when i was younger i used to have terrible convulsions and hear "voices".
my mom was convinced that it must be "the demons".
the congregation prayed over me and eventually i went to a doctor that was able to figure out why i was so sickly and presto: everyone's prayers were answered..
When I was little, if I heard a noise in my room or outside the window I would be scared to death. I remember pulling a thin red blanket over totally over my head and body and saying Jehovah or Jehovah help me!
thanks mom, thanks dad....oompa...my kids can thank me too
plus some have said I have a demon in my_____s
no, i'm not here to defend them.
but you know how they love to get off on technicalities.
i'm sure all here would agree that the wt is extremely evasive, misleading, and intellectually dishonest (i.e.
recently there was a lie cited in the REV CLIMAX book where it stated that WTS taught that the beginning of problems would start in 1914, when actually they were printing that the END was coming in 1914.
going to pass it on to my dad/elder....oompa
i am too tired to find mine right now, but it involves men laying in wait to attack and rape sisters going to dance at a circuit assembly.
i think the purpose was to find even more wives for the tribe of benjamin.
great plan god.. ot stuff always weirded me out more than nt stuff, until i found out we have a totally fraudulant nt version, compete with the name jehovah spuriously inserted 237 times, along with many other spurious verses.
EX:(1
Samuel18:25-29) "25 At that Saul said: "This is what YOU men will say to David, ‘The king has delight, not in marriage money, but in a hundred foreskins of the Phi·lis´tines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.’" But as for Saul, he had schemed to have David fall by the hand of the Phi·lis´tines. 26 So his servants reported these words to David, and the matter was to David’s liking, to form a marriage alliance with the king, and the days had not yet expired. 27 So David rose and he and his men went and struck down among the Phi·lis´tines two hundred men, and David came bringing their foreskins and giving them in full number to the king, to form a marriage alliance with the king. In turn Saul gave him Mi´chal his daughter as a wife. 28 And Saul got to see and know that Jehovah was with David. As for Mi´chal, Saul’s daughter, she loved him. 29 And again Saul felt still more fear because of David, and Saul came to be an enemy of David always."
Oh man I bet that looked like a plate of chitlins' or worse....oompa
there would never be a good time to have this conversation.
quite different from most people raised a witness, i have very few horror stories about my upbringing.
my family was just a family, my mom and dad fought and argued, my siblings and i misbehaved and got in trouble.. .
Para---Send you mom the info NOW! They are not getting any younger and she may forget the whole thing in a few months.
strike while iron hot.....oompa
no, i'm not here to defend them.
but you know how they love to get off on technicalities.
i'm sure all here would agree that the wt is extremely evasive, misleading, and intellectually dishonest (i.e.
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Rbi8p.6Introduction***Therefore, the foremost feature of this translation is the restoration of the divine name to its rightful place in the English text. It has been done, using the commonly accepted English form "Jehovah" 6,973 times in the Hebrew Scriptures and 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. For a detailed study of this matter, see App 1A-1D.
This is a lie. You can not "restore" something, such as the name Jehovah 237 times in the Greek Scriptures if it never existed, or there is no proof of it. Websters below will prove it. I like the "painting" example. You can create a painting, you can "restore" a painting, but can not restore a painting that never existed.
for some reason I cant paste the websters quote....sorry.....oompa
most are familiar with murphy's law: "if anything can go wrong, it will".
here are a few more.... benford's law: "passion in any argument is inversely proportional to the amount of real information advanced".
godwin's law: "the longer an argument drags on, the likelier someone will stoop to a hitler or nazi analogy".
The Peter Principle
don't laugh, it is real....oompa...you can google it
The principle is based on the observation that in such an organization new employees typically start in the lower ranks, but when they prove to be competent in the task to which they are assigned, they get promoted to a higher rank. This process of climbing up the hierarchical ladder can go on indefinitely, until the employee reaches a position where he or she is no longer competent. At that moment the process typically stops, since the established rules of bureacracies make that it is very difficult to "demote" someone to a lower rank, even if that person would be much better fitted and more happy in that lower position. The net result is that most of the higher levels of a bureaucracy will be filled by incompetent people, who got there because they were quite good at doing a different (and usually, but not always, easier) task than the one they are expected to do.
there would never be a good time to have this conversation.
quite different from most people raised a witness, i have very few horror stories about my upbringing.
my family was just a family, my mom and dad fought and argued, my siblings and i misbehaved and got in trouble.. .
What a freaking great ending. He is proud of you? And he lost your cards? My only question is why was this conversation necessary? Was it just a burning desire to say "I don't believe anymore?" or was it something else? Those initial reactions were scary bad...so sorry.
Third edit now... your post was great...not long at all. I see you are Jedi and apparently not active for some time. I will go back and read some of your posts. Your dad seemed to kind of expect this..Why? And did you just drop this bomb of info on them at once? I have been bringing up point/doubts/questions with my folks for over a year now, but don't know if that is the best way.
best wishes....oompa
and damn it I am a son too, and I have a son..df'd but still my son
here's a new topic.
tell us in what ways you were taken advantage of during your stint within the borg.. me?
i had sisters involved in these residual income companies (e.g.
I had several sisters that only wanted me for my body.....that's right.....
sex.....oompa
I HATE being taken advantage of!!
i am too tired to find mine right now, but it involves men laying in wait to attack and rape sisters going to dance at a circuit assembly.
i think the purpose was to find even more wives for the tribe of benjamin.
great plan god.. ot stuff always weirded me out more than nt stuff, until i found out we have a totally fraudulant nt version, compete with the name jehovah spuriously inserted 237 times, along with many other spurious verses.
Ok the firewood did it for me. New thread within a thread maybe? Is that legal?
How in the HELL did this book get so popular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really.,....oompa
i am getting to wonder what the point of life is anyway.
are we just a product of evolution with the sole purpose of survival?
i feel so confused and anxious right now.
I can't seem to make decisions any more because I don't trust myself to make the right ones. I don't know who I am at the moment, can't seem to concentrate on much and not really interested in doing much anyway. I won't go on feeling like this surely but how long does it last ?
Maddie, this has happened to me as well, esp. the loss of interest in things I had always loved. I had to get some meds, and it still lasted. Changed meds about 6 times over the past year before I feel more "normal" but now I don't know if it is the meds or if time has healed me some, but I hope "normal" comes back to you soon.
dont like meds.....oompa
