lurk3r
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Beard stories. Nothing but beards.
by Open mind ini've done a jwn search on beards and had some great reads.. i've learned the history of russell vs. rutherford and knorr and the hippies.. here's what i'd like to hear about.. either you or someone you know who grew a beard and the fallout because of it.. for me, i'd love to hear about the squeaky clean elder who decided to grow a beard and got removed because of it.. katie kitten, from england, on another thread told the story of her dad, the squeaky clean elder who grew a beard in the 70's and got away with it.. i don't think that would happen in california 2009.. anyway, what are your beard stories?.
i'm all ears.
(and my ears are freshly plucked.
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IF it is NOT wise for a man to be ALONE with a woman he's NOT married to
by Spike Tassel insola scriptura answered andersonsinfo:.
the wt leadership has hammered into all of it's elders and rank & file's heads, that it is not wise for a man to be alone with a woman he is not married too (adult or young woman... ie 14).
even in congregation sanctioned duties.. so, why, then, do so many service pairings involve just that: a brother alone in the territory (even if it's to make a call) with a sister he's not married to?.
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a conversation in paradise
by mrpink inson: hi dad.. dad: hi son.. son: so, what do you want to do today?.
dad: nothing.. son: want to play a game?.
dad: same as you son....same as you.. .
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Have You Had A "Superconscious" Experience?
by metatron inaccording to some, we humans have a conscious mind, a subconscious mind and , perhaps, a superconscious mind.
it might be otherwise called the "higher self".. i read up on this subject years ago because i occasionally have experiences that suggest that some vastly more clever intelligence helps me (whenever it feels so inclined!)..
i can remember getting into trouble at work and , out of nowhere, coming up with some split second insight that saved me - so much so, that i had to ask myself, "where did that come from?".
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I saw Office Space.... I've decided not to pay my bills anymore
by Elsewhere ini don't like paying bills.
i've decided i won't pay them anymore.
i like sleeping in and doing nothing.
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AuntBee & Purps
by lurk3r ini recieved a couple of books in the mail this week, and feel moved express a very sincere "thank you".
i will make sure these books go on to help others.
i know a few "inactive" ones that will be so appreciative in being able to free their minds by recognizing their former involvement for what it is.
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Greetings....
by Girlie injust wanted to say hello to all here.
i really don't have much of a story to tell about myself.
just find myself at a crossroads of sorts and wondering if i should stay or move on, although the greater part is telling me to move on.. long story short, i have been a baptised jw for 14 years.
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"the Truth". So many changes prove they never had it.
by lurk3r ini often wondered about this when i first started questioning things.. .
any jw that has died in decades past, how are they even eligible for ressurection?
during the time in which they died, they were never taught "the truth", as everything changed.. any jw today, looking forward to armageddon coming tomorrow, isn't being taught "the truth" either, as will be made manifest by more doctrinal change.
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The more I think about it, the more the eternal condemnation of Adam and Eve makes no sense
by gubberningbody ini know the narrative, but no where in the narrative were adam and eve informed that jehovah would use their dying bodies to create a world of a holocaust with bodies smoking up to the sky and seas filled to the brim with floating bloated corpses like some bloodied, stale dinty-moore stew left to boil dry under an angry sun.. they just thought they would die.. surely they would have said no to all that if they'd known the consequences.. moreover "i" need to know what they were thinking and feeling.
the bible doesn't give me jack-squat.
i'm just supposed to suppose that in 900 years of living they hadn't a thought in their heads about all they'd see and how they felt.. i need to see them and judge them myself before i can condemn them.. i can't just have some uber-being say "trust, me, they were shit, now shaddap ere ye be next me boyo!
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why am i here?
by Daft Fader ini am not sure why i have started posting here.
a very good under valued friend recommended that i should come here.
i have left the truth and have made my life completely religion free.. in the few short weeks i have looked at this again i have gone a tiny bit insane.