Posts by schnell

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What's preventing YOU from stopping meeting attendance?

by nicolaou in

we all 'exit' in our own way and at our own pace but i'm curious, why carry on stuffing yourself into that stiff suit and tie or meeting dress years after you realised the truth about 'the truth'?.

they kept you a prisoner, what's stopping you from leaving now that you have the key to your own cell?.

loved ones?

schnell

Hope the best for you, @Sorry. Sounds like you are putting together a nice support system and fade strategy.

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Interesting comment at circuit assembly demo homosexuality

by poopie in

jw
friends

demo talking about view of girls comeing out as lesbian.

comment was we respect lesbians.

but i was thinking some do not respect a person enough to speak to them at kh if there df wow..

schnell

@FedUpJW, all joking aside, I do wonder how the elders would approach a gay married couple. If any manipulation is used with even a hint of intent to break them up, that'll be one hell of a lawsuit.

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What's preventing YOU from stopping meeting attendance?

by nicolaou in

we all 'exit' in our own way and at our own pace but i'm curious, why carry on stuffing yourself into that stiff suit and tie or meeting dress years after you realised the truth about 'the truth'?.

they kept you a prisoner, what's stopping you from leaving now that you have the key to your own cell?.

loved ones?

schnell

I'm fighting that, too, Schnell.
But I love the bros and sis- and sometimes actually LEARN something...whereas in the past, it was impossible to go and NOT learn something!

I love people in general, but find the cognitive dissonance surrounding Watchtower's handling of pedophiles quite disgusting. Many elders are well intended but intellectually naive and dishonest, as well as captive to WT dogma as you point out. Some are complete asshats. The writing is on the wall for Watchtower. Mene mene tekel parsin, indeed.

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Is the Bible from Men, NOT God?

by the-Question in

for those claiming that- how much thought or research have you done?.

objective or non-objective?.

ever read the other books claiming to be from god?

schnell

the Genesis account is the ONLY sensible explanation (going along with science) of how we got here

Oh, I think there's a better explanation than that one.

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Question (and answer): What does it mean to believe in someone?

by schnell in

"do you believe in jesus?".

yes.. "do you believe in jehovah?".

yes.. "do you believe in the grand man of the universe?".

schnell

Much simpler than that, @David_Jay. :) A few threads have popped up in recent days about belief in God and Jesus Christ. I was in a mood last night and wrote the OP.

The fact is, I don't believe in any of them, but I still take some value from something I know to be myth.

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What's preventing YOU from stopping meeting attendance?

by nicolaou in

we all 'exit' in our own way and at our own pace but i'm curious, why carry on stuffing yourself into that stiff suit and tie or meeting dress years after you realised the truth about 'the truth'?.

they kept you a prisoner, what's stopping you from leaving now that you have the key to your own cell?.

loved ones?

schnell

I felt incredibly uncomfortable at the meetings towards the end. I really didn't want to be there.

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Saltbaehovah Be Like...

by freemindfade in

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schnell

Was it incorrectly reported? was it a metaphor? don't know. Just mythoughts.

I'm curious now about the originality of the story. Did it come from an older Sumerian/Assyrian/Ugaritic story?

From getting kidnapped to thinking angels can be raped by men to impregnating his daughters while passed out drunk, Lot is pictured as a complete idiot.

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yes.. "do you believe in jehovah?".

yes.. "do you believe in the grand man of the universe?".

schnell

Of course, I'm being loose with the word "believe" here, and not at all serious.

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If turned off by the GB's latest bloopers- do you still have faith in God and Christ?

by the-Question in

some go back to churchianity!.

and that, to me, indicates they never had real faith in god- but it was in men.....

schnell

the-Question, thanks, right back at ya.