Posts by Bugbear

You are quite right. Interpretations of Bible texts are totally idiocy. The Bible itself have during almost 2000 years proved itself to be unreliable, stupid and untrue. Why are we still stucked with old texts that only shows ancient sagas? We could easily chose The Gilgamesh epos or some Hindu Sagas and made them holy instead..

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"Thanks for the thought" - how the religion robs people of normal humanity

by stuckinarut2 in

so as you all know, my wife and i are not officially df or da.. a small event happened this week that i have to share!.

a family that we were really close to (dinners and catch ups several times a month , go out socially often, play sport together, helped them through tough times, like uncle and aunty to their kids, etc).

the wife's father died.

Bugbear

DOC

”spiritually weak” is according to the borg, something very contagious and mortally. It´s like the “black death” in Europe 1348. It spreads very fast and the best thing is to run away were you can´t find any infected with the virus which is naturally only among those that are in “a god stand”.

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Do You Care If A World Leader Had An Affair Before Taking Office?

by minimus in

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i don’t care about it unless someone runs on a record of being a model family man or woman.. does it bother you if a president or princess or top government official “cheats “??

?.

Bugbear

Really, Trumph is not different from many on the other “world leaders”. You can count almost everyone from Alexander the Great, via Henrik the V111, to Napoleon, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol pot, to Jacob Zuma, Saddam Hussein, Putin and a numbers of others. The ting is “why do we accept” rampant layers… narcissistic if not fully blown out psychopaths, as our leaders? Why do we accept that seven men dictate to us if we should have a beard or not….

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My dad RIP

by ScottyRex in

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my dad died 2 weeks ago on sunday.

i will miss him so much.

he was the funniest most greatest man i have ever known.. granted for the first 30 years i wasnt that much keen on him and i don't think he was on me much either.....let me explain.. mum and dad met in 1964, mum was the prettiest girl in the town, mini skirts, raised hair, the daintiest figure, she looked the spit of audrey hepburn at breakfast at tiffanys.

Bugbear

ScottyRex

JD is a miraculous water.... Sometimes it can even drown your sorrow.. Your story helps me to overcome my own fathers dead, but remember all of us here are with you..

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How many are PIMO ??

by Phizzy in

i know we cannot answer this, how many are physically in, mentally out (pimo), but i heard an amazing piece of news the other day.. an ex-p.o and ex-elder, a long time regular pioneer, and when i knew him a stalwart believer, went for a drink with another jw who has actually left, but is not df or anything.. in the course of conversation he came out with this bombshell "well, i am actually an atheist now, i just go along to keep my wife happy".. i also heard of a number of youngsters that i know personally who are simply living their life as they want, whilst making sure they don't get df'd for family and social reasons.. if as it seems the pimo's are a huge number, could there be a huge " awakening" where they all realize they are in a huge group, and they all say " eff it, lets call it a day on all the jw s**t ".

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wishful thinking, but.....just possible ?.

Bugbear

Phizzy

I think you have only seen the tip of the iceberg

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A Field Service that gave a shock to the CO

by Ireneus in

during one co visit to our congregation, i was asked to work with co as i was a new publisher.

after some ordinary visits, we entered a house where there was only a lady who proved be well-educated.

though it was my turn, i told co to present the good news.

Bugbear

Ireneus

Thank you for a good story. I think the problems the JW-cult is facing today, comes from the lack of education. In most western countries and some Asian, people have higher education and are well informed thus making it almost impossible for the dubs to gain new members. JW,s can only obtain new members in countries were the education level is low. This however also makes their income from these countries very low. So the borg is slowly bleeding and will fade away

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Please explain!

by Freedom rocks in

hi please can someone explain this in laymans terms for me coz i be ever got it as a jw and still don't.

it doesn't make sense to me.

bible chronology indicates that god’s kingdom was established in heaven in 1914. this is shown by a prophecy recorded in chapter 4 of the bible book of daniel.. overview of the prophecy.

Bugbear

Freedom Rocks

I am sorry to say that your basic preconditions, that the bible in some way, could possibly be right and trustworthy, is absolutely a fallacy. None of the texts in The Bible could ever be regarded as a truth. The Bible only reflects old ancient sagas, written down by a number “writers” who are told to write down what some totally ignorant priest remembered, and what their fathers and mothers have told them. Then it is copied, rewritten, translated and copied, and copied and copied……by totally ignorant boys that just barely have learned to copy letter, by letter. Most of the ideas in the Bible have been proven false, not only the year b.c . 607. But it also contains frightening stories of bears eating boys, of God drowning a humanit, of a God allowing to kill every other nations that is not Jewish. It contains stories of how to sacrifice Goats, bulls, dowse to please God, and order the Israelites to take girls women and children, to slaves. ……..It is terrible if any one use the Bible as the basic of his believes, in fact most of the wars in the western story was inspired be the so called Gods word.

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Cart observations from Cardiff South Wales

by freddo in

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i was in a suburb of cardiff, capital of wales where it was difficult to get near to my customer's offices to deliver and install what i do.

i had my car parked about a hundred yards away and had to make several trips with goods and tools past a local jw trolley cart.

as i was working i didn't stop but observed much of the time from an upper floor office window.. in the hour or so i was there, on a warm sunny (for late february) lunchtime/early afternoon - right by a bus stop and several local shops, cafes and banks with plenty of people about - not one person stopped at the cart.. the two women at the cart i guess were about 50 and 75 respectively - pleasant looking motherly/grandmotherly types.

Bugbear

Good job freddo, I wish I had the same courage as you. And if I remember you phrase, I´ll try to use as well