Posts by Woody22

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Bitter apostates

by Laika in

witnesses often go on about apostates being spiteful and bitter.

when you get cut off, shunned, or threatened with shunning just for the audacity of thinking differently, it's not surprising that getting angry at the witnesses is the reaction - it's like a self fulfilling prophecy.. but also, i recently posted an email from a 'friend' on this board who told me that everyone he'd spoken to about me said i had changed, become like another person.

it didn't occur to him that the day before i told my parents i'd quit the religion just 3 weeks ago, i met him for lunch, we had a good time and he didn't know anything was up.

Woody22

I might add if I had to make a choice I would be a

Mormon before I would be an atheist.

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Bitter apostates

by Laika in

witnesses often go on about apostates being spiteful and bitter.

when you get cut off, shunned, or threatened with shunning just for the audacity of thinking differently, it's not surprising that getting angry at the witnesses is the reaction - it's like a self fulfilling prophecy.. but also, i recently posted an email from a 'friend' on this board who told me that everyone he'd spoken to about me said i had changed, become like another person.

it didn't occur to him that the day before i told my parents i'd quit the religion just 3 weeks ago, i met him for lunch, we had a good time and he didn't know anything was up.

Woody22

I am married to a Mormon and am familiar with their teachings one thing

I want to say is Mormons do not shun others in fact many members do not

even know when a member is excommunicated and if they do know they still

associate with them. In all the years I have been married to my wife and attend

many services I have never seen anyone shunned. Mormons are very family

orientated.

Woody22

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Our Blondie Has A Torn Memiscus.

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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blondie posted her watchtower comments for today and her last paragraph was asking for help, suggestions.

she is in pain from her knee injury, is on steroids and possibly going to have surgery.. she is asking if anyone here, has had the same problem, and if so, what did they do and how was the outcome?.

just lois.

Woody22

Bad knees for years (too much hockey) cortizone shots helped immensely.

woody

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Do Animals Have Souls?

by Cold Steel in

i know most jehovah's witnesses believe in the soul sleeping doctrine.

by this, given that neither man nor beast has a spirit, but that they do possess souls (or "intelligences" unique to themselves).

where this intelligence resides between death and resurrection is more than a passing interest, but again, assuming that yehweh can recreate one's distict soul, does the society believe that animals have souls?

Woody22

i am with you cold steel I believe all creatures have a soul

woody22

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Do other churches use the name Jehovah?

by barry in

i have seen on this site recordings of jw elders at tribunal meetings claim other churches hate the name jehovah.

one former baptist now jw elder said other churches hate the name and never use it.

please look at the following and there are many more hymns not included than these.

Woody22

lds church has it a number of times in their hymnbook

but believe it is referring to Jesus

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Where do we go when we die?

by cptkirk in

what would happen if we did not have religion to give some at least inference to (at the very least) our subconscious, that there is some type of afterlife?

what would we tell kids when they ask us what happens when we die?

what would we tell kids after these shooting massacres?

Woody22

What about all of the people who have died and come back to life.

They all share a similar experience. I have a relative who has experienced this,

and he swears by it.

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who--on here--has been out the longest

by bigmac in

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who has been out of the troof the longest?.

i resigned in the early 70's---but dithered as a guest at meetings for a few years--to keep marital peace.

but no field service at all--honest lol.. all connection to the cult ended in jan 1981---i had an affaire with a married sister--she got d/f--but--i'm told----it was announced=--i couldnt be d/f as i was no longer a jw---but was declared to be an apostate !!.