Posts by Ucantnome

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Looking Back, Do You Ever Think You Loved Jehovah God?

by minimus in

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as a child, i was made to believe that i loved my mom and family and close friends but that i loved no one more than jehovah god.

did you ever really love him?.

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Ucantnome

Yes. It was my brother that taught me to pray.

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Name the GOOD things and NICE things about Jehovah's Witnesses

by stuckinarut2 in

ok, so in the interests of balance....(as it has rightly been pointed out that i am getting more bitter toward the org), can we think of any positive or nice things about jehovah's witnesses?.

just throwing this topic out there....... .

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Ucantnome

we were Jehovah's witnesses for many years,and like most others i believe, we tried to be honest and have good morals and serve God to the best of our ability

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Books about early Christianity

by EdenOne in

i've just finished reading two (imo) great books:.

"a history of christianity - the first three thousand years", by diarmaid macculloch.

"misquoting jesus", by bart ehrman.

Ucantnome

the theology of Paul the apostle by James D G Dunn.

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worst canadian band - lighthouse

by berrygerry in

lighthouse.. a pathetic copy of chicago (an over-rep'd band imo).

thoughts?.

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Ucantnome

one fine morning, I think, I liked it. Wasn't keen on Chicago

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Books about early Christianity

by EdenOne in

i've just finished reading two (imo) great books:.

"a history of christianity - the first three thousand years", by diarmaid macculloch.

"misquoting jesus", by bart ehrman.

Ucantnome

I recently read The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, Robert Louis Wilken.

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Find What Your Social Status Was in the Congregation

by Mary in

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ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.

1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.

A QUESTION FOR JW'S who say, "The brothers were overly zealous" about 1975

by Terry in

"what was the actual significance of that year, then?".

if jw's were overly zealous, what was the exact amount of zeal encouraged by the wts for a non-event which took up.

over 7 years of every jw's time?.

Ucantnome

"The brothers were overly zealous" about 1975

I don't think that they were overly zealous about 1975.

The great tribulation an 'unparalled tribulation' believed to be coming in any year i think would make one zealous to inform people and do all one can to survive it.

I think also that believing this

'Those who do not act like the "sheep" toward the spiritual brothers of the now reigning King Jesus Christ will be cut off in the oncoming "great tribulation" for they are not in favor of the "seed " of God's heavenly "woman" but are in favor of the "seed" of the "original serpent" Satan the Devil.' (God's 'Eternal Purpose Now Triumphing For Man's Good 1974 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. page 184)

would be inclined to follow and act on what was being taught.

"The first half or 'evening' period of God's seventh creative 'day' was now closing, 3,500 years from the creation of Adam and Eve. The morning of this creative 'day' was due to begin at 526 B.C.E." (God's Eternal Purpose Now Triumphing for Man's Good page 131)

I would understand this to mean that the 7th creative day is 7000 years in length and started in 4026 and six thousand years of the 7th day was completed in 1975 which would only leave 1000 year remaining.

This last quote from the book on page 186 seem to show to me that the last 1000 years, Christ reign, would occur after Har-Magedon and we were studying this in 1974 at the meeting according to my wife's notes in the book.

"By removing the Serpent and his demons from the neighborhood of the earth and hurling them into the abyss and sealing them up there, bound as with chains for the next thousand years. Revelation 20:1-3 pictures this, not as a part of the war at Har-magedon, but as a follow up of that war."

So as a sheep I would have thought it my duty to be zealous regarding telling people this information and adjusting my life in accord with it and I did.

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Would you convert to a religion for love?

by new hope and happiness in

jw
friends

i am sure people convery to a religion to find peace and spiritual awakening.

i also bet many convert simply for love.

would you to assist " true love" if it required converting to a particular faith?.

Ucantnome

I find it difficult to answer.

I felt secure in my belief as a witness and finished with a girlfriend because I was a witness and now I'm not a witness I think there are similarities between all the Abrahamic religions which I think make up 54% of the worlds population.

I have a friend and she is an atheist and married a christian.

probably not today.

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MY CONCLUSION IS: 'GOD' DOESN'T EXIST

by NAVYTOWN in

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friends

i have come to the conclusion that there is no god.

period!!!

if there was a loving, righteous, all-knowing, all powerful god up there somewhere, where is he and what good is he???

Ucantnome

my conclusion was he does exist. strange isn't it.

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Life is short and I'm gonna love it thread!

by poopsiecakes in

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friends

so what are you doing to enjoy yourself?

doesn't have to be for anyone around you, or have anything to do with jw world.

just something that you do for you and only you and that fills your soul (whatever that means).

Ucantnome

What makes you happy?

some single malt whiskeys, colour, shapes, my kids, women, music, the seasons. occasionally i lose myself in colouring in, but it takes a while

i used to run miles and i thought there was some sort of natural high that i would get some sort of barrier that i would break through and it be easier but it never happened. it did with art.