yaro: yet another religious organization.
i take it you are in search of some JW alternatives due to the "where else should we go to" line. do yourself a favor and take a shortcut: there is no true religion.
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What do you think about the "United Church of God"?
by tia.dalma inhere is a link to their main site.
http://www.ucg.org/.
i've read a little about them and they do not believe in trinity, and have similar believes as jehovah's witnesses.. they also try to keep all ten commandments, in addition to that.. i did not research all their doctrines, but a lot of them look familiar to me.. what do you think?.
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I now have a gay boyfriend! Disfellowship me!
by TimothyT ini cant believe how amazing i now feel as opposed to how aweful my life was but 4 months ago.. after some careful consideration, i decided to be gay despite being a jw.. the moment i chose this course, my life became so positive and i noticeably felt happy again.. 3 months ago i met a lovely man who took an interest in me.
one week ago we decided it was time to become boyfriends.. well, i feel incredible.
all i can say is that this course of life based on my being true to myself, despite the fact that it contradicts what i have been brought up to believe, has made life worth living again.. despite being gay, and slowly coming out to those who matter to me, i also have come to realise how flawed this organisation is anyway.. im a keen bible student but i dont see the organisations claim to authority.. to be honest, ill be glad to get out of it and start living my life as happily as i can whilst still trying my best to serve god.. thanks to those who supported me and of course to my boyfriend 'jackal' who joined this forum in order to understand what has made up my entire upbringing!.
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i thought being gay isn't a decision, but you probably didn't mean that. anyway, all the best for your new life.
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The Martyring of Matthew Barrie.
by iknowall558 inthis is the kind of thing that the watchtower does not want people to know about.. .
http://thegoverningbody.org/category/ethics/.
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just downloaded all the podcasts from itunes. i think i've been like that years ago, but i did the fade and luckily evolved to an atheist. i can relate to most of the things talked about though. like better keeping my mouth shut, when having "shepperding calls".
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The Martyring of Matthew Barrie.
by iknowall558 inthis is the kind of thing that the watchtower does not want people to know about.. .
http://thegoverningbody.org/category/ethics/.
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very interesting website. just read the first transcript, and am eager to read the rest. will listen to them later on. thank's for sharing!
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Video: JWs debate Harold Camping Followers...
by Tuesday inwell sort of... i think that if there really was a debate between jws and harold camping followers this is what it would look like.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2rfoynk_m.
my first video in 8 months or so, hope it came out ok and is as biting of a satire as i thought it would be..
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liked it. never heard about the white robe desaster either.
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According to WT 8/11: YOU MIGHT BE MENTALLY IMBALANCED IF YOU PROFESS TO BE ANOINTED!!!
by JustHuman14 inaccording to the august 2011 watchtower magazine:.
memorial partakers.
this is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the memorial worldwide.
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so who now is really the faithful and discreet slave?
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Where do you think the US is headed?
by 2pink insince you all are a critical thinking bunch...i thought i'd put this question to you.. i'm a born and raised us citizen as is my husband.
ever since we left the borg almost 2 years ago (wow, time flies when you're finally having fun!
), we've paid more attention to politics.
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los angeles was a 100% spanish-speaking immigrant town once. in fact they founded it.
and politicians are corrupt assholes everywhere on earth. that said, it's always nice to have a few options to go to when hell breaks lose - and you never know...
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A few Dawkins quotes to think about.
by AK - Jeff in"faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.".
"my last vestige of "hands off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of september 11th 2001, followed by the "national day of prayer," when prelates and pastors did their tremulous martin luther king impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.".
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humans are animals, or more specifically: apes. when dawkins talks about animals, humans are included.
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Why the stunning lack of accurate, historical evidence for Jesus Christ?
by nicolaou inby no means a new topic for discussion but always worth a fresh airing .
i'd suggest that the 1st century was quite a well documented time.
we have lots of historical evidence for important people who actually existed.
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actually sokrates was mentioned by others as well, like xenophon.
if there was a nazarene named jesus or similar - nobody knows for sure. king arthur and robin hood are about as historical. but if there indeed was one, he didn't even closely resemble the type in the bible, that's for sure.
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Just wondering ....
by talesin inthere are many new posters here, and i'm very interested to learn why you chose your screen names.. .
one book i read, the mists of avalon, was very important to me.
among the main characters was merlin, who in the book, was called "taliesen".
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J. Hofer
coffee is only coffee when it's black. true coffee, that is.