Posts by baker

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Are speeding tickets issused in your area???

by James Mixon in

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i haven't seen anyone stopped for speeding on our freeways in some time.. wth it's dangerous out there, i'm driving 69-72 mph and someone pass me at 80-85 mph.. here in southern ca it,s crazy.

the speed limits are 65-70 mph.

i'am nervous as hell when i'am on the.

baker

One 20 yr old was going so fast in S Cal that when he crashed, he landed up on the freeway sign. geez

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297119/Driver-thrown-car-lands-freeway-sign-20-feet-up.html

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Kingdom Hall Attenders: Consider Stopping the Use of Loaded Language

by OnTheWayOut in

it's been a long time since i attended, but i understand that many of you still go to the kingdom hall for your various reasons.. a huge thing that helped me in my mentally breaking from their beliefs was to stop using their terms that put you, virtually automatically, into their thought mode.. using terms like "the truth," jw's feel special about themselves and this helps them separate themselves from "the world.

" by incorporating loaded language, jw's learn not to think, but merely to memorize words and phrases instead of analyzing a situation.. the reasons someone misses meetings is because they are "spiritually weak.

" they might be involved in "worldly thinking.".

baker

I started prayin to just Lord and my wife could not wait to wail against me when over, like where,s Jehovah? I said he heard it if he is a god....

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Tech49 on DC: Experiences are not truthful

by Tech49 in

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i was sent a link to a homemade video from our summer district convention, not the one i attended, but the next weekend.

it was a video of a local brother, relating his "experience" of "trusting in jehovah", and how he was blessed.. it was just about 1 short minute long.

ms harper showed it to me first, she wanted to get my comment on it before she said a word.. background: we both know this brother, he is about our age, so we know the "real" story.. anyways, his story goes like this: this experience goes back about 10 years (jeez, we must be really searching for the experiences now!).

baker

So many stories are blatantly made up in each Watchtower, made to fit each paragraph . Example, Chantell in France relates..., Paul in Australia says..., with each study you will find at least 4 stories with only the first name quoted because they know they are making it all up. But this has been going on in Christendom a long time, just look at all the Televangelist that will heal you for a donation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAlJRP1W_rU&list=PLAB71C36466B5D487&index=9

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What Are the Top JW Issues That Just Burn Your Buns the Most?

by Wild_Thing in

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which ones make you the maddest?

covering up of abuse, shunning, failed end of world predictions?.

my list is long and heavy, but the top 3 that set me off the most are:.

baker

selfishness, not offering to pay for any rides, no matter how many years people get a ride and never offering to pay for gas . Only when at assembly it is mentioned that you need to help with the cost of transportation they give like it is a gift and they go for another 2 years without paying anything.

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Resolutions at Kingdom Hall

by sieborg in

anyhow i got to thinking today about my days in the borg and the resolutions that would intermittently be made in the announcements for co visit expenses, sending a donation to society www fund etc.

my point is that while i was in (almost thirty two years) i never once saw anyone put up their hand to vote against a resolution that the body of elders proposed.

on a couple of occasions i heard a few hushed murmurs but i never saw one person vote against.

baker

kinda like at work the company would ask for a vote to see whether to start at 5 am on the day before a holiday so all can get off early. Most all in my department voted overwhelmingly against coming in early, but the company seemed to win their way all the time. I figure its just the golden rule...the man with the gold makes the rules...

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Christians Know Who God Is

by Loi_241 in

many of us christians have a good question for you to ask, “who is god?” there are more than six scriptures to share with you.

you know the bible itself a true message for all the people on earth.

the bible explains ‘in the beginning god created everything: heaven, earth, animals, people and everything.’ thus, you notice god created humans, adam and eve.

baker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmYOQIidqo

There are so many religions that demand alligence to them only and the JWS isn't the only one. And several of them have been invented in the past 200 years or so. Why did Jehovah wait over 1800 years to finally show up invisibly in a rich printers mind in the Northeast USA and say all the others are false? Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence.

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Is reasoning with a JW the answer?

by Saved_JW in

when i first left the watchtower society, i can remember being very eager to learn new information, especially information which pertained to discrediting the watchtower organization.

i called it "the cage stage" .

this excitement and newfound change in worldview completely rocked my world.

baker

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the famous British writer and feminist (and mother to the author of Frankenstein), included the quotation "Convince a man against his will, He's of the same opinion still."

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UFO's might be real.and what does it mean if they are?

by atomant in

for some reason this subject has not received much attention over the years which surprises me.theres many conspiracy theories floating around on the internet and lve done my fair share of due diligence on the matter.the school is still out on this one.l find it very hard to believe humans are the only intelligent beings out there.has anyone on this forum ever seen a ufo or experienced a close encounter?

baker

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/videos#!/19798/64269/Trailer-Beyond-Belief

I enjoy listening to this radio channel when I drive all night just to stay awake and ponder. Conspiracy theories like Jimmy Carter,s alien encounter. He is claimed to have said that if he was elected president, he would reveal all the UFO secrets, but after he was elected, with tears in his eyes, he said if he were to reveal the truth, it would end religion as we know it. Maybe the Pope,s position was started by aliens, etc...

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Are the Governing Baboons master manipulators or are they just doing their job?

by atomant in

ld love to be a fly on the wall when the gb have a round the table conference.l can only imagine .l wonder which one came up with the idea of the overlapping generation and how the others reacted to it.the light was shining brightly that day.

baker

An Analogy I think of is when you get an invitation to go get a nice gift, but you have to listen to a timeshare pitch. You say to your partner, were only here to get the free gift, but as you listen to the BS, you get sucked into the half truths they are spouting and buy into the timeshare. Later on, you wake up and realize you've been had. Good thing they give you a 3 day recension period to back out.

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Are the Governing Baboons master manipulators or are they just doing their job?

by atomant in

ld love to be a fly on the wall when the gb have a round the table conference.l can only imagine .l wonder which one came up with the idea of the overlapping generation and how the others reacted to it.the light was shining brightly that day.

baker

At least one of them knows that it is a man-made tale used to cover up another man-made tale that so many have fallen for.