Topics Started by dh
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Demons
by dh inanother post to add to my list of things i wanted to ask ex jw's but never had the chance.. have you ever had any unexplainable experiences or encounters with something paranormal and been told by jw elders that 'it must be the demons' literally, or 'we'll pray to jehovah for help' due to some 'demonic' thing you are going through, being tormented or whatever, if so, what do you put it down to?
do you subscribe to a belief of angels & demons?
do you believe these beings, if they exist can interfere in our day to day lives or do you dismiss anything 'paranormal' as being in the head of the person who thinks it happened to them?.
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Resurrection
by barbar inif a person is resurrected, are they really the same person?.
it is a bit difficult to explain this, but are they not a copy of the original person (all of the cells are new) with just the memory etc reinstalled?.
it seems to me that even if resurrection were real then it would not be the actual person who was resurrected but an image of them who thought, acted and remembered the same as the original.
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What I would do if I were God....
by Aztec inif i were god there would be no explicit sex on t.v.. like little opie eating pie when he made it with aunt bea.
if i were god thou shall not worship false billy idols.
and thou shall add the book of flavor flav to the bible.
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hey it close to smurfy's b-day
by freelife insmurfy's birthday is on christmas day.
everyone please wish her a happy b-day.. .
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Reading Older Society Publications
by Blueblades in.
i was once told by a sister who is a proof - reader at the world headquarters,that if you have the last ten years of watchtowers that is all you need to be up to date on current society teachings.i mention this because many jw's frown on the practice of reading older publications and are quick to point out this fact to anyone who attemts to confront them with a statement that the organization has made in the past.. if this should happen to you,as it did to me when i have mentioned what the society has said in print in the past,direct them to the watchtower 6-15-85 p.12 ..."it means reading the footnotes in the wt.articles,some of which refer the reader to an older publication ( it does not qualify within 10 years )...it requires digging deeper,putting forth effort to locate that older publication and studying the pages to.".
so,this proof-reader needs to pay more attention to what she herself is reading when giving advice to others as to how far back we can go to examine what the society has said in the past.. blondie's post is an excellant example of how she herself supports everything she writes in her "comments you will not hear"on current wt.study articles,digging deeper and putting forth much effort to locate that older publication where-in out of the society's own mouth they are caught lying and being hypocritical in what they tell the rank and file.. blueblades
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Would you do this to your kids?
by Euphemism ina lot of cell phones now contain locator technology, either in the form of a gps transceiver, or a system based on triangulating cell towers.. some parents are using this to track their teenager's location at all times.
"before, they might not have told me the truth, but now i know they're going to," said mr. lutz, 46, a lawyer who has been particularly protective of britney and her sister, chelsea, 17, since his wife died several years ago.
"they know i care.
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What is Christmas to an Ex-JW?
by Amazing inwhat is christmas to you?
if you were raised a jw, as my children were, getting used to christmas takes time, and does not carry with it any memories.
for others who became jws later in life, it took time to get over christmas and learn to discredit the custom and lose feelings for it, and in some cases even learn to hate christmas as an evil pagan evoluton of apostate christianity.. .
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Get on the 2004 Birthday Calendar
by nicolaou in.
this is the current 2003 birthday calendar, just leave your details here if you'd like to be included in next years.
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Pictures of yourself as a kid
by Aztec ini'm starting this because i was chatting with someone this morning about pictures of ourselves as kids.
i realized i didn't have any of myself so i got my mother to email me a few.
i promised i'd start a thread about it and if that person doesn't post the pic they sent me this morning, i will.