Posts by Soldier77

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Mother-in-law sending me dvd...need input

by TweetieBird in

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my mother-in-law called me today and said that she is sending us a dvd that came out at summer convention about the history of the organization and why it is "being used by jehovah".

she asked if we would watch it cause she knows that we don't think wts is being used by god.

i told her that we would watch it and send back to her.

Soldier77

thanks for the link Jamie!

When I watcherd the DVD a few months ago I wanted to puke my guts out. There's so many lies, misdirection, half-stories told in it. It's an EPIC FAIL dvd. Propaganda at it's finest...

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i heard that in a certain congregation an elder was giving a talk about profanity and the need to avoid it.. he started then counting on his fingers different obscenities and saying them out loud.. those in the audience were shocked.

he was taken off the stage and had his elder book taken from him.. .

did anyone ever hear of this happening?

Soldier77

Hmm I call shenanigans. But okay....

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I must be a genius- I did a perfect Windows 7 upgrade.

by moshe in

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my 20006 dell e510 was getting pretty long in the tooth and when i saw that dell had the win7 family pack 3 upgrade license on sale this past weekend for $125, i bit the bullet.

my next stop was the local compusa store for a galaxy 256mb pci-e video card- with a nvidia 8400gs chipset for $19.95 after rebate.

i installed it in on my old xp computer and then ran the win 7 upgrade advisor from microsoft- showing-- a 3ghz p4 cpu, 1.5gb memory and the new video card passed the requirements for the win7 aero screen- all tests were in the green.

Soldier77

moshe, I will say that I hate Windows, more exactly, I hate Microsoft. But, I will say I was the guinespig in my company to be the first and test subject to install and run Win7 in a pro environment. Well, I will be the first to say that I like what they did with it. Very well implemented and delivered. Blows Vista out of the water.

Now if onlh they would implement everything as well as Apple. :)

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Just how much of a SUCCESS is God..........so far?

by Terry in

you can't be god if nobody exists but you.. sure, you are taller.

but, taller than what?.

see, a superlative is the last step among comparisons: good, better....best!.

Soldier77

agonus, point well said. Satan is more feared of than Jehovah by the Jdubs imo. My own mother is more afraid of what 'Satan' can do to us than what Jehovah can. She made the statement to me a week ago, "Satan is out to kill each and everyone of us, how can you not realize that he is out to get you?"

I told her point blankly, "I'm not afraid of Satan, he has no power over me." She was speechless. Like I defied all that was 'written' in the WTBS publications.

I stand by what I said, and I still do.

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How many reasons can you think of for a worldly not to join the Watchtower?

by dgp in

not that i'm joining .

Soldier77

Every single reason you can think of for joining a religion, and those are the reasons why you SHOULD NOT join the JW cult.

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Just how much of a SUCCESS is God..........so far?

by Terry in

you can't be god if nobody exists but you.. sure, you are taller.

but, taller than what?.

see, a superlative is the last step among comparisons: good, better....best!.

Soldier77

You are absolutely correct Terry. If 99.99% of the world's population has to be destroyed and only .001% will make it seems to be an EPIC FAILURE on his part. I mean if he can destroy 99.99% at one time, why not save that many the clear majority, and win the whole debate of this 'sovereignty' dispute that the JWs are so focused on.

If God played by JW rules, he loses. Not so good for him.

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"Remember me as the one who woke up."

by OnTheWayOut in

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i know that such titles make such a thread seem like a "goodbye.

" not the case.

i may reduce my time at jwn because my path has taken me through a process of needing this forum less now.

Soldier77

OTWO, I've always been drawn to your posts and have in fact nudged me towards the 'path of enlightenment'. I actually recognize this passage as I've been reading up on it a lot in the past few months. Thank you for helping me, even though you probably didn't realize it.

Take care, I look forward to your posts when you get to them!

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December AWAKE entitled: The Truth About Christmas

by AwSnap in

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i just found an envelope outside my door.

as i picked it up, it felt a little heavy.

inside, there is an awake, and print-out, and a hand written note:.

Soldier77

Quit trying to ruin other people's happiness and start focusing on your own shortcomings.

I like this sentence AwSnap. Beautiful!

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Has anyone ever had a 'Near Death Experience' ?

by 3Mozzies in

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i'm wondering if anyone here has had a "near death experience" or know of someone that has.

as an example: such as floating above your body during your operation when the doctors 'lose' you and you make a decision to return back to your body even though the bright light and some voice tell you otherwise... .

did it change you/them in anyway?.

Soldier77

I guess I can respond to this. Was it a near death experience? No, it was a death experience...

I will be a bit vague on details to an extant because anyone that knows me or knows what happened can id me from it. Anyway...

There was a period in my life where I was working 96 hours a week, firefighter/emt, and the summer months are hell for wildland fires...

So I came off one of those long shifts, 4 days straight with 4 hours of sleep working a huge fire. Went home to get some sleep, couldn't sleep, adrenaline was still pumping. So I figure I need to hit the gym and burn it off. Hit the gym, start in on my routine, then I start to get cold sweats, my body is shutting down from exhaustion. I go to leave, first I stop by to pay my membership fee, as I'm writing the check the world goes dark, like the closing scene of a movie fading to black. That's all I remember.

What had happened, this is firsthand from the person that did CPR on me, was I fell backwards and when my head hit the ground he said it sounded like a .30-06 rifle going off. When he ran over to me, he said I had no pulse and wasn't breathing. He immediately started CPR. It took him a minute to get my heart going and I started breathing on my own. I was not aware of this at all. I woke in the back of an ambulance speeding to the hospital, I remember asking what happened, the paramedic said I died. I passed out and was in a coma for a week.

Long story short: I was dead for a minute or so, no pulse not breathing. I saw nothing, no one calling me back, no image of Jesus no light, nothing. All I remember was a fade to black and that was it until I awoke in the ambulance for a brief moment before blacking out again for a week.

I made a full recovery, just to end with. No brain damage, extensive MRI's and CAT Scans, had to relearn to walk. The docs said that most people heavily favor one side of their brain, after my accident my brain is using both hemispheres almost equally. It's quite interesting really.

That's my near-death experience. Sorry, not epic.

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I was BANE...I have an apology to most of you.

by Botzwana in

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i was bane and i think i got banned because everytime i tried to log in i couldn't.

i was defending the society as best as i could.

something has happened in the last few months.

Soldier77

Welcome to the real life!

I remember reading on of your heated debates back months ago and someone made a response and said, you know, one of these days you will have your eyes opened and when that day comes we will all be here to welcome you. That my friend is how we roll. You wouldn't get that treatment from most 'in' the org today.

Regardless, its good to have you here again and I like the 'new' you a lot better.