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  I Am Still Here! Another Birthday look back at one helluva lifetime

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  truth_b_known

  Happy Birthday Terry! I always appreciate your writing and stories.
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  Demon Posessed Rock Bands I couldn’t listen to

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  kiss.

  steve miller band (abracadabra).

  eagles.

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  truth_b_known

  This was always a sore subject for growing up as a Witness. I remember meetings and Watchtower studies on the topic of music. The Witnesses answering during this part outed themselves as ROMs.

  ROM was a term I came up with when I was a practicing Witness. Righteous Over Much. These Witnesses would share stories, naming specific bands or musical artists they no longer listen to because a song or album violated Bible principles or was demonic in nature. I could see the elders handling these parts trying their best to hide their cringing expressions as in the end it was all a "conscience matter".

  Then there were those crazy ROMs who proclaimed all "worldly" secular music was wrong and professed they only listened to Kingdom Melodies. I wanted to reply with - "Listening to Kingdom Melodies outside of sanctioned theocratic events is disrespectful holy songs. It would be considered extra-theocratic activity. Like all extra-theocratic activity, it will lead to apostasy." The best response to a crazy statement is an even more crazy statement.

  "You still believe in the moon landing?"

  "Pfft! You still believe in the moon?"
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  Did you actually read the bible end to end?

  by Ultimate Axiom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in my ten years as a witness i never read the whole bible end to end, what with four magazines a month, the book study, meetings and talk preparations, there just wasn’t the time.

  i knew all the important references to ‘prove’ the various jw doctrines, and the cherry picked chapters that help foster the idea that it’s a good book, but that’s not reading it.

  well after nearly forty years out, i decided i would do it.

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  truth_b_known

  If you were to change the names in the storied of My Book of Fairy Tales (The Bible) and make it into a modern screenplay you would be lucky if it were only Rated R, which means Witnesses are not to view it.

  Killing children and infants.

  Rape.

  Incest.

  Ultra violence.

  It's all there in the Bible.
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  Flawed Website

  by pinkpizza in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i first seen this website i actually thought it was a jw website hence the home page and not an ex jw website and i posted a topic thinking people were real witnesses then i quickly discovered it was not and all these people were commenting and embarrassing me and i couldn’t even delete the thread.

  then i asked the admin to delete it and i said it was very misleading saying it’s a jw page and he’s like are you serious i deleted your topic and now you are attacking me and it clearly says ex jw page.

  he was very rude and btw no where does it say ex jw and you should be able to delete your own threads you start.

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  truth_b_known

  I thought Witnesses were to obey their most holy governing body. The governing body commands you only to visit their website.
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  New witness a bit lost

  by purelove20 in

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  2. relationships

  not sure it's ok to post here about that.

  im sorry if i'm wrong but i'm just trying to find my way and meet people that could help me become a good witness.

  i recently discovered my faith as a witness.

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  truth_b_known

  Must be the J-W.com version of a Twitter bot. What's next? "I'm a Nigerian Prince who needs help recovering millions of dollars"?
  
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  Who were the Picts?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so, i've been reading a bit about the picts recently.. i'm not sure there's a consensus on exactly who they were or what type of language they spoke.. even their name - picts - has more than one explanation of where it came from.

  i've read some scholars believe it comes from latin pictus (painted), referring to their supposed habit of painting themselves and/or tattooing themselves.

  other scholars believe that the name pict comes from another source.

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  Robert E. Howard, author and creator of the Conan the Barbarian series, used the Picts a lot in his novels. I always wondered who they were.
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  An excerpt from my book (The Monorails of Mars) an allegory of the Watch Tower religion

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  excerpt from my bookthe monorails of mars______ ______ ______.

  military attaché geoffrey leonard interposed his body between the brit and the alien immediately in a formal manner of one who snaps to duty and attention when a high-ranking officer enters the room.. “forgive my manners mur-dok, this is jack clayton--“.

  “ahh yes—of course—the kaliban exterminating brit who can get the lazy natives whipped into form!”.

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  truth_b_known

  I read this book this summer. I truly enjoyed it.
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  Happy Winter Solstice!

  by jp1692 in

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  happy winter solstice to all!

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  the solstice this year will be extra special because it will be followed the next day by a full moon known as the cold moon, and depending on your location, you might be able to see the ursid meteor shower to boot.. enjoy!

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  truth_b_known

  Hail Odin - It's Yule!
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  Jehovah’s witnesses and having kids

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in my area, a lot of young people don’t want to have kids.

  they get married young from 18-22 years old, and think that they know how they’re going to feel the rest of their lives about having children, (which they think will be never).

  i respect people who don’t want to have kids, there are good reasons not to, but i think it’s foolish at a young age to think you will never think differently for the rest of your life.

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  truth_b_known

  You can't have it both ways.

  Do you believe that were a soooo close to "the end"? Is Armageddon "right around the corner"? If you truly have the faith, live that way.

  Of course they won't live that way. Because they truly do not believe.

  Sometimes it's alright to give up. However, if you're going to give up, do it all at once. Don't give up in small increments.
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  Xmas, love it or leave it??

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have to say that i’m not enjoying the xmas season.

  i have no emotional ties and i’m spending money that i have not set aside for xmas during a slow work season for my trade.. i’m not happy about it, because it’s foolish to spend money when you aren’t making any.

  then i feel like i’m expected to do all this, and to be happy about spending money and time on persons that i’m not that involved with.

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  truth_b_known

  I love Christmas.

  I buy my 2 boys a couple gifts each, my wife a gift, and 1 or 2 close friends. That's it.

  Anything else is just a tree in the house and a lunch or two with co-workers. Maybe a happy hour after work one day.

  Just having a tree in the house and watching my boys open their gifts is all I need to enjoy the season.