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memorial: how do you feel?
by unanswered inthis question is mostly for those of you who still believe in the bible to some extent.
my mother-in-law called the other day to see if rileygurl and i were going to the memorial this year.
we told her that we wouldn't be attending.
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thinker's thoughts on the Bible...
by thinker inthomas jefferson said of jesus's teachings:.
"they have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of schismatizing followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating and perverting the simple doctrines he taught, by engrafting on them the mysticisms of a grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties, and obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to reject the whole in disgust, and to view jesus himself as an impostor.
" (from jefferson's syllabus of an estimate of the.
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So Whats Driving You To Make Posts?
by Englishman inwhy do you bother to post on this site?
what good does it do you?
what do you gain from posting?.
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Trust your HEART or your CONSCIENCE?
by LDH inover the past few weeks i have been thinking about this and wanted to get your input.. it seems to me the wbts has taken one scripture, jer.
10:23 (the heart is treacherous, who can know it) and used it to build their whole religion.
they have convinced us that all of men's hearts are pure evil, and i just don't find that to be true!.
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Why I believe this site is beneficial
by jelly init seems to me that when you are in the org.
your social skills begin to atrophy.
i believe this is do to many reasons but the main two are the theocratic ministry school and the extreme not part of the world stand the society takes.. the theocratic ministry school is the orgs attempt to make people better teachers, in reality all it does is ingrain bad debate habits.
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Hi everyone, just registered
by Jsandmusic injust found this place.
it looks like some really sensible posting is going on, for the most part.
i'm not a jw, but i have family "in the truth?
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"this teaching"
by somebody in"if anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him.".
i know that the "society" uses this scripture to instruct it's members on how to view other members that have been judged and condemmed.
(i. e. disfellowshipped) i'm intersted in opinions of what "this teaching" is referring to in the verse.
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Why I Think Its The Truth!
by normie67 inthis is normie thoughts on the threads about the truth..... i have huge doubts about a lot of things about the org.
i have been a jw for 20 yrs and still active(family reasons).
but nobody but nobody has refuted to my mind, the fact nobody does the evangelizing work jesus did.
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"Pay Attention" book; Sharing on Judi...
by TR insharing .
on a judicial committee .
"when having a hearing between your brothers, you must .