Posts by Heaven

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is there trully a GOD

by piledriver in

the answer every person and religion wants to know is .

is there trully a god no false prophets yes .theres two many to even think about who just want your money and time to spread there evil word .no god is more important in this lifetime that you have on this world than the love you recive and give to your real family .

anyone who is a jehovah's witnesses trully knows they are in a cult not a religion minipulated and threatend with emotional blackmail and pain it makes them feed off your sadness and manipulate there flock into beiving this what jehovah ( false prophet) wants pure sanctamonius bullshit read the book shepard the flock of god charles teze russle was the founder but and since jesus is the founder of chrisianity the organisation regard him as the true founder of there fake faith plus he c.t russle was a child molester .

Heaven

God is a figment of the human imagination.

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What Written & Unwritten Rules Do Jehovah's Witnesses Have?

by minimus in

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friends

jws should "not go beyond what is written".. please list examples of how they do not follow that bible instruction..

Heaven

Reporting Field Serve-Us time.

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Hello from an exmormon

by Cold-Dodger in

jw
friends

someone named john free popped in on one of my posts at exmormon[dot]com and mentioned this website.

i have a lot of questions.

i never knew much about about the jw church.

Heaven

Welcome Cold-Dodger! Thank you for sharing some of your story. Were you born-in to the Mormon religion? It seems many born-ins leave their religion when it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I would be an example of that re: JWs although technically, I was never a formal JW as I never got baptized. I was certainly raised in it though.

The JW belief that 'Armageddon is coming soon' is rather embarrassing. Over 100 years is not 'soon' or 'imminent', nor 'closer than the inside of your eyelids'. And their shunning of disfellowshipped and others, as well as their blood doctrine has hurt many. I lost a cousin because she refused a blood transfusion. She left behind a husband and 3 children.

We tell them that these feelings mean the Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God.

Just to be clear, Joseph Smith was a fraudster but I am not sure many Mormon's are aware of that. Why would God pick someone with this type of lowbrow morals as one of his prophets? And the golden tablets/plates... where are they?

anyone who doesn't pull their wait and do exactly as they are told is a shame to themselves and treated accordingly by the most Puritanical religious society you have ever been a part of.

In JW world, you are called 'a weak Witness' and are typically 'shepherded' by the elders when this occurs. If you persist in being an issue, they will disfellowship you - aka kick you out, label you 'Disfellowshipped' and possibly 'Apostate', and shun you. My uncle was disfellowshipped in the early 1990s. I am not sure why but I suspect he didn't agree with some doctrine. He was reinstated after the elders that kicked him out got kicked out themselves. There seem to be a lot of politics in this religion.

When I was little, my Mom was the one who was more strong in the faith than my Dad. He wasn't a big fan of religion at all. The JW religion was introduced to the family in the 1950s when my maternal grandfather converted from being a Catholic to a JW. The JW hardbound yearly volumes/books in my parent's bookcase start at 1960. We were kind of 'fringe' JWs when I was a kid. We still celebrated the holidays and us kids did mostly normal kid things like play sports and go to movies etc. We didn't go to the Hall except for the Memorial and I only remember going a couple of times. I think my Dad's disdain of religion kept a more even keel in our household when I was young. It wasn't until me and my brothers grew up and left home that our parents decided to become 'zealous' and get 'dedicated' (aka baptized) as JWs. Things were rather rough after that as they became mean-spirited and holier-than-thou towards us on many occasions.

Children have built in BS meters. As I got older, mine kept going off. For example, the JW claim that they are preaching to all the inhabited Earth. The math just didn't add up. There just aren't enough JWs compared to the world's population for them to be doing this. This is still true today.

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Canada may get a new government today

by Simon in

the us elections suck up all the attention (and it's not even at the candidate selection stage!

) but canada actually has a national election today.. first results are starting to come in and so far it's all liberal party.. i think it's time harper and the conservatives got the boot.

last premiere from the bush era.

Heaven

Be "worried" about your money I guess if you have to

Wow, is the person who said this independently wealthy? As one gets closer and closer to retirement, one tends to worry about their money more and more. It isn't an infinitely deep well.

Also, Trudeau has said he is pulling our troops out of Syria. I don't think this is a good idea either.

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Earliest Life on Earth Pushed Back Another 300 Million Years

by cofty in

researchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.

if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

.... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.

Heaven

Well, I love cofty's (and others) Science threads. This forum has educated me on many things and I hope it continues. I get a lot of my news here before I get it from anywhere else.

I find it fascinating that the building blocks of life have been found embedded in rocks, particularly ones that have come from space and have formed despite intensely high heat and no water. This is a huge piece of information. It definitely makes it possible for life to exist on other planets, especially now that we know there ARE other planets (many of them in fact) and that of the over 1,000 known planets so far, 10-15 others are positioned in the zone of a star that makes life a real possibility. AND there is at least one planet other than Earth that is a couple billion years older than our planet in the habitable zone of the same type of star as our sun. I wish I could be alive when they are actually able to make some sort of closer discovery mission of those planets. Gives me goosebumps.

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Money woes show it ain't the truth

by OnTheWayOut in

jehovahs people do not beg for money.

[...] we have never considered it proper to solicit money for the lords cause, after the common custom .

it is our judgment that money raised by the various begging devices in the name of our lord is offensive, unacceptable to him, and does not bring his blessing either upon the givers or the work accomplished.

Heaven

The cartoon video of Sophia deciding to give the Borg her ice cream money is particularly lowbrow.

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The public prosecuter is interested in getting information on JWs.

by Driving Force in

background information.

i myself am in full fade mode with an overly active jw wife, who refuses to discuss any point whatsoever.

a friend who is not a jw nor has ever been a jw; he studied for a few months, then realized what an evil cult it is and stopped.

Heaven

Actigall Ur are Canadians allowed to sign this?

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Canada may get a new government today

by Simon in

the us elections suck up all the attention (and it's not even at the candidate selection stage!

) but canada actually has a national election today.. first results are starting to come in and so far it's all liberal party.. i think it's time harper and the conservatives got the boot.

last premiere from the bush era.

Heaven

Well, that means increased taxes and CPP premiums. Trudeau thinks he can spend his way out of the recession. No government has ever done this. Let's see how he does it. Oh joy.

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Nice moment today

by Theburstbubble in

so it's been a few months since i last went to a meeting but i've still had lots of guilty feelings about leaving, such as am i doing the right thing, thinking about friends and family, where do i go from here etc etc.

but i think once you stop believing you can't go back.. anyway, today i had a very nice experience.

my daughter had been to nursery today and when she got home i asked her what she had done and she excitedly told me they had been doing pumpkins.

Heaven

I have come to realize that Pagans indeed have a lot of fun. I love pumpkins... especially the pie with whipped cream versions!

A little pumpkin ambiance:

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Earliest Life on Earth Pushed Back Another 300 Million Years

by cofty in

researchers have found evidence of ancient microorganisms that lived in what is now western australia at least 4.1 billion years ago.

if confirmed, the discovery suggests that life originated on earth 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

.... the ancient microorganisms in question were found trapped inside zircons formed from magma in western australia.

Heaven

I remember seeing an article about amino acids being found in meteorites. Here are a couple I just dug up quickly. Anyone have any updates to these?

http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/meteorite-amino-acids-101221.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/life-components.html