Topics Started by NowAndThen

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Will this Society survive ?
by WildeLover in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is my first post and i suppose something like this has been posted before but i would love to get your thoughts on it.

really do you ever think that the society will fall apart?

or will it always be propped up by die hard members?will it see 2020 i wonder with the growth it has seen?.
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Woman Returns Purse With MU Student's Tuition
by Bangalore in
1. jw
2. friends
woman returns purse with mu student's tuition.. http://wvgazette.com/news/201008120760.

bangalore.

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Tired JWs
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
that's all i see now.

no vim and vigor, just tired..
20
finding the lord...versus finding yourself
by Aussie Oz in
1. jw
2. friends
i have noted many who are ex jw but now are 'born again' or have found the 'lord' telling how wonderful life is now.... i mean no disrespect to those who claim this, and are happy, i can understand i guess, leaving the wt but still wanting to serve 'god' but i just can't come at it.

we all know the story... life sucked, left the watchtower, found jesus, lifes great again.... what about my life?

some of you already know i am not christian and in fact are more anti god/religion than ever.. i was depressed, couldn't live up to the rules, faded out fast, left wife, lost kids, lost every single friend of 30 years, lost every material thing save the clothes on my back, lonely hermit for two years, adultery, disfellowshipped, crazy girl friend, one night stands... you might say life went down the toilet and i needed saving from myself.. wrong!.
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Paul in Scripture, was he a real hsitorical person and a converted Jew
by designs in
1. watchtower
2. bible
critique on a scholarly level began around the 1700s by f.c.

baur a theologian in germany followed by deissman and reitzenstein.

some felt he was really a gnostic, others felt that he may have been the writer luke, or a plato schooled mystic.
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Two questions for you
by asilentone in
1. jw
2. friends
a. do you try to "witness" to current jw's as much as possible?.

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b. do you just let them find out for themselves on the internet?.
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Do you REALLY believe Ezekiel laid seige to a brick 390 days?
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in ezekiel the 4th chapter one of the most ludicrous passages in the bible tells us god commanded his prophet ezekiel to lie on his left side in a mock seige against a.....brick!

for how long?

390 days!.
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Creating exactly what He got: SINNERS...(Jehovah the architect of disaster)
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
god may as well forgive short people for a lack of height as to forgive them for their sin!.

god's "superior" standards are merely the difference between his nature and how he made humans!.

deliberately creating inferior creatures and then burdening them with infinitely superior standards of thought and conduct.
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Atheists - Do you ever talk to God?
by AK - Jeff in
1. jw
2. friends
i scream out sometimes.

am i angry at a 'being' that i don't think exists?

or the embedded concept?.
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1975 - Lest We Forget
by GetBusyLiving in
1. jw
2. friends
i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.

do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?

with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?