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Nov. 8 Awake - Wife Beaters-Sick
by MrMoe ini will let you all hang who ever the heck wrote this crap.
november 8, 2001 awake page 9: some battered women may need to seek assistance from the authorities.
at times, a point of crisis-such as intervention of the police-can cause an abusive man to see the seriousness of the action.. page 12: should the battered wife leave her husband?
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I'm Scared
by FriendlyFellaAL inbefore i get started on what i'm afraid will be a lengthy post, i just want to say a few things.
this may not be the appropriate forum for me to post what i need to say, but i hope that all of you will be understanding and supportive of how i feel.
i've been lurking here for quite some time and have even been brave enough to make a few posts, so i feel somewhat comfortable expressing this here.. perhaps i should discuss my background a bit before getting to the heart of the matter so you all can understand where i'm coming from.. i am a late 20-something former jw, never disassociated myself but completely stopped attending meetings about four or five years ago.
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crisis of self
by Tinkywinky ini dont know where to start this but maybe someone out there understands... i have a crisis of not having faith in my judgement of religion.. whats right-or whos right and wrong.. jehovahs witnesses are wrong about so much especially with aview to the governing body etc.. but what if they are right about the rest of it?.
my kids are so precious,and the decisions are up to me.. i arent up to choosing,and i cant make up my mind.. this war is bringing world conditions to peoples front door,and is affecting everyone.. this might not affect new zealand much,at all whatever but the whole state of mankind.. i cant ever see it improving.. i want to see my kids grow up,have their own kids and no i dont want to see death.. this is geniune guys.. if you dont wanna know please skip this thread.. im wondering if anyone else is honest enough to say they feel the same?
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TY for Welcome, some Questions?????
by Cassiline inthank you all for the warm welcome!
it has been so hard living, believeing that i am an anomaly.
i realize that there are others out there who have lived and expierenced what i have.
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Fear Kept Me In
by individual indoes anyone remember the organisation in the 1980's, how the things that they said seemed to fit so perfectly with the world that existed at that time?
their ideas and prophecies as seen at that time seemed to be correct and everything was falling into place.
i was a teenager at that time and the 'truth' had a very profound effect on me, i saw my family leave the org.
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LET'S MAKE A LITTLE WAGER
by You Know inperhaps you recall the instance in the bible where samson made a wager with the philistines that they couldnt guess his riddle.
as it turned out they wheedled the answer out of him by his fiancee, but the point is that they had a wager.
since the underlying assumption of the apostasy is that we are not living in the last days of this system of things, and that this world is not facing anything remotely like the biblical apocalypse, at least not any time soon, in the spirit of such antagonism, i would like to propose a similar wager.
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God on Trial - #3 - Standard of Justice
by Amazing ineating fruit: when eve and then adam ate the fruit, they were given the death penalty and low productivity yield from their food growing efforts.
but, they did get a nice long life, somewhere around 900-930 years.. murder: cain murdered his own brother, abel.
cain whines to jehovah about how severe his punishment is, too great to bear, and jehovah consents to put a mark on him so that no one will harm cain.
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Validity of 607 BCE date
by stevieb1 inhas anyone on here ever come across the tiniest shred of evidence supporting this date for the fall of jerusalem.
i understand rolf furuli is about to but something out on this subject (see elihubooks.com), however even a table of contents has been a long time in coming from this site.
if no evidence exists what can he possibly be writing about?
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how have YOU changed since leaving?
by idaho init's obvious that the sense of freedom is a dominant.
feeling among most persons here, but it would be .
interesting to hear in what way(s) you feel you .
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Where Do I Go Now? Is There An Answer??
by individual inwith all the problems in the 'truth' and all the things that we know are wrong with it there seems to be aspects of their theology (i.e the sequences of the world powers, statue in daniel, the promise of world restoration again found in daniel) that to me still make sense.
although i cannot follow a religion that believes in the destruction of all humanity barring those that respond to their own preaching work i still believe in a creator and cannot accept the teachings of other religions that have no purpose for the earth and believe that mankinds only destiny is in heaven.
my mind keeps telling me that if god was behind a religion it would be so much better than that of the jws.