If the idiots "fool around", out they go! BOOOOOT!! There's plenty of room out there. If they had to disfellowship 5 million jerks, there'd still be a million of us left.
That's all that counts.
StiLLinTruth
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Marriage
by Mr Magoo inwhen i married my jw wife i was told that marriage was a very important thing.. i have, however, later learned that:.
1) my sister-in-laws husbands jw brother got divorced because his jw wife fooled around.. 2 - 3) 2 couples were divorced after we got married (212 years ago).
one of them had only been married for a couple of years.
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Am I unwelcome here?
by Esmeralda ini've been sitting here a little while lurking about and reading posts...and.
forcing myself not to post to several threads that i know would get me.
i have a comment that i have to make though, and i hope that.
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StiLLinTruth
You're a boring, self centered woman. Go away Ezzie.
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Am I unwelcome here?
by Esmeralda ini've been sitting here a little while lurking about and reading posts...and.
forcing myself not to post to several threads that i know would get me.
i have a comment that i have to make though, and i hope that.
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>Thanks to everyone who contributed. I'm speechless.
Let's hope you stay that way.
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Am I unwelcome here?
by Esmeralda ini've been sitting here a little while lurking about and reading posts...and.
forcing myself not to post to several threads that i know would get me.
i have a comment that i have to make though, and i hope that.
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StiLLinTruth
Good post Ez.. I think you should leave.
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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Thanks again for the replies.. some real howlers there. Let's see how this guy measured up:
>when one considers the instructions from the FDS (who jw view as the
>mouth pc of god himself)about dialogging with those who are
>considered DFed, DAed or Apostates and despite all the talks, parts
>on meetings and comments by CO and DO about avoiding what has been
>called "Spirtual PORNO">Then to actually see a "Loyal" JW who has only been in the "Truth"
>for one year disregarding all those Instructions from the slave, for
>me is very revealing .Revealing eh? I bet my mother your revelation missed these minor facts:
I started studying Witness doctrines about two years ago, the reason being that a good friend of mine was a Jehovah's Witness. I took it upon myself to free this person from the cult.
I went to libraries, borrowed every book about JWs, searched the internet, ordered stuff from Randy, read Crisis of Conscience.. I had all the tools one could think of. I was trying to prove the trinity, do everything in my power to expose this evil sect.
In all this I of course had to do extensive Bible study. First, I had to learn what my own church teaches (never been interested in religion) then prove the Watchtower wrong.
And after ALL this digging and going through the vast volumes of anti-JW literature, I began to see light shining from the Bible. I watched as most of my material fell to pieces, exposed as lies or exaggeration or just twisting the truth.. or clearly unscriptural garbage (like Randy's stuff) .. the rest of the Society's flaws was due to human imperfection. I realized that the JWs were by no means perfect - but closest to what the Bible teaches, definitely standing out from the sea of Jesus-churches and church-state hybrids out there. I studied the trinity for months, tried to prove it (had Rob Bowman's "Why you should believe in trinity" with me to help) but couldn't. Can't prove what ain't in the Bible.
So I became a publisher. First an opposer - seen all the internet sites - now a baptized Jehovah's servant.
This was to you who don't know my story yet. I've posted about it before. So don't gimme the "read Crisis of Conscience then come back" 'cause I've done it, and it failed to impress me.
So I'm an exception. I've developed immunity.
What have you got left? What ammo do you have anymore?
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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Wow, great responses. This is fun. "Armageddon will never come". "You will soon realize this and that, something or the other". "You have no life" etc. etc. With all these predictions and guessings, you should start your own cult. Also, amazing to see so many have turned into complete atheists. Shame on you.
The best commect was about John 3:36 referring only to the works described in James, which were like "do not just dismiss a brother or sister who is in need of clothing and food with just wishing them well. Show charity. Feed and clothe the needy" etc. Well it doesn't say that does it. The simple bottom line is "OBEY JESUS" in everything he says. That includes the preaching, the loving your enemy, this and that.
I am not dismissing Romans 3:27, 28. I'm looking at the Bible as a whole. Good strategy: if one verse says faith only, another verse says by works only, easiest way is to sum them up and divide by two. What do you get? Faith that includes works.
Also a point about armageddon, in no way am I expecting it to happen during my lifetime. As far as I'm concerned, I will die, and hope for resurrection. Jehovah has his time. The end will come when it comes. If the Watchtower wrote tomorrow "Harmageddon will certainly be here next year" I would laugh at the writing department. Poor hasty human nature.. always expecting, estimating, foretelling. Bible says the time cannot be known. That's enough for me.
Bible only friends.
Btw, had a great meeting tonite. Very loving and happy atmosphere. Maybe I just got a good congregation.. I'm still waiting to see things I don't like.
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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>When I was a witness I was loyal to the witnesses and followed there
>rules including not talking to apostates and the disfellowshipped.2John 10 "If anyone comes to YOU and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into YOUR homes or say a greeting to him."
>I also heeded the counsel not to cast pearls before swine by trying
>to force people who were not interested in what I had to say to
>listen to me.Matt 7:6 "Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open."
Luke 9:5 "And wherever people do not receive YOU, on going out of that city shake the dust off YOUR feet for a witness against them."
>Still is yet another nut case, seeing himself destined for glory by
>personally taking on the world of exwitnesses.And you are yet another sad case who no longer cares about what is written in the Bible. "I was loyal to the witnesses and followed there rules" confirms this. They are God's rules. Marked down IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
"Shut them up with the Bible" -StiLLinTruth
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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StiLLinTruth
>AND it shows....
>outnfree
Yeah it's amazing how much you can learn from the Bible in a short time, if you just read it every day.
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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Hello again friends!
Well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like. Decided to check out Randy Watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "What Happened at Bethel in 1980? By Randall Watters". It's a realaudio clip, so I turned up the speakers, grabbed a beer and made myself comfortable.
What I heard astonished me. Oh, not in a way you would have wanted. I was expecting some great revelations about secret governing body stuff and a view of things what goes on behind the doors of Bethel, but instead he manages to make such a fool of himself during the first 10 minutes, I just went "blah blah blaaa bleh blah bleeh" and hit the little X on my browser.
If Randy hopes to de-convert Witnesses with his little voice, he better have a different approach. I mean.. wake up and smell the maple-nut crunch!!! Look at this stuff:
(Extracts from the realaudio clip in quotes)
"Randy severed as a pioneer - - worked at bethel for nearly six years"
Ok at this point I was thinking he knows his stuff, and I'm in for a big treat.
Randy speaks:
"I always managed to keep a pretty good record"
"I was a bethel elder in good standing"Still, I had no reason to doubt this. Why would the guy be lying?
"I was not stumbled by the actions of men."
"I really left Bethel because I came to realize they were teaching false doctrines."Ok, this is nothing new. What kind of false doctrines? Randy let's us know:
"I remember myself and three other elders ...in the car we got into a discussion about Romans chapter 3, especially verses 27 and 28, where it speaks about Christians as being saved by their faith in Jesus Christ, and not in any works that they can do on their own"
"And we got into a discussion how the society has a number of rules that you have to follow"
This was where I snorted the first time. The old "believe-in-Jesus-do-nothing". What is he, a Pentecostal now? Any Witness knows what Jesus said about OBEYING the son, in John 3:36. You cannot obey, if there are no works. It's unbelievable and very unlikely that three Bethel elders in good standing, after a lifetime of being in the Truth, would suddenly extract Romans chapter 3 out of the Bible and forget about everything else written. Didn't these guys ever read James??? They skipped the book entirely? The Bible is suddenly all Romans now?
(James 2:29-20)
"You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. But do you care to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is inactive?"I can't believe they would have missed this. So at this point I was thinking Randy must be lying about his whole life, OR, by some miracle, three elders suddenly got tired of believing in the Bible and decided to make their own little comfortable religion. I know this occurs in the world a lot, all Jesus-only sects are based on it.
So I continue listening. How he goes on makes me laugh and shake my head.
"For instance a witness cannot take a blood transfusion"
Well duh. I wonder why? Acts 15:20 "Abstain - - from blood"
"they cannot smoke"
And that's Randy's big problem? Serious false doctrines we have here folks! I suppose Randy felt he needed to pollute his body (which he received as a gift from God). I can't believe he lists these things as great flaws in the religion. 2.Cor 7:1 "let us cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh". Did smoking cause cancer, anyone? What are the statistics?
"they cannot vote"
John 17:16: "They are no part of the world, just as I [Jesus] am no part of the world."
"they cannot get involved in the armed services"
So not only does Randy want to allow smoking, voting and believe in Jesus only, he now thinks war is cool too. Luke 6:27, 28: "I [Jesus Christ] say to you who are listening, Continue to love your enemies, to do good to those hating you, to bless those cursing you, to pray for those who are insulting you."
"they can't celebrate holidays or birthdays"
Correct me if I'm wrong Randy, but doesn't about 98% of all holidays and celebrations these days have pagan roots? Do you celebrate christmas now that you're free of the Watchtower's chains? Thousand-to-one says you do. Eph. 5:10, 11: "Keep on making sure of what is acceptable to the Lord; and quit sharing with them in the unfruitful works that belong to the darkness, but, rather, even be reproving them." (which is what I'm doing now)
"they can't salute any flag"
What do you call standing up in front of a piece of cloth, lifting your hands up in front of it, paying respect to it? Respect that belongs to - not a rag - but a real Person? 1 Cor. 10:14: "Flee from idolatry." Luke 4:8: "In reply Jesus said to him: 'It is written, "It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service."'"
"and on the other hand there's quite a few things they have to do"
Oh my.. God expects me to do something for my salvation? Oh no.. sorry, it was the organization who require it, not God, of course. Silly me.
"they must go door to door"
I must be crazy, but I remember Jesus saying "This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." I also remember him instructing: "Go . . . and make disciples of people of all the nations."-Matt. 24:14; 28:19. What did he say about going to people's homes with the good news? See Matt. 10:7, 11-13 for that one Randy.
See it's ridiculous.. I've been in the Truth for only a year or so, and I'm teaching a former "Bethel elder"!
"they must preach what they consider the gospel"
I refer to my last comment. And I consider the gospel the "good news of the Kingdom", which, I recall, Jesus did too!
"and they tell you that you have to go to meetings"
But in Randy's religion men get to sit at home and drink beer and smoke, and they go to heaven for that. Who could resist joining? I gotta hand it to him, he's got a tempting concept! Hebr. 10:24, 25 "And let us consider one another to incite to love and fine works, not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as *some* have the custom"
I got this far, felt my faith had been (again) strengthened enough, and turned off his pathetic whining. He should have taken the "stumbled by the actions of men" -route, when he could have come up with something like "all the governing body members were gay and molested me" or SOMETHING that might have disturbed the occasional listening "jdub" but no, he clearly showed in just over 5 minutes how he has no faith in God, no respect for His word the Bible, no hope, no reason, no logic.
The percentage of Witnesses that fall for that has got to be close to zero.. because as I see it, we're mostly Bible-literate.
Bad try Randall. Hope you don't mind me saying this, but you are quite sad. I would recommend "What Happened at Bethel in 1980" to any Witness suffering from depression or the occasional weakened faith.
(You are free to print this review in your publication "the Free Minds Journal". No rights reserved!)
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Celebrate with me today
by Esmeralda intoday, april 20th, is the fourth anniversary of a very special day in my life.. the anniversary of my rebirth.. this rebirth was not a religious experience, but it was something totally pure, amazing and healing.. it had nothing at all to do with the society, or rather, of freeing myself from it.
it was however, a giant first step in that direction.. today is the fourth anniversary of the day i got letter that changed everything.
the words on the pages were alive, and magical: they released me from my old life and for the first time.
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StiLLinTruth
Oooh, so beautiful Essie.
And just think.. in just a hundred years
you will both be dead.
That's what I call temporary.