The Marvster
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5 regrets (no its not sex)
by zeb ini came accross.
of people when they are dying.
i immediately thought of people lives spent in the 'truth'.
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If its Halloween, it must be it must be saw
by suavojr inthis is the list of my favorite terror movies that i used to watch as kid and still was able to be a good little jdub and son of the cobe.
looking back, the wt made me more curious to watch these movies.
some great memories!
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Old brainwashing/blood
by rebel8 inas you probably know, this is me and you can imagine that the old brainwashing sucks for me sometimes.
i don't believe anything wts says about medical care, i don't agree, and i have seen the proof they are wrong.
i've been out for a long time.
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Ministry on a day off?
by dothemath inmonday is a holiday.......so a super zealous brother asks me....."are you going out in service then?.
absolutely the last thing i would want to do!.
if i do go again ever, i think my presentation should be " i'm so sorry for ever bothering you with the absolute crap we're handing out.
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Passing ships in the night and the disobedient compassionate brother #2
by The Marvster inhi all, i've been away from the forum for many months, perhaps 9mths?
well if you were around back then you might remember the title of this post in reference to happening upon two brothers on separate occasions and their reactions to me being 'not what i expected of jw's.
something unexpected happened a few days ago.
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The Irrational Psychopath Landlord
by The Marvster inwell after a few years of lots thinking, questioning everything, and deconstructing of jw logic, i keep coming up against some problems.
though i probably consider myself an agnostic nowadays, one of the conclusions i keep coming back to is, if there is a god, looking at the way nature is structured, for example the predator-prey system that is indispensible to the survival of organisms, he is unlikely to be the same loving guy that's described in the bible (could he not have come up with a more compassionate system of survival in his limitless intelligence).
then again sometimes the actions described in the bible make him look like the description in the title of this thread... jw's definitely didn't help much with their logic.
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Blackmail to get your drivers license, blackmail to end the shunning...
by Zoos inthe watchtower corporation is ripping the carpet out from under sincerity.. they teach that god knows our private thoughts, the inclinations of our heart.
how can they possibly think that it's okay to dangle a drivers license in front of a teenager under condition of baptism?
how can they possibly think it is okay to dangle renewed association with family under condition of reinstatement?.
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Acts of God & accidents
by Diogenesister inexodus 21.12 whoever strikes a person mortally shall be put to death.
if it was not premeditated, but came about by an act of god?
then i will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.
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Child Sex Abuse in The Jesus people cult
by LisaRose ininteresting article about a small religious cult in chicago.
a man who grew up in the cult and suffered abuse set about to make a documentary about the religion.
he didn't set out to make it about sex abuse, but in interviewing people he found out a lot of people had been molested as well.