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  Would you invite Jehovah to a party?

  by JimmyPage in

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  i think he would be a real buzzkill.

  for example, if someone were fornicating upstairs, he'd probably want to annihilate them with fire.

  or if someone were tapping the keg too much he'd want to take them to the back room and give them some strong counsel.

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  JamesThomas

  I'll answer by telling the truth: The strongest, most murderess, vile, fiery rage of hatred that I have ever felt was towards the god I was raised to believe in.

  The image in my mind was him manifested as a fleshly person before me, and me armed with the sharpest of long knives. I literally screamed at the top of lungs as I slashed and stabbed, over, and over, and over...

  Ya, I'd invite him to a party. One he would never leave.

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  I must say that this hatred erupted in me many times, and it gave me a new understanding of the blind rage that people experience where they may kill others. I don't condone their acts, but I understand what they felt at the time. I guess I have the JW religion to thank for that.

  Also during one of these explosive moments was a first sense of a beautiful, totally nonjudgmental, stillness-of-consciousness that silently watched. That which was screaming and the silence upon which the scream needed for its existence, were one in the same. It's impossible to explain.
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  What if JWs are right?!?

  by brotherdan in

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  i know this is a pointless question, but what if this happened:.

  you came home from work one day, sat down, and turned on the tv.

  there is a sudden announcement that the un has banned all religion.

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  JamesThomas

  It's quite alright to ask a hypothetical question.

  If the JW's had it right, I would raise my hand and say: "Me! Me! Kill me first!!! As I could never ever worship such a murderous, vengeful, god-forsaken piece of excrement as the tribal war god Jehovah. EVER!
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  Did being raised a JW give you a higher moral code?

  by cantleave in

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  i have noticed something interesting at work recently.. i don't want to go into too much detail, but our new owners have introduced a customer contract that is so one sided that it is technically unethical although not legally.

  i don't like it and won't sell it.. i asked the jw's where i work what they thought of this contract.. to my surprise only 2 are troubled by the nature of this contract (both young and quite wishy washy in the "truth").. the others didn't seem concrened at all and would be happy to tie customers into it, after it all secures the company's finances.. the interesting thing is almost all the "worldly" members of staff feel the same way as as me.. i thought my reservations were due to my jw upbringing - obviously not!.

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  JamesThomas

  By no means. Being raised to believe that the most high, most righteous, most holy and loving was a mass murderer, did in any way influence my morals.
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  My dr's recommending counselling I think it may help....

  by Lozhasleft in

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  i have a good life these days.

  i have a wonderful new husband who shares his lovely family with me.

  i have 'worldly' friends who i'm very fond of.

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  JamesThomas

  Lozi,

  May I suggest that you begin to take the time to just sit alone and be still. Concentrate on what it is to breath, on what it is to sit in a chair, on what it is to feel life around you. This may help ground you and open you, so that meeting with a good therapist will be extra beneficial for you had you not primed the pump.

  You are loved and appreciated.

  j
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  Are You Afraid Of Death?

  by minimus in

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  when we were jws we were told that death is an enemy but if we were faithful to jehovah, we would be alive always in his eyes.

  death wasn't something to be feared.

  we were only "sleeping".. do you fear death at this point in your life?

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  JamesThomas

  Who was it that said: "I was dead for an infinity before I was born. Didn't seem to do me no harm."?
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  Are You Afraid Of Death?

  by minimus in

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  when we were jws we were told that death is an enemy but if we were faithful to jehovah, we would be alive always in his eyes.

  death wasn't something to be feared.

  we were only "sleeping".. do you fear death at this point in your life?

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  JamesThomas

  He wears 100% pure linen.

  It's life which scares the fuck out me.
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  My dr's recommending counselling I think it may help....

  by Lozhasleft in

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  i have a good life these days.

  i have a wonderful new husband who shares his lovely family with me.

  i have 'worldly' friends who i'm very fond of.

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  JamesThomas

  I fourth that!
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  Truth About Religion and Christianity....

  by digderidoo in

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  interesting series on the similarities of ancient religions to christianity.... .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgkr...eature=related.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_e0v...eature=related.

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  JamesThomas

  Religion, is a concept of the mind. The mind is too limited to know the infinity and rawness of present moment reality, so it tells itself stories.

  Religion= the minds feeble attempts of understanding what it can not understand, an thus it makes up a story which it subtracts from and adds to over the course of thousands of years.

  So similarities are to be expected when you know what your dealing with....an evolutionary comic book reality.

  So the nest step is: why fuck with stories when reality is here right now staring you in the face??????????????????

  This isn't rocket science.
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  Jesus or Jehovah?

  by Seven in

  1. watchtower
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  i ran across this on truthsearcher.

  i would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.. __________.

  who is the "alpha and omega" and the first and last"-jesus or jehovah?.

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  JamesThomas

  Archaic verse can be discussed endlessly. Or one can actually ponder on what "Alpha and Omega" points to. It points to That which has no "outside", That which encompasses all.

  Would it be wise to believe that an anthropomorphic, tribal, patriarchal deity can and does encompass all existence?

  I apologies for going outside the box of this discussion. I just wanted to point out that we can begin with the same basic words and actually use them to come to deep and significant understandings about the reality in which we live.....or not.
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  Any 'Humanists' here?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  care to share your particular weltanschauung ?.

  how do you approach life in general?

  how do you convey to others your opines on life, love and laughter?.

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  JamesThomas

  I personally find that being a mean old bastard takes too much energy and causes stress. Why go there. It seems healthier to just be kind and do unto others as we would like the rest of the bastards to do unto us (you can quote me if you like). They often times don't feel the same, but then the bastards are not my teacher, and they don't need any more sore-grapes in their life than their own god-forsaken presence. So I try and be kind to them too......because like was already said, to counter meanness with meanness takes more energy than I care to expend. Lazy people are kind people....that's my motto.

  Have to save my strength to lift the next glass of Bourbon.