i miss the feeling i used to get right after i'd left the KH, like i was pure and sparkly clean and sin-free.
Ditto! I thought I was the only one who felt that way. Whaddayaknow.
Ariell
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Do you miss being part of something big?
by sleepy in.
at one time i was one of "gods chosen people", part of a special group of people who had exclusive access to hidden truths about the earth and its people.. now of cource i realise i'm just like everyone else and all the puzzles are still there.. kind of miss that feeling sometimes..
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Pardon my ignorance
by Ariell inwhat was the true motive for the wts joining the un?
what did they have to gain?
i've done research, but have yet to find an answer to my question.
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Ariell
What was the true motive for the WTS joining the UN? What did they have to gain? I've done research, but have yet to find an answer to my question.
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Typical
by Ariell in.
i thought you guys might find this interesting, if not boring.
forgive me if it's the latter.. http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=1003967.
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I thought you guys might find this interesting, if not boring. Forgive me if it's the latter.
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Realisation of your immortality
by barbar in.
how have you coped with the realisation that you will not live forever.
if you truly believed it at one stage that you would never die and now realise that this is not the case, has it made you worried about death and how life is so short.
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Ariell
This may sound weird, but I've always had a strange fear of living forever. The thought of going on and on and on and on and on and on...........never ending. It doesn't make sense. I would get headaches just thinking about it, but I've never been too keen on dying either. I always use to wonder, when I was still brainwashed, how people in the world accepted the fact that they would die one day and be okay with it, thinking that I would lose my mind if I ever believed that. It's like being in purgatory. You don't want to live an eternity, but you don't want to die either. I was born in the borg. So I always thought I'd walk into the system still young. Suprisingly though it wasn't too hard for me to accept my mortaility. What I do fear however is getting old. Yikes!
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How long did it take for you to realize it wasn't the truth?
by freedom96 inso many of us, so many reasons we left or were kicked out.
from that point, how long did it take for you to not feel guilty about things and realize that the wts is not the "truth" as they always claim and that they have no say in whatever happens to us later.. for me, it was a slow fade.
not so much because i was determind to leave it; it was basically laziness in that regard.
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Ariell
Ever since I was a little girl I always wished it wasn't the truth, but believed it was. I had my first doubt when I was twelve in 1995-the generation change, but like most Witnesses with doubts I ignored them and only focused on what made sense and seemed right. I'm still in, but my mind is out.
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Gentile Times
by Ariell ini hear a lot of people talk about the chronology of the gentile times, but what was the purpose of it to begin with?
why couldn't god have destroyed the world right after the ransom sacrifice of jesus?
to prove satan wrong?
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I hear a lot of people talk about the chronology of the Gentile Times, but what was the purpose of it to begin with? Why couldn't God have destroyed the world right after the ransom sacrifice of Jesus? To prove Satan wrong? To prove we can't live without him? It takes 4,000 years to prove a point? Ok God. We get it. We're nothing without you. Now let's get this show on the road. What I find most disturbing is that according to the bible he's only proven that we can't make it without him as imperfect human beings. How would we have turned out if left perfect? It all seems so silly, overdramatic, and pointless to me. Not to mention that Bible Scholars and Christian Theologians say that followers of Jesus believed the end of the world was very near! If only they knew 4,000 years later we'd still be hear!
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How Sad
by Ariell ini have a distant cousin, 15 and in a wheel chair.
she's always saying how she can't wait until the new system comes when finally she'll be set free from her handicap and can run around with joyful glee.
it breaks my heart knowing this is never gonna happen and makes me even more angrier.
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I have a distant cousin, 15 and in a wheel chair. She's always saying how she can't wait until the new system comes when finally she'll be set free from her handicap and can run around with joyful glee. It breaks my heart knowing this is never gonna happen and makes me even more angrier. Does anyone here have a friend or family member whose depending on the new system to rid them of their ailment, mental, physicial, or otherwise.
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To Those Who Believe That GOD Exists - Prove It!
by SpannerintheWorks inyou didn't come to that conclusion in an instant, did you?
you thought about it, deliberated and concluded: god exists!.
how did you get to that conclusion?.
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Creationists seem to only focus on questions that the bible can answer, but rarely do they ever ask the questions the bible cannot answer and never will. I'm not saying for a 100% certainity there is no God, but there are too many loose ends, too many things that don't add up to just simply believe in something because a black book says you should.
I'm neither creationist, atheist, nor evolutionist. I'm an IDK. That's right, an I don't knower. Everyone else would do well to follow my lead. : )
Sorry about the multi-post. The forum won't allow me to submit posts that are too long. : (
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To Those Who Believe That GOD Exists - Prove It!
by SpannerintheWorks inyou didn't come to that conclusion in an instant, did you?
you thought about it, deliberated and concluded: god exists!.
how did you get to that conclusion?.
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I believe that if they had not sinned we all would still be living in a perfect world and the whole earth a garden. Thats not a JW belief either that is what I get as an understanding from scripture..
Why did God not kill Satan the instant he turned bad? How would he have tested Adam and Eve if Satan hadn't turned against him? Would he have tested them at all? What would have happened if only Eve ate the fruit and not Adam? We'd be half imperfect, half perfect? Didn't God know what his creation would do before even creating it? Why are aggressive animals such as alligators and lions equipped and made for killing weaker prey (e.g sharp teeth) if they were intended to live together in peace? Why do they kill at all? Did the sin passed on to us apply to them to? How could that be when they're not offspring of Adam and Eve? Why did God create dinosaur and then kill them off? Never did understand that one.
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To Those Who Believe That GOD Exists - Prove It!
by SpannerintheWorks inyou didn't come to that conclusion in an instant, did you?
you thought about it, deliberated and concluded: god exists!.
how did you get to that conclusion?.
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Ariell
From my own experience when I am away from God my life is not happy, I am without inner peace with myself and with others. But when I put God into my life I find a feeling of goodness and happiness inside. So what is it then that does that to me if there is not a God.?
I would liken that to the placebo effect, when a person is given a sugar pill instead of the real deal. They claim to feel better after taking this pill, but in actuality the medicine that they think has cured them doesn't even exist within their bodies. It's a figment of their imagination. The cure only exists within their minds. It has been proven that people with optimism heal better than those without it. Your happiness comes from a belief, not God's power. Don't mean to offend, just one of my many strong convictions.