Posts by Saename

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God is Real in Principle

by looter in

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friends

now the majority of people nowadays do no go by the hope of old times.

now the reason for this is important and goes beyond mere words.

our culture sees ethics especially national or civil politics as the rules and standards by which we guide ourselves.

Saename

looter - Here's where the real difficult part comes. It's really tough to explain what I really mean in just a few words without someone confusing it.

This means that you don't understand yourself either.

looter - That was the sole reason why my original post was so long because I wanted to explain it in detail instead of just coming out to say just my statement.

That was a bad idea. Just think of a thesis statement and build your paragraphs accordingly. High-school method of writing essays might make you sound more intelligible.

looter - And haha to your [cofty's] last question. No absolutely not. I'm saying that conscience and morals can be correlated to a God within ourselves.

Well, you do sound as if you were trying to say that conscience is evidence for God. You did say that God is some sort of inner value of a person...

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God is Real in Principle

by looter in

jw
friends

now the majority of people nowadays do no go by the hope of old times.

now the reason for this is important and goes beyond mere words.

our culture sees ethics especially national or civil politics as the rules and standards by which we guide ourselves.

Saename

looter - It's possible to believe in God and still own up to everything you do as a person. Matter of fact, that's what you could argue Jesus taught his disciples.

Please don't go into an area you have no idea about. Jesus did not teach his disciples that you can be a good person without belief in God. He taught that if you don't believe in God, you will die in some sort of imminent apocalypse. And, no, this is not what I'm just saying; this is a dominant scholarly view about the historical Jesus.

By the way, I'm also having difficulties with understanding your points, especially because you keep contradicting yourself. Please write one thesis statement as you have probably been taught to do in high school, and build your body paragraph(s) accordingly.

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My 1st Unwitness

by HappyGal in

i have seen the witnessing carts pop up around our city.

there were no such carts when i left the jw's in the 1980's.

since leaving the organization i have survived (and thrived) by: .

Saename

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Racial Insensitivity

by Coded Logic in

"blue" lives matter!

- sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

this bs really makes my blood boil.

Saename

Speaking of discrimination... Did anyone know that hatred towards gay people is not "homophobia" but "homomisia"?

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All Day K.H. Maintenance Meeting !!!!

by Poztate in

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friends

the whole congregation was required to sign up for this all day program.what are they going to talk about for the full day.

maybe a one hour talk by an elder about "responsible toilet cleaning in this time of the end" with demos as how it can be accomplished.

only sisters seem to need to listen to that one.. maybe cutting grass to the proper height so we don't bring reproach on jehovah's name.

Saename

We already had this one-day program about cleaning in our Kingdom Hall a few months ago... But I can't tell you anything about it. I just ignored it and didn't go.

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Why are anniversaries allowed but not birthdays?

by hyperpen in

the scripture quotes aside, i was always told that we don't celebrate birthdays because that is a celebration of the self, which has no place in jehovah's organization.

then why celebrate anniversaries?

anniversary celebrations are about the joining of two selves, isn't that twice as selfish?.

Saename

Just stop thinking about it; just let it go, and the problem will disappear. You'll see.

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An Odd Request from Our Ex-JW Son

by TMS in

my wife and i, both out of the religion for nearly twenty years, live in the same border town as our 44 year old only son.

we have scant contact with our numerous jw relatives, although a handful of clever "double life" nieces and nephews socialize with our son.. we care for our six year old grandson weekdays while our single parent son makes a living.

we've been infinitely better grandparents than we were parents, primarily because of our exit from a high control cult, but also because of life experience.

Saename

Was it the request from your son (to teach his son some Bible stories) or the request from your grandson (to play Minecraft) that you found odd? The title indicates the former, but I, being an atheist, don't find it odd at all, so I'm in need of clarification, it seems.

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Well... im disfellowshipped now.

by pale.emperor in

very long story.

i've been away from this site for a while.. basically, i tried to leave.

handed in my disassociation letter, it kicked up a storm and 2 weeks later i was disfellowshipped.

Saename

pale.emperor - My daughter wont be baptized into this i can promise you all that. [emphasis added]

Calm down, cowboy! Not so fast! You don't have to promise us anything; we're not a cult trying to get people for our own cause! Promise it to yourself... That's the nice thing about not being a JW; you don't have to make promises to anyone, including the elders, that "you'll do more service next month."

"To thine own self be true" – Polonius, Hamlet I.iii

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