Posts by freeme

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How To Repel Jehovah's Witnesses at Your Door

by WTWizard in

the doorbell rings, and it is jehovah's witlesses.

this is not all that unusual, but in this case you have made it clear that you do not want to be called on.

there is a no trespassing sign prominently displayed on your door, and they know you are absolutely not interested.

freeme

actually the best and always working method to prevent witnesses witnessing at your door is the following:

BE ONE!

lol.

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How To Repel Jehovah's Witnesses at Your Door

by WTWizard in

the doorbell rings, and it is jehovah's witlesses.

this is not all that unusual, but in this case you have made it clear that you do not want to be called on.

there is a no trespassing sign prominently displayed on your door, and they know you are absolutely not interested.

freeme

Do what everyone else does... don't answer the door.

theres nothing you can do more wrong. as a witness im always after the "dont answers". "they didnt receive the good news yet! they've to hear it! ill try to visit them another weekday/another hour!" as long as you dont answer the door you'll be visited over and over again. when someone opened the door when i was a witness and told me "not interested" i scratched his name out and went on. at a maximum i would visit him in 3 or 4 years again or when another witness takes the area. one jw visit in 4 years is not too bad, dont ya think?

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Is agnostic different from athiest? How so?

by wanderlustguy in

i know the answer, because i am agnostic.

it is strange to me that people assume if you say you are agnostic that it means you don't believe in god.

from wiki.... agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of god or gods; or, alternatively, that while individual certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge.

freeme

IP_SEC,

so, youre basically saying if youre believing:

- >50% no god exists and <50% god exists youre atheistic
- 50% no god exists and 50% god exists youre agnostic
- <50% no god exists and >50% god exists youre theistic

its just about the odds, what is more likely to you.

to me its somehow morelikely that there is no god in my perception. but i honestly have to say "i dont know anything about it". i just know that my perception can be completely false. the more i argue with myself about the existence of god the more i realize that i dont have a single clue and thats pretty much 50:50 to me. i dont think anyone else on this planet has a clue.

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Is agnostic different from athiest? How so?

by wanderlustguy in

i know the answer, because i am agnostic.

it is strange to me that people assume if you say you are agnostic that it means you don't believe in god.

from wiki.... agnostics claim either that it is not possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of god or gods; or, alternatively, that while individual certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge.

freeme

for me it appears like being agnostic is the ONLY way to be honest to oneself.
there is noone on this planet who can 100% say "there is a god!" and even noone who can say "there is NO god!".

everyone is agnostic somewhere deep in his/her soul.

thats just my opinion.

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Help needed: your experiences of the internet and JWism

by ppunk in

i am hoping some of you will find a few moments of time to reply to this request for help.

i am researching the impact of the internet on people's journey out of jwism.

i invite everyone to write anything from a sentence to a couple of paragraphs (or more, if desired) relating how the internet has affected your exit.

freeme

the internet gives exactly what i dont have in normal life.

- im not alone with my thoughts.
- im not dumb not to "see" its the one and only truth
- im not evil, to question so-called "truths". its NOT bad to question things at all. its bad to question one side and be forbidden to question the other.
- ive seen and could investigate into things i would've never seen in the isolated JW world.
- i didnt go crazy.
- i didnt commit suicide... (i really felt like doing it before i used the net. and i was in good standing, commited no d/fing sins or whatever. i just knew its not the truth but i felt stuck in it and guilty)

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Time for a new great schism, apostasy, falling away, dissension?

by Awakened07 in

"nineteen fourteen - nineteen schmorsteen" ?.

we've had some threads about this, but it seems the general consensus is that they cannot change the 1914 date - it is what the entire organization rests it's doctrine on.. but why do we say that, really?

at one time (and for many, many years), the years 1799 and 1874 were pivotal dates to the bible students.

freeme

i wonder whether the WT CD will become "apostate lies" sometime... but okay... CDs wont be around forever...

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"Das unerschutterliche Reich" German book by Henninges

by Doug Mason in

as far as i know, henninges produced two books in german: "das unerschutterliche reich" (the unshakeable empire) and "die neue zeit" (the new time).. when i saw a copy of the former book in the 1970s, i photocopied the intro and contents pages, as well as the time chart.

i have provided a scan (420k) of those pages at:.

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=574deb09b243aa2f1435a336cf4d3ee6i would appreciate an accurate translation of the intro and the contents.

freeme

hi!

im one of the native german posters here. i understand everything in the PDF perfectly (but i hate the old font lol). i only dont have much time on my hands atm :-(
my english isnt perfect, but when noone else translates it ill do it :-) ill check back, when i got time.

freeme

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Dinosaurs and the Bible

by zennin in

if you were a jw (!!

), how would you explain dinosaurs and the bible?

?

freeme

you'll laugh, but i learned as a kiddo, that the dinosaurs actually prove and underline gods might and love:

- he created these beasts somewhen while creation (with every day having unknown timespan could be anything even millions of years)
- he created them them for an unknown reason but likely for preparing the earth for us humans. pure love!
- he let them die out, because they werent necessary
- we dont know whether noah saw some of 'em, but this is just an uninteresting sidefact

conclusion:

a god who so carefully made the earth to be humans home and is so powerful to create and destroy such animals!! wow!!!

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Nothing Impossible for Man

by zack in

there was a thread recently about "universal soveriegnty.".

as a dub i never really thought about the concept, i simply accepted it.

it was a nice, neat sound bite of an answer to the.

freeme

i thought about this topic much too.

its one of the problems noone i ever met can explain. if the assumption that god waited before bringing armageddon to

a) save as much humans as possible

and

b) prove the point that mankind cant rule themselves

is true both statements are senseless.

because

a) every little day god waits more thousands by thousands of ppl are added to the pile of sinners and nonbelievers. actually the more god waits the MORE ppl will get killed on armageddon if the JW religion is true at all.

and

b) since mankind never had the chance to live "on their own" nothing is proven! floot, confusing language, israelites with god as their warlord, demons down to earth, etc, etc...

i never understood why this is righteouss at all. and this aint the only thing i never understood.

example: when god is love and more loving than any two parents can be... why does he kill his childs for stuff like "not obeying" and "not working at the fullest" or "being not faithful". and this all when there are wolves out to distract his childs. how would be a mother or father called who would act like that? it sounds more like slavery..

or

when free will is a gift and the choice to obey god is everyones personal choice... why do we need to DIE if we use it the wrong way. especially when were imperfect? wouldnt it be not more loving not giving us the ability to sin in first place? its like giving your child a knife and when it hurts itself with it you kill it, because it didnt use the knife properly :D and why are ppl who leave the jws are treated like a desease? my wife used to say: "everyone is completely free and can chose whether they wanna leave the org or not. and they knew the consequenzes before baptism." oh wow. especially when you knew them at your baptism at the age of 12 lol :D and JWs have exactly the same "free choice" to leave the org or not like someone who hears the words "give me your wallet or ill kill you. its your choice!".

greatest love of all.

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GB on Airplanes

by oneairhead in

have you ever heard of anyone running into the gb on an airliner?

i have not and so that only leads me to believe that they charter jets to move them around the world.

how do they travel?.

freeme

I wonder if they make it a point to never travel in the same vehicle together at the same time, just incase ithey all die in a crash and the rest of the JWs don't know who to appoint next. Of course if they did that, that would be like admitting they weren't 100% sure God was with them...

this is what i thought is this thread is all about... what would happen, when they're all on one flight and the plane crashes rendering everyone dead... omg. for some it would be like god saying "they're wrong", others would think its just a random accident... and the other interesting thing is what would do their succeeders, when they would have a complete free hand to form the society...