Pathofthorns
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One for the road
by Pathofthorns inso i've been trying to slowly fade away, just going to meetings on sundays, and even then its been hit and miss.
i figure the daniel book is a write off with 607 figuring prominently along with all the "fulfillments" based on it, and since i'm not going out in service, the tms/sm is a waste of time.. even sundays play out like a broken record, the wt study articles show no sign of real change, but a clinging to power and a re-defining of wt history.
the public talks are sheer fantasy.. the sad thing is, i like the people, and perhaps even the concept is attractive.
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Radio Song
by Pathofthorns in"hey, i can't find nothing on the radio" .
"yo, turn it to that station" .
the world is collapsing around our ears .
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"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?...
by Pathofthorns in"ever get the feeling you've been cheated?".
famous last words of johnny lydon on stage at winterland before the sex pistols broke up.. when asked on tv, "why are you all so angry?
" the reply was, "because they won't let us say what we want.
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1975 recording "Stay Alive 'til '75"
by Pathofthorns inthis real audio recording of a district overseer in 1968 is one of the most disturbing things i came accross in my surfing.
it perfectly demonstrates the misleading nature of the "we never said 1975" statement.
while perhaps technically true, see if this talk doesn't make any loyal jw rethink what was really said about 1975.. download real audio if you don't already have it to listen to this talk.
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Paradise earth or heaven?
by Pathofthorns init has been said to me "what other organization offers a hope of a paradise earth?
" to "prove" that witnesses have the "truth".. it seems to me that this "spiritual materialism" and the inability to see beyond the physical and fleshly world draw many to become and remain witnesses.. as for me, i fail to see such a fleshly reward set out in scripture and more so i cannot possibly see how anything fleshly could live forever in a problem-free environment.. everything fleshly and physical is temporary and changing.
nothing lives forever.
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Daniel and the internet?
by Pathofthorns in*** rbi8 daniel 12:4 ***.
4 and as for you, o daniel, make secret the words and seal up the book, until the time of [the] end.
many will rove about, and the [true] knowledge will become abundant.. .
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"this song is not a rebel song..."
by Pathofthorns inwar.
sunday bloody sunday.
i can't close my eyes and make it go away.. how long, how long must we sing this song?.
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I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me?
by Pathofthorns inis it just me, or is there an unusually high number of young ones in the truth smoking and doing drugs like ecstasy and dope?.
is it that these people are doing this out of rebellion or simply that they like to live in a fantasy world?.
i've talked to a number who seem to think that they will live a double life for a while, then come back in five years "because they know its the truth".
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A New "Class"?
by Pathofthorns in(edited for waiting :).
in 1935 a "new class" was "discerned" when the great crowd was understood to have an earthly hope and survive armageddon.. could there be a new "class" of witnesses surfacing today?
the articles, such as those on blood, feature a "some" whose conscience permits this and that.
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Crisis With Singles and Single Parents Looming?
by Pathofthorns inlikely we've all noticed that on the two major jw discussion forums the most active forums are the "singles or dating" forums.. it would appear that there is an increasingly large number of single parents appearing in the congregations these days for whatever reason.. i admire these ones for the effort they put forth to bring their children up taking on the role of both parents.
from many of their comments in the "singles " forums, it appears many find being a single parent an extreme liability in "the truth" as far as finding a mate goes.
i wonder if jw culture has something to do with how these ones are viewed as prospective marriage mates vs. the mentality in the "world".. as far the single people go, there appears to be almost a certain desperation to get married, further scaring off potential mates.