Stoney McFried
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Yes, I have.
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Wikidbchofthewst
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lol, everything I go to type turns into "I miss my brother" so I'm gonna give up for now.
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theloadeddragon
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I miss my brother too... even though he is an asswhole...
Wikidbchofthewst
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My brothers are pretty awesome, and I love them.
lol, I went out for a walk to clear my head, and now I'm right back where I started! So I'm gong to post some random thoughts until I distract myself away from this again.
lol, I went out for a walk to clear my head, and now I'm right back where I started! So I'm gong to post some random thoughts until I distract myself away from this again.
Wikidbchofthewst
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If my middle name were spelled the traditional way, there would be 6 letters in each of my names, 666....I was ALMOST the antichrist.
Wikidbchofthewst
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What if we don't all see the same colors? I mean, we learned the colors, because people told us the names for them. But what if what you actually SAW was different from everyone else...would you ever even know? Would it really matter?
Wikidbchofthewst
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I was looking up random stuff, and found 101 Strange Beliefs and Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses
[SIZE=+1] Heaven is limited only to 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses.There are only 9,105 alive today (2006 figures)[/SIZE]
Does that mean there are only 9,105 spots in heaven left? Sounds kinda like a lottery....kinda scary.
But it says they don't fight in wars. If there was a draft, could you refuse on the basis that you are a Jehovah's witness and it's against your religion?
[SIZE=+1] Heaven is limited only to 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses.There are only 9,105 alive today (2006 figures)[/SIZE]
Does that mean there are only 9,105 spots in heaven left? Sounds kinda like a lottery....kinda scary.
But it says they don't fight in wars. If there was a draft, could you refuse on the basis that you are a Jehovah's witness and it's against your religion?
Stoney McFried
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Yes.You can refuse.I don't know if I've ever heard of anyone personally.I was raised a witness.UGH.There are 144,000 called to heaven, and the meek shall inherit the earth.They think there will be an Armageddon, and all those who haven't chosen Jehovah will die in it.Those who died before the time of the cleansing will be resurrected and given a choice of eternal paradise on earth or death.You also are not supposed to have a blood transfusion, and the cross is demonism or somesuch.
Wikidbchofthewst
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You were RAISED a witness?
Woa....did you ever go door to door? lol, seriously, I mean, did you ever really believe?
theloadeddragon
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I wouldn't have been able to survive being raised as a witness! I checked them out... went to their gatherings, bible studies, checked into their stock investments too... witnesses the group of actual people aren't too terribly bad (they are full of zeal and purpose), but the higher up "Brothers" are some pretty corrupt people "Elders" with a stick up their asses, not willing to accept what is right in front of them... sorry you had to go through that, but I hope you learned a lot about the bible because of it (I know I did)...
Stoney McFried
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No, I never believed.My mom went door to door sometimes, and my older sister, who died before I was born, was really into all that.I took after my dad a little more, meaning I had a strong distrust for organized religion.As a kid, I just stopped going.As I got older, I had to get over a lot of bullshit guilt that religion tried to program into my head.My mom doesn't go anymore, but still spouts about Armageddon, and she says she knows she won't be saved, and also, since she took a blood transfusion because she nearly bled to death from an ulcer,she knows she won't get into heaven either.They don't believe in hell, just nothingness or a big sleep after death.That you cease to exist if not saved.
You were RAISED a witness?
Stoney McFried
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I'm not an organized religion person at all.I'm on my own path, finding what I believe and don't believe.I guess I'm more pagan than anything, with a strong bit of agnostic thrown in, lol.
Wikidbchofthewst
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lol, honestly, the idea of nothingness probably scares me more than hell. I can't imagine NOT BEING.
Stoney McFried
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Yeah, they got that part of the fear quotient down pat!
theloadeddragon
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Me either... I am more like you... but for me the bible was still a real door opening, learning tool, that just helped me explore the concept of life a bit more, and from some different angles...
Stoney McFried
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That's cool...not into the bible myself, but I like the song of solomon, cuz it's about DOING IT!D
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Me either... I am more like you... but for me the bible was still a real door opening, learning tool, that just helped me explore the concept of life a bit more, and from some different angles...
theloadeddragon
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yeah, if I was raised a witness, I would have probably turned into the anti Christ! They are so hardcore they could turn just about anyone anti bible anti Christian! But as I wasn't raised by JW, I can look at the Bible with fondness, because there are important morals etc. in there....
Stoney McFried
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I think it's more my own thing about the bible.Being as it was written by a group of people and not a deity,IMO.And it's not the original document, its heavily edited.
Wikidbchofthewst
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Yep. Plus there's the fact that some bible stories are just Greek/Roman myths rewritten.