Posts by mankkeli

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Which music do you use to mourn the JW experience?.

by mankkeli in

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since realising i have been dwelling in a spiritual ghetto, this is the music i have been using to mourn the demise.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwahvbaygv4.

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mankkeli

Since realising I have been dwelling in a spiritual ghetto, this is the music I have been using to mourn the demise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAhVbayGv4

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The Independent website down?

by J. Hofer in

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it just stopped working?

did we overuse it?

or did the wt lawyers bribe someone?.

mankkeli

mmm, sizemik is everywhere, I saw his heavy comment on the Independent site, Mr genius, carry on, the sky is your limit

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GOD: An Imaginary friend?

by mankkeli in

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have you ever had that you couldnt sleep at night and that your mind starts racing thoughts?

i had one of those nights and this is basically the fruit of it.. is god an imaginary friend?

when children feel very lonely or misunderstood it can happen that a psychological survival system kicks in: the imaginary friend.

I am fully aware that faith is no longer a warm blanket. It is like looking at a picture and suddely discovering the hidden image. Once this has happened you cannot see the image without seeing the hidden one. As soon as I saw through faith i knew I could never use it again to lull my mind, to ease it. It felt like suddenly realizing there is no Santa Clause or toothfairy. Once you know it you can't go back. Is that a shame? No, I feel more mature, more aware because of it. But yes, I sometimes envy people that still believe in God. It is nice thinking someone is looking after you. But no, I would not want to go back.

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GOD: An Imaginary friend?

by mankkeli in

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friends

have you ever had that you couldnt sleep at night and that your mind starts racing thoughts?

i had one of those nights and this is basically the fruit of it.. is god an imaginary friend?

when children feel very lonely or misunderstood it can happen that a psychological survival system kicks in: the imaginary friend.

mankkeli

Have you ever had that you couldnt sleep at night and that your mind starts racing thoughts? I had one of those nights and this is basically the fruit of it.

Is God an imaginary friend? When children feel very lonely or misunderstood it can happen that a psychological survival system kicks in: the imaginary friend. It helps the child to cope with hard times and situations. It can provide friendship and comfort. Now I was thinking: can it be that God is the grown-up version of the imaginary friend? Life can be pretty hard, maybe the grown-up finds it hard to cope with life itself: is this all there is? Is there something or somebody behind all this? The reality that you are born, live your life and die is not very comforting. Also being in the middle of misery like war or pestilence can be pretty hopeless. At times like that maybe this same psychological survival mechanism kicks in, only this time it is a grown-up imaginary friend. One that is capable of providing comfort and love like a father figure. And is also capable of revenge. Imagine little toddlers having a fight, one runs to his daddy: "daddy, they are teasing me." (do something about that!) Now picture an ancient Hebrew watching his country burnt by invaders. He runs to his God, "daddy they are killing us, do something about that!" Now, the problem is that there is just as much proof for the existence of God as there is for the imaginary friend. No response from this being provokes elaborate rituals to reach it, and to please it, resulting in religion.

I think that religion can be a source of comfort and can be beneficial at times. However I strongly feel that at one point one must grow-up so to speak and realise the imaginary friend to be what it is: a figment of the imagination. Then we have to face up to the problems like grown-ups. We can no longer hide under that blanket of protection. We do not run to daddy anymore to help us, hoping he will solve everything in the end. We realise that humans mostly cause the problems and that they will only be solved by human effort. We have to face up to reality.

If you worship [enter deity of choice], ask yourself this: do I worship because I think this life cannot be all there is? Is it that the cold reality of life forces me into believing?

What are your thoughts on this?

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Where did the people go?

by N.drew in

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i wondered what the avitar was of j. hofer and timothy pointed out it was gerrit loesch so i googled it and came to a page here that was six years old.

but sadly the posts were posted by people who i have not seen post here (for the short time i have been here).

this is the best place on the internet.

mankkeli

Statistics shows that this site has been viewed by 3.8million different individuals since it has been created and 1.4million registered members had logged in through the past 10years, but at the moment we have less than 700 viewers lurking in on a daily basis out of which less than 100 are registered members.

Mankkeli

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The Watchtower's Delicate Mastery Of Deception

by metatron in

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you gotta admire the skill manifest in the watchtower's deception skills.

don't kid yourself, even the gestapo, in internal documents found after the war, found the magazines to be well crafted in the field of propaganda.. the latest deceptions?

well, there's the nov. awake magazine with its cover asking, "is belief in a creator reasonable".

mankkeli

Who are those rogues on their writing committee, Somebody should please research that. We need their names and background, I have requested for this several times but everyone on JWN seems to turn deaf hears to the call. Please expose the identity of those villainous crooks . Several clandestine activities and covert operations may be deployed. But it really worths all the efforts.

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Being Annointed

by mankkeli in

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few folks have wanted to know how god endows individual with the heavenly status , as a new partaker my self, this is the simple strategy;.

'what u proffess is what god annoints, "what u declare is what god makes clear, what u express is what u will experience.

what you feel is what god sees.. there is no big deal..

mankkeli

mummatron - Nice concept, reminds of when I told two elders about the feeling before partaking at the memorial. They offered the green line "It is between you and Jehovah". We prayed and stood up.

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Being Annointed

by mankkeli in

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few folks have wanted to know how god endows individual with the heavenly status , as a new partaker my self, this is the simple strategy;.

'what u proffess is what god annoints, "what u declare is what god makes clear, what u express is what u will experience.

what you feel is what god sees.. there is no big deal..

mankkeli

Few folks have wanted to know how God endows individual with the heavenly status , as a new partaker my self, this is the simple strategy;

'What u proffess is what God annoints, "what u declare is what God makes clear, what u express is what u will experience. What you feel is what God sees.

There is no big deal.

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