PSacramento: You are not alone, if I didn't go I would have received the same treatment from my partially brainwash parents + I live under their roof which would make it somewhat more annoying, "oh but every one is free to choose their religion" say one thing and do another, dont take it to heart, if you look at it from another angle your mother is desperately trying to save you, I would be more concerned if they were JW's but just didn't care what you did that was not in accordance to jw doctrine.
Joey Jo-Jo
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This Years Memeorial and MY heartbreak
by PSacramento inso...this years memorial came and went.. on saturday my mom called to invite my wife, myself and my two little girls to the memorial on sunday, i said thank you but said that we won't be going.. on sunday my older sister called inviting us also.. we didn't go, since my eldest daughter asked about it, i explaine dit to her and asked my wife and her if they wanted to do it at home and they said yes.. so after dinner, we all partook of our lord's sacrifice and i explained to my daughters how the taking in of christ's body and blood is symbolic for become one with christ and god.. we always remember christ and his sacrifice and last meal whenever we eat and "say grace" but, becuase of the whoel memorial meal thing, we decided to do a little more.. i read from luke and john.. it was very nice, very special.. then this morning at 8:30 am my mom calls and reams me for 40 min over the phone.. why anyone would think that i or anyone else would want to be a part of an organization that fills people with som much venom and spit, is beyond me.. she basically said that she gives up on me, that i am taken by satan, that satan is working through me and leading me and tha her heart is borken for my little girls.. my mother.... my heart is broken, there is a pain in my gut....
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MEMORIAL AT THE KINGDOM HALL OVERFLOWING WITH NEWCOMERS?
by steve2 inthis is a question for those brave souls who, for whatever reason, attended this year's memorial: .
who else was there?
was there any evidence that the witnesses are still attracting a large crowd of "newly interested ones" (to use their awful phrase) or even complete strangers drawn in by the door-to-door work.. i hear lots of comments about how poorly attended some of the weekly meetings in the halls have now become, so i'm curious about what you guys may have seen when you attended in the past day or so.
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Joey Jo-Jo
Mine was lower this year as well but dont know the exact figure, I did see new faces though.
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So do you believe DJEggNogg works in the WT's Writing Department?
by miseryloveselders inhttp://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/208658/4/do-jws-still-believe-in-1914.
@anony mous:.
you are definitely not keeping up to date with the current wtbts doctrine.. .
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Joey Jo-Jo
Guys, djeggnogg is santa claus, end of discussion....
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It's sundown on 17 April and there's a full moon
by Broken Promises in... and i'm cooking dinner and planning a nice evening at home.
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what are you planning to do tonight?.
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Joey Jo-Jo
I went to the hall, there was less people there than last year (dont know the exact amount but it was significantely less), this time I listened to the discourse with open eyes, so much misinformed info about the bibles account of Jesus, 144,001, small sheep etc, had to bite my tongue a few times.
What a depressing site, all these happy people part of a big sick joke, driving back home I had to hear "was that not a great discourse? I really enjoyed it", the person that spoke at the hall sounds very convincing to someone that does not know the real truth + his from the writing department so he must know what his talking about, right? wrong.
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I ended my bible study today
by still thinking ini have officially stopped my bible study today.
i have been trying to for weeks (after 10 years of on/off studying).
it got to the stage where i was asking too many of those questions that made everyone feel uncomfortable.
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Joey Jo-Jo
djeggnog: djeggnog I ended my bible study too, I found that there were certain questions you could not ask , I wish more people like you were around to give me a bible study WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED, my questions about old wathctowers, new light, paradise earth, 607bce, trinity, NWT bible differences with other bibles, Jehovahs name, shunning, double standards, blood, cult mind control, lies etc.
I did ask you a question about 1914 some time back, it was read like something was copied and pasted from the insight book, maybe I could post what unlogical and assuming sense these links with other scriptures have, like how the 7 times in revelations applies to nebu's madness, you can't really prove that one scripture refers to the other.
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July 15th WT out - Coming out Swinging at Apostates Hard
by LostGeneration inthis is one of the most aggressive watchtowers i think i have ever read.. four study articles on not "following the crowd" not following unrealities(page 13) not following false teachers, meaning apostates of course(p 15).
avoiding false teachers means "refusing to read their literature, watch tv programs that feature them, examine their web sites, or add comments to their blogs.
(para 7, pg 16).
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Joey Jo-Jo
This reminds me of a watchmen quote - Who is watching the watchmen?
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Why we grow old and die
by ballistic in"why we grow old and die"... i remember seeing this article quite a lot, but maybe you could tell me if it still comes around?.
anyhow, i was watching a tv programme the other day about nature following the second law of thermodynamics and i realised that everything around us breaks down, everything wears, things that move generate friction, the tendancy for particles is to fall apart and "entropy" to increase, just as the universe itself will one day have no structure left as such, just randomness of elementary particles floating about and darkness.. .
really, the question implies a bogus argument.
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Joey Jo-Jo
stars also give birth to other stars.
ballistic- and this is where i think the root of all theories come from, assumptions and not hypothesis.
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Reality exists in your brain
by Nickolas ini've just posted the following in another thread whose subject is supernatural experience, but it may deserve its own thread so i'll repost it here.
i don't believe in the supernatural but i do believe that people experience unexplained things.
where i differ from some people is that i perceive the unexplained things exist only in their brains and not in the physical world around them.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
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Joey Jo-Jo
Reality exists in your brain? I havent read most post but by the title I always thought the brain to be our processor and recorder, we see through our brain using our eye's, we ear through our brain using our ears, we taste through our brain using our tongues.
The human brain can do some incredible things, see and ear things that arent there, dream, senses and deja vu, but reality exists in our brain??, I believe the brain gives the key to reality. For example when a flying object it me in the face leaving a scar I still have today, you can't say it was my brain that made that object float in mid air and hit smack on the forehead can you? It wasn't mass hysteria, mass hysteria would be like someone walking into a bank with a machine gun, something needs to trigger hysteria.
btw Nickolas I find your posts extremely arrogant, LSD, schiz, sleep paralyses, what your saying is anyone is either crazy, imagening it or on drugs lol
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Anyone here have any experience with the "super-natural"?
by Knowsnothing inand if so, would that prove an existence of evil-spirits (demons)?.
i have heard of a couple of stories of possession, or of jw's talking to spiritists and the spiritists having seen 2 men following the jw, either dressed all in black, or all in white, and very strong looking.
yet, i have never experienced any of it.. another experience that i heard is about a brother whose mom had super-natural strength, and tossed something really heavy.
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Joey Jo-Jo
Yes that makes a lot of sense.
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John 1:1
by Ding inmost the nwt translates john 1:1 as "... and the word was a god," not "...and the word was god.".
the reason they give is that the word theos doesn't have the definite article in front of it in the greek.. in his 1982 book, "the jehovah's witness' new testament," greek scholar robert countess looked up all such occurrences in the nt (theos without the definite article) and checked the nwt.. he discovered that the wts only followed their stated rule 6% of the time.. 94% of the time, they translated it "god" anyway!.
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Joey Jo-Jo
So in the beggining there was Jesus, that doesn't make any sense.