Posts by Nambo

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How Did/Has the WTBTS Affected Your Social Skills?

by ABibleStudent in

good or bad?

how did/has the wtbts affected your social skills, social development, and/or how you interact with other people?

i have many questions about different social skills that i will ask either after other people post to this thread or to keep this thread active.

Nambo

Pretty much the same as Clearpoison has said, its helped me no end for the same reason.

I came in in my 20s, I had very poor communication skills, I remember one girlfriend asking me why I dont talk, I belive this stems from my childhood and being left alone in my room most of the time, with no social interaction.

Once I "got the truth", things happened, a girl I was quite attracted too, but said I was too nice as she preffered "bastards", suddenly called me out the blue to come and see her, of course I went with a Live forever book and the fire of Jeremiah in my mouth, she said, "its like you have been suddenly attached to a computer, where is all this coming from"?

Turned out I wasnt really shy at all, just never had anything worth talking about, and I still dont know how to talk about nothing, but the troof has given me the knowledge and confidence that I can talk to anybody.

And where as before I was allways sullen, now I smile at people and they smile back and become chatty with me on a dailly basis, (where I work now there are about 1000 people), this would never have happened without the ministry work.

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When does someone become Anointed with Holy Spirit?

by The Searcher in

a bible truth - "one baptism".

(ephesians 4:5) .

however, according to 'accepted wisdom', there must be two baptisms - one visible, and one invisible.

Nambo

Previously, in other posts, I had related how I felt the Holy Spirit inside me, like a drug or God tickling me from the inside, this was prior to Baptism.

About an hour after my JW baptism, I felt that same feeling, but on the outside of me, just as if it had been poured over my head and running down my body, like I say, on the outside, never felt such a feeling since.

Now, at the time, I figuered this was just a feeling you got when you where baptised, I never considered I could be one of the mystical "Annointed", I couldnt relate to the JW vagueness of how you knew you where annointed.

Its only since leaving the JW doctrines that I have figuered out, what is annointing?, its when oil, or in this case, Holy Spirit is poured out over your head, which is exactly what I felt.

I no longer belive in 144, 000 only getting annointed, I belive that 144,000 are literal Hebrews of the 12 tribes to fullfill the promise to Abraham, and that the Great Crowd has the same destiny but are made of an unspecified number of Gentiles, and that the little sheep and the other flock join together to be the same flock with the same hope and same Baptism.

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What if Adam knew his wife, before the sin?

by Nambo in

i sometimes wonder how things would have been if adam and eve had procreated before eating from the tree of knowledge, and the ramifications of such.. if any children didnt also eat of the tree, would we now have two groups of humans on earth, one perfect and living forever, and us.. would god have split the two classes of human, putting eden on another planet or dimension or such?.

does this indicate that its all deliberate, that god knew satans plan so let the play unfold before letting adam and eve know each other?.

or does it just mean that satan was allready corrupted and wanted to get his deed done at the very beggining to ensuer he had everyone?.

Nambo

I sometimes wonder how things would have been if Adam and Eve had procreated before eating from the tree of knowledge, and the ramifications of such.

If any children didnt also eat of the tree, would we now have two groups of Humans on Earth, one perfect and living forever, and us.

Would God have split the two classes of Human, putting Eden on another planet or dimension or such?

Does this indicate that its all deliberate, that God knew Satans plan so let the play unfold before letting Adam and Eve know each other?

Or does it just mean that Satan was allready corrupted and wanted to get his deed done at the very beggining to ensuer he had everyone?

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Name Things You Did As A Witness That You Weren't Supposed To Do

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.

i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..

Nambo

I think the Watchtower is apt to shoot itself in the foot with its doctrines of men.

I remember a magazine article that stated how even Pioneers where kidding themselves by thinking their good works could compensate for such terrible things as masturbating and secretly accepting blood transfusions.

So, right away they have labelled masturbating as being on the same badness level as having blood transfusions.

So, I start thinking, what if I had a child, and it needed a blood transfusion but I let it die in order to please God, yet here I was, couldnt even say no to a wank, yet I would be willing to let my child die, hypocrite I labelled myself, so that realisation was probably what set me on the path to leaving.

Well done Watchtower, you transverse land and sea to make one member, then proceed to make him even more of a sinner than he allready was.

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Bethel - the house of the canaanite god El

by mP in

how ironic, that in hebrew the word for god is actually the name of a canaanite god el.

ive recently been facinated by the etymology of word, particularly those in the bible.

anyone can change the meanings or definition of words like we have witnessed with the generation, but the word itself cannot be changed.

Nambo

Leolaia.

From reading your article about Yahweh originally being a son of the creator God El, along with your reference to Daniel 7 and Israel being apportioned to Yahweh, is it possible that Jesus was Yahweh and that when he was on Earth and praying to his Father in Heaven, he wasnt praying to Jehovah, but to El?

Or am I just getting even more confused.

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Do You Know C.R.A.P. ?

by Perry in

there is no shortage of ex-elders, behelites, ex-circuit overseers on this forum that continue to spout their hatred for christians, even as they did while leading their former adherents down the same path.

the new religion for these preachers of paradise, is materialism.

in their view, science is the arbitrator of truth.

Nambo

Is there no room on this forum for folk who do belive in God but no longer belive in the Watchtower.?

One of the reasons I never joined this forum previously, is that it seemed to consist of blasphemers and God haters.

There are many trapped inside the organisation who are going to be put off the help this forum can give them in a Spiritual way, if they perceive this forum is not just anti-Watchtower, but anti-Bible.

Not meaning to be rude, but Iam astounded to learn folk here where acting as Ministers of God, even being Min serves and Elders, teaching people how to relate to a God that they plainly never in thier lives knew in the first place!

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Introducing myself and opinions valued please

by michelleatkin68 in

jw
friends

my name is michelle and from the age of 3 i was brought up one of jw.

my parents became witnesses whilst in germany when my father was stationed there with the british army.

we then came back to england where i lived in darwen, lancashire, and attended darwen, bolton and blackburn congregations over the next 18 years.

Nambo

Hi and welcome Michelle,

Though Iam from the South, I did spend a few years in the Stockport vacinity from 1990.

I did have friends North of Manchester that we would often hang around with, and Ive a feeling Boston was one of the congregations.

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Name Things You Did As A Witness That You Weren't Supposed To Do

by minimus in

jw
friends

i was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.

i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..

Nambo

I bashed the Bishop.

I would really try not too, never once mamaged a month, by then it would be going off on its on. (And Iam not talking about when I was asleep).

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What is the Gospel of JW's in a Nutshell?

by Perry in

let the honest-hearted person compare the kind of preaching of the gospel of the kingdom done by the religious systems of christendom during all the centuries with that done by jehovahs witnesses since the end of world war i in 1918. they are not one and the same kind.

that of jehovahs witnesses is really gospel, or good news, as of gods heavenly kingdom that was established by the enthronement of his son jesus christ at the end of the gentile times in 1914.

- (luke 21:24) the watchtower 5/1/81 p. 17 par.

Nambo

"Worship us, or die!"

Or

"We are the Messiah"

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Can i defend my Faith?

by mrbunyrabit in

so i thought ill check to see how "strong" the things are i believe in.

im still hooked to allot of the wts's teachings, and i still believe in allot of them , even thought i have enough questions of my own to start my own bible school.. so what would you ask me as a "witness" now, so i can try and defend my faith and by doing so, that i might learn something about myself, and what i believe in..

Nambo

Just use your own logic Mr Bunyrabit.

Question 3 for instance, the JWs claim all those "miracles and Fireworks" of Revelation, where fullfilled by themselves in a sort of invisible way via the preaching work. I think JWs are going to be most suprised when those Revelation plagues happen as literal events that the ungodly masses wont be able to denigh, more so than even in Moses day, for what was written before, is a pattern for things to come.

A question for you, the whole religion, the authority of the self appointed "Faithfull and Discreet slave", all rests on their claim they fullfilled scripture from Daniel 12 in 1918/19, but in order to fit themselves in with this prophesy, they can only think of the 1922 Cedar Point Ohio convention to "fullfill" Daniel 12 verse 12.

Do you honestly think the climax of the book of Daniel, the most happy thing the Angel could point to during Jesus second coming, was an assembly that most Witnesses themselves cannot tell you about, let alone the world at large, was that convention even better than JWs surviving arrmegeddon and stepping into Paradise?

For if it was not, the whole JW religion falls like a stack of cards.