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Why do Elders pay me a visit only when the C.O. and D.O. are in town?
by RULES & REGULATIONS ini have been inactive in service for about 4 years and attend only 3 meetings per month.
the elders pretty much leave me alone.
visit the congregation,they somehow have a little more interest in me .. who brings up my name for the visit?
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Did Jesus come to save Satan and other sinners?
by LouisVILE Slugger indid jesus come to save satan and other honest admitted sinners?.
or hypocrites and liars who are successful at covering up their sins and crimes to those who follow and look to them for guidance?.
what happens if satan is forgiven..who will everyone blame for their problems and shortcomings then?
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Stay Alive to '75 - MP3 Talk
by AlphaOmega ini have been e-mailed another watchtower talk .
it is the famous "stay alive 'to 75" talk by charles sunutko given in 1967.. it is entitled "serving with everlasting life in view" (final spring 1967 sheboygan, wisconsin).
it has left witnesses that i played it to silent.
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I'm sick of "the truth"
by exwitless inthe more i think about the dubs claiming they 'have the truth', the more it irritates me.
there are countless other religions who claim they 'have the truth'.
first of all, "having" "the truth" implies that the truth was either given to them or discovered by them.
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We are free to love
by purplesofa inwhat i have noticed since pulling away from group thinking, mindsets, rules and superstitions, that i am open to a broader range of loving people.. i am not sure i can blame all this on the jw expericance.
as children we are taught from our tribe, (family and enviroment, church, school, extended family, neighborhood..........who to love and who not to love.
i used to believe as the witnesses taught, you have to "beat" the evil out of children.. have you ever watched a group of small children unattended?
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Would you live your life differently, if you new what happens after death?
by passive suicide inso i had a thought today, that may spark some interesting conversation......
if you were able to die.....totally, and utterly dead.and see what there really is for your own eyes/soul after death......not what the bible says, not what your mom, dad, preacher, rabbi,faithful and discreet slave, conscience ...whatever says will happen....but what really happens......( who can say for sure they know by the way), and then somehow you were brought back,
would you live your life differently?
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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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Although you may not practise any religion anymore do you......
by JH inalthough you may not practise any religion anymore do you still defend what the bible says to your best, when someone of another faith says something you know is completely false...