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  Bloodguilty

  by purplesofa in

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  the christian greek scriptures outline three distinct ways in which a christian could become bloodguilty before god: (1) by bloodshed, murder this would include those actively or tacitly supporting the activities of a bloodguilty organization (such as babylon the great [re 17:6; 18:2, 4] or other organizations that have shed much innocent blood [re 16:5, 6; compare isa 26:20, 21]); (2) by eating or drinking blood in any way (ac 15:20); and (3) by failing to preach the good news of the kingdom, thereby withholding the lifesaving information it contains.ac 18:6; 20:26, 27; compare eze 33:6-8.. .

  it-1 346-347. i remember being filled with panic, if i did not take every opportunity to preach to others.

  not only was i responsible for myself, my children, i felt a responsiblity to everyone i came in contact with.. i would think to myself, should i say something or not........if i don't they might lose their life all because i did not take the opportunity to preach to them.

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  It was like there was always a voice in my head never giving me relief.

  That, is called insanity; and it is very much perpetuated and sustained by beliefs; be they religious, political, social or racial...

  The good news is you see it. See it more. Nonjudgmentally see and watch the voice in your head -- even though it may not seem as intense and threatening as it once was.

  There is the voice/the thoughts/the beliefs/the commentary and story weaved by the mind, and there is the healing sweet purity of that which sees it all. Keep watching and you will discover what you really are.

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  The God of death...

  by zeroday in

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  i could no sooner kill a dog much less a human but the god of death yearns to destroy 6 billion plus humans to uphold his sovernity.

  the omnipotent god, sees all, knows all just to watch his creation live and die and yet does nothing to stop it.

  would you, stop it if you could.

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  There is considerable madness in the concept of a tribal deity creating and reigning over us as the Bible would have us believe. That you see that, speaks for sanity.

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  The Bible Is a Worldly Book

  by Satanus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  since the wt religion is loosely based on the bible, therefore it is part of the world.

  nyah nyah, wt and it's claims about not being part of the world.. s. ps, the bible is worldly, because it was produced by jews that was very much like the rest of the world at the time, in that they were as violent as other nations and were supersticious.

  also, the bible was finished and promoted theoughout it's domain by the world power, rome.

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  JamesThomas

  Perhaps Terry, has driven this one home already.

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  I Don't Believe in God, or wait, Maybe I Do. . . a little wisdom please?

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  i am conflicted as to whether i can or even want to believe in god.

  (using capital g out of respect) i can't separate love of god and my jw life.

  i pioneered for 10+ years, and thank goodness for that, because i can now easily memorize anything and read upside down.

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  Pioneer, listen to your own wisdom. If you choose to believe in God, and yet your heart can not accept the murderous frolics of mutant deities, then don't believe in them! Cast off your Bible programming and it's tiny little gods. You've outgrown archaic tribal myths and fictitious "holy" characters.

  I suggest you take your heartfelt desire for knowing your Source and sustenance, out into nature and inward into the depths of your own sense of being and existing. Stop believing that what the word G-O-D points to is an objective thing or entity, and thus so tiny as to be absent or separate from the intimacy and immediacy of your own existence. Open yourself to discovery and realization of the true depths of Reality that beliefs only hide.

  Awaken from the slumber of believing.

  

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  Out of Mythic into Rational consciousness, the EX-JW Journey

  by jst2laws in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been absent much for almost a year, reading, learning and breaking out of boxes, figuratively.

  i'm hoping that sharing some thoughts and asking some questions might be fun, and maybe helpful for a few.

  have you wondered how two people can look at the same information, go through the same experience as you, perhaps even be party to the same conversation yet come away with an entirely different perception?

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  Hey there, Steve. Always nice to see you here.

  When I was a JW, it was not so much a state of unconsciousness, as that I was so heavily identified with beliefs as who and what I was, I only allowed in those things which supported and sustained "me".

  May I suggest that there is no real evolution or arising to higher consciousness, so much as removing or seeing through, what blinds us; which amounts to everything we believe "self" and universe to be.

  Remove what is false, and Truth -- remains.

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  Baptism, spirit and superstition

  by thinker in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently i started researching the bible concerning that most controversial topic: baptism.

  i learned from the bible that there are four types of baptism.

  there is water baptism, aka "john's baptism", which most of us think of when we hear the word "baptism".

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  Thanks, Terry. You showed us a beautiful warmth and life of it, that otherwise may have been missed.

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  THE WAY IN IS THE WAY OUT

  by Terry in

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  i got in officially in november of 1963 when i was baptised at the cleburne, texas assembly.

  judicial committee cut me loose.. the way in consisted of having jehovah's witnesses demonstrate to me that there was considerable false information and hypocricy in christendom.

  i lost confidence in what i had been told, taught and believed.. today, i believe that is also the way out of jehovah's witnesses!.

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  JamesThomas

  Well spoken and sensible post as usual, Terry.

  free yourself from believing in the fairy tale

  You and I are on the same track here. Where indeed does the fairy tale, really, really end? and what remains when it's does?

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  Does God exist ?

  by moomanchu in

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  2. humour

  a man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard .

  trimmed.

  as the barber began to work, they began to have a good .

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  JamesThomas

  When there is a building afire, and so an obvious need for help and assistance, a firefighter does not ask that the trapped and injured come to him or her, but rather rushes to the needy risking life and limb for total strangers.

  It would make more sense if the Christian god worshipped these people, rather than so many blindly worship a lesser god.

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  Favorite Christmas Music

  by jayhawk1 in

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  what is your favorite christmas music?

  do you go for the classic stuff?

  dr demento stuff perhaps?

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  I recently purchased a Christmas music CD by one of my most favorite artists Dana Cunningham. I love it. Her piano is so beautifully and deeply contemplative as to be most rare.

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  The term apostate is used freely on this forum, don't you find it offensive

  by avidbiblereader in

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  i find the term apostate used freely towards those who have left the org, by both witnesses hiding and also ex witnesses calling themselves that.

  don't you find that offensive.

  i have been out for over 6 years and the last thing i consider myself is an apostate.

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  JamesThomas

  Religious folks are often fearful of and imprisoned by, certain words and thoughts. A lot of people her have removed many of these invisible chains.

  Perhaps the problem only exists in your cute little noggin.

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