Posts by EverApostate

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Jehovah has Evil Spirit ?

by EverApostate in

last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.

jehovah has evil spirit!!

was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.

Thanks for your time in drafting that lengthy email. I think i am not under the influence of Marie Antoinette Effect. But rather, scrutinizing all religions, especially Christianity, with an open mind and just reading the Bible as it is, for what ts says. With this approach, I find the Bible to contain too many discrepancies, contradictions, silliness, evilness and ignorance, to consider it to be the word of god. Also, your statement as quoted, implies to me that you are trying hard to retrofit those verses to defend god and project it in a favorable light.

The "bad" or "evil spirit" mentioned in these texts is a euphemism for a mental disorder.

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Jehovah has Evil Spirit ?

by EverApostate in

last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.

jehovah has evil spirit!!

was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.

EverApostate

Thanks SnowBird. Ha! I knew that WT would have some twisted definition like this.

BTW, I will read your quoted verses. Its more fun and amusing to read the Bible now, than when i was a christian (And JW)

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Jehovah has Evil Spirit ?

by EverApostate in

last weekend i was watching darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the bible.

jehovah has evil spirit!!

was just wondering how i didn’t come across this absurdity when i was a jw for 11 years.

EverApostate

Last weekend I was watching Darkmatter2525 on youtube and came across this new thing in the Bible. Jehovah has evil spirit!! Was just wondering how I didn’t come across this absurdity when I was a JW for 11 years. Also, I have never heard an explanation on this from the Kingdom Hall Platform, or have I missed.

Jah is supposed to be the holy of holies and an epitome of perfection. How can he have evil spirit? This sounds Absurd and ridiculous to me. (Along with all the absurdities in the Bible). Another credible proof that the Bible was written by senseless and ignorant people. Have any of you heard an explanation for this during your life as a JW? Of course if we ask a JW about it, I bet that they would spin it such as “Its actually not an Evil spirit but Jahs Anger”

1 Samuel 16: 14 -23

Now the spirit of Jehovah had departed from Saul, and a bad spirit from Jehovah terrorized him

1 Samuel 18: 10

The next day a bad spirit from God gripped Saul, and he started to act strangely inside the house, while David was playing music on the harp

1 Samuel 19:9

And a bad spirit from Jehovah came upon Saul when he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing music on the harp

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Strange stalking from JW's...Please help

by Toshibabadu in

i just recently stopped attending.

i keep getting messages, emails, texts and voice mails asking if i'm ok. they all say the exact same thing.

it's creepy and a bit scary.

EverApostate

When I was fading, I experienced the same. Dubs would come to my home and would try to figure out what was wrong with me. I would tell them that I have lost my faith in this WT religion due to a number of reasons. I would take that opportunity to tell them the TTATT. And finally they stopped coming

Finally I wrote the letter of disassociation. All this I did because I was immensely confident that my wife and mom (Still JWs) won’t ditch me, due to my disassociation. It’s again a culture thing and your repercussions may be different. I am from India.

And I am happier now after leaving the cult. Your situations may be different. Proceed with caution.

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Christopher Columbus makes ISIS look like a bunch of hippies.

by marmot in

here's an excerpt from the account of bartolome de las casas, the priest who accompanied columbus on his conquest of cuba, in his book 'the devastation of the indies':.

"and the christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them.

they attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house.

EverApostate

I had always Wondered why they give such an Importance to Christoper Columbus who just came in as a nomad. He didnt really discover Amercia. This country was already there, with its native inhabitants. And I have also read that CC brought in diseases along with his people, which were entirely new to the native Indians here. And more important CC and his team plundered and Massacred in this land. What is the need for a day to be observed in his name then ?

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Recent WatchTower article about Witch Hunting

by EverApostate in

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this is about an article in may 2014 awake that was published about witch hunting.

it is a 2 page article on how evil the catholic and protestant inquision was, how wickedly they killed the witches and so on.. .

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102014166.

EverApostate

The last known Witch hunt and greusome hangings, were of the Salem witch hunts in the americas.

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Terminology the Society Hates?

by toweragent in

in my most recent talk, i got counseled for using some terms that were not prefered.

for example i said "new testament" rather than "the christian greek scriptures".

i also used the term "gospel", but even worse, i made reference to the "synoptic gospels" and the "gnostic gospel".. i guess i never thought of it before, but when i looked at the societies information on the matter they always say things like, "the so-called new testament..." or "the so-called synoptic gospels..." why with all the "so-called?".

EverApostate

Preaching - Field Service

Preacher - Publisher

Hierarchical Positions - Priveleges

Preaching time limits set - Pioneer

Cant remember more, as I am out for more than 4 years :-)

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Did Jehovah program us to have a free will? If so, how free are we?

by I_love_Jeff in

since the jehovah's witnesses believe we have no indwelling immortal spirit, are we like robots programmed with a special code called "free will"??

since robots have no indwelling immortal spirit, they can be programmed to do whatever man wants them to.

nice control tactic.. .

EverApostate

If Jah truly respects free will, why did he punish Adam and Eve for making their own decisions, based on Free will?

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Do we know for sure what happens after death?

by Yondaime in

christian denominations say we go to heaven, witness say we stay alseep until ressurection.

quran says when we go we grt 72 virgins, unless we blow some people up.. .

i'm not really concerned with death atm, i'm not dead.

EverApostate

What happens when I die.... Well Everything goes on as usual, excpet me.

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Did it bother you that they taught, "miss a meeting and you'll fall away?"

by Wasanelder Once in

how many times did we hear that if we dont attend meetings we will leave the truth because satan will get ahold of us?

that always bothered me.

i thought, "if my faith isn't able to stand alone what good is it?

EverApostate

There was once an elder who attended the meeting when his father was dead. And everyone praised him for his integrity.