hi guys, i don't really post on here much anymore, having been on here since 2001. this site helped me out in the early days and has been a great support system for all of my past jw issues.
like many others i was discouraged from an education so that i could window clean and pioneer in my youth during the 80's.
having spent many years post my jw exit in alcoholism and periods of drugs, i decided to clean myself up 7 years ago by attending aa, i was still a window cleaner ... at the time i wrote extensively on here about my issues.
That's great news!
I finished my college days as an older student just before I started posting here in 2001. It was a time of growth and learning. I was a businessman before college, studied Sociology and was very active with my professors off campus and on, then went back to business. It was a nice break from the money/sales grind.
as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .
and i wondered: "who are "they"?.
it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.
So true. And, even a broken clock gives true time twice a day.
so, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.
she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.
i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.
.... what rjharris said.
as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .
and i wondered: "who are "they"?.
it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.
Truth is not an absolute
Are you absolutely sure?
i am currently an skeptic, but i have to admit that i can't assure that all the stuff of early christianity was false.. for instance, we know that the genuine letters of paul were written before the destruction of jerusalem.
so, paul affirmed that jesus resurrected, though he was not there when it supposedly happened.
but, if jesus did not resurrect, why didn't the jews expose this falsehood?.
Jesus didn't stay dead. This was the lighning rod that set the Roman world on fire through EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY.
so, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.
she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.
i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.
I kept bringing Jesus up as the only way to salvation. And she kept pushing him aside and I kept mentioning that that is the most important thing and he shouldn't be pushed aside..... But she would laugh at me and say "WOOOW" I can't believe you knew the truth (which I quickly said Jesus is the truth)
Wow, that is powerful. DO NOT underestimate the seeds you plant. The way the kingdom of God works - is that you do not get confirmation on the effects of your acts of obedience most of the time.
I am where I am today because a lady at a door took the time to expalin to me that Christians believe in a paradise earth nearly the same as the Watchtower teaches. After she told me that, and after I brought up Christmas and a couple other ridiculous things, I realized that I was just attacking a woman who believed virtually the same thing I did, minus the ORG and plus Jesus. I didn't have a reason for going door to door anymore if Christians already new about the paradise earth. I walked away from that door feeling shame for the first time, as a Watchtower water boy.
I'll never forget that woman, and she may even feel she has failed in some way as a Christian. Isn't that funny?
my c drive is running out of space.
and to my surprise the low disk space problem persists after i free up disk space on my computer.
i uninstalled a lot of programs.i thought that i have free space on my c drive.
I know what you mean.... these low flying space disks seem to be the rage almost every night on the Discovery chanel. Why do they persist?
as i was growing up in a household with my grandparents, i heard a certain phrase hundreds of times, "well, you know what they say .
and i wondered: "who are "they"?.
it was my first encounter with shapeless, formless, invisible, abstract, non-descript, and anonymous authority.. the premise seemed to say:.
TTATT it is not an estimate.
So, some truth does exist then. I wonder what other truths are out there?
i am currently an skeptic, but i have to admit that i can't assure that all the stuff of early christianity was false.. for instance, we know that the genuine letters of paul were written before the destruction of jerusalem.
so, paul affirmed that jesus resurrected, though he was not there when it supposedly happened.
but, if jesus did not resurrect, why didn't the jews expose this falsehood?.
Plenty of facts to consider here.
in numbers 31 we read the following:.
jehovah then told moses:2 take vengeance for the israelites on the midianites.
afterward you will be gathered to your people.3 so moses spoke to the people, saying: equip men from among you for battle against midian and to execute jehovahs vengeance on midian.4 you should send 1,000 of each tribe of all the tribes of israel into the army............ 7 they waged war against midian, just as jehovah had commanded moses, and they killed every male.8 along with the others slain, they killed the kings of midian, namely, evi, rekem, zur, hur, and reba, the five kings of midian.
This is a reasoned treatment of the subject.
And also here.
