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Goodbye everyone
by holly in
1. jw
2. friends
its time to leave.

i have had all the answers i need to make a firm decision.

thank you so much everyone for your replies, for talking to me over the last few weeks and for some of the humour.. i believe the jws are right and that they have the truth.
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What Is The Unpardonable Sin?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
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in your words, what would be the unpardonable sin?

give examples.... .
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UFO sightings and close encounters
by seesthesky in
1. jw
2. experiences
have you seen a ufo or had a close encounter with an (apparent) extraterrestrial?
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Is there evidence showing that Gentiles who held government jobs resigned?
by truthseeker in
1. jw
2. friends
the bible does not say whether cornelius, the first gentile, resigned his position as army officer.. did the judge who heard paul speak in the areopagus stand down?

i'm sure being a judge back then would have involved some act of worship to caesar.. what about nicodemus?

while he was a secret believer, he still was a member of the sanhedrin.. if these ones found favour with god, why does the wts make big issues of running for office?.
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Do you let JW's make you feel insignificant?
by Dragonlady76 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have read so many posts and topics about how people are treated after leaving the org.

so i would like to share with you my take on this.. i cannot help but notice that most people seem to feel that they are looked down upon by the jw's.

whether it be from shunning: a mean look,comments, avoiding someone etc... i can honestly say that i have never felt this way, and i have run into several jw's since i left.
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The tyranny of religious experience
by Narkissos in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the discussion of religious or mystical subjects on this board, the "experiential vs. intellectual" issue often comes up.

while mostly those on the "experiential side" of the debate are content to share their experience without imposing it on others, sometimes the appeal to "experience" sounds like a subtle way of disqualifying the comments of "intellectuals" who cannot know what they are speaking about as long as they haven't got the "right experience".. i remember once discussing that with a welsh evangelical lady: she complained that pentecostals and charismatics in her neighbourhood dismissed her views because she was not "baptised in the spirit" according to their definition of the term.

i pointed to her that her fellow churchgoers were doing exactly the same thing when they dismissed the views of "unbelievers," or traditional believers who didn't claim to be "born again" in the evangelical style.. here the issue of qualitative or quantitative appraisal of religious/spiritual experience steps in.
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Church from Bible, Bible from Church?
by Big Dog in
1. watchtower
2. bible
after leaving the borg and through research convincing myself that the wbts did not have the "truth" i began to read a wide variety of religous materials and tried to delve into as many faiths as possible.

i was curious what others believed and after growing up in such an insular faith i found it fascinating to learn about all the different philosophies and beliefs.

one particular issue i found especially interesting, and that was the issue of sola scriptura, " simply stated, the protestant doctrine of sola scriptura ("scripture alone") teaches that every teaching in christian theology (everything pertaining to "faith and practice") must be able to be derived from scripture alone.
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The GB: evil manipulators or misguided fools
by New Worldly Translation in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've been pondering this question for a while now and i haven't come to a conclusion yet.

on the one hand there is evidence of psychological manipulation in their publications.

they discourage questioning of their authority or even their fallability and try to whitewash past mistakes.
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who is who on here??
by holly in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i know there are mostly ex jw's on here.

i just wondered how many of you are ex jws, left or df'd, how many are still in but have lost heart?.

are there any jws on here who still believe its all the truth, go to meetings and trust the organisation?.
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Are there any 'true' churches ?
by Qcmbr in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just a question because of course we all either believed we were in the 'truth', are still in the 'truth' have left and found the 'truth', there is no 'truth' or that the only truth is found in the trailer park with a bottle of bud and a bunch of 'pozzies:)