to upper management. The management has put the supervisor in charge. Even in this case the supervisor has not been given all power authority as it is with Jesus. I think that the society confuses this by saying in effect, that we ask Jesus to connect us to Jehovah like he is a switchboard. This is just my opinion.

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Do UFO's exist or is this another Cult?

by Witness 007 in

some ufo evidence makes me laugh.

like the nasa out in space pictures which obviously show space junk floating in the atmosphere....cattle mutilations????

why would advanced beings repeatedly do this??

logic

Unidentified objects do exist. Whether they are flown by aliens from outer space is another question.

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Dogs on the bed yes no?

by restrangled in

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this is a lighter topic.. how do you feel about your dogs on the bed?

forbid it?.

my boys are allowed on the bed all day but at night we say "down to the crate" the crate happens to be a very expensive leather couch with many pillows.. they listen to what ever we say, but the human bed seems to be the best place.. i change the sheets every other day.....can't stand the itchy, scrachties!.

logic

about the co saying pets should stay outside because they are dirty and germy, I guess noah didn't know about that when he had them on the ark.

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Dogs on the bed yes no?

by restrangled in

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friends

this is a lighter topic.. how do you feel about your dogs on the bed?

forbid it?.

my boys are allowed on the bed all day but at night we say "down to the crate" the crate happens to be a very expensive leather couch with many pillows.. they listen to what ever we say, but the human bed seems to be the best place.. i change the sheets every other day.....can't stand the itchy, scrachties!.

logic

The cats and dogs both. But we are allowed also.

Bring the light, are you sure you don't write for the society?