Nickolas
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A Lawyer Examines Jehovah's Witnesses
by Nickolas inget a load of this bit of propaganda issued by a watchtower apologist.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m-j-mprtsi.
at least they're not blocking comments just yet..
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How important are God and Jesus to you?
by Nickolas ini ask this question because it goes to:.
- how disposed to objectively considering contrarian evidence you are, and.
- how much i might be messing with your life and happiness by helping you see things the way i do.. i read the posts of many people on this board who are apparently happy, even deliriously happy, with their theism.
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Is the Bible an idol?
by Nickolas inthere is one basic distinction i no longer share with those who adhere to one of the many abrahamic religions and that is the holiness of the bible.
it seems to be the common thread in the religious beliefs of half the planet (although muslims dismiss the bible as an "earlier revelation".
sort of like islamic new light taken to a much higher order).
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Converts and near-converts, what did you give up for the Watchtower?
by Nickolas inif you're born-in you probably won't understand the subject question.
maybe you will if you've taken up any bad habits since leaving the watchtower, if you've left at all.
but if you were a convert (or near-convert, like i was) did you have to change your lifestyle in order to conform to the expectations of the society?.
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Wasting one's life on an ancient fantasy
by Nickolas ini could not help but think of my devout witness wife when i saw this in yesterday's funny pages:.
it is reminiscent of something she said awhile back about being restored to all the glories of youth when the new system comes.
from my non-theist perspective this is a sad example of escapism.
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Are Witnesses encouraged to talk about their non-JW mates?
by Nickolas inmy wife and i don't discuss the watchtower too much.
i'm atheist, and she knows there's nothing she can say to change that.
besides, she knows i've been doing a great deal of research into the society and could decimate any argument she could put forward that the wtbts is what it says it is, so she doesn't want to go there at all.
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The Watchtower, Christianity and Cultism
by Nickolas inif you want to upset a jehovah's witness, refer to the watchtower as a sect.
if you really want to upset a jehovah's witness, refer to the watchtower as a cult.
that's pretty much a conversation stopper.. the watchtower denigrates the rest of christianity.
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How might one convince a Jehovah's Witness to read "Crisis of Conscience?"
by Nickolas ini'm well into the book, can't put it down, it is just so fascinating and so utterly devastating to the credibility of the wtbts.
i suspect that any jehovah's witness who has a modicum of self respect and intelligence could not but finish the book a step or more on the path to emancipation from this awful, people destroying religion.. i really want my wife to read this book but i anticipate that she will refuse on the basis of it having been banned by the society as the worst kind of apostate literature.
i am genuinely saddened that she will not grant me the same kind of trust and respect she gives so lovingly to her watchtower masters and i will doubtless say this to her when she turns down my invitation.
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How the WTBTS creates atheists
by Nickolas ini am an atheist.
i arrived at this juncture in my life despite not wanting to.
when i first met the witnesses at 22 i was a seeker looking for answers to the question of life - in other words, prime cult target material.
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Truth - How obvious does it need to be?
by Nickolas inhey folks.
i've been on this board for just under seven months and i thank all of you who have contributed so generously to my education on things watchtower, and quite a few other things too.
not all of it was on here but it was through this board i've been directed to sites like freeminds and jwfacts.