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  Was Jehovah God Ever Real To You?

  by minimus in

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  we were supposed to "love" jehovah god.

  we were taught how wonderful a god he is and how fortunate we were to be his people.

  of course, you can't see jehovah god.

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  Yes, however, he was always distance and I could never get close to him. It was only through the scriptures that I felt I was close to him in my mind. I never really knew him, only what I kept reading about him in the Bible. I feared him because of pain of death and what he could do to me. I wanted to live forever in paradise for me and my family.

  I could not accept the command to love him, how could you be commmanded to love someone under pain of punishment if you do not love him. Wouldn't that take away my free will? Also, how could you love someone with whom you did not know or have a relationship with? So the command to love him was a problem for me to understand.

  And so, I lingered on in the hope that some day it would all become clear to me. 33 years later it has. None of what I thought to be true about him is true, it is all man-made history. Yes the Bible is real, but, it is just not from him.

  Today God is not real to me.

  Blueblades
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  A Twist ending to the BLOOD policy of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Terry in

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  the seven laws of noah are: .

  1. belief in a supreme being and the prohibition ofworshipping any other beings.. .

  2. respect g-d and do not blaspheme his name.. .

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  Terry, Have you read Blood on the Altar by David A. Reed 1996. Google it and him. Here is a quote from the back jacket of the book."The faraway reality of Jehovah's Witnesses dying for lack of blood does not intrude on the average Witness's joie de vivre any more than Dachau or Auschwitz spoiled the parties and nightlife of National socialist Berlin.

  "The story about the ongoing tragedy among Jehovah's Witnesses is a tale that must be told." Terry, this is a must read for all those that have issues with the blood doctrine.

  Blueblades
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  In ancient wall, scholar sees proof for Bible

  by darthfader in

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  in ancient wall, scholar sees proof for bible.

  i can just hear my jw relatives say "see, the bible is really accurate!

  " so now i'll have to listen to another lecture on adam/eve/snakes/paradise/doomdoomdoom..... darth fader.

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  Get the book "THE BIBLE UNEARTHED" Archaeology's new vision of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts. by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.

  It is the boldest and most exhilarating synthesis of the Bible and archaeology in fifty years.

  It has nothing to do with a talking snake, Adam and Eve, the parting of the red sea etc.

  Blueblades
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  Ridiculous Talk Given By CO

  by minimus in

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  my mother told me of the co giving a talk and telling everyone to get their hankies out because they would be sure to cry, which evidently some did.. a 5 year old boy was dying in the hospital and his parents were by his bedside.

  he was drifting in and out of consciousness and then he opened up his eyes and asked his mother if he was a catholic.

  the mom told her son he was not.

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  Mini. It reminds me of a talk given back in the 70's at the circuit assembly. Poor Johnny! Poor Johnny! He can't celebrate any Holidays! Poor Johnny, he is the only child in his group that is going to survive Armaggedon!

  And the beat goes on.

  Blueblades
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  Jesus Was A Gay Man!

  by minimus in

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  that's what elton john has said.

  he was a super intelligent gay man.

  i never knew that..

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  Mini, as you know, there is a lot of Jesus was this and Jesus was that out there. There is Jesus did not exist. There is Jesus did exist. There is Jesus was married to one of the Mary's. Each religion has it's own teaching whether Bible based or historical based etc. Jesus is God the father, God the son, God the Holy Spirit. Jesus is part of a Trinity. Jesus is not part of a trinity. Jesus is God-Man, no he is not etc.

  And then comes your question on his sexuality. Gay / Homosexual.

  Where does Elton get his information from?

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  The end is nigh!

  by highdose in

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  after a year of having been out and 7 months on jwn, i like to think that i'm pretty well deprogrammed.. one thing i still have trouble with though is the mental attitude of thinking that the end is coming soon.

  difficult to explain this, but its like a mental awareness that is always there no matter what.. and of course the end is not coming, i just don't know how to get my brain to realise this?!?

  !.

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  Misquoting and misreading the Bible is the real problem here. All this talk about the end is based upon a hope for the end of human suffering and the return of Adam and Eve like paradise, and a heavenly life for some. Again putting faith in a book that has ben tampered with is not my kind of reality.

  Blueblades
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  BOE Letter on Mothers to be

  by JWFreak in

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  gb getting involved with pregnancy........... jwf.

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  please don't ask me for a pdf scan, as the copies i get are interbranch copies from the us branch with individual coding on them.

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  Blood On The Altar by David Reed is a documented work proven that the gb are guilty of murder through the no-blood doctrine.

  Blueblades
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  March WT: Dumb That Takes Your Breath Away?

  by metatron in

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  the cover article is "the bible-is it really god's inspired word?"..

  this has got to be a new low in watchtower superficiality.

  how do we know that isaiah and daniel were authentic despite the claims of critics?.

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  We do not have any originals only copies of copies of copies and so on. It becomes a leap of faith that what is recorded is out of God's mouth and not man's history of himself.

  The leap is for believers. Non- believers will not take that leap.

  Blueblades
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  C.T.Russell: the GREAT CHERRY-PICKER

  by Terry in

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  pastor russell cherry picked his theology; a little from here and a little from there.. he scarcely had an original idea in his head!.

  from christadelphian emphatic diaglott he got the "parousia" invisible jesus idea, for example.

  russell snuggled up to the adventist buffet and cherry-picked view after view.. just a few examples:.

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  Terry, It's all been hand me down hear say double speak with the "Carrot" as a lure that glittered and caught so many of us back in the late 60"s and early 70's.

  When one does a history study of the watchtower from the Great Cherry-Picker days to now, one will not accept a Bible/Book study from jw's.

  When one gets lured in with the "Carrot" and without the history study, ( as you and I and millions of others have) we lose our lives for a period of time. I lost 33 years. You suffered jail etc. Many loss so much. If only we had this information way back then.

  Like the song goes, I wish I knew then, what I know now, sigh!

  Thanks Terry for all the research you do and share.

  Blueblades
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  COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HEAR AT THE WT STUDY - Maintain Joy In Times of Trouble

  by Mary in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm doing the comments for blondie this week as i believe she and her hubby are on the road.

  -read isaiah 63:9, 10.. once again i ask: if he feels so distressed and hurt, then why doesn't he do something about it?

  at times, hannah was so discouraged that she would weep and not eat.

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  Mary! It was a "JOY" for me to read your comments. You are one of my favorites that I look for when I come on the site. Every comment you made can be supported, where.as their double speak cannot..

  If there is a God, he is certaintly not the God the watchtower portrays him as.

  Aside point..If there is a God, the question is, as Bertrand Russell one of history's great atheist,was asked, what will you say to God when you die and meet him?

  Bertrand responded: I will ask him.."Why do you go to such great pains to hide yourself?"

  Thanks again Mary, very well done as always.

  Blueblades Happy Valentines day