tympan
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Where else will you go?
by wary inthe po comes to see me and talks round the houses trying to find out what my problem is.. so i tell him "look its something i have to sort out for myself and i dont want to destroy your faith and make you start questioning so id rather not tell you".
he already knew cos the first elder went to his house the second he left mine and told him about [what i thought was a private conversation between mates,] my issues.. so he proceeds to tell me a story of a brother he knows who was always very studious and knowledgable about all prophecies and the details of our beliefs.. well the guy suddenly stopped attending meetings last year, dont know why but the po seemed pretty upset about it as he was an old friend.. so he says " i said to him, but john, where will you go now on sunday afternoons,!
and really wary where else will you go?".
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G'day All...
by tympan injust thought i would introduce myself, as it seems a bit rude not to.
this, in a nut shell, is my story.. i was a third generation witness and i did all the normal stuff we were expected to do.
left school early, pioneered, went to bethel, ms and all that palava.
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How does shunning work?
by tympan incan someone who knows please explain the nuts and bolts of shunning.
i've never been df'd but half of my family has no contact with me at all.
my sister even refused to answer the door when i called around once (only did it once).
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Barf Alert - JW email regarding the Australian Bushfire
by jwfacts inthere is an email doing the rounds regarding jw experiences related to the horrific bushfires that recently killed hundreds of people in australia.. ----------------------------------.
received: sunday, 1 march, 2009, 3:54 pm .
as quite a number in our circuit actually endured the horrors of black saturday, our do called out the names of all the congregations represented and asked for a show of hands.
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Who created JEHOVAH?
by african GB Member ini have asked this question before and i was told by jw's that it is "inappropriate, apostate, beyond our thinking, stupid", etc, etc,.... can anyone atleast give half an answer to this question?.
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african gb member.
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march 14th is Pi Day
by chickpea in3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989.
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faith a virtue?
by John Doe in"the good, say the mystics of spirit, is god, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive- a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence...man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of god... man's standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of god, whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith....the purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.. .
for centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.. .
...if devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
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I'm done obsessing the JW's! Now my life can really start.
by QuestioningEverything innine months ago, my whole world was rocked sideways and upside down!!
it all started with a search on the internet about jw's and 1975. little did i know what i was going to see when i came on here-jwn and freeminds.org.
needless to say, i was totally devastated to learn how that the "truth" was not really the truth.
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Global Tilting
by John Doe inmy friends, we are in a precarious condition that worsens by the minute and shows no signs of relenting.
that's right folks, global tilting.
not many people know about global tilting, but it is the angle produced when an imaginary rod is rammed through the center of the globe's rotation and an angle relationship taken between that rod and an arbitrary "up.
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The dumbest or funniest thing you heard in a talk???I
by tympan indumbest:.
once in a public talk i heard the speaker say that you get sunburnt more easily when you are in the mountains because you are closer to the sun.. .
funniest:.