It depends. If I'm asked to pray at mealtimes for the family I will, when I'm on my own or in "worldly" company I don't. It feels strange praying to a God I no longer believe exists.
Posts by Matty
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40Do You Ever Say Prayers At Mealtime Anymore?
by minimus ini notice that i seldom do.
what about you?
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Why Is It Called A "KINGDOM" Hall?
by Englishman inoxford reference dictionary: .
kingdom n. 1. a territory or state ruled by a king or queen; a domain.
2 , the most inclusive taxonomic category consisting of a number of phyla (in zoology) or divisions (in botany).. .
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Matty
I honestly don't think that Rutherford gave it much forethought, I think it was a throwaway line when he said "Don't you think we should call it 'Kingdom Hall,' since that is what we are doing, preaching the good news of the Kingdom?" "We" - yeah, that guy never knocked on one door in his life. You can imagine all the sycophants around him saying "What an excellent idea brother Rutherford, that's exactly what we should do!".
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Put one of these in your window
by onacruse inelectric sign
for your homes and other places, to call attention of all passers-by to the kingdom message which jehovah has entrusted to you to dispense.
this sign is attractive.
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Matty
I'm sorry I rekindle all your yukky dub memories Pris! Yes, the posters would say something cheesy in big coloured letters like "Divine Whatever - Salvation Near At Hand etc.. - A. Schroeder - 3pm Sunday 23 rd July Rugby Union Ground Twickenham - Admission Free, No Collections".
How embarrassing!
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A Thread for All The Mothers Who Won't Be Hearing From Their Children Sun.
by berylblue inhappy mother's day!
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Matty
Happy Mothers day for all the USA moms!
Mothers day was on the 30th March in the UK. Is it on different days in different countries?
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Put one of these in your window
by onacruse inelectric sign
for your homes and other places, to call attention of all passers-by to the kingdom message which jehovah has entrusted to you to dispense.
this sign is attractive.
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Matty
We used to put posters advertising the public talk at the district convention in our front room window. We also tried to get shops to do the same thing. Does anyone remember doing this? I can only barely remember it myself, it was a long time ago.
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do you believe in karma?
by SpiceItUp inwe have all heard the cliche' "what goes around comes around" but do you really believe it?.
i know this person that for many years has been unkind, devious and vengeful and then over more recent years has had bad luck everywhere they turned around.
i mean one thing after another.
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Matty
I've heard about that book - it looks like a good read JH!
Someone who treats others badly is very likely to be treated badly themselves, that's certainly not Karma - that's just simply what happens in life, there is no need to attach some spiritual or supernatural label onto it. If someone is mean to everyone then it's unlikely that that person is going to be popular! Conversely if they have money and power then they may be popular no matter what they do. Anyway, if someone is absolutely rotten to the core it's likely that someone will give them a slap eventually. There's a strong chance they will get their comeuppance, but maybe they will get away with it - who really knows? Practical experience of life surely will tell you this, I'm sure I don't need to explain it to anybody.
Let us make very sure what we are talking about here, we are talking about Karma, a religious teaching of the sum and the consequences of a person's actions during the successive phases of his or her existence. Every action is connected. All those people who were murdered in the World Trade Centre were gathered together there for a purpose - it was predestined - they were to be destroyed because of their actions in a previous life - they deserved it. All the Jews that were murdered and tortured in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany deserved it too. People who believe in Karma quite deliberately ignore these harsh realities and prefer to indulge in airy fairy talk about "justice" for all the nice people of the world. Every single human being on Earth will get the fruits of his or her actions either in the present or in some future life and whatever someone is in his present life is the result of his own actions in the past life or lives. Do the people here that say they believe in karma truly believe this? If not, then they should stop calling their belief karma.
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do you believe in karma?
by SpiceItUp inwe have all heard the cliche' "what goes around comes around" but do you really believe it?.
i know this person that for many years has been unkind, devious and vengeful and then over more recent years has had bad luck everywhere they turned around.
i mean one thing after another.
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Matty
Jehovah's Witnesses believe something similar to karma, they honestly believe that if someone in the congregation behaves badly toward them, Jehovah will see to it that the sin is uncovered. You have to wait on Jehovah for the person to get their comeuppance so that the congregation is kept clean. What goes around comes around.
Do I personally believe that there is some mystical moral law of cause and effect? No, absolutely not.
Karma just means that everybody is getting what they deserve. A child being raped and tortured by a paedophile deserves it. People who are mentally or physically disabled deserved it for bad things they must have done in the past. All suffering is deserved, according to the law of karma.
So nobody is really good or evil. Nobody is really responsible for anything they do, we are all like karma robot pawns on a big mystical chess board.
Sorry I don't buy it.
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Other Forums
by RAYZORBLADE inok...i have dabbled in a few forums over the many years i had access to the internet.
at one time i frequented one for quite some time, then it disappeared.
i tried other forums, and most of the time, i felt stiffled, aggitatted, annoyed or bored to tears.
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Matty
Try these for size - none of them get anything like the amount of traffic this site gets, but all have their own character:
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Fluff
by Jayson inhow can you live without knowing these things?
the first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time tv were fred and wilma flintstone.
every day more money is printed for monopoly than the us treasury.
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Matty
*patiently waiting for FunkyDerek to check each and every one of them for validity and report his findings here*
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Windchaser......
by SheilaM inthank you thank you thank you soooooo much for the pot holder.
it is beautiful i will scan it to show everyone.
can you send me the how to make those and the towels?
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Matty
I understand from JamesThomas that she's having some trouble logging in since the revamp here, and now generally only posts at Tim's board, the Ex-JW's Forum .