Posts by JustHuman14

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JWN Is Not The Same Place It Was Years Ago . . .

by PublishingCult in

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td made the following statement over in another thread, and so i thought it would make a good topic of its own.. jwn is not the same place it was years ago and years from now, it won't be the same place as it is today.. how has jwn changed over the years, old timers?

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JustHuman14

I'm in this board since 2001, I posted as justhuman, and with new changes of the forum I couldn't get my old name back so I came with a slight change. I recall the old chat room and how fun it was. I made a lot of friends there and I really enjoyed it. JWN it was the first forum that I started to post since I had my doubts regarding WT and it helped me a lot in my exit process.

Now there are so many new posters coming in that they are having their doubts of the WT. Old members, including my self moved on with our life and don't feel the need to post like we used to, plus everyday we have a massive new posts coming up and it is hard to follow them all.

Some ex-jw and members of this forum have joined a Christian mainstream religion, others bacame agnostics, or don't feel the need to be a part of any organized religion and they don't feel to start a debate, like we used to have on this forum, specially with matters of faith or religion.

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How can JW's not believe in the soul and yet believe in the spirit?

by Terry in

this is a real puzzler.. for christendom at large there is no problem in thinking of humans as a body (tent) which houses the soul.. for jehovah's witnesses the human is the tent.

no soul is contained.

(they make "soul" the same as body.).

JustHuman14

A more simple explanation of WT's dogma:

A Person named Justhuman dies

God remembers ALL the information regarding that person, how he looked, his personality, temper, character

God is acting like a Super Computer and stores in His hardrive all the information of Justhuman

God resurrects - actually makes a new body for Justhuman that has all the physical characteristics of that person and inserts in the newly created brain all the information that was stored in His hardrive(like copy-paste)and there we have the resurrected person known as Justhuman

So JW's hope is to be copied and pasted into a newly created body

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Do They Still Offer Food At The DCs?

by Low-Key Lysmith in

to this day, i still can't drink shasta cola or lemon-lime soda.

when i was a kid, you would buy these books of "food tickets".

the tickets were traded for terrible food.

JustHuman14

You have being out from the WT too long!!! Forget the old good days that we had roasted chicken, patatos, salads. You have to bring your food, and it has to be modest like a sandwich

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Did You Tend To Question The Organization Or Did You Just WANT To Believe?

by minimus in

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i know some who always questioned the elders, the society, and others because they were typically skeptical.. there are those who just seemed to want to believe whatever they were told.. i was more a skeptic, during my last decade.. .

JustHuman14

Since I was a kid I was skeptical. I just couldn't accept the fact that a "loving God" will kill all of my friends at school just because they are not JW's. Then it was the fanatical attitude of the WT that the end was near(mid 70's and 80's)and I would not grow old(now I'm at my early 40's. In the back of my mind something was telling that I need to examine my faith.

And I did....

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How HIGH did you climb the ranks as a JW? Did you like the STATUS?

by unshackled in

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so what were your biggest jw accomplishments as a rank & file?

curious as to what level you climbed the r&f ladder while in the org, or if you still are in.. did you regular pioneer, or auxiliary pioneer?

bethel?

JustHuman14

I reached quite high. I was believing that I was doing "God's Will". When I found the "truth" about the "Truth", I simply quit, faded out and then disfellowshiped

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Have a good Easter weekend.

by tec in

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i'm going to my parents for this long weekend, along with my boys, my aunt and her twin boys (same age as my oldest), and our pup.

will be a busy and bustling weekend, seeing as the basement recently flooded, so that area is now off-limits.

so for the next five days, the four and a half hour drive tomorrow is going to be the only quiet time i think i'm going to get, lol.. however, my mother is going to have a big pot of homemade chili waiting for us... and that alone would be worth the drive and the craziness :).

JustHuman14

Easter it is a pagan word coming from a the Greek name of a goddess known throughout the Eastern Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to Classical time Astarte. For the Christian Orthodox faith instead of Easter, is Passover.

So have a good Passover everyone

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BBC Video: Does Christianity Have a Future?

by leavingwt in

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this documentary was broadcast on april 17, 2011. .

"according to some, christianity in the uk has no future.

closure of churches and falling attendances in the last few decades appear to show that the christian faith is in terminal decline.".

JustHuman14

The question is if Christianity fades, what is the religion that will replace it? Personally I take the principles found in Jesus teachings, with basic principle the Universal Law of Love. Mainstream Christian religions are tolerant and if you belong to any of those mainstream Christian Religions(Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican) you enjoy freedom of thought.

My main concern is what kind of religion will replace Christianity. What I'm afraid is from the rappid expansion of the Muslim faith in Europe and especially in England and France, that you can see Mosques coming out like mushrooms, replacing even Christian Churches, since there aren't any Christians to attend and worship Jesus. The fact that most of them are fanatics, acting like a right wing Christian Cult(like JW's)it is something that we need to take into consideration.

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MEMORIAL 2011 - Let me hear your comments

by JustHuman14 in

ok the 2011 memorial belongs to history, but let me hear your comments...personally i found it boring, most of the talk was focusing on why not to partake from the "emblems", instead on focusing on jesus sacrifice.... as i have seen most jw's are dressed to the heel, like it is an oscar awards nomination.

being disfellowshiped, i was kind of invisible, i almost believed that i have died and it was my spirit that attend there at the hall, but an inactive jw, confirmed that i was still alive(and i felled kind of relief), since he came shake hands, and talked with me.. .

JustHuman14

OK the 2011 Memorial belongs to history, but let me hear your comments...Personally I found it boring, most of the talk was focusing on why NOT to partake from the "emblems", instead on focusing on Jesus sacrifice...

As I have seen most JW's are dressed to the heel, like it is an Oscar Awards nomination. Being disfellowshiped, I was kind of invisible, I almost believed that I have died and it was my spirit that attend there at the Hall, but an inactive JW, confirmed that I was still alive(and I felled kind of relief), since he came shake hands, and talked with me.

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MEMORIAL AT THE KINGDOM HALL OVERFLOWING WITH NEWCOMERS?

by steve2 in

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this is a question for those brave souls who, for whatever reason, attended this year's memorial: .

who else was there?

was there any evidence that the witnesses are still attracting a large crowd of "newly interested ones" (to use their awful phrase) or even complete strangers drawn in by the door-to-door work.. i hear lots of comments about how poorly attended some of the weekly meetings in the halls have now become, so i'm curious about what you guys may have seen when you attended in the past day or so.

JustHuman14

I guess I'm from the brave ones!!

Well actually I didn't notice any overflowing. Most of the people I have seen, are the same persons who come every year, due that they have JW relatives, or close friends, or a JW boss!!!

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YHWH a minor pagan god: Ugaritic Texts and the Sons of El

by DoomVoyager in

interesting.. here is the first thing i've found on the subject, though i haven't read much of it yet.. http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/otesources/05-deuteronomy/text/articles/heiser-deut32-bs.htm.

pseudo.

JustHuman14

Hebrew faith was based upon Mesopotamian legends and stories like Noah's Flood, a reproduction of Gilgamesh Epic. Even the Mosaic Law is a copy of the Hammurabi's Code, and that is not a surprise to have many similarities, since Abraham came from Mesopotamia region and moved to Palestine. So technically speaking the Old Testament is a reproduction of old Stories in Mesopotamia. Even the names are the same like Adama and Eve. The difference is that we have the "Gods" in Sumerian Texts called Annunaki(The "Gods who came from the Sky) who created humans in order to serve them. Their first creation was Adama. So it is not surprise to have an advanced alien civilization 7000 years ago in Mesopotamia region that changed the primitive human D.N.A. For those primitive humans those aliens they would seem like Gods. That is why we see "God" in the Old Testament to have human characteristics, a jealous God that demands worship. If they were no 'other Gods" why would he be angry and demands complete submission if he is the ultimate God? Just take the example of Hezekiel's chariot of Jehovah. Does God needs a chariot(from the description you can see that is a spaceship) to move around?