Well, even though misdirected at me I'll say this. The elders and most friends knew that I was pissed at what happened to my wife and how it made her lose her faith but not mine. Sadly, to some extent it's going to look like her Jezebel influence was somewhat successful. Also, I put up a smoke screen of saying I was going to go to another hall (my old one) on account of the average age of my newer congo being 70 (not kidding). Now nobody knows who's problem I am, anyone familiar with our situation is sick of trying to help and get nowhere, and I turned off my answering machine for awhile. If your in a city with lot's of halls do the same thing, that kind of confusion is too much for your average overworked elders to sort out.
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Question for Jim Ladd.
by voltaire injim,.
i just read on another post that you are close to being df'ed for having doubts.
i, too, am on the bubble, so to speak.
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Working on a Logical Problem
by dunsscot indear good people of j-w.com,.
i am sitting in my office working on a problem and i need your help.
do you think that these sentences are true?.
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Jim Lad
Hey Dunns, sometimes in the morning when I shave after a shower I look down and wonder:
1) Is my dink looking away from me to be rude?
or
2) Is my dink talking to my feet and the jokes on me?What do you think? (I mean really, how can I ever know?)
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JWs: They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
by Room 215 inone thought for long-time dubs..... the wts's interminable bragging about their ``spiritual paradise'' and ``nation of ministers'' aside, there are signs that the leadership is hip to the flagging commitment on the part of the rank and file.
notice how the summer district conventions have shrunk over the years.
what would the attendance figures would look like if the gb tried to revive the old practice of eight-day assemblies, with sessions lasting until 9:00 p.m. every day?
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Jim Lad
Off the point perhaps but before I finally left this year I was struck with just how slim the "normal" witnesses had been trimmed to since I was a teenager, seems anyone with a social aptitude able to carry on a normal down to earth life was gone in my mid 20's. Just took me a little longer to stop going w/o guilt realizing it's not the truth (what a relief!), to stop hangin' with social retards because it's the "right thing to do". Sorry if that sounds bitter, but hey, truth is truth.
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Concerning Simplicity
by dunsscot ini'll be back later to take care of brother larc and others.
for now, i want to share a brief quote taken from albert einstein.
if the doctor fouls up the quote, he takes full responsibility for any legal ramifications that may append thereto.
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Jim Lad
What about Paul saying that he should speak in such a way that the hearer understands so as not to be speaking into the air? Now that a good god-fearing JW has learned that ONE scripture tells him to do something he'd better do it or be disfellowshipped!!! (eg: Birthdays, meetings,...)
Now keep it simple Dunns or be caste out of God's good side for good!
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Silentlambs and Signifiers that Signify Nothing
by dunsscot incall me a neopositivist, a semi-verificationist or semi-falsificationist, but the claims made by "silentlambs" reminds me of the shakespearean line that was quoted in the creator book published by the wtbts.
that is, the contentions of silentlambs seem like much "sound and fury" that in truth signify nothing.
i am of course referring to the supposed dateline show and the claims made about some members of the gb of jehovah's witnesses.
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Jim Lad
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Jim Lad
Yeah, and after that Awake about secret societies a while back. I guess they subcribe to the big lie theory.
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Watchtower - August 1 2001
by hippikon inpage 3-4. your right to believe.
you probably cherish your right to believe whatever you wish to believe.
by exercising this right, earths six billion inhabitants have produced an amazing diversity of beliefs.
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"A wise person, therefore, does not believe something is true just because an authoritive person says so"
Yeah? Like the WT society??? Absolute propaganda!! Sickening
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What first made you doubt?
by Simon inthere will be one about what your favourite color is later... .
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For me that a principal should be true big or small: If elders locally can't see through crap by some divine intervention than how can I expect Jesus really is the head of the congregation when I've seen so much wrong within it for years, answer = no divine intervention, God is not with this people. Then I bought Christian Freedom by R Franz and that was that.
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GB Admits It Has No Answers, Blood
by Maximus in"in contrast with humans, who have a limited life span, jehovah never feels pressured by time to reveal his secrets prematurely.
this fact should prevent us from becoming impatient when certain bible questions cannot presently be explained to our satisfaction.
"modesty on the part of the faithful and discreet slave class, commissioned to provide the christian household with food at the proper time, prevents it from presumptuously running ahead and wildly speculating about things that are still unclear.
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I especially find the point of twins interesting, never considered that before.. once again it seems it's what's not said in the literature that needs to be pondered very seriously. My grandmother is in the hospital right now and the WT Liasons are there, would like to ask what they think of my beautiful younger twin sisters sharing blood. They should be struck down for it or what?
Anyway, thanks for the interesting point. Funny I've never thought of it before.
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watch what you ask about!
by zev ini posted this in another thread.... i wanted to give it its due concideration..... i wish to share a small tid-bit of something that came to "light" last week.
it shows how underhanded and sneeky the little trolls are, and they even know they are.. an issue came up recently in a watchtower over a certain number of years that was mentioned in a w.t.
the actual years in the bible was different.
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I know it's a little off the topic, but, Zev, why do you have a picture of a chick as your - what's the term? - Avatar?