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If the Internet had been available when Ray Franz....
by journey-on inwas booted out, would the watch tower society have split into two factions?
what's your opinion?
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Gluttony and Drunkenness
by journey-on ini knew several that got df'd for drunkenness but never anyone for gluttony.
as far as i can remember, in the bible there weren't categories or various levels of sin; and both these are mentioned as sinful.
last i looked, there were an awful lot of very obese witnesses in the congs.
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My Award for Funniest JWDers this week...
by journey-on ini don't usually like threads that address the "favorite poster" topics, but this week some of you really struck my funny bone, so i though i'd share some of what made me laugh this week.
this is just a sample.
if someone made you laugh out loud this week, feel free to mention it.. awards:.
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Serpent Seed Doctrine and the Kennites
by journey-on inas some of you know, i'm on a journey.
i am in the process of opening up myself to explore other possibilities and i'm trying to examine other ways of looking at religious and spiritual things.
some i take with a grain of salt, others i reject immediately, some i file away in the margins of my mind to explore later, others i embrace with relish (not the pickle kind).
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Interesting Sociology assignment
by journey-on inwhen i was in college (in my 30's because i started late due to jw childhood), my sociology prof gave us an assignment: if you were made the benevolent dictator tomorrow and you could do anything to change things, what and how would you do it.
remember, you are a dictator, a benevolent one, but a dictator nonetheless.
you are allowed to initiate any programs you choose.
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Are JWDers focused on the wrong reasons
by journey-on ina couple of weeks ago, i had a discussion with an elder's wife.
every now and then, they call on me with the literature.
they all know i'm ex-jw, but i'm nice, never da'd nor been df'd, and they think there's hope for me.
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Investing in friendships on this board
by journey-on ini've been reading the thread about posters you miss hearing from.
some of you sound like you've invested a lot of "heart" in developing a raport with certain posters over a long period of time only to find suddenly they stop posting and your "friendship" has disappeared overnight.
you miss them and wonder what happened to them.. how is that any different from what we experienced when our "friends" at the kh stopped calling or coming by.
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What if you're missing the purpose?
by journey-on infor those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?
what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?
the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.
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Going back to the Watchtower Society right now would be like....?
by journey-on in"the dog returning to his vomit".
"sticking a needle in my eye".
"spiritual suicide".
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I Need A Comeback Statement
by journey-on inwhen i suggested to my jw sister that the wts has caused so much pain and division in our family, she told me it was because my brothers and i had made the choice to leave.
we were responsible for the division---not the society.
we are the ones that chose to leave the love and protective shelter of jehovah's organization and we are the ones that have the choice to return to the fold.. i need an intelligent comeback, preferably one that will plant a seed, not one too sarcastic.