Posts by Crazyguy

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When You See A JW Approaching What Are Your Thoughts?

by minimus in

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i used to get a weird feeling in my stomach when i would see a witness approaching.... almost a sense of dread.

now, i really don’t care.

i have even made it a point to do the approaching when i see a witness trying to convert an ignorant person..

Crazyguy

Same thing a feeling of dread but at the same time kinda a feeling of pity. These people are so arrogant yet so ignorant.

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just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

Crazyguy

I love how language and the evolution of languages can be used to show that humans are much older then the Bible says and also that language wasn’t confused and spread out from one place again like the Bible says.

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Pondering the real numbers

by Deltawave in

i was sat in the assembly hall yesterday, wondering how many pimo ones like me there was there.

or even if they don't know ttatt still don't believe it for whatever reason.. i think there must be more of (us) there than we all realise.

i mean, brothers reaching out is at an all time low, information via the internet is at an all time high and the preaching work has now become a motionless, speechless babysitting of a book shelf advertising a website as someone here pointed out!.

Crazyguy

I think it took me so many years to wake up do to the fact that I didn’t listen much. This could be infact what’s holding so may back.

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Contacting old friends

by Scherlemuch2tired in

i'm new to this site.

i've been out for 27 years and was trying to figure out how to get in touch with others that may also be on here from my old congregation.

it was warrensburg , ny....

Crazyguy

Most JWs leave and don’t go online and post on places like this forum. Welcome.

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Here's PROOF that Charles Taze Russell Was NOT a Pennsylvania Freemason

by AndersonsInfo in

no, charles taze russell was not a pennsylvania freemason!.

this is the answer i received in a letter: .

"after a search of our records, we determined that the three russell's were not members of our organization.

Crazyguy

I’m with those that believe he was but it was not common knowledge or would be admitted by any lodge , because this was a private club and they didn’t go around advertising it.t

Then again there’s one other idea, Russell copied many things with his religion so maybe he wasn’t a mason but just copied many of the things the masons did and symbols they used.

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Why is the white race so different?

by Crazyguy in

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what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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Crazyguy

I started this thread and it quickly devolved in to a racists thread and that was never my intention! It was a simple question about prehumans like Neanderthals and if the white race could be different do to possibly being related to a prehuman group that maybe didn’t mate with other human races.

So please , racists stop posting on this thread!

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The earthly resurrection pipe dream

by Sour Grapes in

i woke up this morning thinking about when my mom died about 10 years ago.

she was an avid jdub and was confident that she would be resurrected to an earthly paradise petting zoo.

if i would today go to my mom's house and because god brought her back to life, saw her sitting in her favorite chair, would she really be my mom?

Crazyguy

The whole idea of resurrection comes from Egypt and its two fold. One when one dies he goes to the underworld where he has to go be judged and his heart condition weighed. If he’s guilty of sin his heart is eaten and his spirit goes to the lake of fire the second death. If he’s sinless then he goes on to paradise to live and work with his family the Greeks called it Elysian, the Egyptians named it the Field of reeds.

The second part had to do with your life or likeness being reborn in to your offspring this is one of the reasons for the word resurrection from the root word erection.

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Physical Symptoms with the mention or thought of Borg, JW, etc

by CovertsadJW in

good morning , .

does anyone else have physical symptoms with the mention of jw ,borg, wt, etc.

my wife mentioned that we should study the watchtower with the kids and just the thought made me physically anxious and mildly nauseated.

Crazyguy

The thought of going to a Kingdom Hall or sometimes seeing JWs is enough to cause me some negative emotions.

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Are there any instances of "GOD" order and/or condoning the rape of women in the bible?

by Black Man in

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this came up recently with my dyed-in-the-wool jw pioneer mother, who swears up and down that there are no scriptural instances of this happening.

i seem to remember a couple passages, but can't remember where they were..

Crazyguy

I don’t know if this has been brought out in a previous post but woman not engaged were not owned by anyone other then maybe her father. With that being said having sex with a young woman not engaged was not considered rape, even in the case where a man has sex with a young woman he only has to pay the father for his act and then can buy her.

The scriptures make it clear that woman were just property, and that is just plain sick!

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Why did you leave?

by Fred Franztone in

we all have many reasons for leaving, most are doctrinal, some are emotional.

it's a religion which obsesses over factual proofs (counterfactual though they are) of its veracity rather than faith, so it's inevitable that most who leave will do so for intellectual reasons.

which doctrine above all others forced you to reconsider your position?

Crazyguy

The blood doctrine, finding out about all the changes with blood fractions and them going so far as allowing cows red blood cells coupled with already knowing about how they banned organ transplants for 13 years then changed their minds.

Let’s not forget that this cows blood product is only available in certain places around the world, so some maybe able to get it and survived yet most won’t and will die.

These freaks are guilty of murder plain and simple!!