Well said pale emperor as an Aussie i think I can agree with you ,well 75% without the footy thing
smiddy3
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My New Found Patriotism
by pale.emperor ini'm not entirely sure where this has come from, but these past few months i've found myself gradually becoming more and more involved politically and identifying myself differently.
we all remember what it was like as jws, no political involvement whatsoever, no national pride, no singing the national anthem or saluting the flag etc.
the watchtower literature always shown artists renditions of nationalism or politics like this:.
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Has God preserved His word today?
by JW Answers inhas god preserved his word today?
many people attack, doubt and fault god's word.
yet god has made several promises in his word.he promised to preserve his word unto every generation,he promised that every word would be truth,he promised that we can rely and depend on his every word.satan wants nothing more than to dismiss, and cast doubt on god's word... so the question today is... do we have god's preserved word today?
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smiddy3
If there is no GOD then obviously there is no word of GOD.
He/She hasn`t been proven to exist to date so why should we believe that GOD`s word exists ?
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Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?
by nowwhat? inlet the speculation begin!.
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smiddy3
It has obviously already been announced but only to those with "ears" of understanding.
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How to ween them off their 'drug' addiction!
by stuckinarut2 inthe other day, we were discussing the similarities that a jw has to a drug addict.
(or any form of addiction really).
as jws, we constantly required "another hit" to keep the cravings at bay, or to keep the level of "high" as a "spiritual" person.. yet another jw related activity - ministry, meetings, publications, assemblies etc...just to keep the high level of euphoria.. but what happens when the "drug" supply is cut off?
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smiddy3
This is an excellent post stuckinarut2 and pe makes some good points to your thread ,not that i can offer anything more insightful ,I just hope many more people can come up with positive suggestions as its a good thread.
As JWs, we constantly required "another hit" to keep the cravings at bay, or to keep the level of "high" as a "spiritual" person.
Yet another JW related activity - ministry, meetings, publications, assemblies etc...just to keep the high level of euphoria.
A good observation stuckinarut2 I hope many more people respond as I also would like to hear what others have to say about this .
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What I wish I had known at 18
by NewYork44M inthe financial times had an article with the above question.
the author asked various people to answer the question.. https://www.ft.com/content/169705e4-b4dd-11e8-b3ef-799c8613f4a1.
while i was not interviewed, if i was asked this question i would say that i wish i had known in 1975, when i was 18, that i was raised in a cult and that the continued focus on armageddon over my lifetime was a cruel joke.
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smiddy3
What do you wish you had known at 18?
That the J.W.religion was a religious cult / real estate / publishing / fraud that has caused thousands of deaths due to wrong information on medical information and caused untold damage to minors who have been sexually abused within the religion and Elders have never reported such sexual abuse to the appropriate authorities and even silenced victims with charges of slander if ever they speak out about such abuse without 2 witnesses to back their claim.
Also the sham they have of getting voluntary free labour to build KH`s dedicate those halls to Jehovah and then sell them off for a profit and keep the money at American H.Q.with nothing going back to the Congregation that supplied the labour ,time effort,and personal expense in building the hall.
Had I known all of this and more I would never have joined this cult as a 19 year old in 1960
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From no tight pants to Amish dress....how long?
by Diogenesister inxanthippe what's this thing with really long dresses?
sometimes i see them on fs and i can't believe how long their dresses are now, almost down to the ground.. so i was reading some of xanthippe and phizzy's posts on the strangeness of jw dress and how much they stand out and i got to thinking.
so... at one point the amish dress code was current, right?
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smiddy3
Their was a bit of a joke going around with my JW friends when I was in that you could pick the time period roughly when some male became a JW because of the clothe style he wore. 30-40`s era ,50-60`s and 70-80`s .
each had a distinctive trend.
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Watson. Here is one of my experiences
by moley ina little backstory.
please comment, is the just childish imagination or something unexplainable.. when i was nine we lived in modbury, it’s a small town, in devon the southwest of britain.
we lived in a very hold house, several hundred years old and down the way was 2 battle sites of the english civil war (one a minor battle won by the royalist and a larger battle won by the parliamentarians which ultimately lifted the siege of plymouth).
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smiddy3
"We may have lived a life that`s full but we ain`t seen nothing yet" I think I just made a profound statement
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Blueblades Pacemaker Update.
by Charles Gillette inwell,to all who had wished me good health before i went for my procedure,thank you.
9/14 pacemaker was inserted below my collarbone successfully.check up will be 9/18.. so, since 2012 when i was 67,i had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve with a bovine tissue valve.
now at 73, i have an implanted pacemaker with two leads,one for the upper chamber, right atrium and one for the lower right chamber,ventricle of the heart.. so, my heart beats should now be steady and not in and out of afib.. both of my brothers died of heart attacks.
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smiddy3
I`m glad to hear everything is working out fine for you Charles Gillette { Blueblades Pacemaker }
Take care
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J.W.`s and Paradise and the Reality of it.
by smiddy3 inwhen god created adam and eve and put them in the garden of eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,god had no further hand in it .the responsibility rested with adam/eve and their offspring.. the same would be true in the paradise to come ,god gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to j.w.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.?
without god`s intervention.. think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.. 8 million + j.w.`s scattered throughout the earth with.
no communication systems operating .
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Drearyweather
Smiddy, are you sure that JW's teach that all the physical infrastructure of this world will also be destroyed at Armageddon?
If its not, then who is going to maintain it ? and keep it going 24/7 ? Bros,and sisters will need to work round the clock to keep up with the living standards we take for granted today
What did Jehovah provide for the Israelites under Theocratic rule in Bible times eh ?
Nothing like what we in the Western world take for granted today with all the mod cons.at our fingertips.
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J.W.`s and Paradise and the Reality of it.
by smiddy3 inwhen god created adam and eve and put them in the garden of eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,god had no further hand in it .the responsibility rested with adam/eve and their offspring.. the same would be true in the paradise to come ,god gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to j.w.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.?
without god`s intervention.. think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.. 8 million + j.w.`s scattered throughout the earth with.
no communication systems operating .
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smiddy3
When God created Adam and Eve and put them in the Garden of Eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,God had no further hand in it .The responsibility rested with Adam/Eve and their offspring.
The same would be true in the Paradise to come ,God gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to J.W.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.? Without god`s intervention.
Think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.
8 Million + J.W.`s scattered throughout the earth with
No communication systems operating
No internet ,WiFi, Skype ,Telephones ,Tv, Radio.
No Sewerage
no Electricity
No Gas
No industry at all , nilch zero
Cars,refrigeration,planes,Air conditioning,all gone
No food markets such as Coles Woolworths Aldis etc ,etc.
And if you want all of these things you need people to be able to work on these projects which is going to take their time and energy to do so and they will need to continue to work on these projects to keep these utilities going.
Do you really want to go back into a third or even a fourth world environment ? Sub standard to what we are living now ?
So then I ask you if you want these mod cons now as we appreciate them in the New System /paradise how is paradise going to be any different than what it is now ?
Or do you view Jehovah as a magician who is going to wave his hand and miraculously provide all of your needs.
God has never acted that way and their is no evidence he ever will.
c.