Just like the Wizard of Oz said, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"!
dogisgod
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JW Defenders- Is WTS Right to Insist You Stay Away From these Websites?
by OnTheWayOut ini read these threads and there are a few that bend over backwards to say why wts is correct on this issue or that issue.. they act like typical jw's that refuse to acknowledge points that may show that wts is not following the scriptures or that wts goes beyond the scriptures in a way that is not supported by others.. the point could be the blood issue or shunning or whether 1799 or 1914 was the start (or finish?
) of the last days or whether there is a faithful and discreet slave class or not.
i don't want to harp on each point.
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Smoking tobacco- ex-JW's have a warped view, so what should we do?
by OnTheWayOut ini used to smoke cigarettes.
i quit as i was learning the lies of the watchtower organization.. i used to smoke between 1 and 3 packs a day depending on whether i went drinking or not.. .
i didn't really quit for the religion, but as i was learning it.. i swore to quit when cigarettes got to cost me more than a buck a pack.
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dogisgod
My father occasionally smoked cigars (non JW). My mother (devout JW) battled it until she had to have her carotid reamed out. My father in all his wisdom would say...it's not the tobacco that kills people but the stuff they put into the tobacco. I don't like smell of cigaretts and never picked up the habit but I believe that when you look at the ingrediants minus the tobacco it is as pure poison as meth. I don't know how the tobacco companies get away with this. Everybody jumped on the Chinese for poisoning our pets, babys, and toys but nobody goes after these SBs for what they do to people.
DFing people for smoking is stupid. Show me literally where it says not to smoke in the Bible. What about obesity? If they Dfd all JWs for that there would be no more married sisters. (okay just a joke).
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dogisgod
Quantum Theory has some interesting things going on. We are probably just another form of energy that moves on when we die. I don't know about our "personality package". I think we do have a genetic memory passed to us. But for the time being the only answer I can grasp is that we will find out when we get there. Peggy Lee sang it pretty well.
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losing my religion
by imperialspy inafter 5 years away from the borg, it hasnt got any easier.
in fact, in my mind, its got worse.
the pain of losing a mother, father, two sisters and a brother, nieces and nephews, people i loved so dearly, has become ever deeper with every passing day.
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dogisgod
On recommeandation of my counselor I started going to a Unitarian/Universalist Church. I found it to be a breath of fresh air. Well read folks who accept you as you are and no doctrines shoved down your throat. Great social connections and activities. You might want to give it a try. People have many personal beliefs there and it is not run from the top down but from the cong up.
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WHAT WAS YOUR AHA! MOMENT THATIT WAS TIME TO EXIT THE BORG?
by freewilly01 ini had a huge light bulb on moment as i wasy in therapy dealing with a nasty anxiety disorder for many years and having a huge trigger in my life finally silenced.
it was almost the last thing that i thought i would end up doing expecially if you asked my wife and myself even a year before our decision to " live " thats how i view it not decision to leave...........it was a decision to live.. .
my therapist psychiatrist asked me who are you?
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dogisgod
When I was included in ONE meeting with the elders and my "outed" husband and they asked, "Was there something your wife would or wouldn't do that caused you to turn to men?" That was it for me.
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dogisgod
Yes. As long as I don't get old.
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I need help regarding Michael's Jackson JW past...
by JustHuman14 inguys i really got some trouble here in greece with some jw's who claim that m.j was never a jw.
they even claim that reporters and media are trying to create negative inviroment against jw's by saying that michael was a jw.. so you guys in u.s.a can you give me some links, or copies of u.s newspapers and media that show exactly the opposite..... thanks guys for your help.
justhuman.
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dogisgod
Wow. I am shocked about Katherine. I guess I shouldn't be.
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Just Wondering
by dogisgod inso the tues. book study is incorporated into ministry school night...does it run 2 hours still?
the sunday meeting has been cut 15 min.
where was it cut from...the talk?
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dogisgod
So the Tues. book study is incorporated into Ministry School night...does it run 2 hours still? The Sunday meeting has been cut 15 min. Where was it cut from...the Talk? That leaves it to 5 meetings/wk into 2 nights. Is that correct?
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New name for those who have left?
by dogisgod inhey guys, havent been here for a while but have you heard that the society is now calling those who leave "the walking dead"?
i just heard this acouple of days ago but since my mom died i don't have a direct conduit anymore.
sorry if this has already been discussed.
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dogisgod
Hey guys, havent been here for a while but have you heard that the society is now calling those who leave "the walking dead"? I just heard this acouple of days ago but since my mom died I don't have a direct conduit anymore. Sorry if this has already been discussed.
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"Jehovah Provides Direction to the Slave"
by passwordprotected infeb 15th 2009 wt pgs 24,25. .
par 4 - subheading "jehovah trusts the slave".
after quoting ps32:8 (ot)"i shall certainly make you have insight..", the paragraph claims that jehovah provides direction to the slave, stating "we can therefore have full confidence in the scriptural insight, understanding and guidance that we receive from the slave.".
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dogisgod
My mom and I were talking over lunch about the FDS a few months ago. I asked her if she (very independant widow) would let a group of men she didn't know take over her life and tell her how to dress, tell her what to do with her money....especially to them, tell her where she should be at any time, how to think, how to speak, lecture on her sex life, tell her what God REALLY means in the Bible etc. Of course she said "No Way Jose" then why would you let these 17 penises do that very thing. She said that if all was taken away she would still have Jehovah. I agreed that that was all she really needed in the first place.
Doesn't the Bible say ONE mediator? Jesus?