Posts by disfellowman

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copy of the new books

by disfellowman in

anyone got these?

i cant get to a convention, if someone doesnt want theirs id be happy to paypal some cash for it :)

disfellowman

anyone got these? I cant get to a convention, if someone doesnt want theirs id be happy to paypal some cash for it :)

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The Convention Is OVER!

by B_Deserter in

thankfully i was able to milk my cold this week enough to skip friday.

saturday i sat with friends of mine and was able to sufficiently tune out everything i heard.

there was one guy giving a talk that looked just like david koechner, one of my friends wrote a note to me that she could just picture him with a cowboy hat yelling "whammy!

it is old hat that you can tell the authorities about a crime even though it goes to criminal court. An old school elder from WAAAY back in the day showed me references of this. anyone have a copy of the new book i can get?

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Ah...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

by sinis in

is all i can say to what my mother told me last night about the convention.

she saw some old buddies of mine (sure ain't my buddies when they never come by just because of differing beliefs...), and they asked how i was and she told them that i was an apostate, and that i had been brain washed!!!

ahahahahahahahahaha is all i could say when i called up (she answered, i called to talk to my old man) and she told me that.

disfellowman

that has nothing to do with it. It is because they are awaiting something even better than this. Its pretty clear in the Bible (if you believe in it - which im not sure about anymore) that there WILL be an end of some sort. Sure, maybe they have gotten their predictions wrong about WHEN, but there IS an end coming. And its going to be great. Thats what they believe, and thats fine. They dont live their lives for tomorrow only though, at least the ones i have known. Which, btw are alot, and spans 4 countries.

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Why ARE They Called 'Pioneers'?

by Rapunzel in

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i was reading another thread about the witnesses so-called "pioneer school," and there occured to me the question as to why these people are called pioneers.

i may be wrong on this [and may someone please correct me if this is indeed the case], but to my knowledge, the word pioneer does not appear in any manuscript of the bible.

in any case, because my curiosity was piqued, i looked up the etymology, the "true root" meaning of the word.

disfellowman

brown noseR? man, you really dont get it. I was a pioneer a long while and i never did it to "brown nose" -- thats ridiculous. I did it because it was fun, and because i FELT like i was doing the right thing, and relying on God. it was the best years of my life. hmm, sometimes i feel like the anti-propoganda is just as bad as the propoganda itself.... get balance, people, think like the jedi ;)

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Dating a JW and need some help

by Whizkid in

i've been 'going out' with a beautiful girl and we have a great time together.

we have a lot of similar interests and always have stuff to talk/do.

the problem is that she's a jw, and i know there is no way i'm going to become a jw.

disfellowman

1. completely off application 2. before the establishment of the christian congregation bzzzzzzz 3. right - but irrelevant 4. irrelevant? 5. extrapolation? wow... you are going to have to come up with better reasoning than that, no offense.

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Ah...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

by sinis in

is all i can say to what my mother told me last night about the convention.

she saw some old buddies of mine (sure ain't my buddies when they never come by just because of differing beliefs...), and they asked how i was and she told them that i was an apostate, and that i had been brain washed!!!

ahahahahahahahahaha is all i could say when i called up (she answered, i called to talk to my old man) and she told me that.

disfellowman

i think all the witnesses i know live their lives VERY fully. they arent just waiting around for some future thing to happen, they are happy, RIGHT now. I was certainly happy that way. I could haev lived my life like that just fine. Im sure my life would have been just fine. Even as a busy MS/pio

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Who am I, Who would I be???

by sparrow in

this is not to take away from the hardship a lot of people had due to abuse and other things inhumane people had to suffer as a result of growing up a witness that i have never have had to deal with.

however, nearly all of the bad experiences i have had growing up that i can recall are a direct result of doing the wrong thing against "jehoober" and the guilt that goes along with it.

man made rules, forced confession, missing meetings, not good enough, natural experiences growing up a dude - all bad/demonic, etc etc.

disfellowman

I guarantee i would be alot more into drugs by now, like many of my former friends.

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Dating a JW and need some help

by Whizkid in

i've been 'going out' with a beautiful girl and we have a great time together.

we have a lot of similar interests and always have stuff to talk/do.

the problem is that she's a jw, and i know there is no way i'm going to become a jw.

disfellowman

i dont know, i didnt read anything except the first post, but know this your relationship will be screwed if she is not ready to at least temporarily leave the witnesses. It may not happen, but this disparity in belief causes ALOT of problems. you could lose the person you love. i have alot of experience in this field, PM me if you wish

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