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  WTF Jesus doing last 98 years?

  by Evolutionary in

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  hey, i left when i was 19 about 21 years ago over evolution.

  dad encouraged me to look up the references in _life: how did it get here?

  by creation or evolution?_.

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  truthseeker

  An elder who gave a public talk on the subject of Christ's rule said, "it takes time to set up a Kingdom"

  Funny how the democrats can do it in 4 years...
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  Megadeth singer and guitarist Dave Mustaine JW experience

  by truthseeker in

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  i don't think this has been posted here, and the subject deals with obama's eligibility as a citizen, but i though this was an interesting snippet..... .

  http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/megadeth-frontman-obama-not-born-in-u-s/?cat_orig=politics.

  mustaine, with metallica for a time in the 1980s before launching megadeth, has gone through several battles with drugs and alcohol.

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  truthseeker

  I don't think this has been posted here, and the subject deals with Obama's eligibility as a citizen, but I though this was an interesting snippet....

  http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/megadeth-frontman-obama-not-born-in-u-s/?cat_orig=politics

  Mustaine, with Metallica for a time in the 1980s before launching Megadeth, has gone through several battles with drugs and alcohol. He’s also sustained neck injuries from the “head-banging” of hard rock, as well as an army injury.

  He explained how he had been baptized as a Lutheran as a child, but then his mother became a Jehovah’s Witness.

  “They don’t celebrate Christmas. That sucked,” he said. “They don’t celebrate birthdays, which sucked. I couldn’t have friends that were normal people, because they were ‘of the world.’”

  “I felt really empty. The drugs weren’t doing it. The alcohol wasn’t doing it,” he said.

  Those factors would alleviate his desire for something, but only for a short time, he said.

  It was like “peeing in your pants on a cold night. It feels good for a little while, but it’s not a long-term solution,” he said.

  He sought out friends he knew to be familiar with Christianity.

  “I started to make amends to people I had harmed. I am enemy-free right now, which is a great feeling,” he said.
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  Do you know JWs who have never been happy in the truth?

  by truthseeker in

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  happiest people in the world?

  consider my own family.

  i have jw relatives who gave up everything, moved to where the need was greater and they have never been happy.. they've been constantly in poor health, suffered with depression and had feuds within their own jw family.

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  Happiest people in the world? Far from it. Consider my own family. I have JW relatives who gave up everything, moved to where the need was greater and they have never been happy.

  They've been constantly in poor health, suffered with depression and had feuds within their own JW family. They've done nothing but complain about everything in the congregation. Upsets, bickering, scandal, you name it.

  So for all their decades of faithful, sacred service, are they truly happy? Content? They're as miserable as they ever were. And the only thing they have to look forward to is the new system.

  Does anyone else have friends/relatives who gave up everything for the Kingdom and never found real happiness?
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  Let's get this PERFECTION thing out into the open

  by Terry in

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  2. bible

  perfection implies two things: a purpose and a tool for the purpose.. the fork, by itself, is neither perfect nor imperfect.. a fork is perfect for eating peas but imperfect for eating soup.

  the purpose and the tool must match.. people are not, of themselves, imperfect.

  they are suited for or not suited for particular purposes.. .

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  Terry,

  Perfection is not like being a robot that does all things perfectly in a controlled environment, rather it is coming to a knowledge of God's laws, then upholding those laws by not breaking them.

  It is the breaking of law that is to miss the mark of perfection. When you learn a law, you are not willingly going to break it.

  I do not think that God expects us to reach perfection in the present age. It is the next age that teaches and furthers the path to perfection.

  Sinning willfully is what God forbids but believers cannot stop to analyze every single they do, but if they did, they would become bogged down in their ability to function daily.

  God recognizes the pitfalls of being under outside tempters. Our job is not to analyze every aspect of our lives in this present age but to pray that we do not come into temptation, and if we do, then pray that we be delivered from its clutches.

  Perfection has a lot to do with knowledge, but in various degrees. The Ten Commandments were a summary of God's will and what He expected of us. More laws came that expounded on the original ten. This is because of circumstances that revolve around life in creation.
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  Died and came back with memories !

  by oldflame in

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  friends,.

  i have a story to share with you and i hope that it does not bore you as it did just the opposite for me .

  after hearing what i was told i was so pumped up with holy spirit i thought i was going to crawl right out of my own skin .

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  Kudos to Mary for saying what many of us probably wanted to say.

  I believe in life after death. Our soul is our mortal human container inside which resides is our spirit, celestial energy, which is who we are, our consciousness. Your spirit is connected to this container via a silver cord or particulate energy.

  NDEs and Astral Projection is where you temporarily leave your fleshly container and go travel or whatever that is why you can see yourself in the hospital bed, but you are still connected to your body via the cord.

  I don't care whether anyone here believes it or not, this is what I believe, and no, it's not something that can be dissected under a microscope.

  I remember someone telling me, that when you are close to death, your life flashes before your eyes, supposedly these are your memories being uploaded to your new "body", rather like packing and unpacking a suitcase.

  1 Corinthians 15:36 " Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies."

  It is the mortal container that dies and just as the fallen angels shed their mortal containers to flee back into the spirit realm, people will be transformed to a spirit body in a similar way. Your fleshly container will die without your spirit giving it life-support, but you will be transformed into an incorruptible spirit body. That means that your new body will be beyond harm in the spirit realm for flesh cannot survive on the other side, it must die off during the transformation process.
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  Are You A Screwed Up Adult Because You Were A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  or did it not matter that you were ever a witness---you're a bit screwy, anyway?.

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  I was thinking about this today Min, and yes, I do feel that I've been screwed up because I've been a JW for over 30 years.

  I feel cheated to be honest, lost out on many opportunties that I could have had if I was never a JW.

  And now I'm in my 30s, I feel like a late bloomer, having to learn everything that people already know.

  For those of us unlucky to be born into "the truth", there are days when I wish I could go back, not for the boring meetings, but because I had a sense of belonging, now I have nothing, some would say well you're a free agent now, and I am, but I feel like I have freedom without friends.
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  EX JW teen just signs with legendary producer!!!!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  dear friends,.

  it has been a long time since i have posted.

  time heals much pain, and finally, my family and i have been able to move on with our life outside of jw land.. many of you became our friends, our support system, and you know very well our exit story...we were labeled, slandered and disfellowshipped for having questions regarding the date 607. we sent out letters exposing the elders and circuit overseer to over 200 families.

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  truthseeker

  Congratulations LadyLiberty and to your daughter too!

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  I think a lot of older (maybe younger ones) JW's are going to attempt/commit suicide....(READ)

  by Joliette in

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  i've been in lurkmode lately, but with the news that i heard about don cornelius dying, it had me thinking...as this world goes on, and people are coping with this world...i think a lot jw's are going to realize that the end of the world isnt coming...there gonna become more despert, the realities of having to work, pay off debts, etc.

  a lot of jw's are going to realize that no magical sky daddy is come and 'take away there problems' and i think the more that they start to realize this, they get older, and there gonna start hating the reality that they have to face.

  i had a good friend who's father-in- law (who was a ministrial servant) who had bipolar disorder, killed himself in his car back in 2007. it was sad.

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  Joliette,

  I think you're right. No one could have imagined being here in 2012 on this side of the system. JWs have nothing to look forward to except more of the same.

  I get the feeling that the Society has been on auto-pilot for many years. They have created a machine that prints endless books, magazines, tracts, schedules, Memorial announcments and convention programs, year after year.

  There is nothing new under the sun. All the JWs can do is keep going through the endless motions year after year, doing the same thing while expecting different results.

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  Draconian Rules for Attending "Special Convention"

  by BluesBrother in

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  british dubs are invited to attend a special convention next summer in dublin , irish republic.

  o k, this kind of trip has been done many times before.

  however i have never seen such a crude and rigid set of rules that would apply to their own people going on a trip, at their own expense of course.

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  Cedars,

  Thanks for the information.

  I wonder why they are doing this? In a global depression where people are losing their jobs, homes etc, why are the GB hosting an expensive "special" convention in Dublin? What is the point? What will be said there that regular dubs don't already know?

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  Applying Math, Physics, Archeology to THE STORY OF NOAH

  by Terry in

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  truthseeker

  Without restating the Bible, I would surmise the excess water is where the North and South Poles are.

  How about you tell me where the water from the Poles came from?