Posts by Ucantnome

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The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!

by DATA-DOG in

i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.

both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.

i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.

Ucantnome

i know someone who left the witnesses years ago they are now old and they still believe the end is imminent. we once had a discussion about how important it was to keep on the watch and what it means. i didn't agree with their views.

for me leaving the witnesses was about serving God and not telling people something i wasn't convinced of. i think everyone who has beer a witness had the same spiritual food as i did.

one witness i spoke with a few months back asked me a question regarding if i was concerned about the nearness of the tribulation and when i answered they turned away and wouldn't talk. i've had one who wouldn't read the publication i show them. another one who told me apostates wrote some of it. another one i grew up with had no interest in what has been taught in the past. the list is long of the indifference to what i have said caused me to leave and that is fine.

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What does 2014 mean to you

by NewYork44M in

jw
friends

sometime in the early 1990s i made a commitment to myself that if the end did not come in 2014 i was going to walk away.

then i started thinking - if i waited until 2014 i would be 57 years old with very few options.

that is when i realized that i needed to make changes to get my life back.

Ucantnome

i think it should be good for me.

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Are You Embarrassed Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?

by minimus in

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friends

i am not.

everyone makes mistakes..

Ucantnome

no. I tell people if it comes up in conversation. Some people seem to know before i tell them.

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Prayers that God answers. Any examples?

by punkofnice in

when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.

if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.

there was never an obvious message/answer from god.

Ucantnome

i prayed that i wouldn't lose my faith and i didn't

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New Study Exposes Acupuncture As Pseudoscience

by alecholmesthedetective in

besides it being pseudoscience, what interests me about this is that even though it's something to do with the "qi" energy flowing in our bodies, that wasn't a problem for some members of my family or a special pioneer i knew.. new study exposes acupuncture as pseudoscience.

Ucantnome

i had acupuncture twice. once on my lower back and some time later on my shoulder. both times by the same person on the nhs. it seemed to work on my lower back but not on the shoulder although i could feel it more on the shoulder. said he had trouble getting the needles in the back.

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The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

by THE GLADIATOR in

january 2014 watchtower study article.

let your kingdom comebut when?.

this generation will not pass away.

Ucantnome

in the watchtower january 15th 1966 page 39 it says,

'visible sign follows after and results from the invisible "sign of the Son of man," since it is composed of the many events and conditions that the Bible foretold would follow and result from the establishment of Christ's Kingdom rule.' (underllining is mine)

the "sign of the Son of man" that is quoted is from verse 30 i believe something that i think is now in the future so i don't know what they discerned.

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Do you beleive in ghosts??

by quellycatface in

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friends

i was always told it was satan and his demons making people think they exist.

not sure.

i always thought the guy that excavated king tutenkahmun had a curse on him though.. .

Ucantnome

as an anti theist you seem to want to decline to give me a definition of the word god. i will look for one myself.

i have finished making my origami christmas tree and now wish to watch a film. it was good to talk with you Cofty. I will ponder whether i should or not.

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