maninthemiddle

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  This is a perfect religion!

  by life is to short in

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  this is perfect religion with imperfect people.

  the elders are imperfect that is why there are problems.

  we just need to endure because jehovah is allowing this as a test to see if we will still love him.

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  maninthemiddle

  My wife hit me with all of this just this morning. The conversation did not go as I had hoped.
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  Who has never celebrated Halloween?

  by asilentone in

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  i have never celebrated halloween, i guess it is because i was raised that way..

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  maninthemiddle

  Never have, doubt I ever will either.
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  Did you ever feel dissatisfied by the quality of 'proof' from the FDS?

  by bohm in

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  hey!.

  i have tried to debate evolution/ark a couple of times with witnesses.

  two of these were elders, and one had the benefit of conversing with me over mail; he also showed an interest and knowledge on some scientific subjects that told me he had studied it a bit by himself.

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  maninthemiddle

  Yes, indeed I was thinking that the FDS was 'dumbing down' things to make it easier for some to understand. I thought some arguments are not entirely convincing, but the more convincing arguments would be too hard for some.

  They have to dumb it down, because the more you think about it, the less sense it makes. It is hard to understand because most of it is not true, you can't argue with conjecture.
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  Big Surprise!!

  by IronHill in

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  so last night i'm chatting with my wife about some things i had read on this site, when she dropped a bomb on me.

  see we have been attempting new non-jw friendships, to make our fade a little more bearable (in her case since she has so many jw friends).

  i have been trying to do this for her and told of a few i've found here, and on facebook.

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  maninthemiddle

  Cheers! I hope that happens to me one day.
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  Is it better to be correct and silent,

  by John Doe in

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  or incorrect and vocal?.

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  maninthemiddle

  yes
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  How to loose a customer in two emails

  by Elsewhere in

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  today i noticed my personal website was hacked again.

  over the last year my site has been hacked by several different worms that try to infect your web browser when you view my site.. these hacks are all the result of poor security measures and a gross lack of applying security patches to the hosting server.. today i had enough and emailed my hosting company to let them know that, once again, my site was hacked.

  here is the email exchange:.

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  maninthemiddle

  I have used Hostgator for 4 years now and I am happy with their service.
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  As A JW Did You Care About Old JW History, Old Light & Flip Flops?

  by minimus in

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  i used to look at the old stuff as info that the witnesses were progressively understanding.

  i didn't hold it against the witnesses if they changed understandings because after all the 'light was getting brighter and brighter".. as time went on, it did start effecting me.

  there were too many things i'd let slide by when i was younger that i just couldn't ignore any longer.

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  maninthemiddle

  I didn't while I was younger, but as I got older I couldn't accept it anymore. I couldn't accept that "truth" could change, for a long time I just ignored it, but eventually I had to start looking, and here I am.
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  Proof the GB does not really believe the end is comming.....

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you were a leader of a small group that should survive a worldwide disaster and will be left on their own, not being able to use now common services would you:.

  a) encourage your members to learn all possible skills and to get all possible today available education, maybe even organized "who will learn what" to cover really every aspect of future life and to be really prepared ..... or.

  b) discurage your members from education, letting them just sit home or at meetings and keep repeating: "the end is comming, the end is comming ... be ready, the end is comming...".

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  "It will truly be chaos since the RBCs don't know how to install windows, but hundreds of dubs are only qualified to wash windows."

  By far the funniest thing I have heard this week.
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  CO visit this week

  by JerkhovahsWitless in

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  for the first time, i didn't attend the meeting when the co came.

  my family went, which i figured would lead to them being questioned about me.. i thought for sure the cultists would be knocking on my door with the fat old wind-bag co to "encourage" me.

  unless they stopped by this week when no one was home, it looks like no one wants to save me from armageddon.

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  maninthemiddle

  Funny timing, we just missed our visit, didn't even know about until the day of, then that was just a fluke that we heard about it at all. I had better things to do anyway, I guess I wasn't missed.
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  Time to come out

  by whatistruth in

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  still in, married.

  but i'm coming out really soon.

  you get one chance on this earth and i ain't about to waste it.

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  maninthemiddle

  I can understand where you are right now, I am there now. I feel also that even if this isn't the only life we get, why would we want to waste any minute of it.

  Good luck, it is a big weight off in the end.