Stephen, that is the most refreshing post I have seen from you.
Lion Cask
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Is the salutation ... "Are you in The Truth?" ... still in use?
by Lion Cask inthe title is the question.
when i was actively studying with the witnesses back in the mid 70's i was often asked that question.
i guess it was a reflection of the crowd i was hanging around with and the fact that i was a friendly at the time, but on reflection i haven't been asked the question for eons.
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Is the salutation ... "Are you in The Truth?" ... still in use?
by Lion Cask inthe title is the question.
when i was actively studying with the witnesses back in the mid 70's i was often asked that question.
i guess it was a reflection of the crowd i was hanging around with and the fact that i was a friendly at the time, but on reflection i haven't been asked the question for eons.
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Lion Cask
I am enlightened. Thank your for that, bigmouth.
I wonder if "The Way" changed as often back then as "The Truth" has changed in modern times.
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Trying to Deal with MY Parental Guilt
by Lady Lee inthis is so hard for me.. my daughters don't want to talk about it.
they don't want to hear about the jws from their father.
and they don't want to hear about the jws from me.. they don't want to talk about it period.. they both seem to think i am stuck because i do talk about it.. the problem is partly that i can see just how stuck they are, especially the younger one who continues to fear armageddon is coming and has survival kits ready in her basement for when it comes - she showed me.
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Lion Cask
It seems as though you've had your fair share of misery, Lady Lee. But FHN is absolutely right, of course. You should only feel regret, and even then it should be tempered by reality. Your paradigm shifted, you changed, you are who you are now and you're paying back for what you might have taken away all those years ago - I mean within the context of your personal relationships and new ones you nurture along in here. I apologised to my younger son for having put him into the hands of the Witnesses through his mother. He rebelled from the Watchtower at around age 14 without any direct help from me other than being a role model, although he didn't think much of me when he was that age, either. In any event he rejects my apology as irrelevant, which in reality it is. That was then, this is now. Interestingly enough, he also thinks the meltdown of Society is inevitable, but now from a strictly secular perspective. He has no belief in Armageddon.
Put down the discipline and pat yourself on the back instead.
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Is the salutation ... "Are you in The Truth?" ... still in use?
by Lion Cask inthe title is the question.
when i was actively studying with the witnesses back in the mid 70's i was often asked that question.
i guess it was a reflection of the crowd i was hanging around with and the fact that i was a friendly at the time, but on reflection i haven't been asked the question for eons.
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Lion Cask
They use that term as if it was a dollar at a Gentlemen's club.
What? They fold it up and stick it inside the garter belts of strippers while they cop a cheap feel? Wow. Times have changed since I was a student. Maybe should give this thing some second thought .....
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I need a show of hands: who believes the Bible and to what extent?
by Terry ini'll start off.. i don't believe anything is divine about bible writings.
i believe there may be some marginal history although not much.
i think alot of folk tales and regional myths are contained in the old testament.
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Lion Cask
You said that far more eloquently than I, thetrueone. We have several Bibles in the house, collected by my wife. I gave back my personal copy of the NWT quite some time ago. I've read the Bible cover to cover once and probably a couple of times over piecemeal. There is actually some very beautiful prose in places and it's entertaining in others in an odd sort of way. The Bible itself is a treasure because it is a vivid linguistic reflection of our primitive past and mankind's enduring modern faith in things that cannot be proven or disproven, but it no longer inspires anything in me other than it being the historical and social curiosity it is.
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Is the salutation ... "Are you in The Truth?" ... still in use?
by Lion Cask inthe title is the question.
when i was actively studying with the witnesses back in the mid 70's i was often asked that question.
i guess it was a reflection of the crowd i was hanging around with and the fact that i was a friendly at the time, but on reflection i haven't been asked the question for eons.
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Lion Cask
The title is the question. When I was actively studying with the Witnesses back in the mid 70's I was often asked that question. I guess it was a reflection of the crowd I was hanging around with and the fact that I was a friendly at the time, but on reflection I haven't been asked the question for eons. (Maybe I have that village-of-the-damned look on my face and just don't realise it? Or maybe something more mundane like my name being put on the local Kingdom Hall no-fly list as my Witness wife and I have moved from place to place? More like it.)
But I'm still wondering if it's still in use, and what kind of response you give to the question, or would give if presented the opportunity.
Example: What version of The Truth are you referring to?
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I need a show of hands: who believes the Bible and to what extent?
by Terry ini'll start off.. i don't believe anything is divine about bible writings.
i believe there may be some marginal history although not much.
i think alot of folk tales and regional myths are contained in the old testament.
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Lion Cask
Does anyone know how long food lasts in cans ?
Not long enough given the time the WTS has been waiting for the Four Horsemen to show up. The GB are wondering if they missed their bus or something.
The smart End Time theorist (those who don't believe they'll be swept up into heaven in the Rapture, or those who don't believe they'll be "taken care of" while they gather up all the rotting, bird-pecked bodies as part of the Great Holy Cleanup) is stocking freeze dried stuff. That and whiskey. Never goes bad.
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I need a show of hands: who believes the Bible and to what extent?
by Terry ini'll start off.. i don't believe anything is divine about bible writings.
i believe there may be some marginal history although not much.
i think alot of folk tales and regional myths are contained in the old testament.
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Lion Cask
There are most definitely elements of truth in the Bible, otherwise it would not be credible at all, even to the gullible. But I might liken those elements of truth to the undigested kernels of corn one might see in feces - they're still edible, but I'm not too interested in picking them out before I flush it all down the toilet where it belongs.
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Need help with a shepherding call!
by brotherdan inso the elders are coming by for a shepherding call on tuesday.
i am not ready to "out" myself just yet.
i don't know how to act when they are there.
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Lion Cask
"Do you still believe it is God's Organization ?"
Easy one. You should answer an enthusiastic Yes! What you don't need to tell them is that the God in the question is jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully who is admirably represented by the WTS. (with thanks to Richard Dawkins)
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Need help with a shepherding call!
by brotherdan inso the elders are coming by for a shepherding call on tuesday.
i am not ready to "out" myself just yet.
i don't know how to act when they are there.
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Lion Cask
I'm not spending another second in getting people to think that this org is the "truth".
Attaboy. What's The Truth anyway? It keeps on changing. It's slipperyer than a greased pig.