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The dubs at "Witness World" are discussing UN involvement!!!!!
by somebodylovesme ini am a lurker on the "witness world" witnesses-only website.
they are having a discussion because someone during door-to-door service confronted them with the un letter.
they are all saying that it is "obviously made up"... but the person is planning on writing to the society to ask.
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What is the difference between Creationism and Intelligent Design?
by somebodylovesme indrawing once again from the infinite wisdom of this board.... i'm having a hard time figuring out the distinction between creationism and intelligent design... is id just creationism with a pronounced christian tie?
thanks in advance.
slm
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How old were you when you left?
by somebodylovesme ini only know a handful of witnesses, but i do know several ex-witnesses.
all of them left in their late teens, which (as i've read here) is pretty common.
i know there are a lot of people here who left later in life.
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So what exactly IS an apostate?
by somebodylovesme ini was under the impression that an apostate was anyone who left the witnesses, was df'ed/da'ed, or was just actively opposed to them.
but i was reading in my hubby's old "reasoning book" that an apostate is one who professes to believe in christ (but not the jws), claims to serve god (but is not a jw), tries to pull away current jws or attack them.
so, by that definition, would someone who fades away and professes no religion still be considered an apostate if he or she didn't try to take anyone with them and did not attack the religion?.
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JW Children, Holidays, and Memories
by somebodylovesme inmy husband and i were walking through the store today and we passed a display of valentines -- you know, the kind that school kids buy and exchange in the classroom.
i paused and glanced them over, remembering how much i used to love holidays at school.
(husband is an inactive/faded jw; i was never one.
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Antibiotics for a virus? And what's a sure-fire fix for nausea?
by somebodylovesme init started thursday with a nasty cough.
friday morning, i felt like crap and was coughing up crap so i went to the doctor.
he told me i have bronchitis (yayyy) and prescribed both an antibiotic and a cough syrup with codeine (that puts me to sleep).
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POLL: If you're not actively a Christian - do you celebrate Easter?
by somebodylovesme ini actually forgot it was easter this weekend.
someone mentioned it yesterday, and i was pretty embarassed to have missed that little line on my calendar.
oh, well; since we are not practicing any religion and feel no more affinity toward christianity than toward, say, sikhism, i felt no ache in not partaking in the bunny-rabbit traditions.
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Is there a collection of all these creatively re-titled Watchtower covers?
by somebodylovesme ini showed my husband one that's in my topic (in adult & heated debate) and he laughed sooooo hard.
he was wondering if there are more posted anywhere.
i don't even know how to search for that on the site.
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A sincere question about prayer for any kinds of Christians out there...
by somebodylovesme ina few weeks ago, i received a mass e-mail from one of my mainstream christian friends requesting prayers for headaches she's been having.
i wrote back and told her i hoped she felt better (i'm personally not religious at all).
today, i got another mass e-mail thanking everyone for their prayers, and that her headaches were gone now through the grace of god.
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Is there new light on separation/divorce?
by somebodylovesme ini had a chance to thumb through the bible teach book (which was a waste of fifteen minutes of my life that i'll never get back ...) and i had a question about the section on family life.
i believe it stated that separation was allowed in some extreme situations (not named), but that divorce was only allowed in cases of fornication..
i was never a jw, but i'm currently watching a jw family member go through some crap in their marriage.