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  Do You Still Believe a God Cares for You?

  by JosephAlward in

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  i've been a part of this forum for about one month, and during that time i've been struck by the willingness of many so former jehovah witnesses either to ridicule the bible, or to stand by while it's being ridiculed.

  so, i'm wondering how many of them while witnesses suffered through experiences so searing that they no longer believe in the god of the old testament.. who among you still believe that underneath the layers of contradictions, inconsistencies, and errors in the bible there may be found the words of a god who created the universe, and who also cares about you, personally?.

  joseph f. alward.

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  accuracy...would you care to share some of your experiences?
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  Texas......

  by closer2fine in

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  for xena and billygoat..... when you're from texas, people that you meet ask you questions.

  like, do you have any cows?

  " it's nice to be able to say yes.. they ask you, "do you have horses?

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  Hillbilly,
  Those folks may not have been from Texas but they got here as fast as they could!:)
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  Who here likes U2?

  by ashitaka in

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  i just went to a recent concert and they were really moving..they did an acoustic version of please, off of pop.

  bono's voice was perfect.. i went to the philly november 2nd show.

  ashi

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  My daughters and I have tickets to the Dallas show in November. I think its neat that they span the generations. My daughters are 18 and 22 and I'm 50. There are others that do that as well, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen come to mind.
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  Does anyone get scared?

  by aud8 in

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  does anyone who has left the organisation ever get scared at current world events and what they seem to be leading to?

  more and more the governments are getting fed up with religion, there is now more than even a call "for" peace rather than "of" peace and security.

  bin laden and his extremist religious views would give rise to the thought that governments will in the future be intent on eradicating religion altogether due to the trouble it causes.

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  I don't have much time to gather my thoughts here but it was mentioned that the governments are growing tired of religion. I am not really sure I am seeing that. IMO religion is not the culprit here. What we are seeing is the Bin Ladins of the world using religion as a tool to control and dominate. In other words they are more interested in power than in pleasing God.
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  How Do OLD AGE JWs Feel?

  by ballistic in

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  i just want to know if jws that have been in the "truth" all their lives, having given all for the "kingdom" die in peace or whether in the autumn and winters of their lives, they are stung by nagging intrusive thoughts... "i have given my whole life to this organisation and where is the new system?".

  i ask because these people were taught they were in "the last days" when they grew up many decades or even a century ago.

  how can someone go that long believeing it was going to be tommorrow?

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  My mother is 87 years old. She goes out in service two to three times a week. Never misses meetings unless she is simply too ill. She would never admit disappointment to me. She is a rock.

  She recently confided in a close friend of hers that she no longer expected to live to see armageddon.

  A person who has spent as many years and put up with as many hardships as she has is not going to give in to doubts at this point. She is confident of her reward and I will never press the issue with her.
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  US Cowards?

  by Kent in

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  will they be the ultimate cowards, and make the biggest asses in history of themselves, or will they tell the israelis to start behaving?.

  since 2 seconds after the first plane hit the wtc, the israelis has been busy running their own agenda - and they still are.

  the last, peace negotiations are off!.

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  hillary_step,
  Interesting points you make about the culture class that exists between Islam and the West. An article in the Austin American-Statesman by staff writer Bill Bishop had this to say: "The terrorists attack wasn't so much an act of war against the United States as it was an assault on the modern world." He went on to say that as nations modernize and urbanize, their power base becomes centralized in political systems rather than religion and conflicts inevitably ignite. Quoting Ronald Inglehart, a University of Michigan political scientist, "economic failure and national humiliation" in the continuing conflict with Israel has fed the fundamentalist movement in the Muslim world.
  It just seems to point out that it will be very difficult if not impossible for reason to prevail in these conflicts. I do not like the alternative, however there may be no choice.
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  WT says Don't look or hear news

  by Patriot in

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  i just got this from a witness who i bumped into yesterday.

  she is very disturbed by this announcement the congo.

  got on friday at their service meeting:.

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  Oldhippie

  Nope...no announcement like that at our meeting.
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  I'm A Better Parent Than Any JW.

  by Englishman in

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  i was sat watching tv tonight, her ladyship was dozing after a hard day, george the cat was purring and number 3 son had fallen asleep.. number 2 son was talking on the phone to his girlfriend, number 1 was out selling finance to prospective home-buyers.. know what?

  these sons of mine know that i am always on their side, no matter what they do.

  i can't think of anything that they could do to stop me loving them.

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  Navco....I'd like to respond to what you have writtten but I have no idea what you just said. ANYWAY....I am just a dumb country boy and I really hesitate to stick my neck too far out there but my daughter was disfellowshipped several months ago. I love her more than life and would NEVER shun her under any circumstances. She told me she was blown away by the fact that her parents stood by her and defended her dignity and person. She has been reinstated and I guess that I (or we, her parents) have done too good a job of indoctrinating her into JW ways. She feels that she deserved whatever she got. I am trying to get us all into counseling. I do not know what else to do.
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  triple whammy

  by Mulan in

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  in the aftermath of tuesday's disaster, i can reflect on the past three weeks as the "summer from hell!".

  my stepfather died on august 24, then my beloved cousin, sharon, took a dramatic turn for the worse, and died on september 6. we had barely gotten over the trauma of her memorial service on sunday, when this awful situation happened in our country.

  sharon's sons had flown here from wisconsin and new york to be here the last few days of their mother's life, and now are stranded far from home, due to the airlines being out of commission, so to speak.. we were talking today about how when things finally get back to normal, in our lives, how sharon's death will hit us so hard!!

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  They say trouble comes in bunches. Hopefully your bunch is over for now. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.....and various other cliches that I can't think of right now.
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  Something DIED in me on Tuesday

  by Amazing in

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  i appreciate the words of another poster who commented that he felt it unwise to post in anger.

  i have tried to hold calm and keep my anger in check, but that started to change with my nato posting yesterday.. i am set back over 30 years: i was raised to respect all races, and not to be prejudiced.

  i was also raised a proud american, and that it was important not to tolerate bullies.

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  IMHO the US has a unique opportunity here. For once the American public and in fact most of the world are united or at least willing to allow the US to conduct a campaign against terrorism that goes beyond trying to punish only those directly responsible, but also any who support them. If we are ever going to have a safe world in which to live and raise children, or in my case see grandchildren grow up, we must not allow this opportunity to pass. I do not know how to go about it but the price for sponsoring such cowards must become too great to bear. If not now, than when?