just a thought i had while driving home today.
not that i definitely believe in ghosts, but has anyone here had or heard of a deceased jw relative coming back and trying to warn their still living loved ones that the cult is all a sham?
you would think that if there is indeed some sort of afterlife, that once misguided jws would have some clarity once they passed on and went to a better place.
Damn people! Why does so many people here have a short fuse???? Settle down.
Now to answer the question. If it's all a bunch of crap, then when we die, it's all over-period. No way to possibly communicate.
If it's true, then there would be 6 million ghosts our there keeping the slaves at bay 'till the fireworks starts.
started out like any other normal day..with plans to go to taos with my girlfriend and a good buddy o mine (wlg) sorry mang...had to give u some recognition on this one...anyhow..we went out to a nice place for some breakfast..wandered around taos, went to the taos pueblos to get a chance to watch the native americans dance at the taos pueblo...then we went out to the taos gorge..which for those who dont know is a quite big hole in the ground bout a mile down...the bridge is somewhat a daunting look down for ones who have never seen it before.... anyhow...my girlfriend at first refused to step one foot out onto the bridge but with a little coaxing and a promise to make sure she wouldnt fall off i gradually brought her out to the middle of the bridge where there is a small outcropping where one can stand and look out over the gorge...we stood there staring over the side of the bridge for a few minutes then i slowly took her hand in mine and looked deep into her eyes.... ....and i dropped to one knee....(quite funny too cuz initially she was like what are you doing?
)....i still had her hand in mine and she was staring down at me like i was doing something silly or humorous like is my usual personality trait...i stared at her for a minute or two and said a few sentances of which are too personal to bring up here and then i asked her to marry me..... she looked at me and said "what?!
are you kidding me?!
Glad she said yes. After all it's a long way down!! Well done!
"why did the chicken cross the road?".
if someone asks this, the one thing you know they aren't going to say is "to get to the other side".
that's the classic, original answer that is apparently encoded in our dna, and quite probably on the very vibrations of the universe itself.. you expect something unexpected:.
Why didn't the skeleton cross the road? 'Cause he didn't have enough guts.
Why didn't the skeleton go to the prom? 'Cause he had no body to go with.
i don't want to be disrespectful or cause needless disputes, but there are some thoughts that have been bugging me.
i have to wonder why former members aren't doing more to combat the power of the watchtower society.
of course, i realise that some have made great contributions and others have to first make their own healing process a priority.
When the Watchtower organization becomes irrelevant to the (wo)man in the street (oh wait... it already is), what then?
With one tenth of one percent (.1%) the society IS irrelevant. That is the problem. 99.9% of the population doesn't give a sh.
The society is only important to those obsessed with it.
Ask yourself this. Just how many have you been able to convince to convert by walking down the street? Any at all? So how do you destroy the cult? With knowledge from within the cult. Like planting a virus on a borg ship. The vast majority were forced into it by birth. Those are the ones who need to break free. Forget the older crowd. They are too engrained, they will fade and die. It's the youth that you need to communicate to. That's why this and other 'net sites will help destroy the cult. I found the best way to frustrate a Witness is to simply not talk to them. After all that's what 99.9% of the world does.
i donate several times a year to the nashville rescue mission...
Some change to Sally Ann, plus 4 or 5 donations to Canadian Blood Services a year. Food to the food banks.
first - let me point out that (for those that do not know this), neither my wife nor any of her family are jws.
my wife studied with a jw - but that was many years ago.
she never got too far into the jw religion - but got a knowledge of what - and who they are.
I think it's really creepy and a bit sick to go through the obits to look for potential victims, and then victimize the bereaved.
every time we enter a new year, i think about how i wasn't supposed to make it this long.
i really believed we wouldn't live past the year 2000, and armageddon would change everything.
it almost strikes me as living on borrowed time, but then i remember that armageddon is a story, not a reality.
So I was wondering just what is so wicked about our system?
Pedophiles, disfellowshipping, lying, corruption. Maybe it's an armageddon towards the Watchtower? People in glass houses I suppose.
i have windows/xp.
even my outlook express mail runs slower than before.
Remove all toolbars-they are a front for keystroke and other types of spies. Not sure how many you have. Got to start-go to search and type toolbar and start search. I found a friends computer was running slow with about 100 toolbars. His was extremely slow.
Use your spybot or whatever to remove crap.
Tools-options-delete all cookies.
Use your av program-then if nothing use an outside av check. Use trendmicro/housecalls. Works extremely well.
Also look at your modem and check for activity-watch the activity lights to see for action. While on your desktop, there should be no activity. If there is, you have something running. You need to find and stop it-except for av programs of course.
see this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7212698.stm.
are you the active type or always on the move?.
i try to run at least 3 to 4 times a week in the winter and then get to running 6 days a week in the summer and get up to running over 50 miles in training.
I take really long walks and some short walks as well, but right now I choose 2-3 mile walks because it's soooo cold. My fingers are numb ,and my runny nose is emberrasing!
do you think a witness is more apt to leave the wts because:.
1) ....of indisputable proof of the wts's falsehoods.. or.
2) .....something that personally happened to them that caused a disenchantment w/ the organization.. thanks for you input!.
I am saddened to say that the only way out for the majority is to no longer exist, like a crackhead. This thought is by no means making me feel good. I sometimes want to scream at the top of a mountain and yell " WTF is wrong with you people!"
I hate the idea that the "slaves" hunt down the down and out ppl. The low self esteem folk. I figured out the other day why the Witnesses seem to hang out near Money Mart type stores. They look for the down and out having to scrape by day to day.
Pitiful, bloody pitiful. Sorry but for some reason I'm a bit pissed off today. Might be the endless cold and snow here.
