The advice to keep your eye simple is a good one.
Simplifying your life allows you to focus on what's really important to you instead of having all this clutter preventing you from doing what you really want to do.
Posts by pirata
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9A Fabulous Analogy...... cup of coffee anyone?
by AK - Jeff inhttp://myriadhues.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/coffee-cup-analogy/.
a group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer.
conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.. offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.. when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: if you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
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Listening to Singing Kingdom Songs on CD...lol
by Joliette in...and laughing so freakin hard.
i havent listened to this in years and its so hilarious.
it sounds like errol flynn or some british singer is trying to sing it, its so freaking hilarious..
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pirata
There's a good discussion on them here:
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The offical Screaming thread for those 'still in' or with family 'still in'
by pirata inaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
that feels better.
thanks all for listening to things that i cannot say to my family or 'friends', the very people that i should be able to talk about anything about, without fear of being labelled as an apostate and shunned like an amharet..
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pirata
Running away from WT-induced guilt, I now feel guilty for giving my parents one more reason to suffer.....
ele_lux. Just remember it is not YOU giving your parents one more reason to suffer. It is the "Faithful Slave" that encourages shunning as a "loving provision" (ie. emotional blackmail) to discipline (ie. make sure they don't influence other witnesses) those who have left Jehovah (ie. those that don't believe the Watchtower is God's channel on earth). Your parents are held mentally captive by that concept. Continue to show them love the best you can and maybe the will see the difference between true love (including the love that Jesus taught), and rule-based pharisee type love.
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Listening to Singing Kingdom Songs on CD...lol
by Joliette in...and laughing so freakin hard.
i havent listened to this in years and its so hilarious.
it sounds like errol flynn or some british singer is trying to sing it, its so freaking hilarious..
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pirata
You do not need to quake with feaaaaar!.... As though great harm to you were neaaaaar!.....
My mom used to listen to this over and over to learn the Kingdom Songs. Thankfully they released the new Kingdom songs which have a more pleasant vocal delivery.
It's sad that the 'Governing Body commisioned but not approved for release George Benson and Witnesses singing Kingdom songs' CD never saw the light of day except among the underground channels before getting squashed by a Kingdom Ministry announcement not to distribute or download it.
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The offical Screaming thread for those 'still in' or with family 'still in'
by pirata inaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
that feels better.
thanks all for listening to things that i cannot say to my family or 'friends', the very people that i should be able to talk about anything about, without fear of being labelled as an apostate and shunned like an amharet..
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how does nubers 13v33 prove that they were the same nephilim talked about in gen 6v3
by thumperspooner incan any one enlighten me on this what seems an additional scripture to support the nephlim exsistance after the flood since we know that this was a bad report brought back by the 12 spies does it not also mean that they may have not been the actual nephilm of noahs day but a stronger wilder race of caananites?.
i need all your input on this as i have started to question a few things and i want to make sure i get my facts right before i engage in disscussions with elders.
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pirata
Hi thumperspooner,
There's a good discussion on that here:
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A Fabulous Analogy...... cup of coffee anyone?
by AK - Jeff inhttp://myriadhues.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/coffee-cup-analogy/.
a group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer.
conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.. offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.. when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: if you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
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pirata
Awesome analogy!
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"What will be examined in the following article?" How many of you adults shamelessly raised your hand for these questions?
by miseryloveselders inevery wt magazine has at least one article that asks this question at the end of one of the study articles.
sometimes these questions are in the books such as this week's book study.
they spiced it up a little bit for this book study though.
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I only answer the questions that I don't completely disagree with. These are one of the few questions I can answer freely.
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Was there a 1974 Franz speech and subsequent coverup?
by Nickolas infor those of us who remember it first hand, the 1975 fiasco is a strong indicator that the watchtower bible and tract society is not what it represents itself to be.
in the late 1970's, after several years of unprecedented growth, the wtbts experienced an exodus of disallusioned thousands which many attribute to the failed 1975 prophesy (see www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1975.php for details).
the wtbts hierarchy subsequently played down the great disappointment of 1975, blamed its rank and file for having precipitated it, and has successfully swept it under the carpet.
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pirata
Are you referring to 1925? From what I recall, 1925 was calculated as the end of some jubilee cycles, then 1975 came into fruition when they realized that they something in the book of Judges(?) justified adding another 50 years.
I think I may have mixed up my end times here. Ignore the 1925 reference. That was purely based on Jubilee cycles, on the number of years of man's existence... I think...
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CO visit soon. Haven't been to meetings for a few weeks.
by FifthOfNovember init's been a few months since i've been out in service and almost a month of no meetings.
the co is visiting soon and i'm already paranoid enough about random stops by elders (although this hasn't happened yet).
should i worry when the co is here?.
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pirata
Lots of "spiritually weak" ones show up for the meeting on the CO visit and not much else.
Tell the TMS overseer you are sorry but won't be ablet to take your assignment that night.