Posts by SPAZnik

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lots of anger here.....we gotta let it go guys!........

by oompa in

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friends

at least i gotta let it go...it is the only chance to save my marriage.

have you ever noticed how so many poster here mostly have bitter/angry comments?

of course we all have good reasons for that, but part of my goinsolo marriage counseling is to just breath deep and start letting go of my anger and frustration....esp related to my desire and efforts at waking up family and friends.

SPAZnik

everywhere you go, there you are.

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Jesus was sexually abused

by excito-are in

after attending a recent lecture on the priesthood of christ by alan torrance some interesting information was given regarding the abuse suffered by christ at the hands of the roman soliders.

in short, during that time period the soliders would sexually abuse their prisoners.

" the bible describes jesus as being stripped and mocked which is in fact code being sexually abused by the roman soliders.

SPAZnik

Never read this before. See, this kind of thing reinforces my belief that there is no god (in the traditional sense of the unseen being aka "guy on the fly in the sky"). I simply cannot fathom any parent standing idly by and allowing this kind of thing to happen to their son. Gawd, to me, is more of a concept capturing the collective world's cause and effect matrix. Maybe that's a fancy-schmancy way of saying mother nature over father time. *shrug*

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Hell explained

by AgentSmith in

the following is supposedly an actual question given on a university of washington chemistry mid-term exam .

the answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.. .

bonus question: is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?.

SPAZnik

oh my god, that was hellarious :O)

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Are you having Turkey for Thanksgiving, this year?

by Barbie Doll in

jw
friends

we are going to try to get some of you together for thanksgiving, so we can have turkey.

SPAZnik

i think i'll find a turkey to have for thanksgiving next year. :O)

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She realy pissed off at me now

by is there help out there in

jw
friends

i have a friend who i helped leave the truth.

moral support etc.

because she had no one to turn to.

SPAZnik

guess he shouldn't type with his hands full.

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A woman can run for 2nd in command of the free world but can't do the mikes

by Kudra in

...at the kingdom hall.

yeah, a woman can run for the second highest position the world has to offer (i guess) but can't even give a talk that a 10-year old snotty-nosed kid can do at the f-n kh.

this used to annoy me no end at the hall... there were these morons doing the bible reading or what have you and they couldn't even pronounce the words.

SPAZnik

LOL ... microphones *are* kind of phallic, huh.

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A woman can run for 2nd in command of the free world but can't do the mikes

by Kudra in

...at the kingdom hall.

yeah, a woman can run for the second highest position the world has to offer (i guess) but can't even give a talk that a 10-year old snotty-nosed kid can do at the f-n kh.

this used to annoy me no end at the hall... there were these morons doing the bible reading or what have you and they couldn't even pronounce the words.

SPAZnik

or why women are supposedly acceptable by gawd as anointed ones but not welcome on the governing body. LOL

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A woman can run for 2nd in command of the free world but can't do the mikes

by Kudra in

...at the kingdom hall.

yeah, a woman can run for the second highest position the world has to offer (i guess) but can't even give a talk that a 10-year old snotty-nosed kid can do at the f-n kh.

this used to annoy me no end at the hall... there were these morons doing the bible reading or what have you and they couldn't even pronounce the words.

SPAZnik

lol. great thread. you all articulate your thoughts so well, me thinks. /////////// I'm sure there are as many rationalizations for this issue as their are jw men and women alive today, but i've never seen any scriptural backing for why women are suitable to serve by cleaning toilets at the hall but not by counting literature managing finances or praying without dishcloths and toilet paper on their heads. or why women are expected to do the brunt of the preaching work, but aren't respected enough to give a direct talk on home turf. so that leaves me to assume it amounts to "because it's our club and we like it this way". hahaha. ////////// I know I'm probably supposed to forgive Paul for being a murderous bully with partnering issues, and willingly entrust my offspring for unnatural corruption by his personally twisted interpretations of Jesus' 'leadership', but I'm merely a woman, you see, and as such, i'm told, have a memory like an elephant for stuff like that. :O) //////////////////// beyond that, I can only suggest that we're all affected by certain limiting beliefs of our time in one way or another. Whatever Paul's personal issues were, I can only imagine that having already learned to accept, as a group, the very people he used to salivate over murdering, he would have found it a bit much to accept women to the same degree that Jesus did, perhaps least of all after Jesus' own rebellion/apostasy against the political forces of his day landed him on a torture stake. That or Paul was just as scared of women as he once was of christians. They can be frightening lots. Have you seen them mad? boo.

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