Quillsky

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  Will beksbks and BurnTheShips eventually meet up, have a beer, fall into bed together and get married?

  by Quillsky in

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  just asking..

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  Quillsky

  Just asking.
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  Please help me with two things:

  by trebor in

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  please help me with two things:.

  from the atheist, how do you explain feelings/emotions?

  additionally: where do they originate?

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  From the Christian, how do you explain areas like China and/or India?

  I'm not a Christian, but will respond nonetheless.

  Simply, religion equals culture, and religion does not equal absolute truth. It's not more complicated than that.

  But for an accident of birth you could have been born into a community belief tradition called Hinduism, Christianity, Islam or any number of other traditions.
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  Please help me with two things:

  by trebor in

  1. jw
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  please help me with two things:.

  from the atheist, how do you explain feelings/emotions?

  additionally: where do they originate?

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  Do ameba and/or paramecium contain or exhibit these emotions?

  Are you assuming that humans evolved from amoeba and similar organisms? If so, I can't comment. What I know to be true is that human emotion, human feeling, helps human society to exist and propagate.

  A simple example - a man living 30000 or 3000 or 300 years ago who didn't feel and express the emotions necessary to find a sexual partner and contribute towards his community is unlikely to have descendents today.
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  Please help me with two things:

  by trebor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please help me with two things:.

  from the atheist, how do you explain feelings/emotions?

  additionally: where do they originate?

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  Quillsky

  From the Atheist, how do you explain feelings/emotions?

  They oil the wheels of society, production, reproduction, raising families and tribes - in short, contribute towards survival of the fittest of the species.
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  What Beliefs/ Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses do you Disagree With Most?

  by flipper in

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  most of us either when exiting the witnesses or after exiting have certain beliefs/practices that bothered us so much we could not suport this organization anymore.

  what were your breaking points ?

  here were a few of mine :.

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  Quillsky

  Not a tangent at all, Emerged. Good for you and you deserved to feel great!!
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  Why so defensive? (CHRISTIANS ONLY)

  by besty in

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  the wife and kids and i were round for dinner last night at some good friends of ours - very informal and relaxed.

  we have been there many times and its home from home.. they have 2 boys same as us, and they also had another friend (jane) over with her 3 boys - as both dad;s from each parent couple were out of town it was me and sam and the 2 mums + 7 boys under 7 to take care of.

  cue another glass of wine please.. eating outside in the front yard, kids playing on the walk street, sunset in the background - you get the idea.. so it turns out jane (who is a very confident, outgoing, successful businesswoman, and attorney) is from texas, and very proud of that - rightly so - but lives in la.

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  Came into this thread to see why only Christians are allowed to read and comment.

  Can't see why but okay, bye and have fun.
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  Are non Jws shunned

  by wiser in

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  i live in a small town and have been studying with two nice witnesses.

  however, there is nothing about their truth that is acceptable.

  i have pointed out many errors in their information.

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  Okay, then there's that.
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  Do Elders and Bethelites really follow this site?

  by jamesmahon in

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  2. beliefs

  just a question really and whilst i would not put it past them i sort of feel it is too 'conspiracy theory' for me.

  are elders and bethelites officially sanctioned to lurk (or engage) in this or other sites to try to weedle out apostates?

  does anyone have any direct experience of it happening?.

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  Quillsky

  Oh god, now I feel like we're Amish with a documentary film crew's cameras pointed in our faces. Cold Steel, go and fascinate yourself elsewhere on the internet.
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  Do Elders and Bethelites really follow this site?

  by jamesmahon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a question really and whilst i would not put it past them i sort of feel it is too 'conspiracy theory' for me.

  are elders and bethelites officially sanctioned to lurk (or engage) in this or other sites to try to weedle out apostates?

  does anyone have any direct experience of it happening?.

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  Quillsky

  When someone's disfellowshipped, what then? Is your name read in a public meeting? Do people shun you?

  Then their friends and families may not communicate with them except on essential family business such as funerals.

  Yes your name is read in a public meeting. Yes people shun you.

  What if you're of the anointed class? Does that make a difference?

  No. The same rules apply.

  And what if you're a convert? You get baptized and then when do they drop the ball about your not being allowed to read certain websites? What if an elder comes over and, while chatting, the elder sees a Qur'an or Book of Mormon on your bookshelf? Or, say, Walter Martin's Kingdom of the Cults?

  What exactly is your question?

  Are you asking whether --- in the exceptionally unusual situation of a person being well-read in comprehensive religious philosophy prior to being caught by the apocalyptic doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses --- an elder were to notice their bookshelf after the person's baptism, would it lead to them being questioned?

  No idea, since I believe it has seldom happened.

  The scriptures don't explicitly state what's in your library, do they? But if they, fer instance, mention the faithful and discreet slave, perhaps the Governing Body sees itself as having supplementary authority.

  No, the scriptures don't prescribe what is to be in your library. Your question is, again?

  Does the church have problems with short memberships? Like six months or less? This is all very fascinating.

  Once you're baptized you're trapped, end of story. Time after baptism makes little difference.

  Thank you for your fascination and patronization.
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  As a Witness - What did you Notice in How Elders Got Appointed ?

  by flipper in

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  i found it amazing being raised in the witnesses to see exactly who got appointed sometimes as an elder.

  it seemed that the criteria in my opinion had more to do with getting 10 hours a month in field service, answering at meetings, carrying microphones as a ministerial servant, or handling the magazine or literature counter !

  in doing these " functions " and attending meetings on a regular basis - a man was thought to be considered " spiritually strong " and qualify to be an elder and serve on judicial committees judging people's personal problems.

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  Quillsky

  To be appointed an elder one has to have a submissive JW wife on happy pills.