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  Is your Intellect Pre-Enlightenment or Post-Enlightenment?

  by Terry in

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  before the age of enlightenment the earth was filled with many nations living under vastly differing beliefs about the world.. tribes, nations and empires possessed fanciful superstitious beliefs about their own importance in the big picture.. religion helped man find a place among fearful gods and demons.

  faith and belief, ritual and performance duties, helped man allay fears by.

  becoming active in appeasing the gods and shunning the evil spirits.. judaism allowed adherents a means of ridding themselves of sin (animal sacrifice) and accounting for wrongs (justice via law).. christianity removed animal sacrifice and substituted fealty to the church (catholic).

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  Ex-JW intellect is post-delusional.
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  OK 25 years out!!!

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. friends

  i'm not the longest out.

  mouthy was out before i was and a handfull of others.. but this year marked 25 out for me as opposed to 22 years in.

  this life is what you choose to make it.

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  Congratulations! I count myself out since 1979, so that would make 31 out after 17 in, BTW.
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  Great news - Bethel in my country is closing down...

  by Albert Einstein in

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  2. friends

  here in czech republic wtbs opened new bethel home for some 60 workers about 18 years ago.

  it was presented as a proof jhvh is blessing and aproving wtbs and of course as a sign that the end is so close.... recently i had with my mil discusions about wtbs selling their property in many countries and cuting costs... she did not believe me..... last week we went to visit her and she told me there was an anouncment at her meeting, that bethel is closing down and the building will be sold.

  only translating department will remain in the country in other premises and everything else will be moved to slovakia.. recently there is bethel closing down in spain and italy and several assembly halls being sold here in europe.. i hope this will open eyes to many jw to see the gb in fact does not believe in end being so close .... albert.

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  Recently I had with my MIL discusions about WTBS selling their property in many countries and cuting costs... She did not believe me....

  Does she belive you now? How did she take the news?
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  following Re: new feature and brotherdans comment

  by booby in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ***w071/1p.30par.18"thefirstresurrection"-nowunderway***.

  will all the anointed receive their heavenly reward before the war of armageddon?

  he evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.. .

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  It really is lunacy for a religion to have to recreate and redefine practically a dozen times over the space of a hundred years exactly what happens to people when they die.

  Especially when you consider that this is the main (if not the only) function of a religion.
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  following Re: new feature and brotherdans comment

  by booby in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ***w071/1p.30par.18"thefirstresurrection"-nowunderway***.

  will all the anointed receive their heavenly reward before the war of armageddon?

  he evidently meant that the lives of the anointed who were on hand when the sign began to become evident in 1914 would overlap with the lives of other anointed ones who would see the start of the great tribulation.. .

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  So now it looks like not only are David, Ezekial, and Daniel NOT going to get resurrected to live in this old system of things in that California mansion Rutherford had built for them, ----

  But now they are not really even sure that Rutherford himself has been raised up to heaven?

  If I am reading this confusing mess half way correctly???
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  Why would you buy Weed?????

  by Darth plaugeis in

  1. social
  2. humour

  if you had the legal choice... it's friday would you buy a 20 pack of beer or a $20 bag of weed.. the topic of never got drunk!

  made me think would it be better to get stoned or drunk?.

  i can function 100% the next day after being stoned...... i can function ??

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  Weed dealers..... you can smell them 14 feet away. Did he smell?? LOL

  Didn't notice, but it was outside, the wind was blowing, and he was on the other side of the car. LOL.

  At least I am pretty sure he was not a Dallas Narco trying to entrap me into a buy.
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  Crap my District Overseer says

  by easyreader1970 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are some things that came from the mouth of the district overseer over the course of the two days.

  1. the recession isn't going to end.

  things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world.

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  I once personally observed uber-GB-holy_man Schroeder playing baseball with his kid Judah-Ben in the parking lot during the congregation servants school he was teaching us back in early 1970.
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  new feature

  by booby in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  *** text for september-20-10 ***.

  monday, september 20. abundant peace belongs to those loving your law, and for them there is no stumbling block.-ps.

  119:165.. the conduct of others never creates an excuse for our becoming bitter toward god or for abandoning a faithful course.

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  Six months should be about right for Jehovah to help you understand.

  Or else to forget about it - after something else equally ridiculous is published to think about for six months.
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  Crap my District Overseer says

  by easyreader1970 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here are some things that came from the mouth of the district overseer over the course of the two days.

  1. the recession isn't going to end.

  things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world.

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  1. The recession isn't going to end. Things are screwed because the demons are controlling the world. Because of this demonic control, worldwide economics are going to get worse before "the end" comes.

  So the demons either were not controlling the world when the 1930s depression ended, or else they kind of took their eye off the ball?

  Anyway, wasn't Christ supposed to be ruling since 1914?
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  If Christ was Divine, How Could He Have Been Tempted?

  by leavingwt in

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  2. friends

  how did satan tempt a person who has no wrong desires?.

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  God tempts no one beyond their ability.

  Except, perhaps, for Adam & Eve?