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New developement
by Shawn ini have a new situation in my circumstance.
sorry to keep bothering you all but i need help, a lot of help.
my friend finally came over today and we talked for a while.
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People from that island west of Europe: What do you call your country?
by seattleniceguy ini'm curious.
do you call it the uk, england, or britain?
i have the sneaking suspicion that these terms each mean something slightly different from one another, but i thought i'd see how the natives use them.
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Thought it was about time I spill my guts...
by Krystal ini have already posted bits and bobs about my "story"... i like the companionship i have found here and i feel it about time i get this off my chest, so here it goes.
i am a 20 year old montrealer (it is me above!
) who was brought up a witness from the day i was born.
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Startling Revelation Today...
by MerryMagdalene inwords cannot describe what i am feeling right now, but what else have i got?.
so let's start with euphoric.. today i ran into an old jw friend.
we were teens in the troof together, neighboring congregations.
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don't ya think it's a rotten trick?
by zaphod in.
i've always thought that it was a rotten trick for god to create us with free will and then punish us for using it.. wha'd'ya think?
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What made YOU drop Christianity?
by GetBusyLiving inafter i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.
the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.
the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.
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Any types of books, authors, etc. you enjoy now that you didn't as a JW?
by littlerockguy ini always loved to collect books.
if any jw came and looked at my bookshelf now they would turn probably turn white.
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a worldly armageddon site
by Bas ini found this a while back, on a peak-oil forum actually.
it's an armageddonsite run by non-religious people, and it has an active board too.
the watchtower is only briefly mentioned in the failed predictions section.
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How many Bible studies does it take before brainwashing sets in?
by hubert ini would like to know how the study starts...... what kind of information is given to the potential new convert when he / she starts studying with j.w.
's., lesson to lesson.. what is taught in the first few "lessons".. when the brainwashing starts to be taught.
how many lessons it takes to convince the student that the w.t.
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The man who remembered everything
by cheeseman inif you have an interest in human memory you will find these pages an interesting read.
it's the story of solomon shereshevskii, a russian born in 1886, and his ability to remember things in frightening detail.. http://www.dreamhawk.com/memory.htm.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/hypermail/thinking.psychologically96/0060.html.