lifelong humanist
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Anyone here have any experience of moving to a liberal Muslim country?
by lifelong humanist ini'd like to move in the next year or two to turkey - a huge, self-supporting country at the far eastern end of the mediterranean.
i want to retire at 60 - my wife will then be 61. due to the local economy in turkey, this could just be a practical possibility, not just a pipe-dream.
although we'd prefer italy, which we've visited far more often, the costs there are just too expensive for our restricted budget!.
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Can you Believe Some of the New Posters on Here?
by lifelong humanist inin life, i usually trust new people, at least on face value, until i discover otherwise.
yet, my normal belief system is now in doubt.
i've just replied to a thread started by 'goldensky' - an alleged spanish lady with lots of history as an extremely devout jw in spain.
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How Long Before JWs Alienate all Professional Career Counsellors?
by lifelong humanist inplease stop for a moment and think about it - i understand that most 'modern' jws pride themselves that they don't waste any time studying, in favour of doing any mundane job that's available to non-qualified people - they'd probably go so far as to say that this is even a wise decision.
for those with some ability, i'd say, wrong, wrong, wrong!
while i totally disagree with this stance in the present context, i have to concede that in a world of full employment, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, unless you have greater skills and abilities to offer.
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How long until religion is no more?
by lifelong humanist inwhat do you think - how long before all religion is no more?.
i live in rural scotland, a country that is probably still quite religious on the surface.
yet, i rarely come across anyone that is in the least bit religious.
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Please nominate your favourite film and say why you rate it so highly.
by lifelong humanist ini've just watched all 3 parts of francis ford coppola's epic godfather once again.
it is a superb achievement on many levels.
each viewing reveals something new and fresh.. i recall, as a good jw at the time, not seeing it when released as it was not certified as 'suitable' given the content for jws.
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What do you think - are most ex-JWs atheist, agnostic, or still involved in some form of religion?
by lifelong humanist ini dad 6 years ago because, after a rational search came to the conclusion that there probably is no god.
shortly afterwards, i concluded that (for me) there is no god, which made me feel that i really was a natural-born humanist - a position that i'm entirely comfortable with.
i know that many former jws hold a similar, atheistic viewpoint.
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Your thoughtful opinion is requested, please, on a possible proposal to free my wife from JWs
by lifelong humanist insix years 'jw free', my wife is still in, although she's now nowhere neary as zealous as i was when in.
for this i'm grateful.. please take a moment to review my current situation as far as my wife's involvement is concerned with our 4, adult male children:.
my wife regularly contacts my dfd son, invites him and his wife to visit us, along with their 4 year old son, and thinks absolutely nothing of it!
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What's the best way to reason with and help your wife to give up her JW religion?
by lifelong humanist ini dad myself 6 years ago, and was quite surprised that my wife (of 38 years) did not follow suit.
perhaps this is because her father and brother are still active jws, and she doesn't want them to shun her the way that they have done to me.. so, my wife is still a jw, albeit losing interest in her religion.
as far as i know, she doesn't even go door to door anymore.
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Acquired morality
by lifelong humanist inas a humanist, i meet like-minded people, and accept that they are highly pricipled, moral people, capable of reasoning why they take the stance that they do.
i likewise meet religious people that also fit this description.. most humanists weren't always that way - probably no more than 25% were members of a religion before abandoning it.
those that had a previous religious belief - like myself for 50 years as a born-in, third generation jw, feel that they are now more 'moral' people, and set even higher standards of being honest, fair, reasonable, decent, non-dogmatic, etc.