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An active Witness proudly tells me about Shunning her kids back into the 'truth"
by AuntBee in"as he is a god of love.. these things serve to protect individuals aswell as the congregations.
as a parent i fully understand the concept of wanting my children to choose their friends wisely, to be careful about literature they read & so on & would i cast them out for being wayward?
yes, i have, & they learnt their lesson & were welcomed back with immediacy the minute they made the necessary changes.
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My view of religion using an analogy of theism vs. atheism...
by unshackled insince starting to leave the jws about 10 years ago (i was a fader) i've spent plenty of time going over what i was taught, scrutinizing the bible and its history, and reading books like the god delusion for a fresh perspective.
i would say i've landed on the atheist side of things, though i don't like the word.
(we don't have one for non-stamp collectors...so why non-believers in a god?
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What if JWs are right?!?
by brotherdan ini know this is a pointless question, but what if this happened:.
you came home from work one day, sat down, and turned on the tv.
there is a sudden announcement that the un has banned all religion.
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SBCheezits Judicial Hearing - My EPIC FAIL (REPOST for IE users)
by SweetBabyCheezits in(note: i apologize to the internet explorer users.
you probably can't see my first epic fail thread because i used firefox to post.
there's still some kind of glitch between a plugin i'm running, firefox posts, and ie.).
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looking for a WT quote i saw recently... on not thinking
by Aussie Oz ini have been going nuts looking for a recent watchtower quote i know i have saved 'somewhere' !.
it was posted not to long ago here i remember.
something about not persisting in a thought that is out of harmony with the gb & fds etc.... help!.
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Divine Name
by brotherdan ini know this has been a often discussed topic.
but i just can't understand the wt's take on this.
they freely admit that we do not know how god's name was pronounced.
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my xwife is still terrified of the jw's help!
by warmasasunned inspoke to my xwife for the first time in 14yrs via facebook.
we were in the witnesses together we left about twenty years ago got divorced almost straight away we were never suited i liked sex and she didn't (i'm very ugly).. anway a few years later she went back, i got the sermon of course "you should comeback its the truth" i put her straight on that one, her eyes glazed over as i spoke and she went her merry way.. 14years later i pop her name into facebook there she is tattos and spouting politics animal rights (not very jw they ignore all that of course).
dropped her a line, caught up, shes got four kids (she likes sex now, told you i was ugly).
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OT God vs NT God
by brotherdan inthis is mainly a question for bible believers.
but of course anyone can chime in.
how do you justify the differences between the way god acts in the ot and the very different way he acts in the nt.
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Do you ENJOY these endless theism/atheism - faith/reason - creation/evolution debates?
by nicolaou in.
sure i get frustrated when i have to explain for the bajillionth time just why atheism is not a belief or why it is possible to know some things with 100% certainty but despite all the exasperations i still count it as one of the rewards of freeing my mind and exiting the wt that i can argue so endlessly and freely.. even if some of you do get on my tits sometimes .
nic'.
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I have a hard time hearing JWs defend their Blood Doctrine
by sabastious into me there is no reason to let a child die, even if he/she will be resurrected.. i have some convos with jws about the blood doctrine and it gets my blood boiling!
(no pun intended).. no respect for life.
but i guess that's the point of being a jw, this current life is worthless so dying in it "in the name of jehovah" is more appealing then living it out to the end.. "abstain from blood.