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  Letter from Mother: "...go right ahead on death's road and take your kids with you."

  by silentbuddha in

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  so my jw father is sick.

  my mother uses the opportunity to try and preach to my 16 year old daughter.

  i simply told my mother to: "please refrain from trying to lure *my daughter* in with jehovah's witness questioning.

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  Simon

  This is why, when people call for government to enforce association after they are disfellowshipped or disassociate, they miss a vital point: it would work both ways.

  Sometimes you want to protect your children from the dangerous influence of nutty believers, to spare them the pain of the WTS experience and to stop it being passed on to their kids.

  I think some people know, but they take the easy option rather than confronting it - effectively passing on the hard choice to be made to their children and grand-children.
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  If God exists, what would be a good reason why he never communicates or helps his creation by intervention?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you have probably heard all kinds of excuses why god doesn’t communicates with his creation or why he doesn’t intervene.. some examples.. no one can see god because he is a spirit.. but we can hear god---yet he chooses not to talk to humanity.. god only communicates with certain people.

  moses, samuel, abraham, etc.

  but there are many people today who also claim that god spoke to them yet we ignore them but believe god spoke to people who lived thousands of years ago and we can’t really verify if that was so.

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  Simon

  Just because people have experience that they ascribe as being "religious" doesn't mean it's god communicating with them.

  It seems to me that the people who seek and contrive to have these experiences have them, and people who don't, don't.

  It's a one-sided interpretation of "evidence" which is entirely in someone's head.

  I think the reality is that people have emotional experiences (and they can be manufactured) but just because some interpret those through a religious lens doesn't make for any compelling evidence that there is proof of god.

  Why doesn't god convince a sceptic for once? Why does he only manifest himself to "true believers"? The clue is in the "believers" part.
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  Six Screens announcing passing of “MINIMUS”

  by RESPECTFUL OBSERVER in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://youtu.be/ty_2l8zynvq.

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  Simon

  Yeah, I think the focus should be on Minimus and his family right now.

  Nice to hear he's going to give a dedicated segment about him.
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  Six Screens announcing passing of “MINIMUS”

  by RESPECTFUL OBSERVER in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://youtu.be/ty_2l8zynvq.

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  Simon

  Six Screen? Sensationalizing? Surely not? LOL

  Shirley sounds like a nut, and admits to being a repeat troll? Yeah, I'll delete your ass anytime I find you, ya dumb-ass. Sounds like you're still obsessed with me and my site Shirley. Living rent-free in your head :)

  If you break the posting rules, you get the boot. I don't care how long you have posted. The rules apply to all.

  But what an utterly classless cow to take an opportunity of someone's death to try to score points because you're bitter because you couldn't follow some simple rules.
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  Does christianity induce insanity?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is happening in western australian indigenous communities .... quote: "some american-based preachers are distributing emails and videos warning that covid-19 vaccines are evil and the work of satan, and the notion has infected some christian communities in the west australian outback.. veteran aboriginal health worker kathy watson said people spreading false information about the covid-19 vaccination and its links to the devil were "mad".".

  see more at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-06/anti-vacc-church-speaks-out-against-misinformation/100430208.

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  Simon

  I think religion is a lighting rod for nuts.
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  The Impact of Less "Appointed Men" & This Site Thank You

  by JWTom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  with the passing minimus, we all may think about what this site has meant to us personally.

  i lurked here for quite a few years before becoming active as a poster....still i consider what i have done to be very slight compared with others.

  may minimus rest in peace and a big thank you to all that have helped me here over the years.. a new member that is a pimo elder (reservations) posted here about how he could wake people up while remaining a pimo elder.

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  Simon

  I agree. If you don't want to be part of it anymore, leave. Immediately.

  It has a far bigger impact ultimately than trying to stay IMO. Ultimately, you could have 99% of people not believing and going through the motions which would effectively be keeping the other 1% trapped.

  Just walk out and don't go back. Taking part in it is helping to perpetuate the system and keep it running, however much you may intend to try to stop it, you're still part of it.
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  onacruise - Craig Mills 1952-2011

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was given the link to a bit of information regarding on old poster/moderator of this forum.

  i was not sure of the validity of the information so have been trying to find out if it is true.. earlier today craig's estranged wife, kate, (bikerchic) confirmed that craig died at his home on aug 10, 2011.. i am sure that many people here remember craig's time here and how he went out of his way to offer support to posters, even calling them, to give whatever help he could as they adjusted to their post-jw lives.. i know many people here will grieve his loss.. --------------.

  ps i tried posting this earlier but the computer i was working with would not allow the posts.

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  Simon

  Oops, thought that was just a duplicate post so I deleted it.
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  No more Questions from MINIMUS

  by was a new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  minimus former jw, prolific poster on jwn died.. minimus.

  joined 19 years ago.

  started 4,139 topics.

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  Simon

  So sad to hear this.

  The thing that sucks about running a community site that is well over 2 decades old is that we're all that much older too, and some of us reach the end of our journey.

  There have been many over the years, people that share a slice of their life with us, that you may not know personally but kind of put a virtual face and voice to.

  It's often quite poignant to look back on old topics and posts and remember that there was a real-life character behind them, whether you agreed with their opinions or not. Minimus contributed a lot of them to this site which is why his passing will have such an impact.

  The saddest thing is that we never get to say "thanks" for all they shared or goodbye.

  RIP Min
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  Will there be enough good questions on JWD now that minimus is gone?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  a thread in honour of our departed friend minimus.

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  Simon

  I see what you did there. A fitting tribute :)
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  Resurrection after a death sentence in the OT?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have a question for those more versed in biblical history than i. .

  knowing that a belief in a resurrection on messianic times was a later jewish belief ... but still ... did the ot jews believe that someone served a capital punishment / death sentence would be elegible for future resurrection?.

  meaning: when coding the torah, did its writers intended that the capital punishment also be understood as an obliteration for all eternity?.

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  Simon

  According to the WTS, the whole judgement thing happens well after Armageddon. People will be resurrected, whether they were good or evil, as long as they haven't already received "a witness".

  So the JWs believe that Hitler, Stalin, Mao and all the other mass-murderers from history are due a do-over.

  Bat. Shit. Crazy.