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A bit of advice please

by SpiceItUp in

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friends

ok.... heres the scenario:.

you make plans with a "friend" on a project that will benefit you both..including something that may help you out in the long run as well.. your "friend" screws you over in a completly different respect...but one that cannot be ignored.

they show no remorse for the harm they have done either.. do you not proceed with the prearranged project on matters of principal because they may in turn screw you on that as well not to mention you really don't care to be around them at all.....or do you take your chance that they won't and keep your deal.. what would you pick.....matter of principal or contract?.

willy_think

if your perspective partner has shown you a lack of principals in a previous dealing accompanied by a lack of remorse, I would look on the act as an expression of his/her morality, rather then a single incident or a laps in his/her principals. If you have reservations about committing your funds to a project involving this person, I could only say that you mustn't Comit yourself, or let your friend force you in to a situation were you can be manipulated into a contract.

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Pending Tragedy for the WTS and JWs

by Lee Elder in

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friends

pending tragedy for the wts and jws.

the heavy-handed tactics of the leaders of the watchtower society have begun to bear rotten fruit.

i suspect that it is just a matter of time before the need arises to coin some phrase to describe disfellowshipped or disassociated jehovah's witnesses who bomb conventions, shoot up kingdom halls or even attack bethel facilities.. leaders of the wts (and local elders) should stop and think about the lessons to be learned from columbine high school, the postal service (i.e.

willy_think

dustrabbit,
I'm sorry she did that to you, I wish people didn't do shitty things to each other like that.
Is that were you found your freedom or did freedom come later when you desired not to take it any more, when you said you are worth more than that, when you said that's not love and that's not for you? I'm shunned by my JW family but I know I can walk out my door and into other good relationships or I can pick up the phone and call people who care about me. my point is that there are others who can fill the void and give hope to people who step to the edge of violence and sanity.

I don't think what we find in resentment and hate is freedom.

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Does Watchtower Society monitor this board?

by Quotes in

i've seen it mentioned many times in many threads: "the society monitors jwd, don't post anything you don't want them to know etc.

i have even made that point myself in the past.. my question is this: does the wtbts monitor this discussion board?.

or have we all been propagating our own xjw urban myth?.

willy_think

That's untrue, if the WT had denied being in the UN and kept there NGO membership. the R&F JW could look at the UN website and see the WT there. Even if they quit the UN and said they never were part of the UN it's still a matter of public record and without a UN cover-up, undeniable. Damage control sometimes makes the spin doctors chose the lesser of two evils. I don't think they could have done any thing ales. it might be that you underestimate the number of lurkers there are at JWD.

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my girlfriend is cheating on me! what should i do?

by enrique in

hello everyone, i'm new to this site.

so i dont really know all the computer talk (i just learned jh) so if u can please type the word out i would be very grateful.

so here is my question...... i have a girlfriend we will make 1 year in oct. but i just found out that she has been cheating on me for 3 weeks.

willy_think

Yes, dude I've been there, I've felt the pain in my gut like a clenching fist the broken hart that would never mend. I've herd the half truths and the lies. I've closed my eyes to what was, so I could see the love of my dreams.

I know she told you she didn't cheat and you want that to be the truth, but if your friend is like my friends are he wouldn't lie about it, he would be looking out for your welfare.
In the end I think you will need to let her go. I hope you can, the pain fades harts mend and you don't need to except lies or half truths in your life. this could help you to find out who you really are and what you can live with and without. Good luck, I hope I'm wrong.

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Pending Tragedy for the WTS and JWs

by Lee Elder in

jw
friends

pending tragedy for the wts and jws.

the heavy-handed tactics of the leaders of the watchtower society have begun to bear rotten fruit.

i suspect that it is just a matter of time before the need arises to coin some phrase to describe disfellowshipped or disassociated jehovah's witnesses who bomb conventions, shoot up kingdom halls or even attack bethel facilities.. leaders of the wts (and local elders) should stop and think about the lessons to be learned from columbine high school, the postal service (i.e.

willy_think

Any violence against the WT would only serve there own ends. You know as well as I the spin doctors would play the persecuted saints suffering at the hand of Satan for the glory of Jehovah. New names to be added to the 144,000 heavenly kings, amen. I think you might even find one or two secretly hopping to be martyred in these end times. Hummmmm

Who was freed from the WT by violence? When has hating or attacking a people ever opened there minds?

Who was not freed from the WT by love? Is it not accepting the love and support of others that gives us the strength we need?

Denying love is the WT's biggest weapon, by the simple Christian act of loving the shunned, the WT becomes a paper lion.
The WT will never be killed by violence but by love, if at all.

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my girlfriend is cheating on me! what should i do?

by enrique in

hello everyone, i'm new to this site.

so i dont really know all the computer talk (i just learned jh) so if u can please type the word out i would be very grateful.

so here is my question...... i have a girlfriend we will make 1 year in oct. but i just found out that she has been cheating on me for 3 weeks.

willy_think

Cheaters lie, what does it matter what she has to say? She is looking for your replacement, dump her ass.

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WT at it again...cross or stake?

by dungbeetle in

just found this on the watchtower website:.

http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/index.htm?article=article_11.htm.

cross: jesus did not die on a cross.

willy_think

Well the long wait is over, at least the WT righting staff found something they could print that would show the world how very scholarly thay are. Oh how truly deferent they are from satin's World. Thank Jehovah for such spiritual food at this most proper time.

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Pagan origins of Christanity?

by crownboy in

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friends

i'm in the middle of reading jesus and the lost goddess: the secret teachings of the original christians and after this i would like to read the jesus mysteries.. i happened to come upon this book by accident, but i was surprised to see just how much christanity has possibly borrowed from pagan religions (i knew that ot stories like the flood were borrowed, but figured the nt was made by some cultic jews).

i also didn't realize that certain letters of paul may be forgeries, or that certain passages in the "genuine" letters could be allusions to pagan things.

are there any other or books or websites on the topic that anyone could recommend?

willy_think

Christianity started with the founding of the church about 1,970 years ago.
The worship of God started,for the Angeles before man, but for us in the time we call the garden of Eden or at very least, shortly after that time.

It seems funny to me that Christians are shocked and upset when they read that God was worshiped when all religion was paging. It makes me wonder it they think they made God or that he was unknown before God named a man Israel.

If there was an Adam, was he a Christian or Jew?
If there was a God before there was a Jew, was he a pagan God?
If there was a God of the beginning, was he worshipped before there was (for the lack of a better word) an un-pagon religion?
Is it shocking to know there was real God before there was a mandate given to the Jews on how he was to be worshiped?

When I read this kind of thing I can't help but think what is being said is guess what God was before we were! He didn't fall out of the sky, bible in hand, with the start of Christianity.
Shocking!!!!

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Animation graphics in the text field

by SEAKEN2001 in

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i know some of you are not going to appreciate this and it probably won't start a movement that will affect a change but it will make me feel better to rant.. i find it very distracting to have moving graphics in the field of text, where we are supposed to be reading.

perhaps many of you are used to listening to the radio while studying for a test, as i have often seen depicted on tv, presumably in humor.

it may be humorous but it is not conducive to actual retention and meaningful meditation.

willy_think

"Spam! Spam! Spam! don't you have anything with out Spam in it?"
*thinking*
"well we have eggs and Spam. that only has a little Spam in it"

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Current witnesses and 'free speech'

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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friends

i'm new and have been browsing some of the posts and am surprised to find active witnesses here, pissing and moaning about this board and how other posters are mean to them, cursing at them, etc.

well i'm just curious as to why an active member of the wtbts would want to fraternize with a whole lotta ex-jw's.

i mean, that's why i came here, to find other exiles like myself.

willy_think

Incense_and_Peppermints,
Some times witness come here to peek behind the curtain. They see what they would rather not see, that there house is built on sand. they kick and scream, wanting it so badly to be the truth they thought it was. After a time posts slowly change and you can watch the JW start to think and in the end free themselves from the WT, I've seen it more then a few times.

It's also good to remember JWD is not for X-JWs, it is for discussing all things JW related, that would include active JWs.

I understand and agree with you about JW being alike but I also understand that it's the programing that makes them alike. When the programing is broken, like it was with you, a wide verity of free people emerge.

I can only assume that you are not talking about people like YOU_KNOW or Y2K they need medications, that has nothing to do with the WT.

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