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gloobster
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If you want to leave the truth, just walk away!
by moomanchu ina close relative recently called me verbatim, "a bad, bad, bad apostate and a sinner against the holy spirit" .. the apostate remark didn't bother me, actually it's a compliment when you think about it.. saying i was a "sinner against the holy spirit" that did bother me.
this got me to wondering about all the names, accusations and labels given to people who don't want to be a jw anymore.. doing a quick search in the insight books i came up with a list.. apostates pg.126, antichrist pg.116, man of lawlessnes pg.
310, resurrection - sinning against the holy spirit pg.
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gloobster
My personal favorite term for DF'd persons:
"Returned to his own vomit"
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cut and paste from a Yahoo witness group
by booby innotice the admonition to follow the fds.
you might think they would have said to follow the biblical counsel, but oh no, it's follow the counsel of the fds.
the cut and paste follows.
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gloobster
Well, honestly, the Bible is just kind of extra reading material when you have time, right? You shouldn't ever let anyone distract you from what is really important, the WTS publications.
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for "born-ins"
by Mandette indoes anyone remember being a little kid and being forced to sit through those 2 hour meetings?
specifically being made to listen to graphic accounts of whatever country that was going through horrific persecution.
(or any other horrors you might remember).
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gloobster
"My Book of Bible Stories" is heavily engrained in most of my earliest memories. I remember the picture of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, and the picture of the destruction of Jerusalem. The picture of Jezebel. What horrible pictures to show little children. That, and all the pictures of Jesus make him look like some sort of child molester. Especially in the story about how Jesus likes little children. All the pictures in that book were absolutely awful from a psychological standpoint. And from an artistic standpoint.
I always felt so ashamed to be a Witness. Even as a small child, I felt like it was a dirty little secret that I couldn't tell my schoolmates.
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Suggestions on how to properly get disfellowshiped
by IreallydidwalkoutofaKH inhere is how i would like to get df'd.
during the service meeting of cource the announcement would be made.
i would like to walk in the meeting during the song (preferably..."then they will know") leading up to the the announcements and walk to my seat in the front of the kingdom hall dressed as darth vader.
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gloobster
And pass out free smurf dolls and flyers for a midnight performance of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" from your bookbag.
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The most inappropriate remarks from Jehovahs Witnesses
by jambon1 ini have a few which still either anger me, make me sad or just make me grateful that i am no longer one of them.
1 - "well, everyone is going to die anyway, so if it at armageddon then ce la vie" 2 - "the disater today at the world trade centre is sad, but exciting" 3 - (an elder) "when armageddon happens, i want to be at a window, watching it all".
sick, sick, sick!
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gloobster
A sister commenting at the watchtower study. "If a witness has Depression then Satan has attacked them and won".
Perhaps the WT&BS society has attacked them and won?
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Most JW's Really Hate Going to the Conventions/Assemblies. Some Admit It.
by OnTheWayOut inso the wife and i met up with an old friend.
the woman actually grew up around my .
wife, i knew her as a young adult.
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gloobster
What exactly did everyone take notes about? Maybe they were just doodling? I haven't been since I was in my early teens, so I didn't take notes, but it never really seemed like there was that much material that was very different than any other WT publication. The only parts I enjoyed were the intermissions (of which there were not enough). As I recall, the food wasn't too bad, or good. The only thing I really remember about the assemblies is that they had fresh cherries. This was all in the early - mid 80's.
What is this "Gate F" stuff all about? It sounds noteworthy.
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COMPUTER DEPENDENT
by Hope4Others inthis proves we have become far too dependent on our computers.
1) are you male or female?
to find out the answer, look down.... .
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gloobster
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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What is YOUR bible of choice?
by gloobster inalthough i'm pretty much an atheist, i still like reading the bible.
it's an amazing literary masterwork to say the least.. my question is, after discovering that the new world translation of the wts was poorly translated and altered in ways designed to support their various peculiar doctrines (see john 1:1, etc.
), what bible translation are you all the most fond of?.
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gloobster
I like the KJV because I think the language is so much more beautiful than the others--as far as understandability goes, I'm kind of an Old English lover. I'm no expert in the matter, but one thing I do really like about the KJV is that it is easy to tell when the 2nd person plural pronoun ye, meaning "you all", is being used, which modern English doesn't have an equivalent for. I know that some translations use "YOU" in small caps instead, but this seems to be inconsistent. As someone earlier in this thread commented, one bible scholar said there are probably less biases in the KJV translation than in most modern ones, because there were less influences from existing religions, and previously translated bibles, in the time period in which it was translated.
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What is YOUR bible of choice?
by gloobster inalthough i'm pretty much an atheist, i still like reading the bible.
it's an amazing literary masterwork to say the least.. my question is, after discovering that the new world translation of the wts was poorly translated and altered in ways designed to support their various peculiar doctrines (see john 1:1, etc.
), what bible translation are you all the most fond of?.
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gloobster
Much better, ty. It's good to know you have the properly corrupted bible :)