Posts by Saethydd

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Have You Found Your Place in the World?

by Rainbow_Troll in

we were all told when we were in the watchtower that we should be grateful to be part of such a loving family.

we were told that just beyond the superficial glamour of the world was a quagmire of despair, emptiness and pain waiting to suck us in.

obviously, we took that part with a mountain of salt or we wouldn't be here today.

Saethydd

I'm in college and I've managed to find loads of friends that aren't addicted to drugs. (At least not as far as I know.) They seem to be fairly happy, most of them are probably Christian, but the two I've gotten the closest with are agnostic like me and very sympathetic to my current plight with my family. I would suggest you keep looking before you give up on people entirely.

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I need your opinions and recommendations please.

by bola in

after my exit from the watchtower shunning cult, i have received tons of invitations from different churches.

but because i am aware of religious cults, i need recommendations of churches that are not cults at all.

after exiting the watchtower cult, i don't want to fall into another religious cults.

Saethydd

I'm an agnostic at the moment, and don't see much worth in pursuing religion personally.

Perhaps you could examine Buddhist beliefs though if you seek serenity and spirituality.

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Triyearly Snoozefest, Here I Come

by Saethydd in

my family is dragging me to the "increase your faith in the 7 guys in new york who control your life.

" circuit assembly today.

hopefully, i can get a chair or two between them and me so i can finish ready harry potter and the order of the phoenix while i'm there.

Saethydd

My family is dragging me to the "Increase Your Faith in the 7 Guys in New York Who Control Your Life." Circuit Assembly today. Hopefully, I can get a chair or two between them and me so I can finish ready Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix while I'm there.

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JW's And Their Education Level

by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

i was thinking about this.... in my congregation, i was literally the only one with universitary education, out of a cong from around 110 people.... and we're very close to a very big university, which makes it even weirder.. on the other hand... sooo many here with their own business, mostly small cleaning businesses.

cleaning windows, or cleaning somewhere else... painters.... all have jobs that do not require any education level, cos they never had a decent education.. how is the composition of the jw people/congs that you know about?.

how many painters... cleaners... compared to people with jobs that require higher education?.

Saethydd

There is nothing stopping anyone from reading books and publications about astronomy...one of the best astronomers I know is self-taught and supplements that with contacts in that field.

If you were referencing WTWizards post, he said astrology. not astronomy.

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Born in baptisms to avoid embarrassment

by Spoletta in

i noticed a recent commenter mention an assembly that had only one baptism, a born in.

the last assembly i went to had three baptisms, of which two were born ins.

could part of the motivation for youth baptism be to avoid the embarrassment of an assembly with no baptisms at all?

Saethydd

I recall that the Assembly immediately before the Convention at which I was baptized 11 years ago didn't have any baptismal candidates.

I can also recall several other Assemblies with only one or two baptized.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-26-2017 WT Study (January 2017) (REMAIN MODEST)

by blondie in

jw
friends

you can remain modest under test.

13:1-10.. comments .

Saethydd

Also, doesn't paragraph 16 kind of contradict the opening example? After all God didn't seem to keen to forgive his prophet who made the mistake of being deceived. Judging by his track record he doesn't have any patience for people who are easily tricked. Not good news for the average JW.

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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-26-2017 WT Study (January 2017) (REMAIN MODEST)

by blondie in

jw
friends

you can remain modest under test.

13:1-10.. comments .

Saethydd

I have a comment with regards to Nehemiah not being domineering. Nehemiah 13:25

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Atheism = self defeating.

by towerwatchman in

atheism = self defeating.

first may we define our terms.

the word atheism comes literally from the greek, alpha the negative and theos [for god], therefore “negative god” or there is no god.

Saethydd

Now the question becomes not what is the origin of life but the origin of biological information. Where did the information to build the first living organism come from?

Valid question, the problem is you think you already have the answer. My answer is that we don't know... yet, but we have developed a number of plausible theories almost none of which would necessarily contradict each other. Here is a link if you actually care to learn about the leading theories.

You see, a scientist can't just invoke God because something seems to have no other explanation. If they did that, then we would still be woefully ignorant about... everything in the natural world. So many things that have been attributed to being directly controlled by God (Or depending on the time and culture gods, demons, ghosts, tree spirits etc.) have been shown to have natural explanations. That will very probably be the case with this issue as well.

Now if you want to keep shoving God back into the gaps of scientific knowledge feel free to do so, but you should know that in that case, your God is nothing more than an ever receding front being pushed backward farther and farther every year, and it's gonna take a lot more than a vague appeal to incredulity to stop that.

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Worldwide campaign : Go to memorial , watch with respect and eat the emblems!

by lusitano o tuga in

hey, ex-jw guys , .

if you believe in the bible and claim to be a christian, we invite you to attend the memorial this year in a place that.

the peoples don´t know you´re disfellowshipped and obey what jesus said in john chapter 6 and apostle paul tought in .

Saethydd

Eh, it may hit 50,000 regardless, it's been going up a ton recently.

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The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

by cofty in

... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

they take pride in obedience.

Saethydd

@Fishy

Why are you desperate to argue about this? Especially when you are clearly wrong? Do you get a kick out of a half-dozen people telling you that you're wrong?

You're completely ignoring the context of the scriptures concerning the topic being discussed. As far your proof goes, the fact that no scripture says that eating an unbled animal that has been found dead is to be punished with death is proof that's it wasn't a capital crime. That's how laws work. If execution isn't listed as the punishment, then they don't execute people for it.

Getting back to cofty's point, the fact that the case of an Israelite eating an unbled animal they killed themselves (capital crime) is handled differently than a case were an Israelite eats an unbled animal that was found dead (unclean state) proves that the point of pouring out the blood instead of eating it was to atone for the life the Israelite took.

So whether it was "against the law," as you seem determined to believe, or not is actually irrelevant to cofty's main point, which is that the blood being poured out is only a life or death matter when the creature was killed at the hands of an Israelite.