Posts by gubberningbody

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Community Love (something I wrote)

by gubberningbody in

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in community there is warmth, and love.

yet conformity rears its ugly head.

as you must conform or find yourself dead.

gubberningbody

In community there is warmth, and love

Yet conformity rears its ugly head

As you must conform or find yourself dead

To conform or not, give in or to shove

Reshape oneself to community's glove

Covered by their rules, never raise your head

Abandon yourself, go lie in your bed

And parrot the ways, community does

Threaten to hammer the nail that sticks up

Or will you rebel by thinking alone

Or will you give in and never look up

Never to witness the stars in their home

Never to challenge these ways that corrupt

Abandon the truth you have in your heart

For this bitter love they try to impart

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Tell the ''Governing Body'' one thing that you've always wanted them to know!

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the only reason you have total control over all of your members is your false ''faithful and discreet slave'' scripture.

this scripture was applied only for your benefit.

without this scripture your whole religion would fall..

gubberningbody

"How does it feel to be the Vicar of Christ?"

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Change of Heart

by evergreen in

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i am writing in to say that i have come to a decision to return to the meetings at my local kingdom hall.

after much soul searching and careful thought, i feel happy with my decision.. i have decided to submit this on the jwdf to prove to god that i am genuine in my sincerity towards him and to show repentance for the things i have said in the past.

the reasons as to why i have decided to return are as follows;.

gubberningbody

The simple truth is that I had to leave this organization because they were saying terrible things about my father Jehovah. I can't overlook the constant barrage of terrible things they are tacitly saying about him and I can't in good conscience pretend that I agree with them. I can't be a hypocrite. Now if they were to have allowed me to stay and speak my mind without sanction, then I'd be there today stirring things up with the Bible as my witness, but as they are turning their ear from hearing the law, well, you know the scripture - the prayers of such ones are not listened to.

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In Two Weeks: Follow the Lamb (Watchtower Study)

by united states in

is anybody else courious about this discussion.

it seems as though they hide the fact that it is about the governing body up until the end when it says that they represent the fds.

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gubberningbody

Ann, my wife is even less tolerant of shit than I am. I had thought, perhaps that this org was in some way used, in perhaps the same way as the bickering, back-biting hypocrite-combo of sadducees-pharisees that lynched the messiah and that this was to be expected. Then I thought some more and I thought "What of it?" Even if they were used to get my attention switched from atheism to deism, that didn't mean that they were being used any more. I certainly felt no loyalty to the catholic church that kept making copies of scripture throughout the ages or in fact any other religious entity, so why should I care about this one? The lessons of the bible and history have taught me that whereas God may have used organizations, it certainly wasn't the case that organizations had his favor, but rather that individuals within these did and that when the organizations ceased their usefulness, they were left to their own devices. From my perspective the last 10 years of this organization that I've seen has left me convinced that there is no more spiritual value in this organization than in any other the professes to nominal Christianity. I have no family members who are JW's, I have no children and we were both of us always too odd for any group to begin with so any social value this organization had was no more social to us than a trip to the food court at a local mall. At least at the mall we can get "meat in due season". :)

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staying awake for over 24 hours...only once for me...you?

by oompa in

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things become very surreal.............not many details for me....but i did cross center lane.....and nearly died in a head on..........you?.

gubberningbody

I only did that in the before time and that was because my gf slipped some crystal meth in my coffee before I went to work (on the graveyard shift) and didn't tell me. I became certain that this one guy "Sam" was only pretending he was slow and stupid and so I went to the supervisor and tried to explain that they should do something to motivate him because he was really brilliant but was sand-bagging.

A few days later I realized that he really was slow and stupid.

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So I went to dinner with a big group of Witnesses last night - No Biblical discussion or WT talk of any kind

by BonaFide in

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there were 20 in the group from 3 congregations.

it was kind of a "special talk" special meal with the speaker and his wife.. no one, i mean no one, not the elders there, nor the pioneers, talked about anything "spiritual.

" everything was about work, entertainment, personalities in the congregation, and music.

gubberningbody

My wife and I could never stop talking about the bible and ideas we were having. Of course I suppose it was less than politic after the WT study to loudly declare in a half-jesting way that they (the GB) had it all wrong and here's why (as I showed the verses). Then I suggested that perhaps I should send them the WT with some corrections in red and asked what sort of reception I might get. (I, of course thought it amusing)....

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Would You Be Receptive To Join Another Church or Religion?

by minimus in

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personally, i'm all religioned out..

gubberningbody

No. I've found that when people group up there's always either :

A. Someone who wants to follow someone else

or

B. Somone who wants to lead.

I hate both of those personalites.

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Is it possible that the WT society will soon collapse like a house of cards?

by BonaFide in

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the recent internet phenomenon seems to be that 1. some news story breaks, and then 2. people start talking about it and twittering and forwarding emails about it.

and then it multiplies and multiplies until finally, 3. the whole world is talking about it.

the same with the madoff scheme.

gubberningbody

I would hope so. This apostate counterfeit needs to go.

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What Happens When Someone Who Is DF'd Dies A Day Before The DF'ing Announcement Is Made?

by african GB Member in

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do the elders still go ahead and announce?.

does it go like : '"--------" is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses', and by the way he died yesterday.. or do they show jehovah's 'loving kindness' and not say anything about the poor dead soul?.

gb.

gubberningbody

That's too bad they can't remember Romans 6:7 at a time like this "He who has died has been acquited from his sin." The dead are sinless, so why would it be wrong for the sinful living to comport themselves with a measure of compassion and humility?

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Tell us about the offbeat people you have had in your congregation

by BonaFide in

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we had a brother once in my sisters' hall who would preach downtown with old watchtowers and awakes, i mean like 15 year old magazines, and he would sell them above cost.

even after the donation system went info effect, he would still sell them.

the elders tried to talk to him about it, but he could never really have a normal conversation.

gubberningbody

jeff, we got a number who moved in from Houma, La... This other brother couldn't say "bound volumes", it was always "brown volumes" and another said "we'll be studying the Suicide book" this week... (Survival...that green book)

What was cool about the congregation was that no one seemed to care what bethel was up to... People didn't bother looking things up, they've just discuss it and if something seemed reasonable then we'd do it....