Posts by exwhyzee

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You Can't Live Forever in Paradise on Earth

by smmcroberts in

this will come as no shock to most of us.

but i wanted to detail the reasons in simple language for our witness friends in my latest blog: you can't live forever in paradise on earth.

sorry if it bursts anyone's bubble, but those who are loyal to the truth surely won't mind following where it leads.

exwhyzee

God had to remove them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the Tree of Life and thereby living forever

I used to ask this same question and similar ones as a kid.

Why did God keep the tree of life around and have to post Cherubs with revolving swords at the entrance of the garden if his plan was to have Jesus die for mankind to gain everlastion life again ?

If there was an entrance to the garden, what if Adam and Eve simply went a few miles down the road and snuck in and ate of the tree when God wasn't looking like he wasn't looking when they ate the forbidden fruit ? It seems like God was afraid that if they accomplished that, he would be powerless against them. He wouldn't be able to take everlasting life back once they had it and therfore would have nothing to hold over them.Would he still be almighty?

How come there had to be a tree of life if they were already perfect and were meant to live forever?

The fact is, if you beleive any of this stuff is literal, then it's easy to convince yourself that god will do a whole bunch of other stuff to make it all work out the way you want it to. The extent of what he might do is directly proportionate to the limits of your own imagination. All people know the same truth, our lives direction is determined by how we choose to distort it.

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Have the police ever been called to a Judicial Committee Hearing

by hoser in

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exwhyzee

: Have the police ever been called to a Judicial Committee Hearing

Yes...wasn't there an experience in one of the yearbooks where an unbelieving husband called the police when elders tried to intervene in a family dispute. The attending officers were so impressed with the kind knowledgable elders, the cleanliness of the Hall, all the colorful books and the mysterious lack of windows that they immediately wanted to hear more about these curious people. A study was started and several of their fellow officers joined in. It seems they too wanted to hear more of these life saving truths. "We've never heard such things" one of them was heard to say. Several of the officers were baptized and have joined the Pioneer ranks while the search for employment more suitable for a minister. Their former Police Chief is showing intrest and Sarge the precinct police dog is taking the magazines and is said to be lapping up the life giving waters found therein .

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a JW caught on video with foot-in-mouth disease!

by moshe in

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this brother really digs a hole for himself--.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybhw9bc-kc0&feature=related.

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exwhyzee

"Yes...each and every one of us is an Ordained Minister"

Ordained...its such an official and important sounding word. You can just hear the thinly veiled smugness and pride in poor Mikes voice as he is saying this. He thinks he's got made and is about to teach the interviewer a thing or two about his religion when suddenly he realizes where this conversation is leading to. You can see the realization come over him. He can't simply give what he knows to be the correct and honest answer to the questions put before him because if he does, he has single handedly failed the organization along with acknowledging a chink in his own spiritual armor.

Don't you feel pity for him? Haven't you heard yourself defending or felling obligated to defend that which you know is flawed? A more savy JW although thoroughly versed in the same line of defense would have declined any comment and smelled a rat long before the camera was rolling. I'm sure he was kicking himself later. Luckily his wife calls and gives him an out...hopefully she was back at the seats with a comforting and restorative Cheese Danish and a can of warm Shasta Soda to wash it down with.

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When You Were A Witness Did You Ever Celebrate A Birthday or Holidays?

by minimus in

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i knew some families that celebrated "family day" on christmas eve or some time around the holiday.. i don't know of too many witnesses that actually celebrated but kinda came close....haha.

exwhyzee

Even as a born ins who never had a birthday ourselves we never bought into the whole birthday nonsense even while we were " active" so we always did something special on our boy's birthdates. Sometimes it was a gift or toy or a special desert just for them or something they had been wanting for a long time. The idea was to let them know they were/are very much wanted, loved and it was a very big deal to us that they came into our lives. No matter how old they got, we'd corral them and administer the number of swats per year of age and a pinch to grow an inch and a sock to grow a block followed by a recanting of the story of the night they were born. To this day I do something on their birthdate. The last few years I've sent middle of the night text messages saying " X amount of years ago at this very hour the world became a little more wonderful when a certain little boy came into the world " etc....

We never told anyone about it, family or friends nor did we hide it. It was just a family thing that we felt was up to our own consciences. I was born on the 4th of July and it was always a bummer to have two cool things happening on the same day that I couldn't be part of. Lots of Witnesses who wouldn't dare celebrate a birthday and are utterly against celebrating the 4th of July, see nothing wrong with going to the beach and watching the fireworks along with all the worldly people who do the same thing as part of their celebration. It is such a load of nonsense and I'm glad I at least we can look back and say I made my boys know how special they are to us. It's what parents naturally want to do.

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My Experience in the Watchtower (Part Two)

by Eiben Scrood in

i had related the first part of my story in part one.

thanks for all the responses and sorry for the wait for part two!

part two obviously won't make as much sense if part one hasn't been read.. here is my continuing story:.

exwhyzee

This is so well written, so true to life and it sounds very familiar. Keep going....looking forward to reading the rest.

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Do you think our society is on the verge of collapsing?

by jam in

not to sound like the gloom and doom cult we were apart,.

but are we heading for an collapse in our society?.

iam sure we all are familiar with the signs that bring about.

exwhyzee

I think you are probably at a stage in life where you are realizing everything is not how you thought it was. Society is changing all the time and it always has. Your are probably projecting this disillusionment on the world around you and life in general. Older ones who are feeling tired often don't want to be bothered having to adjust so they see change as bad. They often have the a tendency to look back at the past through rose colored glassess, Glasses that also make the new generation seem as if it's going to hell in a handbasket by comparrison. I bet if you went back to the good ol days that we all think existed just before we were born or when we were small children and had the insight you have now, you'd hate it and be shocked at how narrow, strict, repressed and intolerant folks were. Especially so if you are part of some repressed group of people who's plight has improved with the passage of time.

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Hall - Elders leave disfellowshiped woman with baby carriage at bottom of stairs...is this insane?

by Witness 007 in

exwhyzee

I beleive such an instance wouldn't be too far out of the realm of possibility given the mentality they had back in the day.

In the 70's when we were studying the Sunday Watchtower which basically sort of gave the go ahead to (new) "lighten" up on how hard core we were supposed to be toward DF'd ones, outlining circumstances where it would be acceptable to have some contact with a DF'd person. A sweet old brother raised his hand and made a comment that made his wife whip her head around and stare at him. He said " I've never told anyone about this...not even my wife of 40+years but back in the 1950's when we were living in Minnesota we had a huge snow storm one night I was driving home and I recognized a Disfellowshipped Woman who's car had skidded off the road and was stuck in the snow so I stopped and helped her chain up and I got her car back on the road for her . I've always felt guilty about having done that but I just couldn't risk that she'd be stuck there all night and possibly freeze to death."

Can you imagine even having to question your own actions in such a circumstance and having to feel the need to keep them hidden for 20+ years and then only be able to admit it once you got the nod of approval from the Society ?

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Post 607: Reject 607 BC if You TRULY Trust the Bible!!!

by Londo111 in

therefore, if the 70 years period is for the destruction of jerusalem and exile at babylon:.

if zedekiah had not rebelled against babylon, had he surrendered during the final siege that lasted two and a half years, then the destruction of jerusalem and the deportation need not have happened.

then in the jubilee year, they were set free and their hereditary land was returned to them.

exwhyzee

Marked for later...Thanks !

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Funerals of Disfellowshipped ones.

by exwhyzee in

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some time ago someone posted some information here from some of the wt literature (possibly questions from the readers) that shows it would be inappropriate for a jw to attend the funreal of a disfellowshipped person.

when our son was undergoing cancer treatment while disfellowshipped we realized that if he didn't make it, we'd be on our own to bury him.

thankfully he survived but it was this realization and the way the family and friends abandoned us during our darkest hour that started our exit from the religion and eventually sent us packing for good.

exwhyzee

Thanks Guys....I was almost positive there was a questions from the readers that said it would be inappropriate to attend a funeral of someone who was DF'd. I'm guessing if Blondie didn't find it, it probably doesn't exist.

Thanks again !

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JWs And Near Death Experiences

by Cold Steel in

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exwhyzee

Its funny how you never hear of near death experiences of individuals who saw the devil or hell fire or dead realatives warning them not to "cross over". All you hear about is a white light or welcoming loved ones and other pleasant visions.