If you read the Koran and Hadiths you'd be scared too lol. Mohammad was a maniac. Married a six year old girl named Aisha consumated the marriage when she was nine. Had a poetess with 5 children killed just for critisizing him, chopped off 500+ heads of the Jewish Quarizya tribe in Arabia and took their wives, tortured a man by building a fire on his chest to find out where treasure was, The Koran says fight the unbeliever wherever you find them along with other jewels like strike terror in the hearts of unbelievers and I have been made victorious through terror. It says that non muslims are the vilest of creatures, and in Islam there is abrogation. Abrogation is when 2 passages contradict each other the later one is the one to go with. Problem with that is most of the violent intolerant passages are found later in the Koran after Mohammad left Mecca and was living in Medina. Muslims are told to emulate Mohammad and that he was the best man that ever lived...... Islam is not and never was a religion of peace.
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Are JW,s scared of Muslims ?
by pedal power inare there any circumstances when the watchtower takes on moslems head on, or like western govts, do they retreat as cowards?.
i placed some literature with a captain in the egyption navy, from alexandria, the jw,s were invisible, if they were even there !!
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Am I wrong for being angry at my dads funeral last year?
by shakyground inthat's the question that i have been thinking about all day for some reason.
it's 5:30 am and i been in and out of sleep all night.
let me go into further detail to explain.
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Yea I was too young to remember my grandmothers funeral and my dads was the 2nd dub funeral Ive ever been to. I just thought there should've been more focus on my dads life. Other non jw funerals I've been to seen to focus more on the deceased persons life.
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Am I wrong for being angry at my dads funeral last year?
by shakyground inthat's the question that i have been thinking about all day for some reason.
it's 5:30 am and i been in and out of sleep all night.
let me go into further detail to explain.
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That's the question that I have been thinking about all day for some reason. It's 5:30 am and I been in and out of sleep all night. Let me go into further detail to explain. Last year at my dad's funeral at the hall I was in my seat seething. Not because of anything my dad did in life, but because the elder giving the talk didn't speak much about my dads likes or dislikes. Nothing about his personality or fond memories or tender moments in his life. Granted my dad had only been reinstated for about 8 months before he died and he wasn't well known in the congregation, but 90% of the talk was going to scriptures and disproving life after death i.e. Ecclesiastes 9:5 and about the resurrection hope John 5:28,29. He spoke about how my dad loved sharing his beliefs and hope with others, and talked about how he loved his children but not much else personally about him. Maybe I'm wrong in thinking that the funeral was a plant seeds session, but the funeral was 85% worldly and 15% witness. I felt bad that when I looked at my family they looked cool, calm and at peace and here I was trying not to be angry. Maybe I was being silly sitting there getting angry inside. The elder didn't know my dad very well and perhaps he was just filling in gaps the best way he knew how.....
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Confessions of a teenage Jesus jerk.
by shakyground ini stumbled upon this coming of age novel about a teenage jehovahs witness growing up in san francisco.
it was such a great novel and hit real close to home.
it was funny and sad at the same timel but i loved it.
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I stumbled upon this coming of age novel about a teenage Jehovahs Witness growing up in San Francisco. It was such a great novel and hit real close to home. It was funny and sad at the same timel but I loved it. Anybody else read this book?
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Where the need is great
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wow, havent been around here in a while and it's nice to see some familiar names as well as new ones.. .
well, its that time of year again when some members of my family decide that they need to go preach where the need is great.
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I don't think there are any witnesses in the middle east. Maybe a few in Israel, but the vast majority of middle eastern countries are Islamic, and in many of those countries preaching anything but Islam will get you throw in jail or penalized with death. There are people in Pakistan right now who are on death row for allegedly speaking against Muhammad. I'm pretty sure if you go to places like Pakistan, Afganistan, or Syria and ask them if they know where the nearest kingdom hall is they will look at you like your an idiot.
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Anybody watch Game of Thrones?
by shakyground ini started watching game of thrones and it has become my fav tv show in a long time.
i may even read the novels.
i love fantasy novels and movies, i always tried not to like them and felt bad when a new book came out and always gave in and read it lol.
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Yea that the targareyan brat deserved his "crown". Karl Drogo is a beast. yea the dwarf made if back to his father. Every episode just gets better and better. I am definately hooked. The last show I was hooked on was the Wire, and Heroes for awhile too, but Heroes got kinda stupid after the 2nd season.
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Anybody watch Game of Thrones?
by shakyground ini started watching game of thrones and it has become my fav tv show in a long time.
i may even read the novels.
i love fantasy novels and movies, i always tried not to like them and felt bad when a new book came out and always gave in and read it lol.
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I started watching Game of Thrones and it has become my fav tv show in a long time. I may even read the novels. I love fantasy novels and movies, I always tried not to like them and felt bad when a new book came out and always gave in and read it lol. I find myself hating the Lannisters in Game of thrones so much lol. Ned Stark is not very bright either. The only characters that don't piss me off are the bastard and Tyrion the dwarf.
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Another newguy here
by shakyground inhmmm where do i start?
well, i have been lurking on here for about 6 months.
i was raised around the witnesses all my life.
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Thanks for the insightful words all. Has any of you ever heard the same about Star Wars back in the early 80's? I was sitting there like how the hell is Star Wars God dishonoring???? It's little things like that that started me going hmmmmmm. And i guess being deathly afraid of Armageddon sticks around with some people for years huh?
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Another newguy here
by shakyground inhmmm where do i start?
well, i have been lurking on here for about 6 months.
i was raised around the witnesses all my life.
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I know i'm not the only one that went thru this period of feeling lost.
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Another newguy here
by shakyground inhmmm where do i start?
well, i have been lurking on here for about 6 months.
i was raised around the witnesses all my life.
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Hmmm where do I start? Well, I have been lurking on here for about 6 months. I was raised around the witnesses all my life. My mom and Dad were witnesses but they were both disfellowshipped in the 80's back in NY. We moved from New York to Delaware when I was a kid in the 80's. My childhood was fairly normal. My mother never put up a tree, but she did get us gifts right before winter break was over in January and we had to go back to school. When I was in Middle school I started studying with one of my family members that moved down from NY. Many of my witness family members moved from NY to DE after we did. I stuck with it for awhile, went to meetings and assemblies up in Turnersville NJ for a few years, but eventually I started to date girls in HS and started hanging around with the so called thugs and started smoking weed and doing dumb stuff. I was never really a bad kid, i just wanted to fit in. Eventually I started studying again and started hanging around kids at the hall. By this time i was about to graduate HS and I'm kinda glad I started studying again because many of my old friends from HS are in jail or not doing anything in life with 4 kids by 3 different baby mothers. I stuck with it again for awhile but moved to a different territory and started dating a worldly girl. I loved her to death, I met her about 2003 she was a pastors daughter and we were together for about 3 years, come to find out she was cheating on me with more than one guy. I was shattered and thought to myself that a witness girl would never do that to me. I thought maybe I should start studying again and get baptised, these worldly people are not loyal. Been studying since like 2006, Even tho I had several slip ups with women, I was convinced this was the truth. One day I told my study conductor that I looked up something from WT.org and he told me to be careful because apostates sites are all over the net. I thought to myself that if apostates are liars and we have the truth whats there to be afraid of? I googled and found some stuff that shook me to my core. I found the Malawi Mexico thing and was extremely shocked. But I thought to myself that maybe it's just imperfection, maybe the witnesses in Malawi weren't faithful. I reasoned to myself that the Israelites weren't perfect but they were still gods people,maybe the GB made a mistake like David or Soloman did but it was alwasy there in my mind. I buried my doubts deep and tried to reason them away. The more I thought about it the more I realized that unlike others, it really was more of the small not the big things that started bothering me. Like my grandmother years ago asked me want I wanted from the Chinese joint to eat and when I picked Buddists delight she looked at me like I was crazy and told me no. Or when I was studying one time with an elder and he said that when Armageddon came he wouldn't shed a tear for his kids cuz they wanted nothing to do with the truth. I was thinking to myself wooooooooooooowwww..... Or about 8 months ago there was a public talk being given about obedience. The speaker spoke about experiences back in the early 80's about a bethel speaker calling Star Wars God dishonoring at an assembly and how many people were upset because they really wanted to go to the movies and see Star Wars. I thought to myself Star Wars??? God dishonoring??? Is the force a false religion now? Or the answer I got when I asked why I had to shave my goatee. I was told that it was because we wnat to look clean cut and different from the world....I secretly thought that was ridiculous because there are clean shaven murderers out there, but I buried those feelings deep inside of me. All my friends are witnesses, I cut off all my old friends, Even my best friend of 15 years. He had his flaws but he was a good friend even though he was like a real life Smokey from Friday lol looks and acts like him lol tries to sell weed everytime he loses his job but always smokes more than he sells and always talks about some big booty seen at some club lol. I really feel lost and I am really starting to feel the pressure to get baptised coming from all angles. Just last week at a baby shower I went to, my cousin asked me if I was a publisher yet and when I said not yet but I'm on the school though, my uncle was sitting there shaking his head like tsk tsk tsk. I was started to call him a self rightous mfer but bit my tongue. On the one hand I'm starting to see issues that I'm having a hard time ignoring about the organization and on the other hand I keep asking myself what if it really is the truth? If its not what is? What if Armageddon comes and the last thought that goes through my head is damn....you blew it, you could've got to see dad again.... Just me rambling about my thoughts don't mind me.