our earth is approx 4.5 billions years old our galaxy and universe approx 15 billion years old the life span of the universe is approx 1 trillion years and yet if we are lucky we will live 70-80 years not even an eye bat in the river of time...as an atheist i really don't know what is on the other side of death but something deep inside me tells me this is not it...what is beyond it i don't know.
are we here by chance, design or divine purpose and if so what is that purpose to live for such a short time just to die and transverse into another reality...makes you wonder...makes me wonder...
What if there is no such thing as death?
What if you are immortal spirit creature having a physical experience?
What if you made the choice to have this experience to learn some kind of lesson?.....to live out some kind of "Karma?"
What if the biggest illusion is...."that this is all there is?".........what if my friend?
the only reason i'm here and i exist is because of the jw org., my parents met in a hall.
is this your situation?.
if it weren't for that missionary couple out in dominican republic in the 50's that called on my grandma and if it weren't for the brother in the early 70's who called on my dad, my parents would have never met and i wouldn't be sitting here writing this post.. i just realized all of these years i thought i owed my life to god and his organization what i actually owed my life to was an organization that claimed to be god's channel.
Don't feel to bad my friend, the only reason I'm here is because a condom broke. It was "New Years eve" 1948. I was born Oct. 1, 1949 so do the math.
My truth is, I believe in reincaration so....on some level I picked my parents. Like maybe you did too.
Everything happens for a reason......you mission (if you choose to except) is to find out why you did.
thats right, about 2 weeks ago i confronted the po and told him i just could not do it anymore.. i genuinely have been under alot of pressure recently with my work so i used this as the pitch.
he was not happy but i received little resistance, which suited me.
i handed him my letter last week before i went on holiday.. i have to say it is a great weight off my shoulders, no book study, meetings for ministry, talks, public talks etc etc.. i will no doubt be the subject of local congregation gossip!
So my friend did you "step down" or step a side....or maybe you just stepped up.
i've noticed lately that some on our board, or perhaps for many of us, that's why i'm writing this , have had a challenge making new friends after leaving the jehovah's witnesses religion.
it has been a mixed bag for me.
i have met some through my wife, who is not a witness.
"Meet-up" .com
The have hundreds of local groups.....that meet...everything to wine tasting....to singles...to you name it.
I host 3 groups "The exJWs of Portland" is one of them.
each one think their concept of jesus....is correct.
They all preach love but have no problem hating you (or shunning you) if you don't believe EXACTLY like they do.
each one think their concept of jesus....is correct.
Each one think their concept of Jesus....is correct.
The biggest and most important to me is.
I was raised to be a passivist...it a shame their god isn't, he wants to kill most everyone soon...I couldn't even get into a fist fight in high school.
so, i found out today that my whole family, that is mother, older brother wife and child, older sister and husband, younger brother and wife have gone away together for a week.. previously i would have been right in the center of all that.
this time i didn't even know until after they'd gone.
cant say it doesn't hurt, what a punch to the gut.
Each person must do what "feels" right to them.
My son DAed himself as I did. We publicly when into their world (baptized)...we wanted to make a public display going out...not just for us but for all those still "in the borg." We felt that by doing so, we were saying "We are no longer playing by their rules."
This was done before they could find something to DF us for....giving them some kind of justifacation to hate us in their world...since they were anyway.
My Daughter decided to just fade...
No matter which way you go "Welcome to the Twilight Zone"
Keith
http://imagechan.org/img/img.php?id=2067&r=280.
jeff .
Jeff....great stuff my friend...were do you get this stuff..very nice.
The fools that still believe in Satan are the same ones who still believe that Satan turn all these people on the Earth against God...getting God so pissed off... to the point that he has NO choice but to kill 6 BILLION people leaving only 6 million (good people?) here to wordhip him...in fear and trembling...
So in the universal score board....most people DO love Satan ( be doesn't really exist)
6 Billion points for Satan
6 million points for God.....no wonder god is pissed off that he has to kill everyone ....he lost by a land slide.
1926 - the end of christmas at bethel.
this photo was the last ever christmas celebration at bethel.. here is a talk given by fred franz that explains how it came to an end:.
http://uploadline.com/files/3819855/christmas_franz.mp3.html.
The real reason they stopped Christmas is it cost the society extra money every year for the event...
Money better spent in the world wide work.
Also notice how happy everyone is in this picture....fun place to be in the bible house.
