Posts by Nathan Natas

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As a Matter of Conscience, I Am Resigning from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses

by Sail Away in

after listening to the hearings of the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, i am no longer content to have simply walked away from the organization.

as a matter of conscience, i do not want my name linked with the organization in any way.

i know this letter has been posted previously, and i thank the author.

Nathan Natas

Nicely done!

Of course, the congregation elders will have to have their children read the letter so the polysyllabic words can be explained to Jehovah's "brightly shining ones."

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Celebration for those on JWD

by Quarterback in

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so let's just say that the wt org is now finished.

families with da/df members are now reunited.

everyone is burning their med directive cards.

Are you suggesting that the fine investigative and revelatory work done here is not to your liking? Would you prefer we leave the poor defenseless Watchtower Bible & Tract Society alone so they could continue to spread their poison and misery?

Are you a Watchtower apologist?

If so, get on with it - APOLOGIZE!

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I'm getting baptized

by BlackWolf in

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i know i've started similar topics before but this time i'm serious.

my parents have been constantly pressuring me and after yesterday's watchtower study they asked me if i was going to be baptized this summer... and i said yes.

i probably should have thought about it more before making a final decision, but they're pretty much forcing me to do it anyway.

Nathan Natas

Join the military.

Of course, if you're an obese and unintelligent couch-potato, this WILL NOT WORK, because they won't have you.

On the other hand, if you are reasonably fit and reasonably intelligent, this could be an excellent way to provide almost immediate housing and employment for you, AND it has the added benefit of flipping your Dad the Great Big BIRD.

The military will teach you how to be a responsible adult if you avoid linking up with "bad associations."

Depending on how you do on the tests, you could find yourself doing an important job that doesn't put you in harm's way.

People (especially JWs) often think "early death" when they hear "military."

How many kids in your area and of your age die in stupid car accidents or stupid drinking games or bar fights, or from heroin overdoses? All of those are TRUELY meaningless deaths. If you die in the military doing the job you're there to do, your death is not meaningless.

Bot MOST of the folks who enter the military DO NOT DIE! They complete their tours of duty and come back to civilian life with a stronger sense of self and with skills that will continue to serve them.

That's my two cents. YOU are the captain of your ship and the Master of your fate.

Whatever you do, be wise. THINK. Then act with confidence.

Once you're in the military, seek training in a profitable trade such as electrician or plumber. That way, when you finish your military commitment, you will be immediately employable in a profitable trade.

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jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

by blondie in

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

"i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

Nathan Natas

LOL, Simon!

"I was born a poor black child..."

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Alcoholic

by openheart in

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hi i was raised in the truth in the uk since my birth in 1970 i went wayward as my family left in 1981 when i was 11 never took a career just wasted my life away now i'm 46 i rejoined when i was 22 rose to be a auxiliary pioneer and ms then it all went wrong my wife diagnosed bipolar disorder i got diagnosed depression a mega implosion occurred now i'm lost what now ?.

Nathan Natas

You WERE NOT "raised in the Truth"; you were raised in "The Trooth".

As you now (I hope) fully realize, there is no such thing as the "Trooth Fairy."

Make an effort to begin thinking rationally and avoid using altered mental states and fantasies as a crutch.

Walk like a man!

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Hi everyone, just signed up here

by samj in

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hi, i just signed up.

i'm 35, i've been baptized 20 years, married 15 years.

it seems like the wife and i are going in opposite directions spiritually.

Nathan Natas

Hi samj!

You realize this is "APOSTATE CENTRAL," don't you?

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jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

by blondie in

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friends

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

"i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

Nathan Natas

The question we ought to be asking is: will Melania's prison cell be near Hillary's?

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jws not only ones blind to what is in front of them

by blondie in

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friends

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech/index.html.

"i just don't see it," christie told cnn's jamie gangel in an interview tuesday, adding later, .

here's the key moment in trump’s speech:.

Nathan Natas

Melania gave a speech containing 1,379 words.

The snippet from Michelle's 2008 speech contains 121 words.

How'd Melania do with the 1,258 words that Michelle did not utter?

Who remembers ANYTHING from the rest of Michelle's speech in 2008?

The English language is said to have more than 1,025,000 words in it. Unless a person is a practitioner of Holy-Rollin' glossolalia, chances are pretty good that the next words out of your mouth will have been spoken by someone else before you.

This is a tempest in a teapot.

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