First off I would like to say, Terry, I really respect your ideas and Thought process. I firmly belive that the human mind is the most powerful tool, weapon and enemy, that we as humans can face (rom 2:15b.) We as humans truly make our own reality. The problem is at a young age we allow others to either set our realities or influence us into a path that is not productive for our life. We are basically raised with ideas and thoughts that do not necesarily mark the course that we should follow. We are raised to chase someone elses dreams and ideals. But, what if they themselves are chasing a ghost. Someone once said in a wedding talk 'Dont take others advice in your marriage, all they are doing is getting you to make the same mistakes that they made.' with such a powerful and sly weapon at our disposal we need to train our instinct as to what is right and wrong for us on an individual level (Disclamor, I am talking about normal people not psychopaths.) I have come to this conclussion after reading the book 'Think and grow rich'. After reading I realized that what we want for ourselves as individuals, is in all of our grasp. The problem is most of us dont realize that we have such power. We grow up or come to belive in life, that God, holy spirit, fate or just dumb luck plays a role in our successes or failures. If you are successful God has blessed you. Have you ever notice that no matter how you advance in the troof that the advancement is acredited to God or holy spirit. But look at the criterior for advancement laid out by the WT$ itself. 1. set a goal for yourself to get more time, 2. develope a workable schedule that you can firmy adhere to. 3.get someone to help you reach your goals. The list can go on but this is the basic formula, now here is the catch...after all the steps are met and laid out they add pray for holy spirit to aide you. So you do the work of setting yourself up for success and then give credit for your success to prayer and holy spirit. By the way that is the basic formula outlined in the book think and grow rich for success in buisness endevers. Armed with the knowledge that we create and influence our own destiny can be both liberating and scary for some. Its liberating in the sense that all things are possible, it gives us a newfound sense of purpose and our own ability. It also can be scary when we realize that we are responsible for our situation in life. Some prefer to hide behind the veil of others stumbling them or getting a bad break in life, the man trying to hold them down. Some due to ingrained beliefs and thought practices find it diffficult to change or take charge of their situation late in life. Well that my take on the mind and how we think. I dont know whether this resolves the paradox you brought up Terry, But it was some what theraputic for me.
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HOW DO WE SOLVE THIS PARADOX?
by Terry inreligion tells us that man has a damaged consciousness polluted by sin.
religion tells us that man cannot think or reason on his own power.
religion teaches us that .
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Jehovah baby: you were my better-half, but just an invitation to the blues.
by tetrapod.sapien inlosing jehovah was like losing a girlfriend that you loved.
you barely had time to flinch when you found out that she had been sleeping with all your friends and stealing your records to pawn off.
that you had just been another sucker on the vine.. when jehovah dumps you, you start looking at yourself longer and harder, and wondering what it was about him that you found in yourself, until all you see there in the reflection is just yourself, dancing with an imaginary hand and waistline.. when jehovah was gone, and the war was over, i realized that all the things that had made me "good", and "moral", and "hate what was bad", didn't mean anything to me anymore.
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darth frosty
I don't know whether that was just poetic, or maybe I'm just as screwed up over this lost love as you, but that spoke to me.
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field service
by darth frosty inok how many of you went out in field service with someone who use to gush at finding a penny in the street.
to take it a step further said individual (or borg) would make a big deal about how that penny was going into his or her special world wide preaching work pouch (or wwpwp)
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darth frosty
Ok how many of you went out in field service with someone who use to gush at finding a penny in the street. To take it a step further said individual (or borg) would make a big deal about how that penny was going into his or her special world wide preaching work pouch (or wwpwp)
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Is 2034 ''New Light''?
by MidwichCuckoo inbear with me.
over the years jw have always strived after/prophesied (even though they deny this) a carrot ''date''.
as dates come and go, we hear about ''new light'', but according to the wt :-a new view of truth never can contradict a former truth.
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darth frosty
they first speculated on this in the 12/15/03 wt a study article.
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How many here used to attend meetings un prepared?
by JH inon sundays, i hardly ever read my watchtower.
i would take 2 minutes to underline here and there just to look good.
if i wanted to make a comment at the watchtower study , i'd read 1 or 2 paragraphs and answer the question related to those paragraphs, that's it.
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darth frosty
when giving talks that were not properly studied or researched, we use to call it free-styling. I once got a public talk out the day I was giving the new outline for the first time.
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Calling all BETHELITES
by YoursChelbie inif you have previously served at bethel, can you post word for word the "vow of poverty" that you are asked to take?
is this a written document that you keep?
has the wording of it changed a lot or always the same?
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darth frosty
I remember the brotha that gave us the meaning of the vow explaining how it is a simple vow of poverty. He said that the difference between the witnesses and catholic's vow, was since ours was a simple vow of poverty if we were to win the lottery we could keep the winnings but would have to leave bethel. while the catholic version requiered you to turn over all winnings and earnings to the church.
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Who do they hate more--faders or DFd people?
by rebel8 ini personally am hated quite a bit.
i've concluded it was because i rejected them personally.
i quit associating with them because i realized they were hateful individuals with serious mean streaks and other personality problems.
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darth frosty
your right they hate faders more, because they cant understand how anyone can leave the confines of their 'paradise' here on earth. Also I think it plants a seed of doubt when someone willingly leaves.
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Are apostates bitter?
by KW13 infor anyone out there who think apostates are bitter, let me tell you...no they are not, and they're not apostates.
that is a label from jw's.. firstly, my story.
http://stjohnsmossley.org/karltestimony.htm.
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darth frosty
If we are bitter it is because we were lied to for the majority of our lives. The WT$ does such a good job of demonizing other religions and organizations that when you find out they too are full of crap you feel there is no where else to go. Your scared to trust anyone, and typically you dont have the necesary life skills or street sense to cope with the real world. I know for me by the time I got out I was in my mid 30's in a job I hated and in a marriage that was on shaky grounds. Its a harsh reality to open your eyes when you're 35 and realize that the best years have been spent in vain. This is all despite having tried to fullfill ecclesiastes 12:1.
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Does this ever happen to you?
by Highlander ini live in los angeles area.
i'm currently self employed and always on the road going from customer, to customer, etc.
anyways, on pacific coast highway in redondo beach, there is a building and it's address is 1914,, though 1914 has zero meaning for me, i always get this .
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darth frosty
if you keep seeing it you should play the number in the daily four lottery.
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A recent Awake that said earth's population would fit in T
by AlmostAtheist ini bumped into a jw at the store the other day.
he doesn't know i'm df'd (apparently) and i didn't decide to enlighten him.
he banged on for a bit about people we both knew, how service was that morning, etc.
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darth frosty
that sounds like some regurgitated B.S. I remember back in the 80's they would claim that every one who ever lived could be brought back to life and each person could have 2 acres on the new earth.