when you were a devout jw.
did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.
or that this was actually even possible deep down?.
@a watcher " It's like being in love. I talk to Him in prayers, He answers me with actions."
If you think that having a 'relationship' with an imaginary, invisible old guy in the sky, is "like being in love", than I can guarantee that you have never really been in love with a real, warm, flesh and blood, passionate fellow human.
when you were a devout jw.
did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.
or that this was actually even possible deep down?.
Nope. No relationship with Jahoover. Tried a few times but it just didn't take.
I hate his guts with a passion now though.
according to the bible humans cannot be older than 6,000 years old...... yet more evidence obviously planted by satan to mislead us has been found:.
.. .. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27432234.
the ancient remains of a teenage girl discovered deep underground in mexico are providing additional insights on how the americas came to be populated.. divers found the juvenile's bones by chance in a vast, flooded limestone chamber on the yucatan peninsula.. aged 15 or 16 at death, the girl lived at least 12,000 years ago.. researchers have told science magazine her dna backs the idea that the first americans and modern native american indians share a common ancestry.. this theory argues that people from siberia settled on the land bridge dubbed beringia that linked asia and the americas some 20,000 years ago before sea levels rose.. sea levels 20,000 years ago were low enough to expose a land bridge across the bering seathese people then moved south to populate the american continents.. the genetics of modern native americans would certainly appear to link them into this story.
Satan, he's a crafty bugger.
over the next five years we will be reading through the book again and commenting at the highlights.
here are some jewels to comment on in the next few years:.
this year:.
TL;DR
do they actually believe that if they tell you that you are "missed", that you will desire to return to the sheepfold?
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Evidently, some people love the taste of vomit.
Lots of people posting here know it's puke, but they keep lapping it up anyway.
so i am sitting here at the meeting during the "book study".... the study is all about gods protective power!.
oh, yes, protective power....for righteous servants of his.....but what about all those who are trying to be good witnesses, serving the gb, who are not protected from harm?
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Get up and leave. Never go back.
You only go along because you think you have to.
When you do finally leave, one of your biggest regrets will be that you didn't do it sooner.
You are, quite literally, wasting your life.
i have lots and lots of watchtower literature... and i don't know what could be useful in the future to have as a reference or as a keeper.
i am definitely keeping the 1993 and 1994 bound volumes of the awake!
(no, we are not false prophets... down in the same page, the generation of 1914 will not pass... also the youths who put god the watchtower first).
Send it all in for recycling.
i have fed a number of birds regularly thru winter, and among the species were some doves.
this spring, two of them took a liking for each other and teamed up.
for a couple of weeks, extensive construction work was jointly done and resulted in a nice little nest, undoubtedly a cosy home for the small family which expected to multiply.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.
she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.
the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.
That is an exceptionally good interview. Thanks for posting the link.
so any ways to deal or cope with elders who just don't like you (you didn't do anything wrong or they're just making stuff up about you) assuming that you can't leave?
especially when it comes to for example becoming appointed as an elder.
or are you pretty much "dead in the water" if the elders are determined to like you despite reasonable efforts to win them over.
Leave. And never go back.
