Posts by EverApostate

hi all,i have been studying with the witnesses for more than 6 months and regularly attend both midweek & weekend meetings, and i am nearly at the end of the "bible teach" book.

my boss is adamant i attend team christmas functions.

she knows about my studying and potential baptism next year, and has suggested that i attend and just not participate in activities like kris kringle.

EverApostate

Research about the WT and Bible. The truth will set you free, else you would end up serving a cult, professing to worship a god - which is an ancient imagination.

Bitter truth is, this is the only life. Live it freely and happily.

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working late tonight i just thought this up : whenever we used to hear someone say " so and so is not doing well spiritually™ " or "not doing well in the truth™ " what it really means is they aren't doing well climbing the wtbts's corporate ladder or doing their beck and call following the herd cult thingy.

been brought up before but had to share..feel free to add..

EverApostate

Spiritually weak in JW terms = not doing much in FS, poor meeting attendance, Not blabbering like Oh Jah did this, Jah did that, isn't Jah wonderful…..

Reality is, the spiritually weak is sensing that all or something is fake in this religion.

When I was wakening, elders used to come and advise that I should be less materialistic and be more spiritual. I am the least materialistic but they had to blame it on me.

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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

by Doug Mason in

according to the watchtower:.

who received the ransom payment?.

why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

EverApostate

Disclaimer - I am not defending this idea as either rational or moral.

I like that.

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1975... the year that keeps on giving.

by silentbuddha in

so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.

it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.

when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.

EverApostate

I was growing up as a high school boy in 1975 in a major city in India but never heard of this "Armageddon" or JW at all.

So much of this "Good news would be preached in all the inhabited earth" thing.

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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

by Doug Mason in

according to the watchtower:.

who received the ransom payment?.

why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

EverApostate

No matter how hard I try to understand this "Jesus died for our sins", I couldn’t comprehend that. Sorry.

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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

by Doug Mason in

according to the watchtower:.

who received the ransom payment?.

why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

EverApostate

Ask any christian about why Jesus had to die and they will talk about how Jesus suffered the punishment for their sins

So what was the outcome of Jesus death. Tangible things please.

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Please explain the Watchtower's "Ransom" for me

by Doug Mason in

according to the watchtower:.

who received the ransom payment?.

why did the ransomer need to be paid?.

EverApostate

A father had 2 sons. Eldest was wicked and youngest innocent. In order to Forgive the Eldest, he commands him to kill his younger brother in a gruesome manner. What a Dad.

Despite the killing, the eldest son is not forgiven yet.

That's Christianity.