IronGland
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What is Zen
by Enigma One inafter dumping the dub's i was against all religion of any kind.
slowly but surely i started to embrace a belief system that matched my own internal one.
part of my job takes me to asia.
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GB
by peggy inare the members of the gb common knowledge amongst the rf?
i actually never knew the names until i came upon jwd, but are those members mentioned in the publications and is it only apostates that know about the two new members of the gb, cause i mentioned it to an active jw friend last night and she had no idea and wondered where i got that information.
i told her i couldn't remember where i read that.
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Abortion
by Ellie in.
i don't know if any of you brits saw the 'this morning' show today but they had a woman on it whos mother had tried to abort her at 7 and a half months pregnant, apparentely they gave her mum some stuff to drink which burns the baby inside and out, but fortunately this baby survived and now as a woman she is campaigning for anti abortion laws to be brought in.. so, what are your views on abortion?
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Murder attempt of a Jehovah's Witness
by Kenneson inthis story comes from great britain.
karen wright, a nurse, was on her way to the kingdom hall, which is only about 400 yards from her home, when she was stabbed three times by an unknown man assailant.
police are looking for clues.. see "maniac knifes nurse on way to church".
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Will we carry on living after death?
by greendawn inis there life after death or does everything end there until the resurrection?
all ex jws were at one time taught that there is no life after death except for a tiny elite group who are destined to never taste death by immediately entering into a spiritual angel like body and will carry on living albeit in a different dimension.
far from dreading death to them it is a blessing since it sends them into a new far more glorious life.
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Wikipedia / New World Translation
by jstalin inhowdy all - i'd like to enlist the help of some of the bible experts on this forum.
the main jehovah's witnesses article on wikipedia has been pretty thoroughly filled with correct and embarassing wts doctrine.
we've been able to get the disfellowshipping and shunning section to stick, as well as mention of the "examination period" of 1914-1919, and general slaughter at armageddon.
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For evolutionists-Wild vs. Domestic dogs
by gringojj inhow long do you think it will or do you even think that speciation will occur between wild dogs(wolves, dingos, african wild dogs) and domestic dogs?
assuming that they are left seperate and continue in thier enviroment i think that domestic dogs will devolve much like humans are now, and i would guess that the wild breeds will become a seperate species in the next few thousand years.
any thoughts?
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Do any of us really want the truth?
by Qcmbr ini've been reading some essays concerning disagreement online that got me thinking - i won't even attempt to do them justice but to share some ideas that struck home to me.
we spend most of the time here sharing ideas and thoughts often in response to other posts and as arguements to invalidate or re-colour what someone else said.
there is an implicit drive behind each thread to somehow approximate a 'truth' from the many different viewpoints - almost like a collective conscience ('the forum') weighing and then selecting or rejecting the mood of the thread and as we share in the posts we add just a little weight and influence to its direction.
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Watchtower website article on the History of the Tortilla
by IronGland in"please pass the tortillas".
while the writer obviously enjoys tortillas i wonder if it saddens him that the culture that created the tasty tortilla will soon be slaughtered at har-mageddon?