outbutnotdown
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God bless freedom of ................non-religion
by outbutnotdown inmy best friend and his girlfriend came over for a visit tonight.
he used to be a jw, drifted away, and is a very spiritually enlightened person.
she is a mormon.
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Avishai or others.... please help!
by outbutnotdown ini just got out of court today.
the judge mentioned that what i was accusing my ex-wife of was "parental alienation".
yes, she is guilty of it.
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"As soon as they are saying 'Peace and Security', sudden destruction.......
by outbutnotdown ini was having a moment today when i was trying to compare how loving the jw's god (and father) is compared to me, also a father.. i'm not sure how much they still preach the "peace and security" cry and that sudden destruction is to be upon the world immediately after that.....????......
but when i was a child i thought that was the meanest and also cowardly thing that god could do.
comparing it to me as a father.... .
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Green Bible....... Follow up
by outbutnotdown inwhen i originally brought up the topic about the 1961 green bible i wanted to write more about it but my computer went screwy and submitted only what i had typed in up to that point.. the one really whacked thing in the old green bible was, imo, what someone mentioned about genesis in the last topic.
i don't have one anymore..... (the society, i believe, is trying to hide their stupidity and systematically tried to get rid of them) but i do remember plain as day that, in that green bible, genesis' time period that it covered was 46,026 b.c.e to 1657 b.c.e.
(the ones after that just said: "in the beginning to 1657 b.c.e.
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I saw one of the elders from my judicial committee today.....
by outbutnotdown ini was df'd about 12 years ago and i saw one of the elders form my judicial committee for the first time in about 11 and 1/2 years today.
i was at the mcdonald's playland with three of my four beautiful children, and i went up to the counter to get something they had forgotten to give me and there he was..... standing a foot from me, in typical saturday morning service garb.
i was taken by surprise but my instant reaction was going to be to thank him for kicking me out.... since, even though it has not always been easy, it is still the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Abraham.... why such a GOOD guy?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by outbutnotdown ini used to be a jw, (from birth until about 12 years ago... now 34).
the one thing i could never figure out was why abraham was considered to be a chosen person, not only by christians but muslims also.
for arguments sake, we have to take the same stance that other religious people do, that the bible is factual and literal.... (although my opinion on that is different).
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Selfish/Selfless acts......... which?
by outbutnotdown ini have a cousin, who i feel, was greatly responsible for me ceasing to believe in jw teachings.
besides showing me the "light" he is a very wise and kind person and deserves my respect.. he always stressed that humans are inhently selfish.
while i was a jw i quickly passed his thoughts as being too independant of "god".
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Theocratic Warfare Strategy
by outbutnotdown ini am not sure how many people will remember me because i have not posted in a couple of years, but 'hi' all.
i have been out of the jw religion since about 1992, so i have forgotten some teachings, etc.
nevertheless, i am hoping to obtain quotes from watchtower books or magazines that talk specifically about their theocratic warfare strategy.
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wife given permission new union with lover without husband's permission
by outbutnotdown inwow!!!.
i've never heard of that specifically.
although when i was df'd and my wife was reinstated, there was a "brother" who kept asking her out on a date and the elders refused to even speak to him about it.. i know it may be upsetting you, but if you want my advice....
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"Unconditional Love" poem
by outbutnotdown inabout a year ago, i started from the freeminds.org site and ended up on some other site, where i found a beautiful poem entitled "unconditional love".
i have been looking for it a few times again, since then, and haven't been able to find it.
can anyone tell me if they have seen a poem that sounds like that to them?