Posts by Clambake

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Who did you believe the scriptures were describing when you were a JW?
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it never hit me until i was out.

matt:23;4 "they tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them.

on other people shoulders".
Clambake

AFRIKANMAN

No offensive but none of those dominations are nearly 1/100 as evil as the WTS. The idea of comparing mainstream (yes the Adventists) Christian dominations to that of the WTS is simply ridiculous.
I had a discussion with my uncle who is a Baptist pastor about the issue of congregational disciple and he basically told me it really is a non-issue 99.5 % of the time. If you want to start doing drugs or becoming a swinger or whatever , chances are a person will distance themselves from the church and its members before they start to live this type of lifestyle.
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whats your take? When someone asks my wife what religion she is, she seems embarrassed to say she is a JW.
by goingthruthemotions in
1. jw
2. experiences
so thinking back about the times when someone has asked my wife what religion she is.

she sheepishly and seems almost embarrassed to say she is a jehovah witness.

when someone asks me, i just say i am a christian.
Clambake

I met a jw awhile ago and said ,oh your the ones who worship those seven men in Brooklyn? Right?
Pretending I didn't actually know anything about it.
I just got a stupid look and walked away.
I facebook stalk the dubs. It's really amazing how many have no trace of being a dub.
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Who did you believe the scriptures were describing when you were a JW?
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it never hit me until i was out.

matt:23;4 "they tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them.

on other people shoulders".
Clambake

I remember at an assembly they were doing a talk on how idol worshippers and extortioners won't see God's kingdom.
I literally puked. I got so pissed off I just to leave.
It's like there is something supernaturally evil and it is just mocking us.
Sorry, I forgot the verse.
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Who did you believe the scriptures were describing when you were a JW?
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it never hit me until i was out.

matt:23;4 "they tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them.

on other people shoulders".
Clambake

I wonder if the average jw realizes the only time I have hear the word apostate is people escaping isis.
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Who did you believe the scriptures were describing when you were a JW?
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it never hit me until i was out.

matt:23;4 "they tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them.

on other people shoulders".
Clambake

I also thought the one they used for shunning, something like if you love your family more than you love me, you are not worthy of me.
For me it seems to apply more for becoming a christian and leaving the borg than ignoring your own children.
They like to talk about the opposition they face when becoming one of jehovah witness but the real price to be paid is when you leave. The same can be said for a Muslim becoming a christian.
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Would you kill for the org?.......YES I WOULD!
by olongapo joe in
1. jw
2. experiences
so, a few years ago my jw parents, my non jw sister and her husband, and myself were discussing religion and jw beliefs.

my parents of course defending the jw's, the rest of us, against jw's ( it may not have been specifically against jw's, maybe just religion in general) anyway, things are getting a little heated, and i finally ask my pops, if the watchtower bible and tract society told you to go out and start killing muslims, would you do it?

yes i would, was his reply, to which i say, then your not any different than the radical muslims killing in the name of religion.
Clambake

The other night I was watching this program with my wife called “the 90s “ the last great generation. They had a small piece on the cults and mass suicides of period. They went into some detail about the tempar knights cult and how they believed it was doomsday and it was best to not be alive during the great tribulation etc etc.

She asked me to turn the channel. I could see it upset her kind of.

It gave me just a glimmer of hope.
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Richard Carrier debunks Christianity using Science and History.
by Island Man in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2kgjk4jo4
Clambake

The really sad about this place is I could post some anti-Christian lecture by Bart Herman and all the minions here would pipe up how enlightening it was , without realize the foundation of Carrier and Ihram believe are basically polar opposite of each other.

I came to this board to for tips and how an UBM can cope or even perhaps even get my wife to escape this evil cult. I also thought ex-jws were really sincere people who just couldn’t live the lie anymore.

The reality the ex-JW community is just bunch self-congratulatory liberal arts d-bags who figure because they read a Dawkins, Hitchens, Carrier, Ehrman book you are automatically a historian, archaeologist and evolutionary biologist all at the same time.

God, I think I would rather hang out with a car load of circuit overseers sometimes.
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Evolution is a Fact #11 - Tiktaalik
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.

fish have no necks; their heads are attached to their shoulders by a series of bony plates.

land-dwelling animals all have necks; their heads can move independently of their shoulders.
Clambake

Next thing you are going to tell us that Alligators and Crocodiles are actually real. Ha
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Richard Carrier debunks Christianity using Science and History.
by Island Man in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2kgjk4jo4
Clambake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFp8KTEw-k
At least have the originally to offer some personal insight or opinion or give us the readers digest version. Please think before you post because you are boring me. Stuff like this is like being in an assembly.
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The Heresy of Neutrality
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the one thing that keeps jw's worshiping the watchtower corporations more than (or as much as) anything else is the issue of neutrality.

neutrality is such a benign sounding word isn't it?

it even sounds religious.
Clambake

Said the person living under the protection of a military and police force in a secular western democracy.