Posts by Knowsnothing

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The TRUTH in a nutshell

by Glander in

simple truth 1 partners help each other undress before sex.

however after sex, they always dress on their own.

moral of the story: in life, no one helps you once you're screwed.. simple truth 2 when a lady is pregnant, all her friends touch the stomach and saying "congrats".

Could you 'Wake Up Happy' if you were an active Witness, knowing what you know now? (A 2012 Convention invitation)

by ScenicViewer in

a convention invitation.

i came home the other day and found an invitation to the upcoming district convention in my door.

i don't believe these are left in the doors of the general public, so a well-meaning witness must have been thinking of me, even though i have not been to the kh in about 7 years.. the leading question on the front immediately got my attention, and made my jaw drop a bit.. i thought i would ask the forum, .

Knowsnothing

If your idea of happiness is sitting in a chair for 8 hours falling asleep for 3 days, I think I'd rather pass.

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The true, unsung hero of the Bible....

by Unlearn in

my undisputed hero of the bible is known by several names, depending on who you talk to...devil, satan, lucifer, etc.. read it, and you'll find that he was the only one who really stood up for you.. he asserted that you could make decisions for yourself...and told you the very real truth that, just because the piece of meat in your chest stops thumping, you positively do not 'die'.. he was your hero.

he stood up to a daddy-maniac and said, 'just because you made us doesnt mean you have the right to tell us what to do.

i thought we were free?'.

Knowsnothing

could some good-looking human tail really be all it took to make you go AWOL?

Hell, what's to say angels can't find the cosmos to be sexy?

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Horrid Time for Me

by Band on the Run in

jw
friends

my pain has been in remission.

i have a morphine pump.

pain broke through toward the end of the medication.

Knowsnothing

My deepest condolences, BOTR. I know there is nothing that can truly alleviate your pain, but I will leave you with the positive attitude of Epicurus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus

He suffered from kidney stones, [2] to which he finally succumbed in 270 BCE [3] at the age of 72, and despite the prolonged pain involved, he wrote to Idomeneus:

I have written this letter to you on a happy day to me, which is also the last day of my life. For I have been attacked by a painful inability to urinate, and also dysentery, so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings. But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions. And I beg you to take care of the children of Metrodorus, in a manner worthy of the devotion shown by the young man to me, and to philosophy. [4]

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Jehovah's Witnesses And The Paranormal

by Cold Steel in

i understand that the jehovah's witnesses are paranoid when it comes to the paranormal.. how far do the roots of this paranoia go?

has anyone ever had any personal paranormal experiences or know of anyone who has (first hand)?.

and what are some of the more popular stories that get retold in jw circles?.

Knowsnothing

No, just many second hand accounts.

The only "unexplainable" experience I had didn't involve "demons". I'm still skeptical about it, but it was 1.) intense, 2.) similar to other accounts, so I won't discount it yet.

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Funny JW rant on youtube

by baltar447 in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8crdzct5r3o&feature=player_embedded.

ok, the kid is a bit of an ass, but weren't we all at that age?.

Knowsnothing

"What happens to us when we die? I don't know, let's find out! (cocks gun, pulls the trigger)"

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How Does One Get Into The GB?

by Cold Steel in

if one wanted to get onto the governing body, how would one go about it?

and who is currently the head of the gb?

how often do occupancies arise?.

Knowsnothing

Ray gives similar testimony to what the revealer posted. Being a nephew of Freddy didn't exactly hurt either, so let's review the qualifications.

1.) What Blondie already said

2.) nepotism

Benefits include:

1.) tenure

2.) all paid expense trips around the world

3.) control of a medium-size religion numbering about 7 million

4.) authority over God and Jesus

5.) ability to silence all opposition via DF

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bible no other book

by bobld in

many say,no other book in all history compares with it.. widely owned book,one least read.people don't understand it.. it's wisdom unmatched,guide for all,brings peace,joy etc and a gift from god.. yet you read kings and chronicles and you see evil rulers like hiltler,stalin.. read ruth..purchase a wife and land on the witnesses of removing a sandal.. where do you get away with, a jew(god's people) marrying a gentile.. try reading your kids a bedtime story from revelation.. the r.c almost had it right when they burnt the bible,they didn't go far enough..

Knowsnothing

The R.C almost had it right when they burnt the bible,they didn't go far enough.

It needs to be preserved, as a relic from the past.

Apparently during WWI Winston Churchill passed time in the trenches by reading the bible for the first time. He was constantly laughing uproariously

and sharing the most outrageous passages with his fellow officers.

Cofty, I bet you that one about the daughters being whores and looking for men hung like donkies got a big belly-laugh from his fellow officers.

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Are we Gods cruel little joke?!

by nicolaou in

so god shares the gift of life and creates his son and myriads of other powerful angels.

they share eternity with him.

these are rational, intelligent self-aware individuals with awesome capabilities.

Knowsnothing

Nicolau, you fail to understand that amidst all that crap we have to face, we get to have sex. Sex is even envied by angels.

Genesis 6:1,2 6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Also, remember that fall made us sickly, we aren't inherently that way. Yes, death only exists because an angel turned snake made a dumb-butt eat a fruit. No, forget animals naturally dying. Forget evolution. The Bible provides all the answers. If you cease to question it, and simply accept it, you will grow to love the provision given to us.

The angels envy us and our incredible bodies because they cannot materialize. Woe to you angels, and your passing through matter!

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JW Study, close to baptism, begins to ask questions following our conversation

by uk_ex_jw in

i will keep this brief.. a jw study who recently contacted me on facebook, has been to the elder's following a conversation with me in where i outlined my reasons for leaving the wt society.. he originally started asking me why i wasn't a jw anymore and how important it was that i returned to the 'truth' and how the devil was ruling the world and turning people against jehovah's people etc etc.

he was, as you would expect, full of beans and enthusiastic about what he was learning and telling me how he couldn't wait to get baptised now.. he was studying years ago - that is how i knew him.

since then he has been off doing his own thing and now they have managed to rope him back again.. i have explained to him that i do not believe that jw's have the truth, sent him video's, and other evidence, about the paedophilia situation, un scandal, links to the mason's, changed doctrines regarding blood/generation and so forth.. he sent me a reply and said that he wasn't sure anymore and that he agreed with me that the wt society was controlling.

Knowsnothing

imperial (that the term)

Empirical.