which is further made interesting by something that was said at a circuit assembly right before i left like 2-3 years ago....not sure if this was a talk that was going around the entire usa or was something specific to this region, but the circuit overseer said from the podium that "satan doesn't want you dead". and as i said on an earlier post, an older "sister" loved to rub that one in my face. because i almost died from something that happened a few years back and she knew about it, so that was her way of telling me passive aggressively to go fuck myself.
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Reasoning check anyone?
by cptkirk ini really am trying to get work done but can't stop thinking about this stuff.
anyway, remember job?
remember what god said to satan about job?
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Reasoning check anyone?
by cptkirk ini really am trying to get work done but can't stop thinking about this stuff.
anyway, remember job?
remember what god said to satan about job?
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i really am trying to get work done but can't stop thinking about this stuff. anyway, remember Job? remember what god said to satan about job? he said just don't kill him right? well here is the thing, if the ENTIRE POINT of letting all this wickedness befall this man, was to see if he would be faithful to god or not, if both god and satan both agreed to these terms, THEN WHY THE NEED TO TELL SATAN:"JUST DON'T KILL HIM" ? ok you can test my servant job to see if he is faithful, but please don't kill him....hmmmm mmmk. that would probably not make sense if the whole point of letting him be attacked was to see if he would remain faithful? killing him would serve neither god nor satan's purposes, yet it was necessary to say it?.....using brain = bad!!!!!
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Fading
by compound complex init is not chains that bind me to the position i now hold .
and, that, for a lengthy time now.. i stand motionless, my eyes peering through dark curtains, they fixed steadily upon cheerful passersby on the street below my third-storey bedroom window.
by their simply being out and about in the daytime sun i perceive that, in contrast to my placid self, these happy souls are at peace with the world.
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I think christopher cross wrote a song about fading out of the jw org, lemme see if i can find the lyrics.....:
Well it's not far down to paradise, at least's not for me, If the wind is right you can fade away and find tranquility, Oh the apostates can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me
It's not far to never, never land, reason to pretend And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again, Oh the apostates can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me
fading, takes me away To where I've always heard it Just a dream and the wind to carry me Soon I will be free,
Fantasy, it gets the best of me when I'm fading All caught up in the reverie Every word is a symphony, won't you believe me?
Fading, takes me away To where I've always heard it Just a dream and the wind to carry me Soon I will be free
It's not far back to sanity at least it's not for me And when the wind is right you can fade away and find serenity Oh the apostates can do miracles, just you wait and see, believe me ...chorus or something -
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Tim Tebow
by free2beme inis it just me, but does anyone else just see tim tebow as one of the biggest douche bags in sports?
i hate self rightous idiots.
i see him and i see that out of touch with reality elders child dropping out of school to pioneer and making everyone else feel like assholes because they finished school and wanted a job.
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That was a highly succinct synopsis. I remember early days of being around the jw church, and there was almost a deification of certain men. if a person had talent xyz then it just seemed like the right thing to do ....that it would actually be encouraged that if you had the oratory skills, or whatever else you had as a man in the religion , that you should invest in yourself as if you were something above other people. it is really only in the last couple years of my life do i realize how wrong all of this was, and how engrained in their culture it is. the irony being that it seems like "the world" is finally casting aside a lot of these same notions. was kind of a big shock for me to come out of the org as someone with some of the status that i have, and then it was like a punch in the face that i took, realizing that the status of old no longer exists(at least in the same way). in other words, because you had xyz or were xyz in 1994 it meant you had an instant ticket to pretty much do whatever you want get whatever you want, but now it seems like that has changed dramatically.
Everything gets back to cycles though. we actually do better as a people when we do lift certain people up. once the playing field has evened out again (cycles), then people will begin to lift individuals up again and things will be good....then the same cycle will begin again, too many bad players realizing that if they get themselves in a certain position they can then rape and gank all the people who lifted them up in the first place, and then the cycle repeats itself. and where a guy like tebow is pretty much harmless, he ends up looking like a total pompous jackass. i think of someone like john wayne, from what i understand he wasn't the type of person who wanted people runnin around making him into a god, the people made him a god even though it didn't seem like that was his thing at all. i might be totally wrong on that because i wasn't around, but that was what i picked up on from old interviews etc. so the people were happy to lift up certain individuals and just keep them up on a pedestal, where now, just seems like people aren't comfortable with anyone being entrusted in this way.
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Are we any better then the organization that has hurt so many ? I am a new member and feel the need to ask this question
by JWainWashed inthis is my first post here on jehovahs witness.net.
i joined a ltitle while ago but have been deciding if i want to become active on this site and i believe the response to my question here will determine my descision.
i am a former jehovahs witness and have quite a story.
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First, I didn't realize I was part of an organization by posting on this web site? It's a message board, a message board that happens to strike a deeper chord then most message boards, and that may give it the appearance of an organization at times, but it's just a message board. your attempts at honoring your friend are noble, but you sound extremely naive and young. ask yourself, if you started this web board, you would feel fairly proud of yourself wouldn't you? then picture someone coming here constantly trying to divert people to a different web site to take away your capital and traffic? you want to extend your freedom of speech? then promote the venue which grants you this freedom, not some other venue.
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Got too much time on my hands this week, but watch this video
by cptkirk inthis video ...this guy took the story of the bible and then he took cut scenes from video games of the last 10 years to serve as visual representations to the biblical chronology....the first 5 mins is not that great, but the last 5 mins i thought was pretty good.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fh2f4czoxy.
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This video ...this guy took the story of the bible and then he took cut scenes from video games of the last 10 years to serve as visual representations to the biblical chronology....the first 5 mins is not that great, but the last 5 mins i thought was pretty good.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 02-03-2013 WT Study (REAL SUCCESS)
by blondie inlife?
to a position of responsibility in the congregation or.
are they rich or famous?.
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LMAO!!!!!! what happened to guns blazing sticking his hands through fire Paul? THEY CASTRATED HIM? LMAO. OK GUYS LISTEN UP, OUR REPRESENTATION OF THE TRUTH TURNS OUT MAYBE NOT SO GOOD, SO WE ARE GOING WITH A NEW LOOK! ALL IN FAVOR? THE I'S HAVE IT, PUT PAUL IN A WOMAN'S BATHROBE SET COMPLETE WITH SCARF AND POCKET BOOK.
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My Son and I have about 5 Months Left
by bavman inhello, i haven't been on here in awhile and it looks like a whole new crowd.
i disassociated myself about 8 years ago.
went through a divorce and shunning from most my family.
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I did this to my mother too....although in retrospect, i was just pissed at her and it was a convenient weapon. heh she was probably on this message board complaining about what a bastard i was haha. our relationship is fine now, better than ever. i remember when she showed me this old ass jw book with pyramids in it and all this....i was just thinking this is some kind of a trick, now i know the truth about russell and the rest of them. i think it can be summed up with that video posted of the GB signing bibles, they don't own god but apparently they think they do, and they put that in other people's minds also. maybe try and see if he has some kind of lingering resentment or something. i have no idea who you are or anything about your life but, that was my situation. i was angry about a lot of other things like i said, and used this weapon of the jws as an excuse in many cases.
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Keep testing the scriptures to prove this is not the "truth"
by label licker inwhat's your favorite scripture to prove that watchtower's doctrines were false.
mine was romans 6:7 where they say it's our death that's aquitted us of our sins when it was jesus death that aquitted us of our sins.
our death doesn't have that ability to do that.
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that seems especially redundant. it may as well say "upon death you are released from craving cookies".
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Keep testing the scriptures to prove this is not the "truth"
by label licker inwhat's your favorite scripture to prove that watchtower's doctrines were false.
mine was romans 6:7 where they say it's our death that's aquitted us of our sins when it was jesus death that aquitted us of our sins.
our death doesn't have that ability to do that.
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This is interesting because I was around the borg for approximately 10 years, sometimes at a distance, sometimes closer up, but this is something that I did not hear until very late in the game before I left for good. I never saw the scripture that I heard some of them discussing; the scripture which was the basis for this notion of death releasing a person from their sins? I already knew that they would give people a higher percentage of making it into the "new system" based on dying, seeing that they would be resurrected and basically be forced to believe-- realizing that you would have to be a genuine schmuck to reject a god that just resurrected you from the dirt. This was new to me though, a scripture that actually said you would be released of sin upon death? they making death sound better and better! would love to hear that one explained.