Posts by Witness My Fury

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30 fricken minutes for a part about "Meetings for field service" !!!! Seriously??
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
30 minutes and a km article of 13 paragraphs to consider how the field service group should be 5 mins brief!.

how ironic!.

(find this in the kingdum misery for march).
Witness My Fury

A meeting about a meeting. Have to fill in time somehow.
What do expect to do for half an hour, read the Bible?
If only. Many more would wake up and quit if they did actually study the bible.
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Road to Recovery
by vinman in
1. jw
2. experiences
i am totally new to this.

i was raised as a jehovah's witness.

i made it my own at the age of 5. i was a "true believer ".
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SOT I go where the evidence leads, it leads plainly and easily to atheism. I considered myself agnostic for about a year, but continued research soon put an end to that.
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old fs bag
by zeb in
1. jw
2. experiences
have been doing some tidying up and culling as we have rearranged the house.

i threw out my old witnessing bag with song book less pens etc.was a rare feeling indeed.
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Mine is in the boot of my old Mondeo which is off the road, I keep meaning to burn it on a bonfire every time i see it but so far keep forgetting about it. I had a huge fire yesterday as it happens..
I look forward to the feeling it gives...
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Road to Recovery
by vinman in
1. jw
2. experiences
i am totally new to this.

i was raised as a jehovah's witness.

i made it my own at the age of 5. i was a "true believer ".
Witness My Fury

People like me dont willingly become an atheist just because the watchtower is a cult, you are making a school boy error in thinking so or else the programming of the watchtower is still working in making you think all atheists are bitter twisted apostates. It's early days for you on your journey so you will be making these mistakes so all is forgiven.
I gave the bible every chance to prove itself when i left the JWs 5 years ago, i read and read and read the bible and everything about it i could lay my hands on, it failed, it still fails and will continue to fail. Anyone who doesnt think it fails hasnt given it the chance to do so and is not being honest with themselves.
After being lied to all my life as i too was a born in i made the single honest choice that i would double check everything and not be lied to anymore, i chose an evidence based life. That means not choosing to believe something because it feels good or gives the warm and fuzzies, but because it is based on damn good evidence however unsettling the result may be. I wanted there to be a god, i wanted the bible to be true and mainly if i am honest so that my whole life up to that point hadnt been wasted stuck in a cult believing in fairy tales. It was painful to follow the path of evidence straight to atheism, it was not what i wanted but was the truth.
Those who continue to cling to believe in god simply havent done enough honest research.
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BART EHRMAN answers my question
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as a member on bart ehrman's blog, i am able to ask him direct questions.is jehovah in the bible?.

question:.

how firmly grounded in reality is the claim of jehovahs witnesses that the divine name (jehovah) belongs in the new testament?.
Witness My Fury

People who read and understand the bible tend to be the ones who stop believing in it.
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Wife fully awake.
by cappytan in
1. jw
2. experiences
i learned this past week that my wife is now awake.

i just shared the pbs newshour segment with her with no comment other than something along the lines of, "jw story on pbs.".

she is furious at the arrogance of these men.. thats what happens when you get a momma angry!.
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Why does the Almighty need a mediator?
by economy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
god is alike to all of his children, hence cannot elevate one child above all others just because one was brought into existence before others.

(ezekiel 18:4) someone has to be first-born which does not give him any superiority over others!

interestingly, jesus simply dismissed the whole idea of one being placed over the others as pagan.
Witness My Fury

because atheists are always born as atheists and theists are always born as theists, yet their beliefs are their choice, and both the group are happy with their choice.
That's total utter bollocks (along with a lot of what you say). Preconceived ideas much?
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POLL: Will You Be Attending The Memorial & If You Are---Why?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i was just invited.

i thanked my old elder friend and he left.

(i'm not going).
Witness My Fury

No I am not going. To go to please family members is a sell out and would serve only to weaken your stance.
Man up and quit.
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Trying to find Faith
by Lostfromthefaith in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hi im a 14 year old former catholic trying to find a religion and or faith my parents will drop me off at a service they support me no matter what i was wondering if anyone can prove to me their is a god cause right now im confused!
Witness My Fury

What if their isnt a god hell or heaven devil or soul what if that all is fake?
Then you can lead the rest of your one and only life free from the superstitious nonsense inflicted on mankind since cave dwellers tried to come up with reasons / excuses for what they saw around them with their limited knowledge.
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Please help me figure out my dreams
by Socrateswannabe in
1. jw
2. friends
hi everyone, this may be the stupidest post ever.

i am stumped for an answer and would love to hear your opinions, though.

every week or two for the last couple of years, i have a dream--or at least that's what i'm calling it--that consists of me waking up or thinking that i've waked up, and seeing the ceiling of my darkened bedroom filled with algebraic equations.
Witness My Fury

Not sure if you mean you dream you wake and then see the symbols or of you mean you actually awake and see them for a minute or two, but Oliver Sacks is the go to guy on this sort of thing.
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/oliver_sacks_on_hallucinations/