Posts by melmac

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Do you really know the bible?

by melmac in

...then take this bible quizz:.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0201/biblesex.html.

my score was 7/10... not too bad!

melmac

...Then take this bible quizz:

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0201/biblesex.html

My score was 7/10... not too bad!

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What JW belief do you think is correct?

by JH in

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what biblical belief do you think they have correct compared to other religions?

melmac

There's no immortal soul, God is not a Trinity, no Fiery Hell, Earth not 6,000 years old. No need to keep a Sabbath.

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My daughter has a brain tumor :(

by outnfree in

i am so terrified!.

#2 daughter came home from college on 12/18 with a violent headache, nausea, neck pain and great fatigue.

we took her to the dr. on the 20 and again on the 21st as she had kept nothing down for 3 days.

melmac

Glad to know it's not malignant. So it must be unlikely to recurr. Let's hope that this event soon passes by.

We keep you in our prayers!

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my transformation, I am showing off here...

by jwbot in

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hey all, i just took some "after" pictures today and need to share with my friends.

as some of you know, i lost a bit of weight recently.

(by eating less, eating better and exersizing - it actually works sometimes!)..

melmac

You look sooooooooooooooooo hot!!

I also want your bo..... ah, nevermind! (just kidding)!

Congratulations.

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Please welcome my wife, Gina AKA FreedomFrog

by AlmostAtheist in

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hey all,.

gina's got her own account now, she's freedomfrog.

hopefully she'll tear herself away from u.n., blood, birthday, and whatever else research long enough to say 'hi' back!.

melmac

Welcome, FreedomFrog! We can relate to the feeling of being caught in a whirlwind, once we find out the truth about the 'troof'.

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i was brought up in the 'truth' for many years until i was 20 or thereabouts and now being on the outside looking in i see not only jw's for what they really are but i believe i see religion for what it really is too.. consider this point, and this reminds me of a song written by alanis morrisette entitled, forgiven which is a pretty cool stab at religion itself if you read the lyrics closely...one part of the lyrics is 'we all had our reasons to be there'.

if you came into the truth, consider the reasons why, what were the circumstances of your life...were you searching for something.

even if they were brought up in it...consider the reasons why their parents started to believe.

melmac

I went in because at the time what they taught was very logical. They had answers to all the questions (of course, provided you didn't ask the wrong questions :) ).

Of course, we didn't have internet back then... would've put a spanner in the works!

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when did the wtbs start publishing statistics?

by candidlynuts in

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if not , when they started with this nit picky time keeping and product placement counts , was that something that was popular in the world at that time ( the stat keeping not the placements)?.

i've thought since childhood if they'd quit worrying about numbers and start worrying about people , it'd be a much better religion.

melmac

... especially because we have been awaiting his revisit.

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Met a JW elder for the first time since leaving JW

by coldfish in

i left about 14 months back and stopped attending meetings cold turkey.

so i haven't seen any jws for ages and for some reason i've never bumped into them at the mall or in town - and i guess that means they haven't seen me either or know what i'm up to.. i was at a cafe with a male friend today, we look like a typical couple that is we're the same age, shop together etc but its purely platonic.

but you know how it is with jw .

melmac

Poor guy... you shouldn't torture him like that. Trust me... he wants to get naughty with ya.

Now I feel bad!
I met him off an internet dating site and we started off as a couple. I think he might still like to be too. But I said I wanted to break it off or just be friends. hmmm life and relationships are so perplexing

When I was a dub I had a platonic friend, too! Only now do I realize that she didn't want to be platonic.

Oh how I wish I could go back in time... I was so dumb as a dub...

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Jehovah's Witness Refute: Refuted? Yes!

by ColdRedRain in

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http://watchtower.virtue.nu/index_en.htm

post your refutations in this thread.

i'm refuting the un issue.. .

melmac

The question is to what extent the Society really supported the charter of the United Nations. We think this is not the case at all. What should have been their actual support then?
Perhaps this is a case of the notorious "small print". The might for instance have been a brother that needed some material that only could be found in the library of the United Nations. What could be more simple than filling out some forms and becoming member of the library without realising this also meant membership of the complete organisation? How often did you read all conditions of insurances or certain purchases?

ROTFL

This is simply absurd!!!

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"Replacement doctrines" - things which JWs lie about to the interested ones

by Pole in

depending on the denomination of their interlocutor the witnesses often claim that their religion is free of a whole bunch of non-sensical doctrines which are so common in other religions.

oftentimes, however, it proves that they have something that i'll call "replacement doctines" - beliefs which which are difficult to figure out for the 'interested ones', but which in the long run prove to be just as bad as the stuff they disclaimed or worse.

example: in a catholic country like poland, jws often boast about the fact that they don't have the confession routine, where a person has his/her sins forgiven by a priest who acts as a representative of god.

melmac

Just ask them if only Jdubs will be saved at Armageddon... if you're a non-dub they'll go all the way round what they really believe.