Jaypeeto
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What's Everyone's Favorite JW "Urban Legend?"
by Jaypeeto inmy personal favorite, popular in my area in 1982, was the story that little plastic "smurf" dolls were biting the ankles of hapless witness moms who had bought the demonic toys for their little children.
does everyone have a favorite laugh-out-loud jw urban legend?
please share!.
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Parousia- Is it just me? Has anyone else noticed this?
by upside/down inthe entire premise of the debate of christ's "presence" as discussed in matt24:3 to me makes no sense.
here's why: we have to assume by the question asked by the apostles, that they understood the whole "presence" concept, which they didn't.
they were merely asking him when "the end" would come, i'm not even sure if they know what "the end" really meant.
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Do you think of yourself as an apostate
by barbar inmany of the people on this site say that they are apostates.
but that is not the way i feel about myself.. i am not angry with the "witnesses" or the organisation, i don't feel that i wasted my life.
i just think that i was stupid to believe it for 30 years (well sort of believe it, i did have severe doubts on and off).
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X-JW , X-Mormon & More OR: Around the World's Religions in 60 Years!
by Rod P inhi people!
i am new here, but started out on the topic of "high rates of depression in org.
" there are 3 posts, one of which has been pasted below on my new thread.
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The tyranny of religious experience
by Narkissos inin 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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Goodbye everyone
by holly inits 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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Are there any 'true' churches ?
by Qcmbr injust 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:)
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What Is The Unpardonable Sin?
by JH in.
in your words, what would be the unpardonable sin?
give examples.... .
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UFO sightings and close encounters
by seesthesky inhave 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 inthe 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?.