Posts by Snotrag

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"You Will Know The Truth!" With Addition!

by wannabe in

"you will know the truth!".

with addition!.

it is common knowledge today that the governing body of the watchtower society, has established a record of, bare minimun, at least 130 years of failed predictions and false propecies; yet even in the face of that, claim they are not false prophets.

Snotrag

wannabe, having read your posts and the direction you are taking with your inturpretations, are you claiming to possess the truth? Are your writings factual and beyond questioning?

6

Unfamiliar Terms

by KingDavidwasframed in

jw
friends

some i can figure out on my own and i did download a book of apostate terms that was posted earlier (alongside a chart outlining similarities between ex jws and ex lds), but a few i do not "get".

how about we use this thread for any confused ones to ask and be rewarded with an answer?.

my first is " cobe" and another is "fwn".

Snotrag

The most fun one is "HTMNW"

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If God Truly Cared About People Wouldn't He DO SOMETHING By Now?

by minimus in

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friends

i know what the witness response is to this but what do you say now?.

Snotrag

As I look at the history of the world my question becomes "What are the instructions?". The bible starts off with a problem not an answer. If we have free will then how can it be exercised to give honor to god if there is no instruction. God says that the earth is his footstool, ok, are we just swarming critters? Wht create such a complex enviornmennt with people that are complex and are to concquor the planet when there is nothing but myth and conjecture to guide civilization. The course of human events do not show progress in humanity, only progress in science. ejesus left no writen record to know what he really said. We are left to find our own way and have to second guess what we might think god wants. Is this an intellegent way to cause a superior existence.

If it is that only god can lead us to a proper existence and he is love, why not open his hand and and give us the chance to purposely align ourselfs with his will? This is what is missing. The kingdom can not be had unless the sacred secrets are revealed and they are not revealed. All that is left for a reasoning person to do is walk on.

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Do you belive in UFO's?

by highdose in

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friends

as jw's we were meant to say no, but as free thinking people, i wonder what your opionion is?.

Snotrag

I doubted their existence while a dub, but I saw 4 of them in daylight above my back yard. They were there for about a half hour not moving then they took off at fantastic speed. They were flying saucers with a bubble in the middle. Three others with me also saw them. No camera so no pictures but we waved at them

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the name Jehovah in the New Testament

by jahrule in

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Snotrag

The answer to your question is in the New World Translation in the introduction pages before Genesis. An apppedix is also referenced in this section that is in the NWT and it goes into gteat detail as to why the text was changed.. I am taking the info from the 1984 revised edition.

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ever been to the funeral of one of the "anoited"??

by highdose in

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friends

i never have but i'd love to know what it was like?

do they greive?

or are they happy that they are now in heaven?.

Snotrag

The dead are consious of nothing at all. So sayth the bible. When the self proclaimed annoited die they don't even know they are dead.

18

sex bad! sex bad!!!

by highdose in

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friends

just remembered some insane old laws that were preached from the platform when i was in:.

jazz: is a slang word for sex, therefore jazz is not for christians ( jw's).

rock and roll: ditto it describes sex therefore is bad.

Snotrag

The problem with this is that God invented sex. He made it feel good, He made it a central part of the human psyche. It is people who have the problem not God. Throughout human history sex has been revered as powerful and mysterious and at some point someone got scared and tried to control it. The only thing you can do to fight the repression is to get laid as much as possible. If you feel guilty about sex then do it until you don't feel guilty, or you pass out, whichever comes first.

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How did they spread?

by stillin9 in

considering the truth about the truth, how the heck did they manage to spread around the world and at least have a witness in most of the countries/lands???.

i hope my question makes sense.. stillin9.

Snotrag

People want to believe because death is is too hard to accept. If "God is Love" then he has left the building.

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A question for all ex jws AND JW's here, btw I'm new too

by EndofMysteries in

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friends

so far quite dissappointed from what i've seen.

this is very very important, first i"ll address the non/ex jw then i'll address the jw's (jw's scroll down if don't wanna see the first part).

i see so many who have concluded that it was not 'god inspired', a lot of what is being done, and their conscience told them that many things conflicted with jesus teachings and the bible.

Snotrag

And for all your study, and all your searching of the knowledge of the ancients, answer my simple questions. Tou are going to die, to be dead, to be without breath, to decompose and rot, all of your love, your hate, your joy and glory is to end. The earth will end, the sun will end, the universe will end, and what will you have gained by your comments of hate. Are you fulfilled? Are you above? Solomen was granted wisdom by god, and he saw that it is all vain, have you not learned? Walk with fear in your step for you do not know what is to come.

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Evolutionists - please help!

by Georgiegirl in

ok. (taking deep breath) i am finally at that point in my recovery where i am ready to look at evolution as more than a loose theory which is clearly disprovable by the fact that all the bones proving it could be in a coffin.

or, um, some illustration like that.. i feel like first i have to "unlearn" the jw teaching of evolution to learn what "real" evolution is.

then, learn about that and then see how i feel.

Snotrag

This link shows by diagram the history of the world including evolution. It is simple to follow and very profoud in display.

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html. The progression of events in time helps very much in understanding evolution. Take the time to try to understand the spans of time involved.

Edit: click history on the left buttons and then cosmology on the right panel to begin the chart.