Topics Started by destructo-girl

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Who Do You Speak To More - God Or JWD Members?
by serotonin_wraith in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if i thought there was a magnificent spiritual being who cared for me, i would pray every day, not just if i felt low and had no one else to talk to.

we don't spend time with friends only when the going gets tough.

we share the good as well as the bad.
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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?
by Crumpet in
1. jw
2. friends
i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.
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i knew a dub that used to tell her classmates that they would be destroyed
by looloo in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
this was in the 70s , im sure the kids parents wud have been delighted , what a "bad witness" they could have been "stumbled" did any of you do that?

it is so sad that it wase ven put in a 5 year olds head
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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character...
by digderidoo in
1. jw
2. friends
...in all fiction:jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevent bully.

", says richard dawkins in the god delusion p51.

he goes on to say, "those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror".. would you agree?.
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Anyone who joined here in the last 6 months post here
by WT=watchtrouble in
1. jw
2. friends
i thought it would be interesting to see just how many people have climbed aboard jwd within the last 6 months.

it will give us an indication on how many people are actually coming away from the borg.. i may not be replying all the time but will pop in every day of so.. lets keep this thread going and use it to welcome new ones.

may i be the first to say welcome.
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If You Were Wrong About The JWs, Maybe Your Current Beliefs Aren't True
by serotonin_wraith in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if you're here, it's likely you were once fooled by what the jws believe.. back then, i expect you thought you were smart.

you thought you could tell if you were being lied to.

yet, they got past your mental defenses and sucked you in.. knowing this, how can you be sure your current religious beliefs are true?.
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Deceiving new Bible studies. The stunning craftiness of WTBT again.
by hamsterbait in
1. jw
2. friends
has anybody still got copies of the old "truth" book, the "live forever " book, and "bible teach" book?.

i threw them out, and regret it now because a sudden chilling realization came to me posting on another thread:.

do you remember how in the 70s we were told to encourage the new study to compare what the nwt says with what is in his own bible?
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So I did the unthinkable
by veen in
1. jw
2. friends
i decided enough was enough and had a no holds barred conversation with a room of around a dozen 'believers'.

a number of things had been troubling me all night, but the final straw was when my brother-in-law said 'isn't it funny how the acronym std can stand for both, sexually transmitted disease and satan the devil.'.

i couldn't stand the frustration anymore so i pointed out how irrelevant that fact was, and how if we spoke a different language the same conclusion could probably not be made.
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Is there a Universal Issue? Did God cheat....yes and I can prove it.
by oompa in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
gen. 3:5 for god knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like god, knowing good and bad.".

(genesis 3:22) 22 and jehovah god went on to say: "here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,".

gen 3:22and the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:i awoke this morning and had an epiphiny.
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i met a witness in town
by looloo in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i met a witness in town that i know and she actually thought it was the law ie the police that cant do anything about child abuse unless there are 2 or 3 witnesses, how disturbing she is over 50 years old and that naive.