How to get through an Assembly?
It is one of those moments you can get some sleep back :D
DeWandelaar
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How to get through an Assembly?
by kaxozula inme just learning the truth about the truth has just made it hard to even get through a two hour meeting at the the kingdom hall.
i get so sleepy during them and i almost cannot contain it!
the last time i went to a convention, i was still an avid believer but as you can see, that has changed.
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Ever read back your own posts and thinking WTF?
by DeWandelaar inas time goes forward people tend to change... expecially if you get out of a cult.
your brain for some reason gets de- and reprogrammed and you get other insights and new opinions.
you become a other human.. when reading back some of my previous posts (of about a year ago) i could not help but have a wtf-moment... i even felt a sudden way of "shame" of all the bullshit i was writing.. if you want to read some of mine just check my posts of about a year back.
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DeWandelaar
@Backseatdevil ... the reason of the topic is this: people and their thinking evolves in time. If I read now what I have written 2 years ago I just can not help thinking WTF. It is like: Why on earth did I believe that and wrote it down!
I think everyone on here who's thinking evolved in time have these moments.
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Update on Ark Encounter (YEC theme park): creationist Ken Ham offering junk bonds
by adamah inseems the ark encounter project is having a hard time raising funds, but ken ham doesn't miss a chance to bash obamacare to help raise funds.
ham is pushing junk bonds to help finance the project:.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/ark_encounter_finances_obamacare_sank_ken_ham_s_creationist_theme_park.html.
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DeWandelaar
Like I said: someone already (succesfully) did it: http://www.arcofnoah.org/
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Update on Ark Encounter (YEC theme park): creationist Ken Ham offering junk bonds
by adamah inseems the ark encounter project is having a hard time raising funds, but ken ham doesn't miss a chance to bash obamacare to help raise funds.
ham is pushing junk bonds to help finance the project:.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/ark_encounter_finances_obamacare_sank_ken_ham_s_creationist_theme_park.html.
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DeWandelaar
Someone in the netherlands already rebuilded the arc (with the same dimensions)!
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Help me...!
by OneDayillBeFree inlost my job, just a week before making the final arrangements to move into my very own apartment.. got a speeding ticket on the following sunday for trying to make it to the meeting "on time", (never made it to the hall, just parked in the back of a shopping center for 2 hours in silence).. marked by the elders for quitting pioneering, no more commenting and "failing to adhere to bible counsel".. jw family sees me as a disappointment.
non-jw family is too far away to care.. found out ex-girlfriend got df'ed and is now pregnant.
puts some of the blame on me for how things turned out.. realizing that she's not entirely wrong as i was still an ignorant, kiss-ass, die hard jwdub when we started dating, always putting the "kingdom interests first" never having time for her since "the end was so freaking close" and then warping her up in the mess of me learning ttatt.. dwelling night after night in "what could have been" if i had never been a jw.. alternating between being a theist, atheist and agnostic on a daily basis to the point where i don't care anymore yet getting creeped the f*ck out when facing my own mortality and the thought of me dying alone.. always coming to the same conclusion, when i find myself alone on friday nights and weekends, that i have no actual friends, only two conditional jw "friends" which are both currently out of town for about a month and 0 real, non-jw friends.. haven't been able to sleep well in literally weeks now.
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DeWandelaar
Youve got to get yourself together. You got stuck in a moment you cant get out of.
However...
it's just a moment... that time will pass
Cheer up my friend. When you got in that shit and got nothing else to loose your way will only be up. X a friend from the netherlands.
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Walk into your Kingdom Hall and tell us what you saw !
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthis was me driving into the parking lot and into the kingdom hall:.
every week the same brothers and sisters are late getting to the meeting.
elders are talking with other elders ( who always have notes and folders in their hands).
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DeWandelaar
what about the meetings endings: kids running like crazy to the granny-type of sister who feeds them with sweeties. Kids running around breaking the hips of elderly ones in the proces. Or the bros and sister who arr sharing their holiday pics when the program is running?
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Love is a stupid bunch of chemicals released to ensure that we have kids
by usualusername inlove is a stupid bunch of chemicals released to ensure that we have kids so believe many an evolutionist (god delusion).
whilst i dont believe in a god i find that reasoning hard to believe.. .
what do you think love is?
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DeWandelaar
What is actually funny is that God gave a commandment to make kids but was probably to inassured if they would do what he commanded so he implanted all that chemical goofy stuff so they would go bouncy bouncy and not able to fight against it. What is the use of the commandment :P
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I Want Your Thoughts On This: A 80 Year Old Man Lost His Wife....
by minimus inand within a month, he has been seeing a 69 year old woman who lived upstairs from him.
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the wife has been sick for a year and she passed away in october.. now, the 80 year old man is like a teenager with this woman, making out in public places with this woman and introducing her to family and friends as his new girlfriend that he "loves".. the father's family thinks this is weird and are concerned about it.. any thoughts?
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DeWandelaar
I agree with OTWO in this: A lot of people stick together although they have troubles with eachother. In some situations people do this to keep the peace in a family (just as some stick with the JW-religion). They probably already had the mourning process within their marriage and can easily date after death. It sometimes is just the way it is.
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Have JWs and other Christians completely missed the point of Matthew 24:4-8?
by Island Man inmany people think those verses are suggesting that the wars, earthquakes, food shortages, etc are all a sign that the end is imminent.
however, a careful examination of the context seems to suggest that jesus was actually forewarning his followers not to draw such a conclusion from such events.
see this interesting article on the subject:.
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DeWandelaar
Have you ever considered that Matthew is written AFTER the actual events took place? It therefore was never a prophecy ( revelation of conditioned events to come).
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Scripturally, JW-system is synonymous with sin
by abiather inloving ones neighbor (whether he is a believer or not) is the kingly law.
(mathew 5:44-48; james 2:8) it is the kingly law, because it originates from king of all kings; and all other laws originate from this law.
hence violation of this law is the greatest sin, or mother of all sins; because it is against king of all kings and king of all laws.. jw-system is a flagrant violation of this law on two counts:.
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DeWandelaar
If I should only take what appeal to reason then I do not have to dig in the bible really :)