Posts by 20yearfader

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I joined this website four years ago...

by Joliette in

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feels like just yesterday that i decided to stop going to the kingdom hall.

after i got done reading crisis of conscience, i never felt the same about this religion ever again.

i've been on an emotional rollercoaster for the past four years.

Happy 4th to my American friends

by punkofnice in

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i don't care about the political shizz behind it and i am a brit as you (y'all), know.. enjoy the fireworks.

enjoy your day.. regards paul .

20yearfader

thanks punk and from one american that loves everything british just think without the british there would be no america,no free world and no doctor who can't wait for next month an the new season

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I am Back on JWN and out of hospital

by KateWild in

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hey everyone,.

thanks qcf and nugget for starting threads.

thanks cofty for wondering where i was.

An old Watchtower offshot in Africa

by Londo111 in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_in_the_democratic_republic_of_the_congo#kitawala.

a much more radical product of the synthesis of african and christian elements is the kitawala movement or so-called "watchtower movement", which appeared in katanga province during the 1920s.

influenced by the black american missionary activity in south africa of the watch tower bible and tract society (jehovah's witnesses), the movement converted miners who then spread elements of the movement northward from their south african base into the katangan copper belt.. the british "reverend" james booth and his african associate elliott kamwana, both black, used watch tower publications but did not limit their preaching to the bible students message of charles taze russell (it does not seem that russell understood this at the time).

20yearfader

yet another example of why all religion is rotten it all morphs into some crap

i missed my calling i should have invented a religion ..and got paid

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Serena Williams paid $5000 for a bath! At least she is not naked!

by Iamallcool in

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1. evian bath .

this is believed to be the most expensive bath in the whole world.

it is offered by sobes hotel victor to their guests.

20yearfader

i would drink her bath water.....

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How Would Your Being Disfellowshipped Affect You?

by minimus in

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would you care?.

would there be any repercussions?.

20yearfader

once my mom and dad are gone i couldn't care less indeed i welcome it

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org is dying

by lambsbottom in

i don't understand why so many ex jws and faders think that the jws will continue to grow and thrive as a religion.

i still attend a meeting once a week and you can smell the death of the religion creeping up when you hear the talks, read the study wts and hear the letters from the gb.

the way the organization has changed is a sign that it reached its peak (in "healthy" membership) long ago.

20yearfader

people the vast majority of them are sheep

the org isn't going anywhere as long as you have a large core of die hard jws that nod there heads at all the crazy crap that comes from the org

this leads to family members that are awake but are trapped and it leads to kids that want to please their parents that are hooked to this crap thus you have a sizeable amount of people that will continue to pump life into this corpse of a religion

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The Venting Thread

by minimus in

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this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

20yearfader

i hate it when people cut me off when i'm driving my 18 wheeler.they have no idea that i can't stop on a dime and they also fail to realize the destructive power of a heavy truck i will slice through that little fiberglass car like a hot knife through butter and trust me you aren't walking away from that type of accident

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What are your favourite movie lines/quotes????

by karter in

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''well there's one thing you got ta ask yourself punk....you felling lucky...well do ya punk".....clint eastwood dirty harry.. "it's life jim but not as we know it" capt kirk star treck..

20yearfader

i would say devil's advacate when al pacino is playing the devil and he says god says look but don't touch,touch but don't taste,taste but don't swallow...i'm a fan of man

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How would you define RELIGION, and why?

by Fernando in

"judge" rutherford defined or classified all religion as "a snare and a racket" in his books "religion" and "enemies".. after rutherford's death in 1942, his protege, watchtower vice president, and aclu darling, hayden c. covington, in the early 1950's, for reasons of legal expedience and supremacist aspirations, suddenly converted the watchtower into a religion.. this was done alongside one of the most audacious, spurious and longstanding swindles of the us legal system.

this involved twisting philippians 1:7 and misrepresenting the watchtower's true nature, objectives and activities.. .

this meant that it became necessary for the watchtower to suddenly reclassify and redefine religion (w51 1/15 p. 43 new legal booklet well named; w51 8/15 p. 511 questions from readers; yb75 p. 161 part 2 "for gladys bolton...").. two new watchtower classifications were suddenly created: "true religion" and "false religion".. now "true religion" meant "true beliefs" whilst "belief" in ever changing watchtower doctrine was equated with the one "faith" of scripture.. all this while the watchtower increasingly and maliciously truncated, obfuscated and hid the liberating full "good news" (or unabridged gospel) of scripture, which it lyingly claimed (in court) that it was actually "defending and legally establishing".. how would you have defined religion before learning ttatt?.

20yearfader

religion:designed to hold mankind back.belief in invisible creatures that somehow influence daily life,for the weak or those that choose to hide their head in the sand and not deal with reality