Posts by freeme

I'll bet staying well hydrated is one of his secrets to a youthful appearance.
You're overlooking the "day for a year" principle. Thus we have 7 x 360 = 2,520 years. paradoxically, it appears Jehovah was born some 3,480 years after he created Adam, who lives one block down and around the corner.

you forgot that a thousand years is only a day for jehovah. so 2520 "jehovah years" are 2520*360 = 907200 "jehovah days" which equal to 907200*1000 = 907,200,000 human years.

makes sense!

edit: i forgot the propheting year with 360days/year... i corrected it...

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Remember the Movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

by alias in

... towards the end when the bad guys opened the ark and indiana and his lady were tied to the pole, the spiritual unleashing that came out and killed, no, melted all the bad guys?

i was probably 9 or 10 when that movie came out and it literally scared the cheese out of me in the theater.

i was so glad to be a jw at the time because i felt like i just witnessed the power of god and saw what was going to happen to opposers when judgment day came.

freeme

I guess, my favorite scene in that movie is the one where Indy is fightin the 'bad guys', and one pops up who is HUGE! He then goes about twirling his large-bladed knife - letting Indy know that he was a force to be reckoned with.
Indy's response? He kinda shrugs, then unholster's his gun and shoots the fella. Dead on the spot. That sorta said heaps - without saying much.

that scene wasnt scripted by the way. harrison did this as a joke while shooting and they found it good and shot it again (with the bad guy falling). in the script he wouldve fight the guy.

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jws are causing global warming

by rebel8 in

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ok, so i realize we all are causing global warming, etc., etc.

i was thinking how interesting it is that jws will beif theyre not alreadyranting on about mans destruction of earth being the fulfillment of prophecy, blahbety blah blah, all the while they are contributing in a hearty way to the problem.

if man is so evil and godless for destroying the earth, what does that make the dubs?

freeme

What about "Jehovah bring to ruin those ruining the earth" does that not apply to dubs?

of course not! the dubs are the good ones and their way to "ruin the earth" is good because its part of spreading the message (at least some percent of the ruining)...

its completely unlogical, but hey... ive never seen something else in JW land...

what the funny thing is:

ive never understoof why this scripture has ANYTHING to do with pollution and global warming. the context doesnt imply it and its way more possible that "ruining the earth" doesnt mean destroying the planet but peaceful society (violence, immoral, stuff)... that would be something john knew from his time and would fit very well.

when you go to the cinema and someone next to you tells you the next scene ahead and the ending at the beginning of the movie he will "ruin" the movie... but that doesnt mean he goes up take the movie and shred it into pieces.

but of course only jesus mouth piece the WTS knows what it means... and john meant global warming... sure...

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Out-of-body experiences recreated in a lab

by acsot in

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wonder what paranormal believers will make of this.

british and swiss researchers have succeeded in deliberately inducing out-of-body sensations.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/rtgam.20070823.wbrain0824/bnstory/science/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsup.

freeme

oh i thought its for real... its only a simulation with cameras and 3d glasses. its very interesting but as i expected.

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JW Science Quote Of The Day 8-27

by TD in

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in the 1979 movie, "the china syndrome" there is a scene right after swat team members have retaken the control room from jack godell.

(jack lemon) kimberly wells (jane fonda) nervously whispers to richard adams, (michael douglas) "the reactor is the biggest bomb in there!

this reflected a belief, common in the 1970's that commercial nuclear reactors were capable of going up in a mushroom cloud like an atomic bomb.. although no one can deny that accidents and malfunctions at nuclear power plants can potentially be catastrophic, these reactors are not capable of a bomb-like reaction.

freeme

ya, i never questioned it myself too for way to long.

of course nuclear powerplants CAN actually explode... it even can be devastating. but i do agree that the quoters in that case thought of a nuclear explosion too.

the second error is minor in my opionion. the watchtower is not a scientific magazine.

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Im down again

by freeme in

hello people!

i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit.

it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further.

freeme

I was also convinced I'd have no social network once I left the JW's and would end up a crazy cat lady

that one made me laugh :) and yes, i fear that too somehow :) (except being a lady lol... maybe a crazy dog guy rofl)

thanks all for your comments. its really appreciated.

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Remember the Movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

by alias in

... towards the end when the bad guys opened the ark and indiana and his lady were tied to the pole, the spiritual unleashing that came out and killed, no, melted all the bad guys?

i was probably 9 or 10 when that movie came out and it literally scared the cheese out of me in the theater.

i was so glad to be a jw at the time because i felt like i just witnessed the power of god and saw what was going to happen to opposers when judgment day came.

freeme

in my youth that movie was kind of forbidden, because of the heavy references to the bible, the name of god, the ark and stuff.

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Im down again

by freeme in

hello people!

i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit.

it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further.

freeme

Hello people! i just have to share this to relax myself a little bit. it was very hard yesterday... like not having the strength to go any further. me and my wife talked about the possibility of a new house with more room, since i need more room. and she told me with a smile on her face "yeah, and in the cellar we could have parties with your friends". she expected that i will be smiling too and happy. i normally would be this way. i said nothing but immediately the picture of me completely friendless somewhere in the near future shot into my mind. she got a little upset (because i stayed calm) and asked me why i am so negative. i just told her that i dont know whether i will have friends to invite. that were the second where the yelling started again. i think theres no other topic that turns her into a killermachine so fast. after a lot of fighting and me crying we end up that i asked her why do we always need to yell instead of comfort eachother with love when life is hard... somehow this time i hit a nerve with it and the first time ever she comforted me and i had some relief (so good...). but the day wasnt finished yet... i wasnt at the hall in the evening and of course a witness friend called me asking why i wasnt there and whether we were somewhere else. i answered "no". he asked: "just because you were lazy???!!!!" with disgust in his voice. it reminds me what awaits me when i leave. im not the type of person who can live with all that pressure. the shunning and hate. im a person whos inner urge it is to make friends with everyone. if everyone i love and like walk away from me and see me as a bunch of shit i truly dont know what to do next. but i have another thing in me actually. :-( yesterday late my wife and me drove out of a parking lot. a group of ppl approached the lot and my wife stopped to let them by. a girl in the group told her with a dismissive hand signal that she may drive by. by wife did so, but didnt said "thank you" loudly because of the other traffic she had to watch for. then the girl yelled at her "THANK YOU!!!!" (negative tone). at that second i was so fed up by my fears, my life and that i dont see a solution for all that misery and the pressure im receiving all the time that i was lucky not sitting on the drivers seat. i was like hitting the breaks, stepping out, go to that girl and dont care what happends next. of course it wouldve been complete stupidity... it scares me. im a friendly person normally. but... uh... i dont know. luckily i did nothing but feeling anger in me. im completely at my limits. :( f*ck... it makes me crazy that if i might would do such stuff, because of the pain that my so-called friends and so-called family unleash upon me all my friends and family would see that as proof that im satanic. "freeme never did something like this before. so sad that he left god... so sad in what he has turned into". im still in... but some ppl already sense it big time what im about to do. and im actually giving them the perfect story for it. im stressed, im unhappy, ive fewer selfcontrol... so easy to see that its such a bad idea to leave gods wonderful organization. look at freeme how he ended without god... *sighs* its incredibly f*cked up... i think the last time i cried so much in my life as i do now i had diapers on. :P makes me feel weak too... i never was so weak before in my life. freeme

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Will This Latest Scandal Finally Prompt You To Leave?

by sweet pea in

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in view of the latest uk child abuse scandal, have any of you lurkers/faders/still ins finally decided to make a clean break and leave openly, for good?

freeme

"They just used the child abuse as an excuse to leave."
"They never really loved Jehovah at all."
Or my personal favorite, uttered by one particular self-righteous hypocrit on a past occasion: "They never really had the truth to begin with."

i can hear'em too...