Good article Size! Size did you read any of Dr. Bart Erhman's books on inerrancy? I had some young mormons using his materials to boost the Book of Mormon's credibility, "if the Bible was not a perfect compilation of scriptures, how could anyone attack anything written in our book?"
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The literal and inerrant accuracy of the Bible . . . a modernist view?
by sizemik ini've seen it stated more than once on this site .
that the fundamentalist view of the bible being the inerrant and infallible word of god, is a modern interpretation not shared by the early christians.
the view has been promulgated most notably by e r sandeen who, among other things, held this view .
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Clueless Attempt at Information Control In New Brochure
by LostGeneration inon page 28 of the "who are doing the watchtower's will today" brochure they outline their website, and how great and grand it is.
then down in the lower right corner they print this:.
a note of caution:.
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This brochure would be the king, if they posted all the evil websites that are trying to reveal all past doctrine taught to the new reformatted congregation disk. : fdisk
:Generation 1914, Blood Fragments, UN NGO.
:Pedophile Coverup
:Magazine "The Generation That Will Not Pass Away"
Add Floppies :Insert Blank, Pliable, Inablity To Critically Think Minds
:Add Janitor, Window Washer, Jardinero Program
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My fellow apostates: Please be careful when talking to other apostates online
by Joliette ini had a fellow ex-jehovah's witness (who's a male by the way, he has a youtube channel) who sent me a message on facebook saturday morning that was very sexual in nature.
please be careful when added certain people on facebook, just an heads up.
also be careful with credit card info, giving certain private also.
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If I am a rebel instead of a apostate, does this lower the chance of receiving some photo of someone's junk?
Joilette usually a person's username will indicate where their subjects, threads, PMs will gravitate too.
"LongDongSchlong" "DeebieDoesBethel" "RonJeremyBethlite" "DeepThroatPatterson" "NAMBLA Member" "Pedophiles4Jesus" "1inchShort12"
I missed a few clues on Instant Chat in 1998 and was never the same again! Removed IMs, any kind of Instant Chat, Skype to avoid this kind of Freak Fest. Some of the men and women removed from the Organization, had some evil fetishes, what is to prevent them from showing you the reason they were thrown out of the congregation?
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Why Do Introvert Elders Even Bother, What's Their Game?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis insomething that has troubled me for some time, why do introvert personalities reach out for the office of overseer?.
this personality does not help with shepherding the flock (other brothers pick up their slack, their too shy for judicial committes), they are not upbuidling for the brothers and sisters (their long lost stuttering problem resurfaces when asked to call m.i.a.
congregation memebers) and they are useless for widows and orphans (i can't help little father-less davie, my online role playing games are all time consuming!
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WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT SHYNESS? http://www.gotquestions.org/shyness.html This is a gentle way to look at "Shyness", this article is kind, but bold, there is no room to be self-absorbed as a Christian Pastor, Elder, Servant.
Question: "What does the Bible say about shyness/being shy?"
Answer: Webster's dictionary defines shyness as "the state of being timid, easily frightened, reserved, bashful, and shrinking from contact with others." For the Christian, shyness can be overcome by relying on the Holy Spirit. The Bible explains this in 2 Timothy 1:7 (TLB): "For the Holy Spirit, God's gift, does not want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them." The Holy Spirit is given by God to those who place their faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as payment for their personal sin. The real key is learning to be filled with, and under the control of, the Holy Spirit. Meditating on Ephesians 5:17-21, Ephesians 4:30, and Colossians 3:16 will be helpful to those who are struggling with shyness.
Oddly enough, shyness can actually be a form of pride. Fear of what people will think about us and being overly concerned for the opinions of men (Ephesians 6:6-7; Proverbs 29:25) can be reflection of obsession with self. But the Bible says we are not be worried about the opinions of men, not to fear what men think about us or even what they say about us if we're doing what we know is right. In fact, if we are striving to live godly lives, we can expect not to be liked (2 Timothy 3:12).
Timidity, shyness and bashfulness are basically fear, and fear is the opposite of faith. We overcome fear through faith from God (Hebrews 11:6) and love from God (1 John 4:18-19). Faith and love from God come from saturating the heart, mind, and life with the Scriptures (Colossians 3:16; Romans 10:17). For sanctifying ourselves (John 17:17) and overcoming fear, doubt and confusion, the power of the Word of God is unequaled (Psalm 19, 2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Besides becoming a Christian, learning to live under the control of the Holy Spirit, replacing fear and pride with faith and love from God, and saturating our minds with Scripture, we can add one more ingredient to overcoming shyness. The world calls it "self esteem" and "self-image," but those are not biblical terms. The Bible explains it as living out the identity of who we are in Christ. Meditating through Ephesians 1, we see all that we are in Christ. Shyness is about us, but true Life is about Christ, who is our Life according to Colossians 3:4.
When fear or self-consciousness keeps us from reaching out to other people, that is a reflection of self-centeredness and pride. Starting a conversation and showing interest in others can be an expression of genuine love. When we're filled with God's power and motivated by love, we'll be able to reach out to others in a way that makes them feel appreciated. Then the emphasis is on others instead of on ourselves, and we can begin to live in freedom, self-sacrifice and love for others"
@MrsJones: What kind of advocate are you for your disabled husband? Are you shy when assisting your husband convey his wishes with his doctors, making sure he is getting proper treatment? What would you think of a timid little person whose shyness costed her husband medical treatment he needed, because she was too shy, to speak up for her husband? Would you discount her inablity to "speak up", as reasonable, cool and par for the course, because it costed her emotional capital, to stand up for his rights?
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An ex-Jehovah's Witness turns Cult Leader
by iamwhoiam ini can't believe i just now heard of this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2oa4oigvo.
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enjoy!.
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An ex-Jehovah's Witness turns Cult Leader
by iamwhoiam ini can't believe i just now heard of this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2oa4oigvo.
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enjoy!.
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Take a walk on the wild side, Ronson's book will protect your loved ones.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-Through-the-Madness-Industry/15180624
"On the day I received Deborah's e-mail inviting me to the CostaCoffee I was in the midst of quite a bad anxiety attack. I had beeninterviewing a man named Dave McKay. He was the charismaticleader of a small Australian religious group called The JesusChristians and had recently suggested to his members that they eachdonate their spare kidney to a stranger. Dave and I had got on prettywell at first-he'd seemed engagingly eccentric and I wasconsequently gathering good material for my story, enjoyably nuttyquotes from him, etc.-but when I proposed that group pressure,emanating from Dave, was perhaps the reason why some of his morevulnerable members might be choosing to give up a kidney, heexploded. He sent me a message saying that to teach me a lesson hewas putting the brakes on an imminent kidney donation. He would letthe recipient die and her death would be on my conscience.I was horrified for the recipient and also quite pleased that Dave hadsent me such a mad message that would be good for my story. I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn't know a thingabout psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing theymight do). The journalist printed the quote. A few days later Dave e-mailed me: "I consider it defamatory to state that I am a psychopath. Ihave sought legal advice. I have been told that I have a strong caseagainst you. Your malice toward me does not allow you to defame me."This was what I was massively panicking about on the dayDeborah's e-mail to me arrived in my in-box."
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Field Service Reports Count More than Showing Love - Ray Franz CF Book
by flipper ini've always suspected this was the wt society's view when i was in the jehovah's witness organization - but never knew the head of the writing committee karl adams had written a letter to nathan knorr ( then wt president ) recommending a change regarding reporting field service time as it wrongly emphasized jw members being seen as mainly being approved due to field service statistics - instead of emphasizing christian qualities of love, kindness, peace, etc.. karl adams had been personally handpicked by nathan knorr to be the head of the writing department.
in 1971 he wrote a letter to knorr which he wanted shared with the entire governing body as well .
i'll share the main parts of that letter.. on pg.
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Mr. Flipper, thank you for this material, love and fine works are not the key focus. It sickened me to see a sister show up after six months of missing meetings, only to have the "secretary" say "Do you have your time for the last six months?" No greeting, nobody asked her "how have you been?" it was all about productivity of placing magazines.
We are entering into a strange period within the organization, love is in short supply, pressure is still placed on "service, magazines", I notice every "Study Edition" is relentless with Pioneering or doing more. These magazines use to have more content that dealt with other aspects of the Org, now it's compacted to say "Preach, Place and Pioneer!"
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(PIONEERING) and the way to get ahead: PIOUS SNEERING
by Terry inthe year was 1969.. i had just spent my 2 years fulfilling my "neutrality" obligations to jehovah's organization during the viet nam war by going in to federal prison.. i thought i could use my parole to get my life together.. getting a job, saving some money, buying a car and getting a place to live didn't seem like radical or worldly ideas to me.. i guess i was pretty surprised when i walked in to the kingdom hall where i had not set foot since 1967.. .
instead of a homecoming i was greeted by----the congregation overseer (the pre-elder days).. in his hot little hand was the pioneer application form.
he handed it to me saying, "i know you'll want to continue your serving jehovah full time!".
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Terry, after 1975 I heard people say "If only we knew the day Eve was created, it woud be helpful in knowing when Jesus would return". What was this all about, why the new emphasis on trying to date Mother Eve's day of creation?
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Why Do Introvert Elders Even Bother, What's Their Game?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis insomething that has troubled me for some time, why do introvert personalities reach out for the office of overseer?.
this personality does not help with shepherding the flock (other brothers pick up their slack, their too shy for judicial committes), they are not upbuidling for the brothers and sisters (their long lost stuttering problem resurfaces when asked to call m.i.a.
congregation memebers) and they are useless for widows and orphans (i can't help little father-less davie, my online role playing games are all time consuming!
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I don't agree that someone who is an "introvert" makes a good elder, or ministerial servant. Let me get this straight, ok, how would you sisters feel, if your shy elder and his very shy elderette never spoke one word to you in ten years?"
The Shepherd of the sheep who is "predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feeling rather than external things" is a good elder on which planet?
JWN and other websites contain tens of thousands of stories where "nobody ever went looking for the missing brother or sister" Introvert elders do have a strange way of showing their love to the flock they never spoke to. Shy is an excuse, a crutch to help people stay in their "comfort zone or zombie zone" just think if everyone was "shy and Introvert" medical doctors, police officers, prison guards, special forces commanding soldiers, fire fighters.
We learn something new everyday, I personally have never seen anyone forced into accepting the positon of Servant or Elder. I never enjoyed field service with "introverts", they let you talk at all the doors, they let you call all the inactive brothers and sisters, introverts have no problem letting you take "crisis phone calls at night" (their too shy to answer their phones) and heaven forbid, the introvert get's out of their comfort zone, and greets new attending people at the Kindom Hall.
The Ambulence driver and paramedic who is too shy to ask "is your chest hurting?" "are you choking?" 'Sorry maam, my partner is very shy, he don't say much but he's a good guy, not much a paramedic but he here!
Google Definition "in·tro·vert/'intr??v?rt/
Noun:
A shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person.
A person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things"introvert /in·tro·vert/ (in´tro-vert)
1. a person whose interest is turned inward to the self.
2. to turn one's interest inward to the self.
3. a structure that can be turned or drawn inwards.
4. to turn a part or organ inward upon itself. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/introvertintrovert (Oxford Dictionary)http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/introvert
noun
Pronunciation: /'?ntr?v??t/
a shy, reticent person.
Psychology a person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things.in·tro·ver·sion (ntr-vûrzhn, -shn)
n.
1. The act or process of introverting or the condition of being introverted.
2. Psychology The direction of or tendency to direct one's thoughts and feelings toward oneself.
intro·versive (-vûrsv) adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
introversion [??ntr?'v????n]
n
1. (Psychology) Psychol the directing of interest inwards towards one's own thoughts and feelings rather than towards the external world or making social contacts
2. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the turning inside out of a hollow organ or part Compare extroversion
introversive , introvertive adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
introversion Psychology.
1. the act of directing one's interest inward or toward the self.
2. the state of being interested chiefly in one's own inner thoughts, feelings, and processes. Cf. extraversion. - introvert, n. - introvertive, introversive, adj. -
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Why Do Introvert Elders Even Bother, What's Their Game?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis insomething that has troubled me for some time, why do introvert personalities reach out for the office of overseer?.
this personality does not help with shepherding the flock (other brothers pick up their slack, their too shy for judicial committes), they are not upbuidling for the brothers and sisters (their long lost stuttering problem resurfaces when asked to call m.i.a.
congregation memebers) and they are useless for widows and orphans (i can't help little father-less davie, my online role playing games are all time consuming!
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Bubblegum Apotheosis
I don't agree that someone who is an "introvert" makes a good elder, or ministerial servant. Let me get this straight, ok, how would you sisters feel, if your shy elder and his very shy elderette never spoke one word to you in ten years?"
The Shepherd of the sheep who is "predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feeling rather than external things" and a good elder on which planet?
JWN and other websites contain tens of thousands of stories where "nobody ever went looking for the missing brother or sister" Introvert elders do have a strange way of showing their love to the flock they never spoke to. Shy is an excuse, a crutch to help people stay in their "comfort zone or zombie zone" just think if everyone was "shy and Introvert" medical doctors, police officers, prison guards, special forces commanding soldiers, fire fighters.
We learn something new everyday, I personally have never seen anyone forced into accepting the positon of Servant or Elder. I never enjoyed field service with "introverts", they let you talk at all the doors, they let you call all the inactive brothers and sisters, introverts have no problem letting you take "crisis phone calls at night" (their too shy to answer their phones) and heaven forbid, the introvert get's out of their comfort zone, and greets new attending people at the Kindom Hall.
Google Definition "in·tro·vert/'intr??v?rt/
Noun:
A shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person.
A person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things"introvert /in·tro·vert/ (in´tro-vert)
1. a person whose interest is turned inward to the self.
2. to turn one's interest inward to the self.
3. a structure that can be turned or drawn inwards.
4. to turn a part or organ inward upon itself. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/introvertintrovert (Oxford Dictionary)http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/introvert
noun
Pronunciation: /'?ntr?v??t/
a shy, reticent person.
Psychology a person predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things.in·tro·ver·sion (ntr-vûrzhn, -shn)
n.
1. The act or process of introverting or the condition of being introverted.
2. Psychology The direction of or tendency to direct one's thoughts and feelings toward oneself.
intro·versive (-vûrsv) adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
introversion [??ntr?'v????n]
n
1. (Psychology) Psychol the directing of interest inwards towards one's own thoughts and feelings rather than towards the external world or making social contacts
2. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol the turning inside out of a hollow organ or part Compare extroversion
introversive , introvertive adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
introversion Psychology.
1. the act of directing one's interest inward or toward the self.
2. the state of being interested chiefly in one's own inner thoughts, feelings, and processes. Cf. extraversion. - introvert, n. - introvertive, introversive, adj.
