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If Someone Hurts You Or Pisses You Off, How Do You Usually Deal With It?
by minimus injust curious.
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Evangelicals fear the loss of their teenagers (NY Times article)
by sir82 inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/us/06evangelical.html?ex=1160798400&en=93f06f4316392e8e&ei=5009&partner=msn_nythome.
looks like it's the not just the jws who have teenagers "leaving in droves".. i'm curious to see what the religious landscape will look like 20 or 30 years down the road..
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I saw a beautiful thing yesterday --- a gift from God
by jgnat inyesterday i saw a couple i hadn't seen for many years sitting together on the bus.
i'd always wondered if they had managed to stay together.
they looked the same, save a few more dry wrinkles, as they did twenty years ago.
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MOve on!???
by Core88 inok so i am a ex-witness,(disfellowshiped) i have posted here before...but i must say why have'nt we moved on?
come on i mean if we all really thought that the jw sect was just that then why are we not trying to forget it and let life go on as it has; and try to be true to ourselves and our neighbor and read jesus words as recorded in the bible?
i have been reading my bible on lunch breaks at my work, as well as reading in the dhammapada.
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After Armegeddon Whats the plan?
by purplesofa infrom the beginning of the jw experiance, i wondered what the plan was going to be after armegeddon.
we are to expect so much destruction, billions of people destroyed (how many birds does it take to eat 6 billion people in a timely manner?
) with the massive deaths and stuff to clean up........peoples bones for one, rebuiling and resurrecting the millions and millions that have died.....teaching them, and working to clean up the planet.
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Were you told to give till it hurts? (Time, contributions etc)
by truthseeker ini remember hearing many times from the platform, and especially the assemblies, that we had to give our valuable things to jehovah till it hurt - and if it didn't hurt, we weren't struggling enough.. especially contributions - did we give till we hurt or did we give out of our surplus?
they love to use the example of the widow's mite to guilt us.. one co said that "some people only give jehovah 10 hours a month!
" - can you imagine that?
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Was Being A Witness, All THAT Bad???
by minimus ini mean, you could've been made to be an islamic fundamentalist or something, right?
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After you left JWs how did you work out what you believe now
by awol ini left jws 10 yrs ago and have just considered myself drifted.
never df'd.
could never go back as i personally found it too hard to live up to.
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Murder with Amish children, great opportunity to convert Christians, right?
by free2beme inlast night, i had this misfortune of listening to people in other christian faiths use the amish event to promote recruitment of their own church in faith.
i saw ministers on television saying how these amish people showed the love of christ, and how these people showed how much people in christ church were so loving and forgiving.
making a point to mention that the amish people were forgiving the man who did this.
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Grand and Lesser Apostate Delusions
by slimboyfat inwhat is it makes some of those wacky apostates appear from time to time claiming russell and the witnesses were/are all part of some great freemason/illuminati plot?
i'll tell you what it is, and it may explain a few other things for you too!
people who come up with these theories demonstrate a basic psychological insecurity stemming from their involvement and subsequent disentanglement from the witnesses.