Damocles
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Newly fading and having morbid thoughts about dying....is that normal?!
by 2pink ini have been having doubts for years about the org, but it's mostly been just the past couple of months that it's really all unravelled for me.
i'm at that stage now where i don't know what i believe about anything...esp about what happens when you die.. and maybe it's just cause i never had to think about death before (was always countin' on that resurrection in paradise earth!
), but lately i can't stop thinking about it!
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Dealing with Being DF'd
by ~Jen~ ini haven't posted much here but i feel like i need some support right now.
i did post my story, but basically i'm 27, married for 7 years and i was df'd in july.
i always knew i didn't want to be a jw but went along with everything because of fear.
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Do Americans feel a 'special relationship' with the UK?
by ThomasCovenant inthe wt society always made a big point about the anglo-american world power when i was growing up in the t. i don't know if they still do.
probably not.. couple this with the uk media very often going on about a special relationship between the two countries.
some journalists would often point out though that this may have been wishful thinking on the part of the smaller uk.. i was a fan of alistair cooke's 'letter from america' and he , being of an older uk birth background would also reinforce this impression i had that there was a difference between the bond between the us/uk that was different to other countries.. .
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Being Shunned
by sadfox ini knew this day was coming but i thought somehow there might be a loophole.. i had my "last supper" with my daughter on monday.
i am disfellowshipped, her father and i are divorced, he is a witness, she lives with him and will be 18 on sunday the 5th.
therefore as a baptized witness, she can no longer visit me and must keep communication to the bare minimum.
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When were the Earliest Bible books composed?
by gaiagirl inaccording to the table in the back of the nwt, genesis and exodus were composed around 1300 bce, by moses (who also wrote in exodus about his own death, nice feat).
however, the oldest existing copies or fragments of genesis are only from around 200 bce.. .
additionally, comparison of genesis with sumerian and babylonian creation accounts reveal many, many similarities, and the sumerians and babylonians had there stories long before 1300 bce...so it appears that someone copied someone else merely changing a few names to suit a different audience.
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'All Along the Watchtower' - Its True Meaning Revealed!
by sd-7 infor many years, the significance of bob dylan's song, all along the watchtower, has been unclear.
what meaning does it have for us today?
how do we understand it in light of what the bible says?
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So Any Newbies and Lurkers - Talk to Us - How Are You Doing ?
by flipper ini wanted to put this thread out for any newbies and lukers to see how things are going in your life !
please know that those of us who have exited the jw religion care about you - so if you need to vent about what you have been experiencing - this thread is a good place to do it !
many here, including myself have been through what you are going through - so please post your thoughts here - and we will try to assist you !
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Swine flu and the understanding of science.
by Spook ini've gotten sick of responding to swine flu posts, so i'll say my peace here:.
pandemic is a word with a specific meaning.
words have meanings and it matters.
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Freakonomics and the drop in the crime rate
by Damocles inwe recently watched the movie 'freakonomics' based on the book of the same name and it posited some pretty scandalous ideas among the less so.
on the less scandalous side, name choice has little to do with success except that a mother who names you some wierd thing has other problems that surely will affect you.
its not the name its the parents who would give you such a name.. on the provocative side, they note that the slide in crime rate across the country corresponds with the time period that abortion has been legal.
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Possible reason for book study change?
by Damocles inin my experience, you can't go too far wrong in ascribing gb actions as responses to three stimuli: precedent, money, law.
if two are involved, like the tax implications of selling literature, the ws move swiftly and decisively irrespective of precedent.
the book study change makes little sense.