Posts by strymeckirules

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more JW splinter groups to poke sticks at...yes Burney, at you

by Aussie Oz in

from the grat wikipedia (long may it live).

in 1993, mathematician gordon ritchie requested baptism by jehovah's witnesses and almost immediately began advocating disagreements with their teachings.

he claims he was expelled for apostasy in march 1996.

Does anybody still believe in God and the Bible?

by tornapart in

i just want to know out of interest how many here still believe in god and christ and that the bible is god's word.

my faith in the wts is gone but i still love god and his son.

i've noticed that many here have lost their faith in god as well as the wts.

strymeckirules

i believe in heavenly father, Christ and the ancient scrolls that relate to them.

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"Forks Over Knives" Documentary on Link between Disease & Diet

by skeeter1 in

i watched a 2011 documentary called "forks over knives".

it disucusses the link between our diet and disease.

both dr. oz & dr. gupta had positive things to say about it.

strymeckirules

you just keep eating those bacon wrapped wieners cofty.

cofty - show some health benefits from eating bacon and show some health benefits from eating red meat.

ever checked out your prostate?

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Applying Math, Physics, Archeology to THE STORY OF NOAH

by Terry in

strymeckirules

how can you apply modern day physics and math with a world that had magic and angels and devils and nephilem and humans lived for hundreds of years.

it's like comparing these things to middle earth in lord of the rings.

different worlds, different physics.

and it still applys whether you believe in the ark or not.

you can not apply what we know now to what we have to imagine out of a book.

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The Two Forces

by N.drew in

the ark pictures the response to one kind.. it means the customs of the people can cause catastrophe.. and most people did not stop the destructive behavior , but some used it to be redeemed.. .

sodom pictures the other kind.. it means the people respond badly to the intuitive recognition that doom is ahead.. .

in one case what the people are doing causes something bad.

strymeckirules

angels most certainly bred with human females.

this was not heavenly fathers fault, for he created free will for all. so don't go saying he is evil for letting it happen. do you think he's evil now for things similar to this happening today? of course not. we do what we want to do. it's not his fault that some choose evil.

did he step in immediatley when adam and eve sinned? no. he let them complete thier sin and then went to talk to them about it, after they made plant clothes for themselves.

heavenly father allows you to hang yourself. he watches and records your actions. if he interceeded, you would not do what you were going to do. that's the test. what are you going to do, right or wrong?

the angels came down and did what they did, and then heavenly father pronounced judgement on them. they damned themselves. he watched and judged. the innocent humans caught in the situation were helpless. when adam and eve ate from the tree they chose thier new evil master. they decided who they would listen to. and their new evil master did not care at all about them.

it wasn't until christ's time that we got to switch sides and get some protection.

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I guess I am no more a girlfriend in dilemma

by DilemmaGF in

i think my boyfriend just dumped for jw.

he is an inactive jw, he was the the one who started tp pursue the relationship and now he kind of shunning me.

i don't why, maybe because he sensed that i am trying to tell him a lot about the true jesus and because he felt like he can't convert me, but that's okay, i understand.

strymeckirules

i ment, are you from canada?

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I guess I am no more a girlfriend in dilemma

by DilemmaGF in

i think my boyfriend just dumped for jw.

he is an inactive jw, he was the the one who started tp pursue the relationship and now he kind of shunning me.

i don't why, maybe because he sensed that i am trying to tell him a lot about the true jesus and because he felt like he can't convert me, but that's okay, i understand.

strymeckirules

you're not from canada are you?

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Help! My brother wants to hate me.

by strymeckirules in

tonight i tried to contact my blood brother.

i am 32 he is 30.. he was baptised at 10 and df'd at 12, 22 and now he would have been again but he walked away.. i made no progress with our reunite.

he's hating on me for leaving the family.

strymeckirules

okay so it has been a month since this issue, and there is some news.

my grandmother died on the 29 of December, and so all the family went to visit her in the hospital leading up to her heart failure.

my brother went to visit her and she made him promise to mend fence with me. so he promised and i waited to see what would happen.

well, he sent me a text asking if we could start repairing our relationship by first repairing his van.

i replied yes i can help you.

so i went there today and saw him for the first time in a while and it was all good.

i fixed his van problem. easy fix.(power and ground wires to starter were old and full of oxidization. cleaned the terminals and replaced the battery posts and it fired right up. took $5 and 20 minutes. it was broken down for 2 months)

so we talked and caught up a bit afterwards over a drink.

turns out he planning on attending the funeral which is in a catholic church. my parents have already stated thier position on not going.

so he's thinking for himself.....

he didn't want to bridge any real issues we had, i told him whenever he is ready i am here to talk.

so it was a good visit and i believe he's planning to continue talking to me as he needs a full tune up on the van.

so this revisit to this post is to say never give up hope. someday your loved ones vehicle may break down, giving you opertunity to mend fences.

thanks baba.

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Evil Spirits

by LizLA in

does anyone on this forum have knowledge about casting out demons or evil spirits?

there's at least two of them that have been harrasing me even before i was a jw.

i recently attended a deliverance church to find some help but it was apparent that the holy spirit was missing from that church.

strymeckirules

Schizophrenic Canada bus beheading man found not guilty

(AFP) – Mar 5, 2009

OTTAWA (AFP) — A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and hacked to pieces a Canadian bus passenger in front of horrified travelers was found not guilty of murder Thursday after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Vince Weiguang Li, 40, had been charged with murdering 22-year-old Tim McLean on a Canadian Greyhound bus on July 30, 2008.

Li had repeatedly stabbed McLean, who had been asleep on the seat next to him, sawn off his head, removed his internal organs, pocketed his nose, tongue and an ear, and taunted police and bystanders with the severed head.

Police said in court documents Li "appeared to smell, and then eat parts of Tim McLean's flesh" and "lick blood from his hands" as they surrounded the bus on a desolate highway 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Winnipeg, in western Canada, soon after the attack.

Authorities found body parts littered throughout the bus, some in white plastic bags. McLean's eyes and a third of his heart were also missing, and it is presumed Li ate them, said a pathologist in court files, though Li denies this.

The other 35 passengers and the driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled, said witnesses, bracing the door after their escape to trap Li inside the bus. He was subdued by police after a three-hour standoff.

Justice John Scurfield of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench described the killing as "grotesque" and "appalling," but ruled Li was not criminally responsible for the murder because of his mental disorder.

During a three-day trial, psychiatrists testified Li suffers from schizophrenia and did not know what he was doing when he killed McLean.

The court heard Li had auditory hallucinations on the day of the attack, that he heard God's voice telling him to board the bus from Edmonton to Winnipeg, and kill McLean.

Li dismembered McLean's body, psychiatrists testified, because he feared McLean could otherwise resurrect from the dead and seek revenge.

His mental health is to be evaluated within 90 days, the judge ordered. Thereafter, he may be released or confined to a secure psychiatric hospital for treatment.

Outside the courtroom, McLean's mother Carol Dedelley expressed her disappointment at the verdict and her fears for public safety.

"This isn't the right result," Dedelley told reporters. "Knowing that that killer might get out sometime soon is very hard."

"A crime was still committed here, a murder still occurred, and (this) ruling seems to negate that fact."

"A major illness took my son's life, and he was never sick," she said.

"Mr. Li should be held accountable for it," she said. "Whether he was in his right frame of mind or not, he still did the act. There was nobody else on that bus holding a knife slicing up my child."

McLean, according to his family, was on his way home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in western Canada, when he was attacked.

He "struggled and tried to escape" his attacker, but "eventually either fell or was thrown to the floor of the bus," said court files.

Investigators said friends described the former computer programmer who had immigrated to Canada in 2001 as having had mental problems since 2004, but said they never knew him to be violent.

Li was admitted to a mental hospital in 2005, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to court testimony.

Doctors identified his auditory hallucinations and offered him medication, but he declined treatment at the time.

"Unfortunately, he appears to have left the treatment facility without permission," the judge said.

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Evil Spirits

by LizLA in

does anyone on this forum have knowledge about casting out demons or evil spirits?

there's at least two of them that have been harrasing me even before i was a jw.

i recently attended a deliverance church to find some help but it was apparent that the holy spirit was missing from that church.

strymeckirules

how about the story in canada about the guy who beheaded another guy on a bus ride a few years ago.

he claimed he was harrassed by spirits that made him do this.

the court decided he was reasonably insane at the time due to the evil spirits controlling him.

this happend in our modern world.