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How did your family react to your decision over time?
by mavie ini'm still somewhat hopeful my family will one day 'see the light'.
in your experience, did any of your family members finally understand your reason for leaving and communicate with you as a family member and not an apostate?.
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Looking for quote from WT...please help
by mavie ini was having a discussion with family about leaving the jw's recently.
we were talking about the us verses them mentality one develops as part of the religion.
i tried to bolster my case by saying that only jw's will survive armageddon.
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Did the OT writer foretell the virgin birth of Jesus?
by mavie inthis subject caught my attention after reading a passage in sam harris' book "the end of faith".
"as many authors have observed, the numerous strands of hebrew prophecy that were made to coincide with jesus' ministry betray the aploogetics, and often poor scholarship, of the gospel writers.
the writers of luke and matthew, for instance, in seeking to make the life of jesus conform to old testament prophecy, insist that mary conceived as a virgin (greek parthenos), harking to the greek rendering of isaiah 7:14. unfortunately for fanciers of mary's virginity, the hebrew word alma (for which parthenos is an erroneous translation) simply means "young woman," without any implication of viginity.
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September Special Issue Awake - Creation
by mavie inyou can download the issue here thanks to dan-p. .
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/117876/1.ashx.
i was reading this at home and had to stop when i came across this sentence on page 3:.
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Arrogance? When will we humans learn we are not the center of everything?
by mavie inwe humans are an arrogant, anthropocentric species.
ptolemy posited that the earth was the center of the universe.
once copernicus began to show that the sun, not earth, was at the center of our solar system, some still believed that the sun at least was the center of the universe.
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Baptism - To Whom?
by mavie inthanks to drew for originally posting this in one of sagan's threads.
in light of the questions for baptism, specifically question 2:.
(1) on the basis of the sacrifice of jesus christ, have you repented of your sins and dedicated yourself to jehovah to do his will?
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Crisis of Conscience
by mavie inbefore i am criticized for this, please understand the difficulty of having this book in the house while still a jw.
i was hoping to find this book or portions of it online.
please pm me if you have any details.
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Do you feel you were trapped in a destructive cult?
by mavie ini'm interested in knowing your thoughts on this matter.
do you think the wtbts is a destructive cult?
a destructive cult is defined as "a group which violates the rights of its members and damages them through the abusive techniques of unethical mind control.
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nd The Game
by mavie in.
got a pm and a phone number...can't find the thread for "the game".
someone help?.