Posts by TTATTelder

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Overwhelming Fear of Death

by Perversion of a truth in

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do any of the posters on here deal with this?

i do, and i hate it.

people (mostly my brother) tells me to not fear death and just to enjoy life and so on, but that doesn't seem to help any.

TTATTelder

I like Pams girl's quote;

"Don't be afraid to die, be afraid that you haven't lived...."

If you you think about it, that's probably what the real fear is...that you haven't or are not presently really living.

What would really really living look like to you? ...What does it feel like? What does it smell like? Who is there? What are you wearing? Where are you?

Start taking steps toward that picture today.

I recently read something I thought was pretty brilliant. Ask yourself, Where do I want to be in 5 years? And then start having a small piece of that now.

For instance, let's say you want a life where you take a fabulous vacation every 3 months. Well make plans to go ahead and take whatever vacation you can afford now every 3 months - even if its just going out of town and staying with a relative for the weekend. Start the habit now and build from there.

You want to be the person going for a jog 3 times a week? Start walking for 10 minutes 3 mornings a week now.

Don't keep saying "one day I'll..." or "wouldn't it be nice if...." Have a taste of it now.

When you are really living and creating the life you want you don't think about death.

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Masterful Game With Spiritual Stalkers

by WinAgainstThem in

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i've been in the ''truth'' for about 7 years.

basically i grew up believing in it, but knew joining it would destroy me.

im simply awkward around people and have suffered from social anxiety all my life.

TTATTelder

Alphaman .. add a 3 foot smurf doll sitting in the corner staring at them. lol...

thx for the laugh shirley

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Had a strange moment last night.

by thedog1 in

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in my line of work i have to deal with a lot of different people each day in a teaching capacity.

sometimes, with adults that i teach, we have some informal discussions not directly related to the subject being taught, but still important as far as developing a friendly relationship in the classroom.

anyway, yesterday i noticed that in one class the students had been given a little religious calendar in a diary form, quite a popular thing for people to do in the country i live in.

TTATTelder

Good one Ruby...

dog1... I hear ya. I replied "I am currently a Jehovah's Witness" which I was shocked to hear come out of my mouth. LOL

It's such a freaking process. So much brain pollution.

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Farkel's Life Story

by Bangalore in

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farkel's life story.

read it here.. .

http://www.cultbuster.faithweb.com/mystory.htm.

TTATTelder

I read it last night. Thanks for posting.

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Masterful Game With Spiritual Stalkers

by WinAgainstThem in

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i've been in the ''truth'' for about 7 years.

basically i grew up believing in it, but knew joining it would destroy me.

im simply awkward around people and have suffered from social anxiety all my life.

TTATTelder

What a way to expose them. Their mental gymnastics ties them in knots.

They usually just resort to "you should make that a matter of prayer", "wait on Jehovah", or some comment on "progressive truth" (as if truth moves).

lol thanks for sharing and welcome

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History of Everything & Stuff by Doug Checketts

by blondie in

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eve says, "this is .

" so eve eateth of the tree.

so adam eateth of the tree, also.. and he blamed eve for everything.

TTATTelder

loved loved loved it!

prom date, unicorns, gave noah magazines...priceless.

Sorry he was here before my time. I will definitely look back over his old threads.

Thanks for posting blondie

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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT

by cofty in

10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.

15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.

TTATTelder

Cofty

This is one thread well worth the time it took you to write

and for me to read

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Thanks

I ditto wasblind's comment above.

This should be personal for all active Jehovah's Witnesses. The GB will let your mate, child, friend, or you die instead of admit they are wrong on this otherwise relatively insignificant doctrine. They even go as far as to make it a test of faith. The sad thing is - it is a test of your faith in them - not God.

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The GB's Obsession with the Catholics

by TTATTelder in

the gb for some reason is completely fixated on the roman catholic church (rcc).

they should just say that the rcc is babylon the great and get it over with.. the "world empire of false religion" ??

how often do they talk about muslims?

TTATTelder

The GB for some reason is completely fixated on the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). They should just say that the RCC is Babylon the Great and get it over with.

The "World Empire of False Religion" ?? Really?

How often do they talk about Muslims? (over 1.5 billion people) How often to they talk about Hindus? (over 1 billion people) Uhh... like never.

It's strange... I just wonder where all the venom toward Catholics is coming from. If JW's are supposed to be the one true religion on earth, then why not have the same vitriol toward these other faiths? Are they not also leading people astray from the "faithful and discreet slave"?

Like with this whole overreaction to the UN making some statements about the RCC and child abuse. (I was just at a Witness gathering and the subject came up - the whole room was engrossed in a discussion about how "here it is" "this could be how it all starts" blah blah)

If that story was about Muslims, the witnesses wouldn't have even noticed.

So here's my question: Why the RCC fixation?

Do you think it is a competition thing? Are they bashing their biggest Christian competitor? Like one car dealer bashing the other?

Or is it jealousy over their power and wealth? We do know that the GB love them some power and wealth...

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New congregation accounting system

by thedog1 in

i'm sure i read a thread here about the new congregation accounting procedures.

i ask because i handle the accounts in our cong and in our part of the world the new accounting system has just arrived whereby local congs do not have their own account any longer, but all funds outside of basic monthly costs is forwarded to an account controlled by the org.

this is causing huge confusion in our cong as we have to work out how much we need to keep back for monthly costs and the new idea is that you send all your extra cash to the org and if you need it back you can ask for it but we don't know how easy or hard it would be to do that.

TTATTelder

Good Lord

I'm still stuck in as an elder in the US and we have nothing like that over here yet.

Wouldn't surprise me though. The cult control knows no bounds.

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How many have been the FDS in the whole history of the world ?

by scary21 in

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with the jw crazy new light, they must now believe that only 20-30 men in the whole history of mankind fill that role.

rutherford would be first, then knorr.

after them there were what eighteen on the gb?

TTATTelder

No I totally get it Sherry.

These guys think they're so special that God's Son, Jesus Christ, second most powerful person in the universe sat his apostles down to tell them about a couple dozen men in Brooklyn that would show up in 2000 years or so.

That's not far-fetched at all.