Topics Started by Daunt
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Just a question about love and religion
by skeptikchick in.
was a relationship/ being in love with a person who was a non-jw a factor in fading from the jw religion for anyone out there, and if so... would you mind sharing your story.
i really need to just get as much info as possible right now, as i am at a crossroads in my relationship and am searching for anything to give me hope.
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Houstonians being affected by the Hurricane.
by Daunt infrom the different houstonians i talk to, many of them are showing some hostility towards the new orleans refugees.
many of my associates say that many businesses are being bought out and being replaced with new orlean ran businesses, and many other people worry about new orlean's crime history and how that would affect houston.
i'm trying to volunteer at the astrodome hopefully (parents are jws so everything volunteering for a group is terrible) but i was just wondering how other people felt about the raised emotions of the refugees from new orleans and how that will affect other people.
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JW funeral for atheist
by littlerockguy ini just got home from being out of town.
i went to my uncle's funeral who died early this week.
he professed the other day in his deathbed when a nurse asked him if he believed in god and he answered, "hell no!
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A world for all of us
by greendawn inwhen people are with the jws one of the tactics they use to deter them from leaving is the fear of the world, with typical cunning they over-emphasize its negative things, down play or ignore its positive things, and make sweeping generalisations about its nature.
in reality the world has everything and you can choose what you want to be or make out of life eg you can be a self denying saint or a sex crazed womaniser and nobody cares.
that is the golden abundance of the world and it belongs to all and i reconnected with it after leaving the jws with that thought.
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The Bottom Line: naturalism depends on speculation and FAITH.
by Shining One inthe great brain spews the typical line of reasoning we hear from from die-hard naturalists: .
macro-evolution is equivalent to speciation.
who has made this assertion and is it accepted and proven theory?
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The Lucipher's Principle.
by Daunt ini have just begun reading this book by howard k. bloom and i have to say that just the first few pages are giving me a totally new way to look at things.
it's mostly a book about the evolution of human morals and politics and religion but it goes a lot deeper.
it concretely explains how we came to be who we are, personality wise, within society all using aspects of evolution to rationally explain itself.
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Actually the JW's do some good in this case!
by TresHappy inseized dogs lived in squalor
by shawne k. wickham .
sunday news staff.
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Texas Hold em'
by Daunt inhttp://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html#4524 .
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not trying to get into deep politics, but i do not know if many people know about this.
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God Bless Texas.....thank you Houston
by LyinEyes inwith all the sickening things i have seen on the news today,,,,,,,it is great to see those people in houston , texas opening their arms taking in the evacuees.
it is good to hear the postive side of human nature during this terrible time.
i hope in the days to come the shift will be to some action being taken down in neworleans in a postive way, finally getting law and order down there.
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Tsumani Relief: Witnesses Organized Against It
by Grace init is clear that watchtower directives do not show compassion or aid to those in need, with the exception if those in need are fellow witnesses.
for the tsumani on dec. 26, the rank and file were told if they wished to donate to help those in need, they must give to the worldwide work designation at the kh, then the brothers would use their discretion as how to disseminate the funds.
in a telephone conversation, it was clear that "no kingdom halls were destroyed" by the tsumani, therefore, it was not urgent in the watchtower's minds.. check this site for yourself:.