Posts by tyydyy

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Sister orders me to cooperate with shunning

by bluesapphire in

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well, get ready to be shocked at the audacity!.

we have family who came in from costa rica today.

a cousin and his girlfriend.

tyydyy

I think a lot of people forget what it was like to be a JW and the true lack of control that you have. I myself shunned my brother. I hated it but I did it because I was taught that this is what I am supposed to do not only for the good of the organization but for the good of my brother. Remember? They teach that the discipline is not pleasant but it is best for them in the long run.

If we condemn the individual actions of the members following the direction of the Borg, then we have to condemn almost everyone who posts on this web site as selfish, hurtful, unloving, and stupid. I for one, don't think that of very many people here.

TimB

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Dead Sea Scrolls published Jesus not There

by Satanus in

the prep and publishing of the dead sea scrolls is finally finishing.

they date from 250 bc to 70 ce.

out of a total of 52 volumes, jesus christ is not mentioned even once.. _________.

tyydyy

Joeseph,
I love your reasoning on the children killed by Herod. I would think that any historian living at the time would have at least mentioned it.
I would also think that God himself would want some corraborating evidence out there. How hard would it be for God to MAKE Joesephus write about Jesus in a comprehensive but objective way? For someone omnipotent it should have been a piece of cake. But then that's where faith comes in, right?

TimB

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The Apostate Version of "Little Red Ridin...

by Mindchild in

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the apostate version of "little red riding hood" by a horny apostate wolf.... once upon a time, near the edge of the watchtower farm, lived a young sister and her witness mother.. one day the mother made a beautiful hood for the young sister out of a piece of lovely red silk, and the young sister wore the red hood whenever she went door to door.. she was soon known by everyone in the local congregation as "little red riding sister.".

little red riding sisters worldly grandma lived at a nearby community, all by herself.. one time when little red riding sisters mother had baked some lovely cookies, little red riding sister asked her mother if she might take some to grandma and use this as an opportunity to witness to her.. mamma put the little red bonnet on the young sisters head and filled the basket with fresh cookies and watch towers and awakes.. little red riding sister skipped through her neighborhood toward her grandmother's house.

she stopped at a nearby internet cafe to find an online card to send her grandma, as she knew grandma spent all day playing on her computer.. many beautiful websites flitted across her path in her search for an e-card and little red riding sister went investigating them.. she did not try to find any un-theocratic sites, though, for that would have displeased her local body of elders, and they could be very mean when they were upset.. there were so many sites though to choose from and she just needed a little advice on where to find a cool card for grandma and she decided to try jehovah-witness.com expecting to see helpful brothers and sisters with good ideas for e-cards.. instead, a apostate wolf quickly answered her post and began to talk to her.. "where are you going, little red riding sister?

tyydyy

AAAAAAAooooOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

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Which MALE body type do you prefer?

by ItsJustMe in

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personally, i like under 6', muscular, dark eyes, curly dark hair.. self-confidence is a must, as is laughing at my jokes!

tyydyy

Are there any women here who do not like a lot of muscles?

TimB

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Which MALE body type do you prefer?

by ItsJustMe in

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personally, i like under 6', muscular, dark eyes, curly dark hair.. self-confidence is a must, as is laughing at my jokes!

tyydyy

Is it true that chicks dig scars? :)

TimB

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People Suck

by Bgurltryal in

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do people in their existance create much more greif inadvertantly that they cause happiness with purpose?

an action that can seem so small to one person or a desision made with selfish intent can have effects without the action taker or desicion maker even considering or realising it.

selfishness or self absorbation; we focus so much on us that the reprocusions of every little thing we do become inconsequential as long as we or those we care about are 'safe'.. when i was little in the car i would make up stories about people we drove past based on that split second they passed through my life.

tyydyy

Sorry to hear you have a problem. You seem to be very vague about the circumstances, and probably for good reason, but ultimatly you are responsible for your own happiness. If you are happy it is because of your own feelings about what happened to you. If you are unhappy it is because of your own feelings about what happened to you.

I personally was badly burned about 6 yrs ago. I was in a lot of pain and was not necessarily happy about that but I looked at the silver lining and found many things to be happy about. I now look back on that experience with fond memories.

Not long after that experience someone refused to pay $13,000 that they owed me for work I did. (I was a self employed electrician) This caused me to lose my business. Did that make me happy? No! After a short while I decided that this man was not going to affect my happiness.

We are all aware of the expression that money can't buy happiness. And that is true. We all decide by ourselves every day of our life whether or not to be happy. (unless you have a mental illness and that is a different matter). So NOONE can cause you to be unhappy.

Can someone cause you pain? Yes. Physically. If they hurt or kill someone you care about that would be painfull too. But can they cause you pain by something they say. I don't believe so. In that case it is you that is causing the pain. You choose to let those words affect you.

This lecture is more of a rant than a personal admonition. I don't know anything about your circumstances so this isn't directed toward them. It is just general commentary on the subject.

Tim B

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Do you still believe in god???

by Nicolas in

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how many of you still believe in god after your experience of the watchtower?

do you believe in a different god than the one of the org.

one who won't destroy somebody just because he wasn't in the good religion.

tyydyy

God who??? When you say 'believe', what do you mean. Can anyone prove the existance of god any more definitively than say Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster? Amazing how the definition of god has changed over the centuries. I wonder what god will "look" like in a hundred yrs. NO. I want some kind of evidence before I will believe in anything again. Do we need god to explain how we got here. I don't think so. No more than we needed god to explain the motions of the solar system. Given enough time science will discover the answers. In the meantime I will count on things that are tangible and can be measured, or at least predicted.

This thinking of mine is a direct result of leaving the Borg. I do not want to be that stupid again. I'm sorry if what I say is offensive to some. I do not think that those who believe in god are stupid. I know, that sounds like a contridiction. What I mean is that I will not believe in something that I do not see proof of.

Tim B

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Was Adam black?

by nicolaou in

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okay, it's an old question but we haven't examined it here yet so let's have your thoughts.. adam was the progenitor of the whole human race, from his genes sprang the negroid, caucasian, mongoloid, indo-european and every other race on the planet.. the hebrew people were not selected as jehovah's chosen nation until abram had found favour with god so presumably all races were equal in his eyes before then.. so then, what basis is there, if any, for deciding what adam and eve's skin colour may have been?.

could they not indeed have been black or blonde or chinese looking?.

this is a pointless discussion i grant you.

tyydyy

This just in! New evidence. You're gonna have to see this one for yourself........

Tim B

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Was Adam black?

by nicolaou in

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okay, it's an old question but we haven't examined it here yet so let's have your thoughts.. adam was the progenitor of the whole human race, from his genes sprang the negroid, caucasian, mongoloid, indo-european and every other race on the planet.. the hebrew people were not selected as jehovah's chosen nation until abram had found favour with god so presumably all races were equal in his eyes before then.. so then, what basis is there, if any, for deciding what adam and eve's skin colour may have been?.

could they not indeed have been black or blonde or chinese looking?.

this is a pointless discussion i grant you.

tyydyy

This is a little known fact. Adam was in fact Green. He also had very large eyes and was short of stature.

No, no, no. Wait. Adam WAS black. He was perfect. But then god took a rib from him to make Eve. That made him just a little less than perfect and his true color faded.

No. Wait. Let's see god spoke to Adam in the breezy part of the day and I would imagine that Adam would stand when god was speaking to him. Right? Stay with me here. Now since Adam did not invent fruit of the looms yet, his manhood was hanging free. Now everyone knows that the black man's flacid manhood hangs lower than the white man's so if he were black that thing would have been flapping in the breeze. So therefore my conclusion is that Adam must have been a white man with a shrunken member.

What about Eve though? Personally I think she was a blonde. Need I explain that one?

Tim B

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Let's have some honest answers

by chappy in

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ok all you ex's, be honest.

do you ever have that little voice pop in your head and say "what if - just what if they're right?".

it happens to me on occasion and i've been totally out for years.

tyydyy

I've been out about 1 1/2 yrs and about once every 3 months the thought pops into my head for about 10 seconds. What if they were right? It takes about 10 secs to reason the doubts away. (A lot less time than it took to reason away the doubts I had in the Society)

I don't think this is a result of deep seated brainwashing though because I have similar questions pop into my head concerning Government conspiracies, aliens and psychics. I actually takes a little more than 10 secs to dismiss those thoughts. Probably because its entertaining to dwell on.

Tim B