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DAMN IT'S COLD!!!!!
by Mary inanyone east of saskatoon and north of kentucky will understand this thread:.
it's frigging cold out there!!!
christ almighty when i went outside to start my car up this morning i thought i was going to freeze solid like lot's wife.
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How far would they go?
by barbar ina while ago my mother said that if the society asked the jws to do something that was wrong they wouldn't do it.
it is already easy for them to go against their own consciences, many don't feel it is right to shun others but they do it because they are told to.
most would feel dreadful with letting their children die but would do it if blood was needed because the society tells them to.
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Who's choice is disfellowshipping really?
by barbar inoften jws say that it is a person who made the decision to stop talking to friends and family by their actions.
it was not the fault of the religion as they were left with no choice because the person had deliberatly decided to turn agaianst jehovah and they took a decision to cut their friends and family off.. so consider this scenario.. a jw is disfellowshipped and never reinstated, 10 years later his family become jws.
at this point his family cannot speak to him becuase they are told not to by the elders.. was there any decision on his part to not speak to his family?
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Why cant JW's be police officers?
by pepperdoodles inhi there, new to the board.
i was raised a jw but as i got older i started thinking for myslef and now i am at the point where i need to figure out what i believe in.
sorry the intro is so short(kinda busy) please help!
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Try this...it pegged me perfectly
by wanderlustguy inmood analysis test results
you have always been on the move seeking affectionate, satisfying and harmonious relationships.
your ultimate goal has been the realization of an intimate union in which there could be love, self-sacrifice and mutual trust.
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Do you think of yourself as an apostate
by barbar inmany of the people on this site say that they are apostates.
but that is not the way i feel about myself.. i am not angry with the "witnesses" or the organisation, i don't feel that i wasted my life.
i just think that i was stupid to believe it for 30 years (well sort of believe it, i did have severe doubts on and off).
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Who is directing them?
by barbar injws claim to be led by god.
he is directing their organisation by his spirit.. they believe that smoking is wrong, in fact a disfellowshipping offense.
so why did god not tell them that smoking was wrong?.
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Different interpretation
by barbar intonight i saw a group of people having a barbecue on the beach, from a distance i thought "i bet they are religious".
as i walked to my car there was oen of the group preaching to the rest about peter walking on water and when he started to sink jesus shot his hand out and saved him.
he said this showed jesus love.
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Meek Shall Inherit the earth
by golden age in.
i was talking to a witness the other day and i was explaining from revelation how there is only one calling to heaven and there is not an earthly calling.
and the jw asked me to explain the verse from pslam which states teh meek shall inherit the earth and reside in it forever, any one have any scripture to refute his argument.
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Just can't get this out of my head
by jt stumbler inbeing recently self-dissassociated, i cannot get out of my head something that happened to me more than 20 years ago.
having studied much in my youth, and being the submarine witness that i was, i married at 19 and began my "worldly coarse".
i just knew it was the "truth".