Pete Zahut

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  Two Bible Beliefs of Jehovah`s Witnesses ,Do They Align with each other ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  1.the first is 2 cor.4:4 that satan is "the god of this system of things" to blind the minds of the unbelievers etc.. so logically this "system of things" would mean the governments ,politicians, armed forces and law enforcement agency`s such as the police would it not?

  so satan is in control of all of these under the banner of being the god of this system of things.?.

  2. rom.13: 1-7 " let every soul be in subjection to the superior authorities for their is no authority except by god".

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  Pete Zahut

  A few things that never added up were:

  Wouldn't the world be in utter chaos if Satan had really been ruling the world all these thousands of years and he was the reason for all of mankind problems.

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  Wouldn't Satan make sure everything was running perfectly on earth if he were trying to prove that he could lure mankind away from god?

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  If Satan is running the world and he opposes Jehovah's and his organization, how come so many of his government agencies uphold the JW's right to practice their religion and even allow them to speak out and publicly criticize them?
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  Who Was/Is The Most Beautiful First Lady In USA?

  by minimus in

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  jackie kennedy was considered the most beautiful for years.

  melania trump is obviously an ex model.

  michelle obama has been touted as a true beauty.

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  Back in the day there was Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren but it was First Lady Mamie Eisenhower who gave them all a run for their money.
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  The Day I Met a Midnight Cowboy

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  “the day i met a midnight cowboy”a hollywood memory .

  he approached me at the service counter.

  clutched in his hand : something in a small paper bag.

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  Pete Zahut

  Carol Ann collected 'interesting' people as she went through life. I was a part of her collection.
  

  Terry....when I read your stories, I wish I lived in Ft Worth so we could be friends. I would sit in Starbucks with you, with my chin in the palm of my hand and listen to whatever you had to say. Do I sound pleased? If so, it's because I am.

  I read one of your stories over the phone to a friend who lives several states away from here and I could hear him sniffling, down the telephone line. He was as touched by your words, as I was and as I knew he would be.

  
  I may as well have been a balloon salesman on the dark side of the moon.

  Man....that just says it all. Who hasn't felt like that at least once in their life... LOL !

  He was sort of like the sunny day that never was.

  Ha....I think that description fits me... LOL !
  
  
  
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  Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood (My review)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  once upon a time in... hollywood my review.

  i rode my bike through 3-digit temperature and watched quentin tarentino’s new film.the title harkens back to sergio leone’s trilogy titles.. i wanted to see it for personal reasons.

  the time span covered is the background to much of my life.

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  Some younger people may find most of this stylized movie to be a bit ho-hum but I went to school with Sharon Tate's Cousin I and remember this time very well and the impact Sharon's death had on her family. In this movie we are not only subtly reminded of simple things from the past that we had almost forgotten about, a jingle from a TV commercial, the familiar dashboard of a car we may have ridden in as a kid or the sound of ice being pried from an old fashioned lever style ice tray, but we get to see history re-writen so that real life characters are (shall we say) "thwarted", across the years, before they were able to carry out their truly evil mission.
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  Staying a Jehovah's Witness

  by lriddle80 in

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  why the shunning if someone leaves?

  why are they working so hard to keep everyone in?

  is it money?

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  Pete Zahut

  Shunning keeps JW's from hearing the other side of the story while simultaneously providing a means for them to feel extra virtuous about themselves.
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  How did Adam and Eve survive when kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

  by I believe in overlapping in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s funny how a simple question like this is something that the dubs never even consider.

  my dad asked this question to a couple of witnesses and they wondered for a minute and said; .

  “i never thought about it, i’ll have to ask the elders”.

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  No bush of the field was yet on the earth and no vegetation of the field had begun sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain on the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

  As far as I'm concerned the jury is still out, when it comes to whether the creation account is literal.

  However for the sake of this discussion, the quotation above demonstrates the problem with using scriptures out of context. We did this a lot when we were JW's and we ended up believing all sorts of nonsense because of it.

  Yes...Verse 5 says there was no rain and no vegetation for some time before man was created. But if you continue in Verse 6 it shows that by the time man was created, the entire surface of the earth was watered. Since Verse 5 says that there was no plant life because there was no rain, Verse 6 seems to indicate that this was solved once the earth sprang forth water therefore making it possible for plants to grow once he caused the ground to be watered.

  Verse 8 goes on to talk about God planting the Garden of Eden. Just because God chose a specific spot to plant a garden for the first humans, doesn't mean the rest of the earth wasn't vegetated and had wheat, corn and all the other edible plants and fruits we have today, growing wild for Adam and Eve once they were put out of the garden.

  5. Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

  6 But springswelled up from the earth and watered the whole surfaceof the ground.

  7. Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

  The original post posed a question that was supposed to prove that Adam and Eve couldn't have survived once they were put out of the garden because there wouldn't have been time for them to raise crops before they starved. This is easily disproven and any JW worth his salt could have answered this question.
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  Did you ever thought this?

  by Theonlyoneleft in

  1. jw
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  so.. you are a jw or studying, living your life and doing your bit, feverish of spreading the good news to everyone that will listen!.

  you prep yourself for meetings, doing your ministry and applying all that there is into your daily life.. so....i have a question... you know... my clogs.

  when you where completely in the religion, did you ever think about the impact of your way of life and religion towards others, specially those that lived around you such as good friends or family members that didn’t studied?

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  Pete Zahut

  Pete you’re always welcome in London!!!.....I hope you’ll get to visit the Westminster Abbey one day, it’s a place filled with historical facts ☺️.

  Well thank you!!

  When I was a kid living in the U.S, we were able to travel quite a bit. One time, after much discussion, I was really upset when I found out that we weren't going to see Westminster Abbey. To this day, the British and Irish side of the family still call me "Mr Abbey" because apparently I said "Why can't we go and see Mr. Abbey??". They all thought that was hilarious and it broke up some of the tension in the room and they still recount the story.

  Since then I'm happy to say, I've been able to visit Westminster Abbey and other historical religious sites in Europe.
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  Did you ever thought this?

  by Theonlyoneleft in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so.. you are a jw or studying, living your life and doing your bit, feverish of spreading the good news to everyone that will listen!.

  you prep yourself for meetings, doing your ministry and applying all that there is into your daily life.. so....i have a question... you know... my clogs.

  when you where completely in the religion, did you ever think about the impact of your way of life and religion towards others, specially those that lived around you such as good friends or family members that didn’t studied?

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  Until we found out later that the Governing Body members etc visited famous historical churches and "holy places" in their many travels, we used to avoid them because we viewed them as part of Babylon the Great (touch not the unclean thing).

  I remember my Mother being apprehensive about visiting West Minster Abbey for example, when we were visiting non JW family in London even though she had invited and fully expected them to come to the meetings with us at the local Kingdom Hall while we were there (which they did, out of politeness).

  How narcissistic and arrogant to think that our visiting the historical church that was the flagship of their religion would be offensive to God and them not attending our meetings would be a considered a rejection of the "Truth" and another nail hammered into their collective coffins.
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  How a young Jehovah's Witness found an escape and a Teacher suddenly appeared.

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  how a young jehovah's witness found an escape and a teacher suddenly appeared._____________.

  1974____i escaped texas in my mid-20’s -- a fugitive of my own life--fleeing westward into california with a dream of- i know not what.i knew nothing useful - it was only bible knowledge.what i did know, i was full of in the same way foie gras is made.

  (in france, ducks are force-fed until their liver bursts.

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  Thanks for sharing this experience from your past and for the foresight to write down or at least pay close enough attention to Myoshi's words so as to remember them, even if you didn't get the full impact of them until later.

  I could almost picture him, hear his voice and see his wry smile as I read your story. He must have seen something in you that prompted him to share his insights on life and the details of the loss of his family. I'd say his words were not wasted for they are still having an impact on others, decades after he first spoke them to you.
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  How did Adam and Eve survive when kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

  by I believe in overlapping in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s funny how a simple question like this is something that the dubs never even consider.

  my dad asked this question to a couple of witnesses and they wondered for a minute and said; .

  “i never thought about it, i’ll have to ask the elders”.

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  Pete Zahut

  As a JW, it was my understanding that animals and vegetation were created and existed on the entire earth not just solely in the garden. The creation that took place, took place over the entire earth. Fish were in the seas, lakes and rivers, birds flew in the skies and animals roved the earth. That being the case, there would be all the vegetables, roots, nuts and berries that exist today, available for them to eat and Adam and Eve could do so as well once the we’re put out of Eden.

  If the story is true, the earth today is still under the same curse, yet vegetation still grows despite the thorns and weeds. There was no indication in the Bible that Adam and Eve (if they existed)had to start from scratch. It only said that their work to grow things from that point forward would be more difficult than it was before. Not impossible.

  It seems to me that anyone who believes this story is literal would have been able to easily answer this simple question before the went out publicly offering to study the Bible with people.