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  My Observation...How Come?

  by wozadummy in

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  i've nearly finished reading the 2 ray franz books and i've been on this forum for a few months and i've wondered about this:.

  on both the books and the forum much is said about the watchtower lying ,misleading ,being a false prophet ,having no conscience toward the after effects of decisions they have made that have effected peoples lives ,even sometimes tragically.. well ,ok ,but my observation is this :very rarely ,if at all, does anyone say directly that the watchtower is lead and influenced by satan.does this mean that :.

  ones have lost faith in god /religion because of the watchtower org and now don't really believe in satan now.

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  Ones have lost faith in God /religion because of the Watchtower org and now don't really believe in Satan now

  Perhaps most people have grown beyond the need of tribal deities and demons...at least on this forum. Also, once one leaves the Witnesses and comes to grips with the total deception of it all, it's as if our vision becomes more clear, and so it may become readily apparent that the most destructive and vile of ideas, is actually the concept of Jehovah the god of armies. Satan is a saint when standing next to this ultimate killing machine.

  IMO

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  Dead Man Walking (Help!)

  by thepackage in

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  im sad to report that my best friend (who is on this message board) has given into pressure from his wife and has started going back to meetings.

  i know hell be reading this so, what advise do you have?

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  If we have no courage to be true to our own wisdom, then what does it matter? Perhaps there are those of us deserving of slavery.

  

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  Do JWS have a relationship with God................?

  by vitty in

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  how many jws have a real relationship with jehovah ?

  i thought i did but looking back it was a relationship with the organization that i had.. i did pray, it always went something like "oh please jehovah make me more appreciative, and stop me being so negative, bored at the meetings and help me to enjoy the fs " .

  i always felt the "third voice " you hear while reading the wt, was jehovah, i know it sounds nuts but i think this is why even though i had doubts, i always pushed them to the back of my mind.

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  What do my relationships matter, if I do not first know who I am?

  

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  Glad I found this place!!!

  by payinu in

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  just saying hi, and i am soooooo glad to find this site.

  i have been out of the org.

  for about 7 years now, and am just now feeling fully free.

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  Welcome to the forum.

  Here, ya go:

  

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  The Bible teaches that God kills unborn children

  by free2beme in

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  i was thinking about this today, in that so many christians claim the bible never speaks of god killing unborn children.

  they use references to god saying that he would apply the "eye for an eye" rule with the accidental killing of a child in the womb of the woman.

  yet, does anyone realize the bible speaks of the hebrew god as killing several, numerous, unborn children.

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  Little wonder we live in a world so full of mans inhumanity to man, considering so many worship as "The Most High" that which is a murderous monster.

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  NEW INK!!!

  by RichieRich in

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  so, i went to my friendly neighborhood tattoo parlor today, and recieved my second and third (or 19th and 20th - depending on how you look at it) tattoo.

  the chest is an extremely sensitive area, and so i was very aware that i was alive for the majority of the time.. oh, birds are often seen as a symbol of freedom, happiness, and arriving safely.

  bones show regret, loss.. .

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  Aren't those the skeleton-birds the militant lesbians have tattooed on their chests?

  I didn't now you were from Lesban. My ex wife was from there. That's how I knew about the tattoos.

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  Yea!

  by poppers in

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  after 2 years, 4 months, and 13 days i've managed to get my average daily posts to 1.

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  Congratulations! However...

  One, is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.

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  Rejecting God or rejecting religion?

  by kojo in

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  i have read many posts on here and on other websites from people who were brought up or became immersed in a particular religion or belief system, who later ,often because of bad experiences with their religion, went to the opposite extreme of not believing in god at all.

  this often puzzles me because i wonder if people who reject a belief in god because of the hypocrisies they experienced in their former belief really are rejecting god or just a man-made organization which claims to be god's spokesman and has shown to be anything but.. i was raised in a presbyterian church which is about as traditional and conservative as you can get and my image of god was molded by that belief.

  i saw the services and people there as dead basically.

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  Anything and everything I have to say about it, is not it, is only confusing, and motivates more of the same questions.

  It's questions all the way down.

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  Rejecting God or rejecting religion?

  by kojo in

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  i have read many posts on here and on other websites from people who were brought up or became immersed in a particular religion or belief system, who later ,often because of bad experiences with their religion, went to the opposite extreme of not believing in god at all.

  this often puzzles me because i wonder if people who reject a belief in god because of the hypocrisies they experienced in their former belief really are rejecting god or just a man-made organization which claims to be god's spokesman and has shown to be anything but.. i was raised in a presbyterian church which is about as traditional and conservative as you can get and my image of god was molded by that belief.

  i saw the services and people there as dead basically.

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  Ross:

  you haven't considered that somewhere down there beyond the leviathans there might be a sea bed, and below that, and below that, and below that?...

  Your questions regarding layers, distances and dualities, does not apply in the nondual realization of our true oneness and wholeness.

  Your many layered fragmented chaos, exists within the mind only. To awaken to your true Being, is to step out of the ENTIRE "reality" construct of the mind.

  Be still. Stop. Stop the mind and it's questions and step into the unknowable immediacy and reality of your real Being. No one can give you the answers you seek. You, are the answers.

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  Thank you Jehovah for answered prayers

  by Annie Over in

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  when i got off for lunch today i decided to go to the walmart deli and get something to eat.

  it is a huge store, groceries, a bakery, mc donalds, a bank , eye center, beauty shop, a great deli, and a huge garden center.

  i had taken back a 80 gig hard drive dvd recorder ( i couldn't figure out how to hook up <smile> and had received 238.00. i picked up a couple of things in the store then went to the deli.

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  Welcome, Annie.

  It never ceases to amaze me how tribal deities can come in so handy with killing children with bears, and protecting purses.

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