Posts by candidlynuts

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I can't stop eating..

by StinkyPantz in

jw
friends

..wth is wrong with me?

the last few days i have been on an eating binge.

i can't seem to help myself.. <sigh> .

I'll try again--IS ANYONE DONATING $ TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI?

by azaria in

jw
friends

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these people are in desperate need of everyone's help.

is anyone here planning to help?

candidlynuts

i think its safe to give to red cross or major charities that are collecting . a lot of those deliver the goods themselves instead of just handing money to the govt.

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If Something Bad Happens To A JW, Are You Happy?

by minimus in

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friends

every so often, i read that some posters have such contempt for jehovah's witnesses, that they are happy when they hear that one died or suffered from cancer or some other disease or tragedy.

they rationalize things by saying, "jws are so corrupt that getting rid of them in any way is good!".

or, "i'm glad that this bad thing happened to them.

candidlynuts

once you've had bad things happen to you yourself.. i dont think you find joy in anyones pain.

i dont anyway.

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At YOUR Stage of Being "Out", What Do You No Longer Care About?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some left because they found no real love in the witnesses.

some departed because of certain doctrines that were peculiar only to jws that were weird.

there are a number of reasons for leaving.....my question is, are those reasons still dear to you now?

candidlynuts

at one stage i didnt care about anything. and thats unhealthy. i'm trying to realize whats important to care about and what to let go.

i care about my family and what they think of me.

i care about God and what he may think of me but realize he knows my heart so i dont sweat it too badly.

i dont care about the elders opinion of me because they are just on a witch hunt to find a reason to be finished with me. (although i havent had a call since feb.so not too worried about them)

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I can't stop eating..

by StinkyPantz in

jw
friends

..wth is wrong with me?

the last few days i have been on an eating binge.

i can't seem to help myself.. <sigh> .

candidlynuts

your eating more cuz your on the cusp of winter and your body is stocking up for your hibernation.

wait thats bears.........

hmm... ah well.. pig out .. eat drink and be merry cuz its friday night and instead of being out partying we're here posting lol

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Sexism in the borg....sexist pigs the lot

by Jez in

jw
friends

let's talk about how sexist the borg is:.

only men can give talks.

only men can be elders.

candidlynuts

whats with women having to still GET TALKS UP and men get "OUTLINES" wt doesnt wanna make mens poor lil brains have to work.

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Sexism in the borg....sexist pigs the lot

by Jez in

jw
friends

let's talk about how sexist the borg is:.

only men can give talks.

only men can be elders.

candidlynuts

we also bleed 5 days a month , AND LIVE.

lets see a man do that lmao

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PLEASE HELP THE PEOPLE IN THE CARIBBEAN IF YOU CAN

by azaria in

jw
friends

i'm off to work in a few minutes but wanted to post this message.

please if you are financially capable, donate, whether to the red cross, salvation army.

the destruction on these islands, especially haiti, has been devastating.

candidlynuts

good post.. i read on cnn that the usa governments aid package to haiti was an embarassing 60,000 bux. so the REAL help is going to have to come from charitable orginizations.

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THE SKY IS FALLING!

by candidlynuts in

excerpt from a story from ny press... see entirety at http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=11137

during a taxi ride one day in february, a driver in baltimore asked how i was doing.

i told him my plans for the near future.

candidlynuts

excerpt from a story from ny press... see entirety at http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=11137

DURING A TAXI ride one day in February, a driver in Baltimore asked how I was doing. I told him my plans for the near future.

He turned around, gave me a very strange look and said: "I don't want to scare you, but the world is gonna end in seven months."

Hundreds of taxis, and I get this guy. But nothing about him seemed dangerous, so I engaged him in conversation. Apparently a disciple of a certain radio preacher, this cabbie could expound at length on why the world was expected to end that September. Drawing on my meager knowledge of eschatology, I asked, "Isn't the antichrist supposed to reign for several years before the world ends?"

"Oh, he's already here!" the driver assured me. "People just don't know it!" At my destination, he left me marveling at the vagaries of belief.

That was in 1994. Ten years later, the world is still here. How that driver explained its survival, I have no idea. If he truly trusted that seven-month countdown, then he must have been disappointed at the dawn of October 1.

The human brain appears to have a receptor for such stories, as for opiates, because the neo-doomsday crowd never lacks an audience. Just now, a lot of people again imagine the world ending very soon.

As I write, fears focus on the asteroid Toutatis, a mountain-sized planetoid that is expected to pass very close to Earth on Wednesday, September 29, 2004. For months, the internet has been abuzz with woeful speculation that Toutatis will hit us rather than miss by a few Earth radii. Depending on where such an object landed, it might devastate a hemisphere?or worse. An impact at sea might send colossal waves, or tsunamis, roaring around the globe to smash and drown coastal cities from New York to Singapore.

Yes, for some, for us, this could be scheduled for next Wednesday.

Well, relax. Not everyone anticipates "the end" tomorrow or next week. We might survive 2004, and maybe even 2005. But thereafter, doomsayers are having a field day. According to one Canadian website, the much-publicized "Bible code," which supposedly reveals future events as encoded in portions of the Bible, has been cited as warning of a global nuclear war in 2006.

But the big time for doomsday lovers is six years later. The other day, a friend who monitors end-times chatter told me, "They're predicting 'the end' for 2012 now." Specifically, "they" include:

? The Bible-code set, who also imagine the Pentateuch points to a comet striking Earth that year;

? Exegetes of the Mayan calendar, who appear to think it indicates something really horrible (conceivably the end of the universe) on December 21, 2012;

? An exponent of "novelty theory," according to which some unspecified but unpleasant "trans-dimensional" event is due on that same date, as the "center" of the galaxy rises;

? An unnamed doomsayer who puts the big event three days later, on December 24, when one-third of the Oort cloud, a giant swarm of comets circling the sun, supposedly will crash into our planet; and

? Another seer who suggests the sun and Earth both will undergo reversals of their magnetic fields in 2012, leading to tremendous geophysical upheavals on Earth.

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"he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved"

by Tyre in

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watchtower ussually quotes from that word which is taken from matthew 10:22, please kindly search for me where was watchtower or awake are mentions about that words?.

thank you in advance.

candidlynuts

aaargh my heads gonna explode ! figuring out what god wants is a pain in the ass. couldnt he have chosen better writers for the bible?