Posts by James Brown

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Jesus Christ's horrible death
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it amazes me how much thinking one does when you're out of the cult.

i mean another thread got me thinking about the story of jesus death.

so adam breaks a little test lives for 900 plus years and then dies of natural causes.
James Brown

punkofnice.

I get the milk jug video on prayer.

I think, I always have.

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But like Tom Petty says the waiting is the hardest part.

When you are waiting for your desired outcome,

you can say a prayer with your request daily then put it out of your mind

and go about your business.

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So prayer and God can be like a crutch, an aid, a tool.

Prayer can help one stay focused and still funcition.

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That information is brought to us by the church and the bible

and in many instances it leads to success.

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Maybe someday the information will be delivered by another source,

But in my day 50 years ago before the information age, it wasn't.

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There are most likely success/ positive thinking gurus that teach how to

get what you want without prayer, but their ways seem similar.

write down your goals and look at your list everyday.

That method of writing down your goals and looking at it everyday works.

So if you find that out from a success guru and not a preacher

you can end up being the success gurus disciple.

That could be a good thing.
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how long before an overworked wt lawyer says SCREW THIS!!!
by nowwhat? in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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James Brown

I'm not a lawyer.

But I was a court reporter and a deputy sheriff,

and I have lived 62 years.

It seems people hire lawyers to keep or get there tit out of the wringer.

If a

Lawyer says he can't do that or shows he cant do that people hire another lawyer.

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It is obvious they look for loopholes.

I have personally seen many times where they have a guilty client,

And they plead not guilty. They have found a loophole or think they have.

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Everyone has seen that.

Look at O.J simpson.

The world could see he was guilty and his lawyers plead not guilty.

They found loopholes and exploited them.

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If I was in trouble and had money and my lawyer told me he

didn't look for loopholes.

I would fire him and get one who did.

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It is possible that lawyers are not trained for that,

I haven't been to law school.

But the lawyers who were not trained for that or who do not figure it out,

probably end up in some other line of work.

Or end up shuffling papers like a paralegal under someone

who has learned it or has figured it out.
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Jesus Christ's horrible death
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it amazes me how much thinking one does when you're out of the cult.

i mean another thread got me thinking about the story of jesus death.

so adam breaks a little test lives for 900 plus years and then dies of natural causes.
James Brown

crazy guy.

When I was in my 40's, I myself could never get over the "ask anything in my name

and I will give it to you.

I was always experimenting with that one.

I asked a lot of things,

Sometimes it took a while to get them,

Somethings you just cant ask for and get in this life.

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You got me on that one.

And if you got me on that one,

I guess you could say you got me on them all.

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So that makes this discussion academic.

Having said that, This imaginary God didn't sacrafice his son.

He died himself, He was God incarnate.

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JW's believe in a mythological God

and they even got the myth wrong

along with everything else they believe.
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Jesus Christ's horrible death
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it amazes me how much thinking one does when you're out of the cult.

i mean another thread got me thinking about the story of jesus death.

so adam breaks a little test lives for 900 plus years and then dies of natural causes.
James Brown

Jesus is God. He is God incarnate.

It is just the way it is.

We live this life and we get to choose whether we accept God's sovereignty over our life or not.

It is not like it was a suprise that Adam and Eve sinned.

It was a plan.

God knows the end from the begining.

You don't have to think it was anything great when you really understand it.

It is just the way it is.

Jesus said in Revelation 22:13 " I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the begining and the end.

That to me means he is God.

The bible is a story to give you the message that you have to accept God/ Jesus in your life to

spend eternity with him.

You can reject it and be atheist and live without God.

Or accept it and have all the blessings.

God made us, and he is not going to let us spend eternity with him

if we do not acknowledge and accept him.

At a certain point it is his way or the highway.

At least that is the message I get from reading the bible.

It sounds like you don't want to live with Jesus.
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What is your GOAL ?
by new hope and happiness in
1. jw
2. friends
hi everyone.. i think this is a big question.

but how would you answer it in the simpliest of terms?.

in simple terms my " goals " are :-.
James Brown

New hope and happiness.

I think by your comment to me that you are on the right track

and on your way to developing a peaceful mind.

Power to you.
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How Much Pleasure Can You Tolerate?
by Greybeard in
1. jw
2. friends
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James Brown

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What is your GOAL ?
by new hope and happiness in
1. jw
2. friends
hi everyone.. i think this is a big question.

but how would you answer it in the simpliest of terms?.

in simple terms my " goals " are :-.
James Brown

Eat drink and be merry.

That is biblical advice from Solomon

Ecclesiates Ecclesiastes 8:15

I voted by mail here in Florida.

It is good to be at peace with onself and others.

I lived and live as fully as my budjet allows.

What I can't afford to do I watch on tv.

Mainly travel

I would like to leave something behind for posterity

but at 62 years it seems kind of unlikely.

I would like to live to 100.

I'll shoot for the stars and maybe end up on the moon.

The only input I have is diet and exercise and to a degree staying out of the way of moving objects.

Going against my goal, I ride a motorcycle from time to time.

To have a free mind, free from illusion,

seems easier said than done.

But a nobel goal.

If anyone ever figures out how to do it.

Please tell us here.
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Posters do you know of any cases where a devout JW was DF'd for Lesbianism?
by booker-t in
1. social
2. entertainment
i think this is a hush hush topic among jws but i remember years ago at an assembly i saw two sisters(i am only assuming they were jws they could have been studies or relatives of jws) walking arm and arm like a married couple.

some of the jws looked at them like they had horns.

some of the jws moms were covering their small children's eyes and those two women were stared at like they had the plague.
James Brown

Wouldn't a devout Jw df'd for lesbianism be an oxymoron?

Like dark light,

controled caos,

serious joke,

dry drunk,

quiet riot,

irregular pattern?
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The High Cost Of War
by designs in
1. social
2. current
britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.

2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.

those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.
James Brown

War now seems to be a way for money to be taken from the masses and given to the few.

This seems to have been going on since the begining of history for the past 5000 years.

That is what the record of history indicates.
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The High Cost Of War
by designs in
1. social
2. current
britain is refinancing some soverign war bonds dating from the crimean war, napoleonic war and wwi, 2 $billion worth.

2 century old debt.. our president has been reluctant to begin another war when the debt of the previous two wars hangs heavy.

those of the prowar persuasion have insisted on 'boots on the ground' a move that would require 100,000s of personnel in the middle east and allocating billions in debt to cover the cost.. "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" president eisenhower.
James Brown

When Obama's time is up.

The Bush family, Jeb will get back in office

and start another war.

Then our economy will really suffer.

And who will put him in office? The right wing Christian fundamenalist.

The Bush family and the Christians destroying America and the American economy

is really hard to get my head around.

I can only think they are not real Christians, they are proving false by their actions.

They have a form of Godly devotion but prove false to its power.

The number of real Christians in the world must be far fewer than most people think.

Possibly even fewer than the number of JW's in the world.

I would think real christians do not have a big central organization,

but meet in small groups in peoples homes and store front and small independent churces.