Billy the Ex-Bethelite

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  My Mom Wanted To Know If I Would Ever Consider Going Back.... Guess what I said....

  by minimus in

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  never!!!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I think if my mom asked if I would consider "going back", I'd eagerly respond, "YES. I wish I could go back to the early 80s and have a serious talk with myself about not trusting in earthling men in whom no salvation belong. I would try to convince myself back then and there to not be tricked by smoothe words from imperfect men who are only making empty promises they have no ability to deliver on. Going back, I would encourage myself to pursue an education and have my own family so that I could have a full, satisfying life now, rather than finally living a life that was put on hold for decades because I mistakenly believed promises that didn't come true."

  I suppose that's why my parents don't ask me that question. One of the things I learned from Watchtower was to take a question... and then answer a different question instead.
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  Bible Has Problems, Yet Its One Verse Can Solve All Our Problems!

  by abiather in

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  science shows that humans have been living on earth more than 6000 years (contrary to ot chronology).

  again inconsistency is pointed out in nt too which says jesus who did countless good worksincluding control over forces of nature and even death itselfyet people killed him, just like killing the duck that lays golden egg!.

  despite such inconsistencies, a single verse in the bible can solve all our problems: don't call anyone on earth 'father,' because you have only one father, the one in heaven.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Regardless of Christian or Hindu, this should be priority for India:

  "He said Kerala will also become the first big state in the country to become an open defecation free state."

  Maybe before you get condescending and lecture the rest of us on how we should imitate the example of Kerala, you can make sure that everyone in Kerala has access to toilets--in their workplaces, schools, offices, shopping areas, and even in their homes or apartments. Personally, I've peed out in the field or in the woods, but I couldn't imagine living where ordinary people have to urinate and defecate out in the open, even in cities, because there is no plumbing.
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  Depression amongst JWs

  by tornapart in

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  has anyone seen this post on facebook?

  the comments below it are staggering!

  so many suffering from depression... along with the few judgementalists.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  DD, And I suppose the CO said that the best way to control negative feelings was by spending more time preaching.
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  My notes from my WT study for/ Creation Reveals the Living God

  by suavojr in

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  i leave you with the notes i wrote in the margins of my mag during today's wt study.

  this was the only way i was able to survive this horrible article.

  have fun reading and hopefully this will help lurkers.. .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  If WT wants to point out God's qualities as shown in creation, why didn't they use examples and pictures like these? He wisely and lovingly designed pythons to be able to swallow alligators...

  

  ... and he designed alligators to be able to swallow pythons.

  

  Indeed, creation tells us more about god than some dusty old storybook can!
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  Carrie Underwood tweets, thanking God for successful Sound of Music performance

  by adamah in

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  after a live 3 hour performance, the "american idol" winner tweets,.

  "glory to god tonight...i couldn't be more proud.

  what a tough thing to pull off and we did it!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Maybe the starving kids need to put on a TV musical so god will finally listen to their prayers.
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  Why Sex??

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  since being de-borged, i have come to appreciate that the answer to the old blue book "did man get here by evolution or by creation" is probably "evolution".. one thing about evolution which is still hard to explain is why or how did sexual reproduction evolve?

  of course now that we have it, i guess most of us would not like to go back to the "old" way, of either dividing ourselves into 2, or else self-fertilizing ourselves from our own 2 sets of sex-organs (ewwww!!!).

  i know a lot of men try this anyway but to no avail.......... but what motive force could have existed to actually evolve sexual reproduction in the first place?

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I guess I don't understand many of the old comments stating that sex is an evolutionary disaster. If sex is such a disaster, why not blame God? After all, why did he give angels a sex drive but no way to satisfy that desire except by coming down and mating with women? So mating with women was a sin for the angels and I suppose angelic masturbation would have led to angelic homosexuality... both angelic sins. Yeah, the bible really has the answer for "why sex?"

  And are some of those old posts suggesting that sex shouldn't be fun? That's all part of the natural selection. It wasn't just the people with healthier genes that were able to pass them along... it was the people that enjoyed passing them along that passed them along!
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  Watchtower Study Science Class 101

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  so, i am reading facebook today, and someone posts this little doozy on her page:.

  just got done with watchtower study science class 101. so ya know how when u look at a rainbow it reminds u of jehovah's promise never to destroy the earth with a flood.

  we should probably do the same thing when watching the beautiful displays of the northern lights .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  If evolution is only a theory and the Noachian flood is a fact, who was the carrier of all the flu and cold viruses, hepatitises A-E, AIDS, syphilis, etc. on the ark? Suddenly JWs have to backtrack and invent a difference between evolution and adaptation. That's a WT fail.

  And of course, if the flood is a fact, how did the koalas, kangaroos, and platypuses get from Turkey to Australia? Wait, let me guess. This sister would say that they all rode a unicorn over a rainbow to get down under.

  WT Study Science Class? A person could learn far more by watching 10 minutes of Nova.
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  How would you respond?

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

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  ok so this is a conversation that i am having with a friend that i really love.

  i have some points that i want to say but tell me, how would you respond to this email?.

  not gonna try to defend anyone i can really only speak for myself.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Where can you even start with someone that so thoroughly worships the WT Governing Body and their rewritten history of the world? Your friend must sincerely believe that false prophecy is proof that they have the true religion.

  And that's why it gets awkward. You and I have grown up... woken up. But they are still living in the fantasy world where yesterday's truthz become today's apostasy. Their brain is sold out to a 19th century sect that has survived to become a 21st century cult. Their idea of love is to have rocks fall from the sky and smash the heads of billions of innocent people. Of course it's going to become awkward to have to talk to them!
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  'Deal with it!' - WT, in so many words

  by Gayle in

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  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20091101/spouse-special-needs/.

  an article if a marriage partner has a chronic health issue.

  no - did not mention something like - 'just read the bible & you'll feel better.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  A very superficial article. Raises more questions than answers. Maybe if the husband had gotten a university degree, with better pay and insurance, there wouldn't be the financial strains now. Maybe if the wife had kept her savings rather than cashing in her retirement in order to pioneer, she could rest a little easier. Perhaps if they would have had children years ago, rather than wait until after armageddon, she wouldn't feel quite so lonely when her children/grandchildren come to visit and help.
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  THE WITCHTOWER 11/2009: Who is the King of the North?

  by processor in

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  the november 2009 issue of the witchtower is available for download now.. .

  who is the king of the north?

  who is the king from daniel's prophecy, and how does he affect our lifes?.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  Time to bump this edition of The Witchtower to kick-start the holiday joy!