He was an exceptional artist...I really don't care if he was a JW. He was a brilliant guitarist, and every note he touched it came from the soul...really sorry to hear that he is gone...RIP
JustHuman14
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Prince is dead.
by DATA-DOG inhas anyone heard about this?
that really sucks.
lots of dubs are talking.
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Did you get " Counseled " about the Music you Listened to While you were a JW ?
by flipper infrom the time i was a small boy - i loved rock n' roll music.
beatles, rolling stones, led zeppelin, hendrix.
i started getting slighted for the music i listened to as i lay in my bedroom listening on headphones to led zeppelin's song " black dog " at age 14 with my elder dad looking suspiciously at me as i'm rocking out .
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Many times, since I was "famous" musician,,,,,and I did and still ROCK....yeah Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Beatles are always on the play list.
I was in wedding once, and I was asked to play couple of songs, and I did some good old rock and roll, and the CO who attended there asked me to stop!!!!
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK......WE SALUTE YOU
KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD
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Bible Versus Quran Experiment - Genius!
by cofty inabsolutely brilliant social experiment.
enjoy.. ....
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I will add my 2 cents as well:
Lot was willing to give his 2 daughters to the people of Sodom so they can rape them, in order to protect the 3 visitors. What kind of father will do that!!??? The entire passage there is no name for the wife of Lot. She is being killed because she looked back, and then the 2 daughters that previously are offered to to be raped, they decide to sleep with their father, since their mother is dead!!!! Now, God, that destroyed the 2 cities due to their immoral behavior, completely ignores the same behavior from Lot's daughters! In the text it seems that Lot continued to live after the destruction isolated from the rest of the world.
Moses, commands the Israel soldier to kill everyone in the city that they will conquer, but leave the virgins for them!!! So we have ethnic cleansing, rape, that it is acceptable from God( same behavior of what we see now days in the turmoil area of Middle East by the specific group)
In the Book of Deuteronomy we see the following commands: If someone rapes a virgin, then can pay compensation to her dad and then he can married her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If a woman doesn't scream on a rape attempt she is guilty of fornication and the penalty is death
If a woman in her attempt to protect her self from rape, grabs the "balls" of a man, then the penalty is to cut her hand!!!
To summarize: The Old Testament was written by misogynist nomads living in the desert in tents, (while during that era we have thriving Hellenic civilizations, like the Minoan) and unfortunately a vast majority of mankind considers those scriptures as Divine....
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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I still believe in God....that there is a creator, but I don't have to accept the Old Testament and the concept of God that some primitive nomads living in the desert, 3000 years ago.... -
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I feel trapped...I might return to the Borg....
by JustHuman14 ini have being thinking quite a while before posting.
actually i haven't post for quite a long in the forum and i guess i'm one of the old ones, since i became member since 2001.. after leaving the borg for almost 16 years and disfellowshiped 10 years ago.
you can see my relevant post:.
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Thank you all for your comments. It seems like a hard task to get back. I will keep you updated.
@Flipper, good to hear from you my friend, I guess is hard for you as well, and you are not even disfellowshiped!!!
@Truthexplorer, thanks for the info you shared. Just to clarify, you have been reproved, but not disfellowshiped, and yet it took 9 years to lift of the restrictions?!?!
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I feel trapped...I might return to the Borg....
by JustHuman14 ini have being thinking quite a while before posting.
actually i haven't post for quite a long in the forum and i guess i'm one of the old ones, since i became member since 2001.. after leaving the borg for almost 16 years and disfellowshiped 10 years ago.
you can see my relevant post:.
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God, at least a year!!!!! NO WAY DUDE....that will have a negative impact for my health. If I take into consideration that I was kicked out due to apostate views and associating with apostates(I had communication with Ray Franz), then what chances do I have? And also in no way I will sit and discuss my "sins" in the last 10 years. If they like to quote from the prodigy son parable, and they are encouraging people to come back the have to follow what the example of the parable. Did the father of the son asked him to wait couple of years in order to accept him back, or he was happy because he returned and accepted him without any terms and conditions?
I know from personal experience that a person who was disfellowshiped and reinstated in less than 4 months, and I was surprised because they knew that there was some involvement of apostates, despite the fact he was disfellowshiped for fornication.
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I feel trapped...I might return to the Borg....
by JustHuman14 ini have being thinking quite a while before posting.
actually i haven't post for quite a long in the forum and i guess i'm one of the old ones, since i became member since 2001.. after leaving the borg for almost 16 years and disfellowshiped 10 years ago.
you can see my relevant post:.
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Thanks all for your comments, really appreciate it. I have been through a lot of turmoil to take that decision, Well I found a way to get way with all that crap, I read "Crisis of Conscious" at the meetings!!! I love tablets!
Since I have lost complete contact with WT the last 10 years, in fact I have logged into the forum to find out what is the "new light". I thought I could just break free. I really don't know what is the process of the reinstatement, and most of all how long it will take. Does anyone from here knows the time frame for that process. To be honest that is my major concern and I hope is not going to take long.
My dad Diogenesister ( you played nicely with the words for your name) has passed way before I was disfellowshiped. The point with my health is still I'm able to function as I used, but it takes more effort to the things I used to do.
I know how to "play" around with the cult, I have lot of excuses to avoid them and become inactive once more, Plus my work evolves frequent flights at least once a month. My plot is to reinstate, and immediately I will change cong since the current one is far from my place. Then I will use excuses, work and health issues and hope they will leave me in peace.
Again thank you all for your comments
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I feel trapped...I might return to the Borg....
by JustHuman14 ini have being thinking quite a while before posting.
actually i haven't post for quite a long in the forum and i guess i'm one of the old ones, since i became member since 2001.. after leaving the borg for almost 16 years and disfellowshiped 10 years ago.
you can see my relevant post:.
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I have being thinking quite a while before posting. Actually I haven't post for quite a long in the forum and I guess I'm one of the old ones, since I became member since 2001.
After leaving the Borg for almost 16 years and disfellowshiped 10 years ago. You can see my relevant post:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/167938/my-life-reaching-dead-end-need-way-out
Fast forward I left home and moved to another country that offered me a good job opportunity, and by doing this I have managed to leave behind (as I thought it will WT and all the problems that followed). The pressure of returning back never seems to end. I guess being a son of CO it wasn't acceptable to leave the Borg.
Things became more difficult for me when I found out lately that I have developed a chronic disease and as a result more pressure is put on me to return back, since my family are all in the Borg and they would like to visit me without the restrictions of the shunning policy by the WT. I feel so trapped in the WT prison. I went to the so called Memorial this year, and attended few meetings to see if I can take it. Well I felt like complete stranger and nothing can connect me back to their matrix world. I'm thinking to give a try and then fade out. I don't know....did anyone faced similar situation? Any thoughts or advice will be helpful
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Time to move on, my last post on JWN....
by JustHuman14 ini have been posting into the forum since 2001(my previous avatar was "justhuman" and when forum changed to net, i couldn't retrieve my old avatar so i had to use a similar one and log in again).
almost 15 years are gone.
made some friends here, including mr flipper and one that i really miss dearly is oompa.
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Just a final contribution for my friend Oompa, and also a friend for many of us in this forum. A PM that he send me, and I feel I want to share it with all of you.
I don't know where you are Eric, but we will never forget you....until we meet again
" i have followed your story, but that slipped my mind. if me and my wife dont work things out maybe i can be you room mate!....i have always wanted to go to greece and your islands...i love to sail and have wanted to charter a yacht there someday. How old are your kids? It will not take long before they realize you were smart to leave...and they will want more freedom for sure by their teens. I feel there is nothing wrong with undermining everything JW that your wife tries to brainwash them with...tell them to wait till they are older to make religious decisions for themselves...no kid should have to believe what he is told by parents about such a major idea....good luck friend....go and be happy......eric"
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Time to move on, my last post on JWN....
by JustHuman14 ini have been posting into the forum since 2001(my previous avatar was "justhuman" and when forum changed to net, i couldn't retrieve my old avatar so i had to use a similar one and log in again).
almost 15 years are gone.
made some friends here, including mr flipper and one that i really miss dearly is oompa.
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Thanks for your comments all:
I agree with you yadda yadda, I feel just about the same...
And finaly Sir82, do you really believe that I'm leaving the forum, due to a depate????? By the way theory(Θεωρία) is a Hellinic word? Do you know the EXACT meaning of that word???? Without google it or search on line?
In many of my posts I said that I accept the Evolution Theory as a concept. But there is something beyond that as well. I was raised with the Books Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and many other Hellenic Philosophers, that you are not aware with, and most of all, I have learned in order to reach for a conclusion to QUESTION EVERYTHING....
Thousands of years before Darwin, Greek Philosophers and Scientists, have set the foundations of the Evolution Theory. The entire Western Civilazation, is based upon the Hellinic Culture. Democracy, Architecture, Philosophy, and is not an accident that the majority of the words and terminology for Astronomical, Medical, Maths, Science are all Greek(Hellenic is the correct word). Do you know why? Try to talk about Darwin's Evolution without using a single Hellenic word, or become a doctor without using the Hellinic language... lets see if you can do that...
Thank you all for your comments, but is time to move on....