the comment "fuck 'em!
" has been left for three hours and it's still there.. .
if some of you may recall, i posted on jw c@fe "praise jesus!
Just posted this one( under Stefan Bouwsma)
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hi everyone ,.
there are many new folk joining here everyday , and i thought it may be interesting and fun to just see how many people have left the congregation that you have attended in the past 5 years .
i dont mean of course people who are active jw's moving to another cong , but people that have left the wt religion , faded , da'd or df'd .. so , i will start off with my own cong .there have been 9 leave , 8 completely gone , myself hardly ever there and ' inactive ' .. leo999.
I'm out since 1999, but I know in my time a lot of young baptised and non babtised JW's between 16 and 25 left the congregation.
one of them is still my best friend.
ask a dub acquaintance this and see if they have anything resembling a rational answer:.
you: when you're at a public event and the announcer says, "please rise for the playing/singing of the national anthem," you refuse to stand because that would be considered an act of nationalistic worship, correct?.
dub: correct.. you: why then, when a jw is in a courtroom and the baliff says, "all rise for the honorable judge whatsherface, court is now in session," do jws stand up?
Í thought that difference lays in the fact, that the bible says you're not allowed to kneel down or worship statues and a flag is considered some kind of statue.
And then there is a difference between bending for a person out of respect or bending to worship.
I think that if an king would be considered as a god( like in some agent nations for example the egyptants), bending would be forbitten too.
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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Sorry,
Don't know JW's from Maastricht. I'm from the Hague that's the other side of Holland.
And I'm also df'd since 1999.
But you're right. In Holland education is verry important en social pressure to study is verry high. So most JW's also study longer. untill they're 24 or 25 years old.
And Holland is a real trading nation so making money is our second nature.
just think about it...... if possible the wts tries to delete publications and songs written by former members of the slave as much as possible.. but king salomo also became involved with other religions at the and of his live....and it's one of the most quoted persons in the watchtower and other wts publications..
Myabe not all, but some of them are....some of the songs in the pink book are not longer in the brown book because of that reason.
That's what was told to me by my father( real one not the holy one), and also some texts in books are deleted or rewritten for that reason.
Does it depend on the person and/or what he did maybe?
just think about it...... if possible the wts tries to delete publications and songs written by former members of the slave as much as possible.. but king salomo also became involved with other religions at the and of his live....and it's one of the most quoted persons in the watchtower and other wts publications..
Just think about it...... if possible the WTS tries to delete publications and songs written by former members of the slave as much as possible.
But King Salomo also became involved with other religions at the and of his live....and it's one of the most quoted persons in the Watchtower and other WTS publications.
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar/flat.html.
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I don't think it's the same situation everywhere.
I'm from holland and I'm sure, JW's are not the poorest religion. A lot of rich JW's on this site of the ocean.
But that's probably also the reason why so many of them leave the WTS, because we're smart
i get this statement all the time from my jw family.
that this system is in satan's control.
or that "this or that" is put here to test our faith.
If god is our father
If all the people are his children....
If the whole world is lying in the hands of the devil.
What kind of father then are you, if you leave your children in the hands of the devil if you are able to help them?
hello all my jwn friends.. .
i felt the need to share what i have heard recently.
i have a very close friend who has a brother who is an economist.
Our national debt is so high that soon other countries whoich are also hurting like us are going to say that's enough with the loans and will cut the US off from all loans when that happens we are screwed to the hilt.
That's never going to happen, because, the USA is an important Consumer of those countries products. So they will just keep on givving lones to the USA.
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last night i was at a bar where they were hosting an art show.. while there i discovered that i have the amazing ability to turn totally invisible to bar tenders!
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Put your man junk on the counter and pray no one mistakes it for a beer sausage
Might like it! as long as they won't bite in it.....
