Posts by No Room For George

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ExJW who was a former friend explains why she defriended me on FB - and my response!

by Broken Promises in

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hi broken promises,.

since i'll be seeing you on saturday [at her sisters wedding who is also an exjw], i thought i should let you know why i removed you from my friends list and didn't accept your last request.

i did this because i saw you were in an ex jehovah's witness recovery group.

Corned Beef

by mrsjones5 in

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last year i purchased a corned beef package from trader joes.

i love corned beef but my husband didn't so i rarely cooked it for the family.

but trader joes was passing out samples last year, i couldn't resist and hubby decided he liked it but i'm only to buy the corned beef from trader joes.

i was wondering if any elders on board or anyone for that matter has ever heard anyone within the organisation tell someone they are too far gone and could never change their lives and be re-instated?.

i asked my brother who is an elder and he told me he has never heard it and he does not think it is possible for someone to have gone to far to be "rescued".

your thoughts my learned friends.

No Room For George

I think it may simply be a figure of speech to state that one is "too far gone." A brother in neighboring hall was gone for over twenty years. His son who's not a JW was and still is a very close friend of mine which made me privy to what was going on with his father. The stuff this guy was into was insane, and I'm sure that nobody who knew him or his family would have ever thought he'd come back. From what I understand when the brothers made the decision to reinstate him, he got so emotional that it caused the elders involved in his case to get emotional as well, to the point they had tears of joy. To be fair to JWs, I have to say that in this man's case being a JW is a good thing considering his background.

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Brian Kennedy (JW) tipped as Rangers saviour

by dozy in

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brian kennedy is well known in uk jw circles as one of the few jw millionaires.

for a bit of background , see http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/146810/1/madeleine-mccanns-case-other-jw-connection.

he is now potentially looking to buy glasgow rangers football club , which went into administration last month.

No Room For George

I guess he doesn't believe the end is right around the corner either..........

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Russian and South Korean Scientists Have Signed a Deal on Joint Research Intended to Recreate a Woolly Mammoth

by leavingwt in

this headline reminds me of what ian malcolm said in the film, jurassic park.

"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.".

the south korean foundation said it would transfer technology to the russian university, which has already been involved in joint research with japanese scientists to bring a mammoth back to life.. "the first and hardest mission is to restore mammoth cells," another sooam researcher, hwang in-sung, told afp.

No Room For George

This sounds like the beginnings of a VERY bad b-movie that the SyFy channel will play on Saturdays.

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Why I Hate Religion

by Christ Alone in

i know this is a few months old.

but i think it's profound to people that still think like the wt trained them to think.

even after coming out of the wt, they still feel that all christians believe that they alone have the true religion or denomination.

No Room For George

I watched the video.....

Can you give me the 4 minutes of my life I just wasted back?

LOL

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WHEN WAS ANCIENT JERUSALEM DESTROYED? Why does it matter? The Watchtower October 1, 2011 and November 1, 2011

by wannabefree in

when was ancient jerusalem destroyed?.

a critique of the two-part article published in the public editions of.

the watchtower of october 1, 2011, pages 26-31 and.

No Room For George

Those were some good threads. Remember the part in the WT article where they stated that some researchers had developed a new technique to verify that Jerusalem got sacked in 607, but didn't state whom or how it was done? Can someone find and post that part as it was hilarious!

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What March 12th means to me

by discreetslave in

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march 12, 1998 i becam a bethelite.

march 12, 2001 i left bethel.. march 12, 2011 i started a personal bible reading project that was supposed to strengthen my faith as a jw before the memorial.

instead this was the beginning of my awakening..

No Room For George

Happy Anniversary DS!! Amazing what reading the Bible without Watchtower propagnda can do for a person.

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My son is having a birthday party today

by mrsjones5 in

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one of his friends can't come because his mother is a jw.

i told my boy he shouldn't have said to the mother what kind of party it was.

he's just having a few friends over for food and video gaming, something his friend has done before at other "worldly" kids' house along with my son.. there will be no beheadings at this party..

No Room For George

I'm concerned that your son's birthday party was a selfish and idolatrous affair which didn't direct proper due to our Creator. It's quite possible that Jehovah feels slighted by such a gathering.

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The Bible designed to stagnate people and ruin lives

by WTWizard in

and i mean the whole bible, from start to finish.. first, the fear factor.

many that are deeply into the bible are afraid that, if they quit or disagree with it, they are going to suffer forever (destruction or hell).

they are also promised a major reward (life on earth forever, or heaven) if they obey.

No Room For George

I have to reexamine all that you wrote again, and on the surface I agree with pretty much with everything you wrote, although there are a couple bits that you might want to research a little bit more. One of which is the following.............

You also had to leave portions of your field for gleaners who were too lazy to plant their own, encouraging others to be lazy so they too can glean from the hard work of others. Being too well off was to be looked down on, because you were supposed to give to those who were too lazy and dishonest to work.

WTW, this is a classic example of generalizing 101. To consider widows, orphans, homeless, or others down on their luck as simply being lazy is really a skewed outlook. With that kind of thinking we might as well just condone Limbaugh calling women he disagrees with, sluts. Or accuse people on Medicaid with legitimate disabilities as simply gaming the system. My point is, you shouldn't generalize like that as all you end up doing is taking away legitimacy away from the rest of the solid points you made.