growing up in the borg, with 5 meetings a week, personal study, field service, etc.
it is pounded into your head that you can only have an intimate relationship with jehovah as long as you are associated with his "spirit-directed organization.
" leave the organization then jehovah leaves you.
…And for the athiest posters, what was it that brought you to the realization that there is no higher power.
Tweets’, I have absolutely no idea if there is or isn’t a ‘higher power’, and neither does any one else.
However I can personally guarantee you that the WTB&TS claims of cosmic significance are no more viable than the Coca-Cola Corporation advertising it’s fuzzy brown liquid is actually the “Real Thing”.
But by 'God' those two Corporations can really ring that cash register, huh?
Flip
i usually play cds in my cd-rom as i'm posting.
i've been listening to "delirious" for the last hour or so.. just wondered if anyone else is listening to anything good.
If I was, and I usually do, it'd be David Gray...'White ladder', that's what's in the CD tray.
Flipper
i was trolling around on the great crowd board of jehovah.
witnesses and one mention about a credit card machine being.
installed in an asssembly hall of jehovah witness.
Hey! If the WTB&TS starts handing out "Air Mile points" every time someone picks up their magazine allotments, New World Twisted edition of the Holy Bible, or ‘cheesy’ publication ...I'm back baby!…I'm back!
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i was trolling around on the great crowd board of jehovah.
witnesses and one mention about a credit card machine being.
installed in an asssembly hall of jehovah witness.
If ATM use at WTB&TS conventions is verifiable, makes perfect business sense to me, my Bank uses electronic banking, seems to work well for them and is convenient for me.
I suspect the Bank sponsoring the ATMs at conventions is most likely the investment banker Jehovah God…er…the WTB&TS…no…right the first time…Jehovah God uses.
If any one attending a convention with ATM’s could tip me off about whom the bank sponsor is, I wouldn’t mind picking up a few shares of their bless'ed stock.
Flip
http://www.mufor.org/crops.htm .
i heard about this first on tv then began researching it.
pretty weird stuff check out the link and give your input.. thanks.
For pranksters, one thing is certain, 'they' appear to be very, very good at it.
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reading farkel's thoughts about being called names, and remembering my own discouragement about the same thing, and thinking about all the posts recently decrying the fighting and bad language, i'm curious to know how my "seeker" persona is perceived here.
i know i have fought with some, made friends with others, so how i am perceived will be varied.
i want to know it all, the good, the bad, the ugly.
Seeker, you appear to be one of the biggest pains in the butt...
...to the WTB&TS marketing departments.
For me? ...you're a ledge'. :)
Flipper
i'm a newby here and was wondering the % of christians vs. .
non.rough estimate fine.
i sure like the comradery here for ex"s. but wonder why so many here leave their belief in god altogether.. what is it that caused disbelief?
...why so many here leave their belief in god...What is it that caused disbelief?
Although you didn't define your intrepretation of 'god', if you're referring to the one germane to this environment, the WTB&TS, I found the concept to be ultimately destructive towards people and other points of view.
Flip
is it necessary to resort to the schoolyard talk and name-calling every time someone says something, which is in disagreement with you, or is something you don't agree with?.
interestingly, some of the more "knowledgeable" persons on here seem do be the first to resort to these measures.
do they feel like they are better than the next person?.
…open up a can of worms that might lead this thread into one of the very posts msil mentions.
Fair enough Scorpion, if I understand you correctly, the less said the better.
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is it necessary to resort to the schoolyard talk and name-calling every time someone says something, which is in disagreement with you, or is something you don't agree with?.
interestingly, some of the more "knowledgeable" persons on here seem do be the first to resort to these measures.
do they feel like they are better than the next person?.
Is it necessary to resort to the schoolyard talk and name-calling every time someone says something, which is in disagreement with you, or is something you don't agree with?
msil, could you please provide just one good example of what upsets you or what it is you’re referring to?
I honestly don’t recognize what you are ‘seeing’. Keeping in mind it’s impossible, because of life style priorities, for me to read every post.
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hahahha..i found some old jw literature at a thrift store today, thought i'd share some pretty pictures, these pics are from the life does have a purpose book.
i found another book from 1952 but i forgot the title..anyway these sell for alot on ebay so i will probably sell mine :).
hey!
I wonder if Jehovah will recycle rather than discard His Hanky in the trash like He does the millions upon millions of Awake! and Watchtower's that've been printed bi-monthly during most of the last century?
For now, we'll just ignore the tons of fossil fuels we exhausted into the upper atmosphere using our fuel efficient '55' buicks' to distribute WTB&TS land fill material door-to-door.
I was such an idiot! ooops, I was born a Jehovah's Witness...correction, my parents were naive.
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