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since the watchtower has regularly disseminated "false prophecy" over the years and has given truly silly reasonings for their beliefs, let's give the society some ideas as to what they might put into the next watchtower.....i'll start----"since the elders are representatives of christ jesus himself, we should give them glory too.

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Tuesday

The Light Gets Brighter: 607 B.C.E. date deemed incorrect leading to a 20 Stay of Execution for Armageddon to come.

(that would actually lead us to 1995 which coincides with the death of Grunge Rock which was indeed Christ's second coming)

Our Bad, Armageddon and the New System are actually figuritive speech and the love you find in the congregation is your Perfect Life Reward.

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I am attending an assembly.

by jwbot in

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the circuit assembly is coming up in september.

there are several reasons i am going:it is at the maine center for the arts, at my college.

i really like this place, it would be interesting..my mother told me that i would not be shunned ("what would be the point on going?

Tuesday

Good luck, maybe you should sign up for the free carpet and plants at the end of the program for your apartment. Be sure to report back with the number of bolts holding the rafters together (37 in Providence Civic Center).

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easy there, pardner...let me explain

by doogie in

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ok, wait...stop writing that hate mail to me.

i want to explain the new avator, just so there's no confusion.

it has a meaning but it's ot what you think.. yes, it's a crossed out cross.

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I always thought it just meant you were a fan of the band which I'm a huge fan of. I went to a Green Day and Blink 182 concert because they were opening, I left after they finished. Bad Religion is one of the intelligent punk bands, it's nice to have a band that doesn't sing about getting wasted, puking and pooping.

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News program suggestint that Jesus was married

by Netty in

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a little disclaimer first, let me admit right up front i think this is a little on the weird side.

i was watching a news program, maybe 48 hours or one of those like it, sometime last week.

and it talked about how there is a whole group of supposed experts who say that jesus christ was married.

Tuesday

Sorry I have to comment here, Out of the Org, it's Star Trek, not Treck. People isn't it obvious how Jesus got to Japan...he walked on the water!

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Something I posted in my LiveJournal....

by Tuesday in

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would appreciate any comments if possible....thanks in advance.

(sorry had to take out the names but i have them all in my actual journal...here's to hoping no one i know finds the journal eh?

tuesday, august 17th, 2004 12:12 am a loss for words... a loss for words is one of the last things i would say for myself when it comes to typing, writing in this journal or writing an e-mail.

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Sorry about the formatting, was on a Mac last night.

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Something I posted in my LiveJournal....

by Tuesday in

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would appreciate any comments if possible....thanks in advance.

(sorry had to take out the names but i have them all in my actual journal...here's to hoping no one i know finds the journal eh?

tuesday, august 17th, 2004 12:12 am a loss for words... a loss for words is one of the last things i would say for myself when it comes to typing, writing in this journal or writing an e-mail.

Tuesday

Would appreciate any comments if possible....thanks in advance. (sorry had to take out the names but I have them all in my actual journal...here's to hoping no one I know finds the journal eh? :) ) Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 12:12 am A Loss for Words... A loss for words is one of the last things I would say for myself when it comes to typing, writing in this journal or writing an e-mail. In person I'm completely different, I don't think I've said 3 or 4 words this whole year at work to most of the bosses. I heard a story once about a person who was blind his entire life ask a man what blue looks like. The man flustered tried to explain what blue was, but nothing he could come up with could truly give blue justice. I mean how do you describe the beauty of the sky, or the deepness of the ocean, the most endless blue you've ever seen, now describe that. It's impossible, or as my Dad says describe the difference in taste between chicken and turkey. A similar situation happened to me today when asked why I left the witnesses. It was like describing blue, some people can see all the discrepencies and some people can't. It would be like how you know you're male vs. female, either you can put the signs together or you can't. Maybe that's not the best example; you see I'm completely speechless. Now I'll have to quote from memory here because for some reason I can't find my Bible (must be due to a severe lack of study) but I remember a scripture saying "you will know my followers from they love amongst themselves." I felt that was not something to be described as a Witness. There was another scripture "Do not tell your brother 'let me extract the splinter in your eye' when you have a rafter in your own". I felt that described well the Elders and more so the Elder's children in my congregation. Or the scripture talking about the time of the end "No one knows the day or the hour", which I felt my entire life I was told, "you'll never make it through High School", then "You'll never make it through college" now I'm gone I'm wondering if they're telling my friends "Don't bother saving up for retirement, it'll never make it that far."? I would love to say it was one big event, one monumentous moment in which I realized this is truly not the right religion. It was mostly the people, too many mistakes and things going wrong for God to be in control. I mean we all have stories of injustice in the congregation, I don't think ALL OF US should have at least one story of injustice in the congregation. I never paid attention to prophesy that much in my time as a witness so my scriptures vs. Watchtower is lacking to say the least but the one thing that I remember standing out was the 1914 generation. When I was at the Stone St. bookstudy I remember Al S____ would always somewhat field questions that people in the bookstudy had. Al was a nice guy, he played guitar with my father (hmmm I wonder if he played the strip clubs like my father :) ) I remember one meeting in particular which I don't really remember the date but I'm pretty sure it was winter and I was around 13 because Crystal was still around at this point (but not in the bookstudy) 1993 was an awful long time for the generation to be around on earth. Especially since the generation started with "Everyone who had an idea or understood what was going on" to "Anyone alive at that time" to "if they were born in that year" till "about 80 years" and now it was rapidly going past 80 years. I remember my mother giving me examples of people in Russia who grew to be 120 years old. Then in a questions from the readers the Watchtower tried to explain this, Al read it to the group saying pretty much to the effect "some of you are questioning whether the 1914 generation should be longer than originally intended, this is by no means the case, the 1914 generation will remain the same." Everybody felt relieved. Then they changed the interpretation the next month. I'm a smart guy I think (165 IQ baby) the ever changing light doctrine, the light getting brighter and so forth is supposed to make me believe you more? As in "other religions don't admit they're wrong, while we do." The publications would always condemn Catholics for things like the Inquisition which happened in the Middle Ages, "if they were truly the right religion..." or the sex allegations in the Priesthood, I remember that being in Brother C____'s presentation and a staple of my mother's catholic bashing. Well what about in the 20's - 50's when Vaccines were considered wrong due to the same principle as blood transfusions, and if the priesthood is bad about molestation check out Silent Lambs....Hello Pot, This is Kettle, YOU'RE BLACK! The thing is religion is based on faith. My mother is a sincere Jehovah's Witness, she believes with her whole heart and whole mind and whole soul (that's the way it was said right?), I could point these things out to her all day and she wouldn't believe. I could show her every single miscommunication, misprint, misinterpretation, errors in translation, errors in judgement, errors in publication and she would claim the ever changing light. I could show her an Elder robbing an old woman out of her savings by robbing a bank, raping a cockerspaniel, french kissing a guy, while sticking an aids infected needle in his ass and saying "you like that you little pussy bitch don't you" and she would say that "there are imperfect people in Jehovah's Orginization". Faith is what religion is all about, if you have faith, you believe things will be fixed (at God's almighty day I guess), if you're a realist or don't have faith you'll try to fix it yourself, once you realize one person can't fix a multi-million person orginization you leave. I can't shatter anybody's faith, Nazi's couldn't break people's faith, the depression couldn't break people's faith, the Egyptians didn't break the Jew's faith, the Romans couldn't break the Christian's faith, Michael Moore can't break President Bush's faith (LOL). If I could break people's faith I would use it for something a little more important than getting someone out of a religion. They have to want to be out before they will get themselves out. Like a person have to take a cold remedy if they want to be healed of the flu. One's eye cannot be opened until they tell them to be opened. I wish I had a scripture to end this with but once again because I can't find my Bible (an hour later WTF?!?!) I leave with my mother's old presentation for the Truth book (or was it Mankind's search for God) "We encourage you to examine your religion and take an open an honest look inside the religion, at those who are in charge and those in places of power. Do they reflect the personality that God's wants us to put on? Do they show the righteousness described in the Bible? When you look at it's devotees do they show the love Jesus described that would be found in his congregation? And of your doctrine does it follow the Bible exactly with no deviation or special interpretation? We encourage you to read the literature I just gave you with an open mind and ask yourself with an open heart am I truly serving God how he wants to be served?" That's enough for tonight, join me tomorrow when I discuss the politics of wrestling, the many uses of a hammerlock and why I called my finisher "The Double Cheese Rabbit" (too much witness reality in this post, need some humor)

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Friday the 13th

by Elsewhere in

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boo!

one bad thing did happen this morning... i woke up to find that my personal domain is down.

i'm waiting for a response from my hosting company to let me know what is going on..

Tuesday

My Wedding anniversary is Friday the 13th, which is when we married on Friday the 13th of June. My wife and I always go out to eat on Friday the 13th, especially today as both our paychecks are in. Cheesecake Factory here we come!