Awakened07
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"-And your *personality* will be your salvation" ?
by Awakened07 ini remember thinking about this when i was still active, but was starting to doubt things i guess:.
-i had some friends that were naturally very outgoing and 'vibrant', and loved to conduct talks, loved the field ministry, loved pioneering and so on.
very upbeat, very energetic all the time, both "on- and off-the jw -'clock' ".
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Christians: Why are we here (earth) in the first place?
by Awakened07 inanother thread here reminded me of something i used to wonder about while i was still an active jw, and haven't really thought about until now that i was reminded of it again.. - this is probably a very banal question, but (the premise comes first):.
-god created a myriad of angels in heaven before he created our universe and earth, right?.
-and - except for those who rebelled - they are all still up there, right?.
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Those of you who remained religious after leaving JWs:
by Awakened07 ini was just curious how that transition was?
did you simply start attending some other church right away?
if so, how did you choose which church to attend?
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Help: biblical person raised by non-believers, became man of God?
by Awakened07 inok - this is something that is waaaay back there in my post-jw mind: i seem to remember that enoch lived among non-believers, and was alone in believing.
but when i do a search, there's nothing of that sort in the bible.
then of course there's job, and for that matter moses, who were both men of god in spite of growing up (and/or at least living) among non-believers.. but i know i'm not thinking of those two.
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The significance of this image...
by Awakened07 inthey say a picture is worth a thousand words.. .
to me, the picture posted below is one of the - if not the - most significant images i've seen so far in my life.
as i was growing up (a jw), i was taught that the universe was in perfect harmony.
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Request for scans: WT Jan. 2007 QFR and May 2007 QFR
by Awakened07 ini would really appreciate it if someone could post high quality scans of the qfrs (i think it was) from wt of january and may this year.
what i'm after is the one about resurrection (to heaven) of some of the 24 elders and how they are working with the gb on earth today (if i remember correctly).
and the one from may, where they changed the 144000 / 1935 doctrine (if i remember that correctly).. thanks in advance..
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Black magic / witchcraft.
by Awakened07 innot sure how much you know about these things, but i'd just like you to guess (not google) which black book i copied this text from:.
"then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, .
and the priest shall say unto the woman, the lord make thee a .
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Wow! - What else did I never learn?
by Awakened07 inok - this is probably old news to most of you, but i just now found out about this.
- the way i've always understood it (and never really thought any more of it), is that in 1931, the bible students changed their name to jehovah's witnesses.
i've never heard any more about the circumstances surrounding this, so i always assumed it just happened without any fuzz.
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Did this line of thought ever cross your mind?
by Awakened07 inok - first i should mention that this line of *hypothetical* thought may seem extreme, and it's obviously exaggerated to get a point across.
but it's just one of many, many logical constructs i had in my mind, even when i was still active:.
let's say we have a pioneer sister.
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Do you remember this change?
by Awakened07 inthinking about the 1995 change (1914 generation) made me remember vaguely another change that i seem to remember 'shook' me quite a bit, maybe even more so (not quite sure why exactly, that's why i'd like to remind myself of this).. .
-it was about how 'new light' had revealed that it wasn't jw who were separating the sheep from the goats while they go door-to-door, but instead jehovah (or jesus) that will separate them when time comes.. anyone here remember something along those lines, and if so, what publication it was in etc.?.
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