Posts by Ucantnome

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My favourite JW books when I was a delusional.convert. Did you have any ?

by smiddy in

did you have any favourite books by the society when you were in ?not that this book was my fav.

yet it was the first book i read learning about jw`s.

" from paradise lost to paradise regained " i know , it was designed for the young , however my mentor thought that since i had no understaning of the bible it was what i needed.

Ucantnome

no. i have some favourites now but for different reasons.

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Are you materialistic?

by Goldiver in

why, yes i am according to the jws.

this is an topic that has always irked me with the jws.

anyone who had a good paying job and nice things was materialistic.

Ucantnome

no we were never materialistic. we made do when we were witnesses as we preached it was only temporary. i don't think i've changed that much.

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If you knew that you might have pain, suffer disasters, certainly end up dead,-- given the choice, the power, would you have prevailed upon your parents not to have brought you into the world?

by prologos in

or changed the outworkings of your ancestors' lifes to suit you?--.

Everlasting life is a free gift. Or is it?

by hoser in

at the meetings i hear from time to time that everlasting life is a free gift from jehovah, but from a jehovahs witness point of view is it really?.

you will not receive the "gift" if:.

you miss meetings.

Ucantnome

when i was a witness it never felt like a free gift even helped my wife prepare a talk in the school where the elder in charge needed to make clear in his comments after that your not earning it.

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Were People Surprised When You Left The Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

mine was a gradual going away.

but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.

i didn't think i would ever leave. how others felt i have no idea they never said. although the elders spoke to me and although i encouraged my wife to continue to attend the hall when i left. no one ever enquired of her how she felt although she was raised in the truth and had lived in the area for 20+ years.

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Were People Surprised When You Left The Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

mine was a gradual going away.

but once it dawned on them, i think people were shocked that i left the religion i espoused from youth.. were people "in the truth" and "in the world" surprised by your departure?.

Ucantnome

i was surprised

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How would you answer these questions that came to me in an email through my website? ...

by AndersonsInfo in

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friends

many emails are sent to me through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.

all are answered.

remember 1corinthians 6: 1-2 (i'll answer this question.

Ucantnome

question 12.

i think in the January 1st 2013 Watchtower there was an article about incorrect dates and i think they likened it to the 'first century disciples, who sometimes looked forward to fulfillment of prophecy ahead of God's timetable. (Luke 19:11; Acts 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:1,2)'

without giving the long answer.

in 1971 they said: 'Not alone were the inspired words of Ezekiel prophetic, but he himself was a prophetic figure in his action, as is later shown on occasions. (Ezekiel 24:24) Since Ezekiel himself was a "portent," or "sign" (AV) , of someone to come, and since he was not a type or prophetic figure of Jesus Christ, whom did prophet Ezekiel typify in carrying ou his divine commission?'

on page 66, 'Jehovah has found and commissioned his modern day "Ezekiel." It is a composite Ezekiel. It is composed of those dedicated, baptized proclaimers of God's kingdom, who have been anointed with His spirit for their work.'

To me it seems to be saying they had a different role than the disciples of the first century.

On page 70 'Jehovah would confirm him as a prophet before them by causing what Ezekiel prophesied to come true.'

i think this is an interesting quote on page 216

'Shortly, within our twentieth century, the "battle in the day of Jehovah" will begin against the modern antitype of Jerusalem, Christendom.'

(all quotes from the book The Nations Shall Know THAT I AM JEHOVAH- How? 1971 WTB&TS of Pennsylvania)

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Do you have a favourite scripture?

by Ucantnome in

jw
friends

i have two.. luke 4.

16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.

Ucantnome

Dis-member, maybe it's not quite the same but when we stopped attending the meetings the thought of joining another church wasn't palatable.

galatians 5: good scripture

i didn't appreciate elder visits

prologos i'm scared of heights

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Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?

by mynameislame in

not sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.

after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.

but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..

Ucantnome

probably not

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JWism and their curious doctrine of salvation

by Laika in

in christian theology there is often a lot of talk about whether we are saved by faith or works, and what exactly those things mean.

this thread is not exactly about that, instead it's about how jws, in their inimitable style, somehow managed to create a doctrine that mixes the worst of both and caused me no end of internal conflict as a jw.. in jw doctrine, life is about an argument between jehovah and satan.

satan said that nobody follows jehovah out of love, but only for what they can personally get out of it.

Ucantnome

no