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  Madeleine parents to meet the pope

  by Adolfius in

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  just heard on the news that the parents of the missing four year old in portugal, are going to have have a private service with the pope.

  apparently god is helping them with their ordeal.. is it just me being sceptical, but how can they possibly think god is loving and caring helping them with this, when he let the tragedy happen in the first place.

  so he lets a small girl be kidnapped by a paedophile, but shows his love by giving the parents the strength to cope.

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  Why do people hide on this site?

  by Adolfius in

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  something i've noticed when reading the various threads on this site, is that so many people seem to be afraid.

  their scared of being disfellowshipped, scared of being shunned, scared of not being accepted by the congregation, scared that people may find out they don't believe anymore, scared if anyone was to find out they use this site.

  there is advice for people on how to avoid being disfellowshipped, if they may have "said too much" about their thoughts, or how to fade without being noticed.. i don't understand this.

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  Can God see the future?

  by Adolfius in

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  i've been out a while, but i remember thinking about this as a teenager and being confused, (my mother told me i must be posessed by demons to think such things and so never offered me an explanation).

  what do the jws say about it.

  if jehovah can see into the future, he would've known what a mess he was going to make of creation so he would've decided against it before he even thought of it.. based on the theory that he went ahead and created everything anyway, that must mean he can't see into the future.. i also seem to remember that god doesn't interfere with man, because we have free will, so all our actions are down to us and in no way "steered" or "influenced" by god.. so how can he make predictions about the future, i.e.

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  I can't talk to my parents.....

  by Adolfius in

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  as you can see from my posts i'm new here.

  i was born and raised in the borg....dad was/is an elder.

  i never liked the religion simply because it stopped me having fun like other "normal" kids.

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  Arguments about the flood.

  by Adolfius in

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  i posted a thread yesterday about evolution and population since the flood, http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/134218/1.ashx and there were some arguments from the point of view of jw's that would be hard to counter....for me anyway.

  but it raised some other questions that i'd like some feedback on.. namely, is it just me who thinks it's just ridiculous that noah could've collected all the animals from across the globe and got them on the ark?.

  according to the united nations global biodiversity assesment, there are an estimated 1.75 million species on the planet.

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  Arguments JW's can't argue with.....I think???

  by Adolfius in

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  these are just a couple of arguments i think would cause any half sane jw (if any current and actively brainwashed "true believer" could ever be described as sane), to stop and think for themselves.. thinking person: is the bible and the events it describes true and factual?.

  jw: yes.....to the letter.. thinking person: could evolution be true?.

  jw: no way.. thinking person: ok, so i just want to get this perfectly clear; evolution in no way happened, is happening, or possibly ever will happen?

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