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  What would God say?

  by Taylor S. in

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  coffee makes my mind wander.

  this morning after reading some threads, i thought ... how could god logically expect man to grow closer to him as time keeps rolling further and further away from the miracles of old.. haven't seen a burning bush or nothing in a hot minute.

  i mean, those are the things that kept people's attention.

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  jbeanz ....

  the children? he's scaring me with that one. it's worse than my sea-monkey armaggedon story.
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  WATCHTOWER AND TOBACCO INDUSTRY???

  by chuckyy in

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  i have heard recently that the society has some sort of financial connections with philip morris the tobacco giant.. is this true???

  chukyy

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  precisely hopeless ...

  i can't count the times i've been told not to do something ... something so simple as seeing a certain movie, because, though it was exactly wrong, it just might stumble someone. the 'Omen' was big way back when. of course it was clearly demonized ... but my mom took me to see it anyway.

  long story short, movie scared the crap outta me ... she made me promise not to tell anyone because it might stumble folks.

  decades later ... i'm just getting around to breaking that promise. but of course now, stumbling folks ain't such a bad idea.
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  Trying to get to know people on the JWD

  by cindykp in

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  i havent been here that long, and just trying to get to know a little more about the people im chatting with.

  i know some dont want to share too much info, which i understand.

  so.............im divorced, have 3 kids, lived in florida for 15 years, now back home in wi.

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  Dream : Build my own modest place in the very middle of nowhere, at least 10 miles away from the nearest house. Be self sufficient with solar power and a generator. Have a huge garden and some chickens for the eggs. Make enough money with my writings, so that I don't have to 'go to work' every day.

  Fairchild ....

  I could get with that dream .... throw in a few pigs though (must have my bacon). Oh yeah, and a few Chippendale stripper types to do the heavy lifting (and one or two other odd jobs), and I'd be one happy rustic homo.
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  Well....the wife and I are going back to the Kingdom Hall.

  by jimbob in

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  2. friends

  before i explain why, i've never really given anyone a background on myself, even though i've been a member here for 2 1/2 years.

  so i'll try and make this quick.. i was raised a jw my whole life.

  i know many jw's in the seattle area and eastside.

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  Sorry about your terrible news .... going back under those circumstances must be terribly painful. But having the knowledge that we evil apostates know more than they ever could or would accept, should give you the strength to ward off any condescending barbs.
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  Is it possible to go back after you are an Apostate?

  by lv4fer in

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  how would you go back?

  go to the elders and say i repent and know i'm was wrong.

  i want to work towards getting reinstated?

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  What sort of lame apostate ...

  would tuck his forked tail between his legs ...

  and grovel to be a slave again?
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  Allosaurus & Eve ...

  by Taylor S. in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was always fascinated with dinosaurs as a kid.

  i remembering asking my mother how come the bible doesn't mention the dinosaurs ... i mean, if he created everything, he must've created the dinosaurs.

  why no mention?

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  ... can remember seeing an illistration in one of the books in the eighties showing the flood starting, thunder/lightening/rain and the ark. Lots of people outside crying, and Dinosaurs.

  I seem to remember that illustration ... its probably what fired my curiousity about the subject.

  Anyway ... I hope someone post pics. My mom has an extensive library of old jdub pubs ... but if i go rummaging she'll get excited, thinking I'm returning to the fold. Can't set her up for disappointment. But I'll give a perusal one day when she's not home and see what I come up with.

  tS
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  Angst

  by onacruse in

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  do you feel it?.

  i feel it, almost every day, and sometimes so intensely that it literally wakes me up in a cold sweat at 2 in the morning, just to toss and turn for the next 3 hours, like a pig on a spit.. that damnably frustrating anguish about so many things: the "what ifs," the "could have beens, "the should i have...??".

  on the one hand, as an ex-jw, i can, and do, easily find a certain satisfaction in saying to myself "it was that god-damned religion in which i was raised.".

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  But on the serious tip ...

  i do understand that panicky feeling which comes out of nowhere for no particular reason. i first started to get them as I kid and still have them to this day. I'm starting to get one now, that empty feeling in my gut ... because I have a million things I need to do today, but I can't get off this computer.

  I need an intervention.

  tS
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  Angst

  by onacruse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you feel it?.

  i feel it, almost every day, and sometimes so intensely that it literally wakes me up in a cold sweat at 2 in the morning, just to toss and turn for the next 3 hours, like a pig on a spit.. that damnably frustrating anguish about so many things: the "what ifs," the "could have beens, "the should i have...??".

  on the one hand, as an ex-jw, i can, and do, easily find a certain satisfaction in saying to myself "it was that god-damned religion in which i was raised.".

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  Putty ...

  You live in Hawaii ... you shouldn't be allowed to be depressed.

  Let's switch ... you come to Jersey, and I'll do my best to bear Hawaii.
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  What would God say?

  by Taylor S. in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  coffee makes my mind wander.

  this morning after reading some threads, i thought ... how could god logically expect man to grow closer to him as time keeps rolling further and further away from the miracles of old.. haven't seen a burning bush or nothing in a hot minute.

  i mean, those are the things that kept people's attention.

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  my theory ...

  i see the god of adam & eve as a petulant child ... and the earth has been its little science project all along. so ... what happens when the little guy gets bored with his experiment.

  Gives a whole new meaning to armaggedon. Like when my sea-monkey tank started to smell funny, I just flushed the whole business down the toilet. Hasn't that their armaggedon? Had some sea-monkey prophet foretold it all?

  So I think his message might be, "You're all poopy-heads." Then he'd flush. No survivers ... no 'great crowd' smiling and carrying fruit ..... no drama. He'd just get our attention (they love attention) ...

  ... then gurgle gurgle gurgle, down the drain of the universe.

  tS
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  What would God say?

  by Taylor S. in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  coffee makes my mind wander.

  this morning after reading some threads, i thought ... how could god logically expect man to grow closer to him as time keeps rolling further and further away from the miracles of old.. haven't seen a burning bush or nothing in a hot minute.

  i mean, those are the things that kept people's attention.

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  upside-down ...

  speak for yourself. i say screw humble, i want a purple metallic Hummer with hydro-shocks so i can bounce and blast those cool Kingdom aposto-raps I read in the other thread.

  ** can't find the emoticon with the gold chains and doo-rag **