Well if the Watchtower membership went down to 1 million, 7 out of 8 people around that table would be among those who left. So perhaps they were subconsciously clapping at the prospect of being free.
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I went down in the first Round!
by John Aquila inthere is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.
i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.
i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.
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How did your close JWs react when they found out you know TTATT?
by ivanatahan ini'm not sure if this topic has ever been posted (surely, i believe it has), but it would be interesting to revive such a topic and hear your stories!.
when my parents heard my first rant (after they told me to be home schooled when i was caught kissing a girl) they entered into a long depression that continues to this day.
my father suffers knowing his once amazing family is now divided, and my mother is equally angry.
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How did your close JWs react when they found out you know TTATT?
I was thusly banished like Biblical Cain and now walk the earth in search of a new adventure every week.
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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God died after he created the universe.
Thats actually a very interesting statement [Fl]unkie!And God gets fully reborn just as this universe ends...so that he can die and the next one can begin.
FlunkieJimmy, have you been reading my diary again? Stay out of my room!
MOOOOOM!!!!!... Jimmy's been in my room again!
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Why zombies?
by FadeToBlack ini just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?
is it just easier to justify the carnage?
it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.
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. Are the zombies in 'Walking Dead' slow or fast? Does the first series show how it got started?
They're mostly slow...but they're everywhere and when they come its at least a battalion.
The series has flashbacks in the early episodes and the first season has an origin type story for many characters. But I guess you're actually referring to patient zero. Well that's in the companion series 'Fear of the Walking Dead' which is only showing now and which I haven't been watching. I want a good number of episodes to build up before I jump in. In the Walking Dead series by the end of the first/beginning of the second season is where you get their twist in the tale and that's when you realize how badly mankind is in the doo doo.
Some researchers theorize that we find zombies scary because of the 'uncanny valley' effect - they are almost human, but not quite, which throws us off balance and feels very uncomfortable.
Cool. A new talking point with my neighbor... Oh yes I've seen this... Its like why most animation of human faces don't really work unless you make them more cartoon like (bigger eyes, simplified features etc.). Otherwise they look stiff or just plain off.
but I think my fave zombie flick is Zombieland - so much fun.
Mine too... double tap.
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Question: What would it take to get the BORG'S tax exempt status REVOKED?
by Black Man ini've always wondered about this.
i've always felt the main reason the borg made publishers do time slips/field service reports was to show that they are doing a community service to justify their tax exempt status.
we all know about their money grabs with the kh build scams, their selling off millions of dollars in real estate, etc.
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WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET THE GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THEIR TAX EXEMPT STATUS? Public pressure? Media blitz exposing their finances. Political pressure? What?
The separation of church and state would prevent that. The US supreme courts formal neutrality test would not allow for tax exemption on churches to be lifted. I think the argument should not be one of losing tax exemption, but the argument should be for full public disclosure regarding financial matters for all churches. That is still a neutral stance and the only thing the state would be doing is leveling the playing field for its citizenry by giving access to information.
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Why zombies?
by FadeToBlack ini just saw ww-v with brad pitt the other night (i know i am behind the times, still trying to catch up on movies i missed the last 30 years) and it struck me- why are we always fighting zombies?
is it just easier to justify the carnage?
it seems to me, that the most horrific carnage seems to be neighbor-vs-neighbor.
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Do the non-zombies (the good guys?) always win or at least have some kind of happy moment at the end of the movie?
Tradition dictates that its never over and we're all ******.
I skipped the whole vampire thing though. Hope that is ok.
To me after the first Twilight movie vampires became forever unclean.
Time may heal all wounds though.
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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Then the question is as meaningless...
Well that is why I am an atheist. It has no real bearing on my everyday existence except when I'm discussing it on the internet.
... as whether there is a teapot orbiting Mars.
However to me its not a teapot orbiting Mars. I cannot completely dismiss the idea that there may be an impersonal but sentient God because if so it may imply that some questions will remain eternally unanswerable: For example: Is geometry a property of the physical universe only or is it independent of matter? Is causality independent of matter? The above questions may seem meaningless in the same way that determining the size of the universe is also meaningless. After all it has no bearing on our everyday lives, yet it is tantalizing and science has constantly attempted to start to answer the question.
Personally if an impersonal all powerful God exists, I would very much like to break the simulation and climb up the extension cord.
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Does anybody know how to access the wikipedia library of old WT publications? It's a special access.
by LevelThePlayingField inany help would be really appreciated.
their library contains wt publications that go back to 1880's.
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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Hi Cofty,
As soon as the person posing the question carefully defines what they mean by "god" we can prove beyond all reasonable doubt that it does not exist.
How about this: An entity that has started a simulation which we know as the universe which is in its n'th iteration for whatever purpose this entity has desired e.g. experimentation with universal parameters/sadism/personal pleasure etc. This entity is all powerful/impersonal and does not care about individual sentient outcomes but only the simulation outcome.
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Does Anyone Still Believe in God?
by LaurenM indo any of you ex-jw's still believe in god?
even with the new rebranding/softening of this religion, i still don't see how people can believe in him.
the god of the old testimate is an angry murderer who approved rapes and slavery and killed thousands of men, women and children.
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Hi again Millie,
The one thing that still sticks with me that the Watchtower organization gave me is a vision of paradise. I think that is where humanity should be heading. And I do not mean a theocracy or some such thing, just a world in which we would all want to live and when we go to our rest we would be sure that things would be ok.
