Poor you Azor, I do hope that your wife's condition improves soon. Good on your Mum, ignore those who are ignoring you in your difficulty. All the best to you.
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At A Loss
by azor inmy wife is in the hospital.
complications of a ruptured appendix.
she had it removed around 1am friday morning.
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Who Starts the Great Tribulation - Jehovah or Satan?
by berrygerry inwho starts the great tribulation - jehovah or satan?.
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Half banana
I agree with you Mr Flipper person; its a load of nonsense.
The Watchtower picture of reality is so far removed from truth... yet for JWs it is compulsory to keep these false boundaries and stupid predictions in mind. It is a time wasting distraction from getting on with a real worthwhile and enjoyable life.
It is interesting to see how far a person has come away from the cult by ignoring the Bible's fairy tales. This is not to make adverse comment on those who do, because when we are waking up, it's necessary to put what the Bible says in context with TTATT.
But its a great freedom to realize there is no such thing as Armageddon or "the great tribulation."
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Tell me if I'm right or wrong
by Chook injws say they can go anywhere in the world and they " know" that they would be shown hospitality from their fellow brothers.
of all my years as a jw i found this wasn't the case.
i honestly believe that if i turned up at any of my fellow apostates on here house and said hi i'm chook can we have a coffee, the response would be how many sugars..
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Half banana
Its hardly surprising that when religious loonies meet they would greet fellow loonies who believe the same things.
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Logical Problem with WT Anointed
by Vanderhoven7 inthe watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
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Instead of thinking on the "unspeakable tortures" of martyrdom of religious fanatics:
Try real life for a change.......................it is very refreshing!
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need input: My older son has an interesting theory as to why my wife has her head in a watchtower 90% of the time
by goingthruthemotions ini am still having issues with my still in wife.
my two son's and i don't want anything to do with the cult.
our marriage is a battle ground all the time.
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Half banana
The Searcher I had exactly the same experience, even with those who had been close friends. Yes subtly provoke thinking and never condemn the org to an active JW.
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My Conclusion After Research
by Disassociated Lady 2 insince leaving the jws i have looked into many beliefs and have come to this conclusion.. paganism has a high regard for women, as they worship goddesses and respect the female for the ability to give birth to new life.
christianity puts females in second place to males and blames women for male temptations which goes back to eve eating the fruit and tempting adam with it.
they also created a devil with the appearance of the pagan god pan and built churches on pagan worship sites so that people would still go there to worship, but within a christian building.. i have come to the conclusion that paganism versus christianity is about a battle of the sexes.. the fear of demonic forces is taught by religions to deter you from straying.
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Diss lady2, to adopt "pagan" beliefs is not that simple because it only implies believing folk tales. By no means is it the case that paganism places women on an equal footing with men. Most pagan ideas accept the male principle as being above the female. Try not to get carried away with idealistic assumptions like we did with the JW rubbish!
The ancient Egyptian religion is based on an unsubstantiated claim that all humans are always alive...a comforting thought but without the slightest evidence for its truthfulness. (As it happens I was just reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead this morning).
Religious belief, pagan or otherwise, is an attempt at an EXPLANATION for illiterate people in past times who had no chance of knowing the truth about the universe.
Nowadays we know about life, death and the universe.
.................................Why worship anything at all?
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My Conclusion After Research
by Disassociated Lady 2 insince leaving the jws i have looked into many beliefs and have come to this conclusion.. paganism has a high regard for women, as they worship goddesses and respect the female for the ability to give birth to new life.
christianity puts females in second place to males and blames women for male temptations which goes back to eve eating the fruit and tempting adam with it.
they also created a devil with the appearance of the pagan god pan and built churches on pagan worship sites so that people would still go there to worship, but within a christian building.. i have come to the conclusion that paganism versus christianity is about a battle of the sexes.. the fear of demonic forces is taught by religions to deter you from straying.
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Half banana
Since leaving the JW org I also realised that any individual or group who hold power over others will fight tooth and nail to hold on to that power irrespective of the moral legitimacy to do so. I have also learned to be true that as the saying goes; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Evidence of condescending thinking on the part of the GBoJW / Writing Committee.
by Nicholaus Kopernicus insource: july 2016 “study” watchtower.. .
page 11 paragraph 17.. “we should not imitate the people of ‘the nations,’ who have no real faith in a loving heavenly father who cares for those who put the interests of his kingdom first in their life.”.
page 16 paragraph 13.
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Nicholas K, I hardly no where to begin when criticising the Watchtower---all of it is a distortion of reality and based on concocted sacred beliefs supported by patronising praise for those doing the will of the governing body.
The irony of the Watchtower is that the demand for things like humility apply in greater measure to those writing it in the first place!
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What were two Chinese doing in Roman London?
by fulltimestudent inin the ancient world, people moved around much more than we may have expected, (think of paul's reported journeys and those of his supporters), but the identification of two skeletons in a roman era burial ground, as chinese has surprised historians.. the uk bbc reports: .
dr rebecca redfern, curator of human osteology at the museum of london, told bbc radio 4's the world at one, the find was "the first time in roman britain we've identified people with asian ancestry" and it was "absolutely phenomenal".. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37452287.
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Half banana
Yes Mephis trade may well have been a reason if indeed ancient Chinese skeletal material has been found in England. The highly valued silk thread or cloth from China was clearly known to the ancient Egyptians and also to the Classical world because we have samples of it today in museum exhibits. It was often blended in with linen thread.
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Logical Problem with WT Anointed
by Vanderhoven7 inthe watchtower september 1, 1951, in a wonderful article entitled “hated for his name”(pp518,519) describes the persecution and martyrdom of steadfast christians in the first 3 centuries ad.. by the year (a.d.) 64 christianity was.
prominent throughout much of the roman.
empire, including the capital city.
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I agree with the point you are making Vanderhoven, there are far more candidates for heaven than the literal figure of 144k.
However I would firstly caution the literal truth in the application of the word "Christian" to followers of Jesus in the year 64 and second, the reliability of church propaganda on the persecution of christians.
For the first point the "Christ cult" predated Jesus by centuries. There is no historical evidence of followers of Jesus amounting to any numerical force by 64 CE.
For the second, see: The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom 2013 by Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. The Idea of persecution began as did most of Jesus Christianity with the Catholic Church in the third and fourth centuries.