Posts by Sea Breeze

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I need to vent sorry!

by KerryKing in

i couldn't get back to sleep last night, something my father said a few weeks ago popped into my head.. we were talking about obtaining citizenship, he doesn't need it, but was contemplating what benefits it could get him now he's a pensioner.. background : i've been disfellowhipped for 15 years, i was born in, he is an elder, very much pimi, he was also born in.. i said to him how citizenship would be difficult for him as it would require him to swear allegiance to the state?.

oh he said, thats just a crowd of people together in a big room for the swearing in event, it would be easy to just mumble or say nothing, nobody would know.. this has quietly been eating away in my mind, why did it bother me?.

last night it hit me, when i was in my first year of school, age 5, i came out of school one day with a balloon with two little pencils attached, a gift from a classmate who's birthday it was, every child got one.

Sea Breeze

@KerryKing

No need to apologize. You are waking up to what happened to you. Your sub-conscious mind (SCM) is throwing memories up to your reasoning mind (RM) for you to examine. In this case, your SCM wants you to compare the ease in which your supposedly righteous father is willing to lie in public under oath (lying is a violation of one of the 10 commandments), while at the same time belonging to a religion that uses unbiblical rules to threaten eternal destruction for small children that receive a balloon on a classmates' birthday. Which is not a sin at all, but only a simple celebration of life.

And, that's what they are - RULES , not "standards" as you put it. A very wise man who lived 2000 years ago once said, "Jesus said to them, “Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

The Pharisees were the rule makers that put heavy loads on others that they themselves were not willing to bear. The Saducees embraced unbelief. Both are equally dangerous to your soul according to him.

For 2000 years people have tended to believe him because he was a man of utmost character and predicted that he would die as a lamb, in our place as a ransom, and resurrect himself from the dead, while he was dead - then he did it.

For me, his warnings have provided a much-needed framework in which to process the utter train wreck of a life given to me by my devout JW parents.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

The first Christians certainly thought Jesus was God. His hand picked apostles thought he was God. How could anyone who witnessed Jesus' prediction of Self-Resurrection think otherwise?

A mosiac in the earliest known private prayer room which dates to 230 AD states rather simply that, "Jesus is God".

https://x.com/Historic_Arch/status/1860986885394567246

This is 100 years before Christianity became the state religion and was supposedly corrupted by Constantine according to Watchtower.

Ooooops.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

BTTT,

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

Hebrews 1:2

in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”

Kinda reminds me how famous artists sometimes paint themselves into their art. Or, like Alfred Hitchcock often appearing in the backgrouond on is own movie sets.

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Discouraging JWs From Calling

by NotFormer in

i was reading an anti cult reddit post where a woman (ex mormon) was trying her hardest to discourage the mormons from visiting her and trying to convert her back.

a few others chimed in about their various methods (coming to the door naked, pretending to be practicing black magic, etc.

) which they claimed would have the mormons and jws running away as fast as possible.. somehow, i doubt it.

Sea Breeze

This particular teacher came behind me and grabbed me by the hair and forced me to my feet, and held me standing until it was over

Sorry to hear that Skully. The reality is that our parents subjected us to a bunch of unnecessary trauma to accomodate their delusion of righteousness.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

I know y'all were JWs at some point but do you every stop being the fools that it takes to be a JW?

@ Duran: So now people are fools if they don't observe your rules? And they are your rules, just like the Pharissaical rules were from the Pharisees, and not from God.

Like I said: Most people simply assume freedom where there is no specific prohibition in scripture. That is just common sense. "it is for freedom Christ has set you free" - Gal. 5: 1

The scriptures are full of warnings about falling victum to rule-oriented thinking such as yours.

“Be careful of the yeast of the Pharisees. I mean that they are hypocrites". - Jesus (Luke 12)

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception [pseudo-intellectual babble], according to the tradition [and musings] of mere men, following the elementary principles of this world, rather than following [the truth—the teachings of] Christ. - Col. 2: 8 AMP

But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Cor. 11: 3-4

You'll find little support for rule-shaming on this board. Both Christians here and secularists have had a belly full of the "yeast of the Pharisees" and their "pseudo-intellectual babble".

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

Duran,

You seem to adpopt a position where if something is not given specific permission in scripture, it might be called 'wrong" by people like youself.

Most other people simply assume freedom where there is no specific prohibition in scripture.

After all, scripture says that "it is for freedom Christ has set you free" - Gal. 5: 1

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gossip

by Nancy1919 in

i was once was told by an jw elder it was a rule not to gossip or swear as it could harm someone, but i guess the new light allows this.

it was bad enough when they were calling people worldly now i heard a jw gossiping about someone and it was mean.just another reason i would never go back.

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Sea Breeze

Hi Nancy,

Welcome. I came to the conclusion that the Kingdom Hall was simply too hostile of an environment for me .

I finally left when they admitted that the generation doctrine was a false prophecy by removing the prediction from the second page Awake magazine inset, where it had been for decades.

Like no one was going to notice. Duh.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

Duran,

How many things in your life do you practice that are not specifically commanded in the Bible?

In other words, do you place the same restrictions on yourself that you place on others?

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Unchangeable wisdom from the "slave" of yesteryear! 😀

by BoogerMan in

brethern, and cistern, today's lesson from the golden calf is one of profound importance - never to be forgotten!.

w56 6/15 p. 360 - "we usually believe what we want to believe, and one thing we like to believe is that we do our own thinking.

they plant the thought and nourish it, but do it so subtly that we think it is our own.

Sea Breeze

The devil always tells you his game plan, he likes to hide in plain sight.

Thanks For the reference!

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Sea Breeze

So, you think these Shepards were living/sleeping out in the fields during wintertime?

Of course. The average daily highs and lows in Jerusalem on December 25th is 55 F high and 43 F low. I live at the same latitude as Jerusalem in Texas and sheep are outside year around, expecially around Christmas when the weather is so nice.

Remember, Jerusalem isn't New York, Totonto, or Moscow.

Why is it important to you for you to need a direct command "in the way that Paul states to keep observing his death, until he arrives" regarding Christmas?

There is no direct command in the bible to observe wedding anniversaries in the bible. Yet, Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate wedding anniversaries while at the same time they hypocritically condemn others for doing the same thing regarding God's birthday?

You would agree that is pretty twisted right?