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  Richard Carrier - End of the World Failed Christian Prophecies

  by Finkelstein in

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  an interesting talk on the inherent history of jewish and christian beliefs.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pb8pkews8.

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  Religion sure sounds like the definition of insanity with their regurgitating of the same failed prophetic ideas over and over expecting different results.
  
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  It is 5am and I still can't sleep. Contemplating life, doing research on religion, world history, science...

  by Stepford Wife in

  1. jw
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  my husband is still asleep but he will get up in about an hour for work so i'm going to quickly tell you my inconclusive conclusion.

  i don't know if i can believe in god anymore.

  i have come to the simple conclusion that he is either dead or evil but he is definitely not loving.

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  Once I realized the Bible, God(s), and religion are all based on ancient mythology, my nightmares ceased.
  
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  Would/Do you wear a Cross around your neck ??

  by Prisca in

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  2. friends

  after all that we had drummed into us about not the cross, and particularly about not venerating the symbol itself, i have been wondering about this issue.. so, what are your views about wearing a cross around your neck ?

  is it just a fashion accessory, or does it mean something to you ?.

  inquiring minds would like to know

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  Heaven

  I do not wear a cross. To me it is a symbol of an ancient Roman torture device and I am not into that vibe.
  
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  Beards

  by pgjallan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i left the witnesses.

  returned full bearded, which drew censure from a district overseer: “peter, you can’t witness door-to-door with a beard”.

  bewildered, i asked for an explanation.

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  "Imitate Jesus" ... yeah, grow a beard and put on a dress.
  
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  Got in a bad wreck.....uuugh

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  just happy to be alive....can barely move ☺.. a girl who just got her license , and a new suv....thought it might be cool to pass the person in front of her....at a curve......on a two way road!!!!!😠😠😠.

  very mad puppy.

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  Heaven

  Wow... nice Harley!
  
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  What Happens To You When You Die?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  are our dead loved ones watching over us at all or are they really just gone now?

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  Heaven

  A question believers have been unable to answer for me is the following:

  How can someone have any conscious thought, feeling, or any sort of perception of their external surroundings without a functioning brain and central nervous system, not to mention the absence of the other sensory receptors of vision (eyes), sound (ears), smell (nose), and taste (mouth, tongue, and tastebuds)?

  I have yet to receive an answer.
  
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  Proof of false prophecies...in pictures

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  post photographic evidence of dubs' false prophecies.

  i'll start:.

  the preaching work will conclude in the 20th century.

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  Heaven

  Was grocery shopping this past Sunday and my bread was on special for $2.88 per loaf. I like the Country Harvest Ancient Grains.

  
  

  I guarantee you I make way more than $2.88 per day.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: A Clear Decline

  by Hadriel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it is rather clear that the internet is to put it mildly, wrecking the world of the watchtower bible & tract society.

  if not for foreign language i doubt there would be much growth at all.. digital trends and analytics are very real.

  i live this analytics world i assure you to some degree you can take it to the bank.

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  Hadriel said: It absolutely does break up families.

  I can attest to that. But then, they can brag they are following Jesus' example in the Bible at:

  Matthew 10:35: For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. - NIV
  
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  THE LINGERING SHADOW OF '75

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  none of you are old enough to have been there, i suspect.

  i had been in prison two years as a jw conscientious objector when the exciting news about 1975 spread like wildfire.i was paroled from prison in 1969 and immediately began pioneering.

  the pressures began mounting throughout the organization.

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  Heaven

  I was 12. My maternal grandmother was dying of bone cancer. Armageddon was not really something we thought of during that time because all of us were deeply grieving. She knew she was gravely ill too. This was the first of many significant family illnesses and deaths for me. All of my family born on or before 1914 have passed away. Not one of them saw 'the end of this system of things and paradise Earth'.
  

  But fast forward 7 years and Mom is trying to convince me and my younger bro that we shouldn't be planning to go to College because we won't be needing careers due to Armageddon's imminence.

  That period of time, from age 10 to 19 was pivotal for me. I began doubting the existence of God or at least, the claims religion made about God. I had also figured out I could not be a JW due to the misogyny, disagreement with the Watchtower's interpretation of scripture, their constant extension beyond scripture, and the blood policy just to name a few.

  One of the biggest issues I have with the whole 1975 debacle is that Watchtower actually had the gall to blame the R&F JWs for 'running ahead of the organization' at expecting Armageddon to arrive in 1975. WTF?!

  Watchtower's legacy isn't a very stellar one, is it?
  
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  OKAY, GAME OVER! The number one reason the New Testament amounts to bunk

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for me, the dead giveaway is this.

  jesus wrote nothing.. stop and think about that.. if jesus were the authentic messiah, his ministry would not simply be local.. his instructions, his mission, the details of his teachings would be too precious to risk leaving it in the hands of "men unlettered (illiterate) and ordinary (blue-collar yokels).".

  jesus, were he the one and only hope of mankind, would be absolutely certain to write down with great simplicity and specificity the exact owner's manual necessary to rescue mankind.. never happened!.

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  Terry said: For me, the dead giveaway is this. Jesus wrote nothing.

  Terry, this was another moment for me regarding religion and the belief in God. If Jesus was as important as claimed to be and if he was truly interested in starting a global movement, I think he would have written something down or at least employed a scribe to be with him to do it.

  Another 'ah hah' moment for me was finding out that NONE of the authors of the Bible ever met Jesus and that the gospels were written well after the events occurred by people who were not there but wrote it in Greek, not Aramaic.