Posts by sabastious

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Remember feeling seriously guilty for missing an informal witness opportunity?

by sabastious in

...those were the days!.

-sab.

sabastious

I remember thinking to myself "Darn! I failed Jehovah, I could have easily witnessed to that person but I let Satan's World's conditioning make me think that I would be bothering them!"

-Sab

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Remember feeling seriously guilty for missing an informal witness opportunity?

by sabastious in

...those were the days!.

-sab.

If Someone Tells You They Will Call You At A Certain Time And They Don't....

by minimus in

jw
friends

how does that affect you?.

it ticks me off if i'm waiting for a call and i stop myself from doing something only to not have the person keep the commitment..

sabastious

That is an irritation of mine, I always try to call people back that I say I will. But stuff happens and most of the time it's not even close to personal.

-Sab

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Does this sound familiar?

by HappyOutsideTheBox in

jw
friends

i found this yesterday - i though you would enjoy it.. http://www.youtube.com/user/jeulax#p/u/6/kj7kleivjng.

hotb .

.

sabastious

Ugggghhh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96A8pXHKwI

-Sab

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Elder's message to me, on me being disfellowshipped tomorrow.

by whereami in

jw
friends

it saddens me greatly to see all that has happened and to see my friends in this position.

for me its a great loss but i hope that it will only be temporary.

please allow jehovahs discipline to mold you and youre way of thinking.

sabastious

I don’t know how you feel, but I want you to know that I love you no matter whatever happens.

^ This statement if for HIM not you. When it's all said and done he wants to make sure he's not acting like a cold hearted monster... "it's not like he doesn't LOVE you."

It's psychological gymnastics and he needs this kind of pretzel logic to stay afloat in his JW life full of inconsistancies and logical fallacy.

-Sab

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What is the most secularly acclaimed Bible translation?

by sabastious in

jw
friends

i want to start reading the bible more but i do not want to use the nwt.

the fact that the nwt took so many liberties makes me a little gunshy about other translations, which one would you recommend?.

-sab.

sabastious

I want to start reading the Bible more but I do not want to use the NWT. The fact that the NWT took so many liberties makes me a little gunshy about other translations, which one would you recommend?

-Sab

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The fundamental flaw with the WTBTS as "God's Organization"?

by Essan in

there are countless issues that people have with the society and which together have led to many people realizing that it is not what it claims and pretends to be.

these include things like the secret un affiliation, contradictory and hypocritical stances, (malawi vs mexico vs un/ngo), the ever changing blood policy and ever changing doctrine, failed predictions for armageddon etc, etc, etc.. but what is the consensus about what the fundamental flaw is?.

what i mean is, many jw's hear about these various issues and manage to make endless excuses for them, even though this involves gross hypocrisy and excusing the society for things they would never excuse in other religions and which the society itself has ruthless condemned other religions for over almost 100 years.

sabastious

No matter what you say they can always hold onto these two ideas:

"Where else would we go?"

and

"No one else is doing what we are doing."

-Sab

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Do you like Sunsets? why?

by cyberjesus in

jw
friends

people like to stop and appreciate a sunset.... but what is it they enjoy?

what do you enjoy?

who say its beautiful?.

sabastious

To be more serious:

The sunset and sunrise is something humans have witnessed for eons. It really is one of the few things in existence that happen every single day and I think we have genetically become accustomed to.

-Sab

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