Tashawaa
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Does Our Arguing Scare People Off???
by minimus inwith so much going on over here, do you think that newbies, lurkers, or potenial apostates could or do get scared off from this place?
if someone is on the fence and they want to explore the internet and are warned that all you'll see are disgruntled apostates, could these forums make them think the "faithful and discreet slave" is actually right?
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The best weapon by far
by DJ inhi guys,.
for me, the hardest thing to do now is to continue to try to not be a hypocrit.
as a jw, i was better than everyone in the world because i was no part of the world simply by virtue of my dubdom.
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Please convince me I'm wrong!
by StinkyPantz insince i have stopped attending the meetings, i have had a loss of faith in god.
i consider myself an agnostic teetering on being a full blown atheist.
while in school this last semester i have been taking courses that emphasize evolution.
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Funny story from when we were leaving.
by JeffT ina couple of weeks ago my wife and i took a vacation to celebrate our anniversary.
we spent one day on the beach with some wine and had a long and wonderful conversation about the courses our lives had taken.
she reminded me of something that had happened as we were escaping, and after reading the post from ray franz, i thought i'd relate to the board.. in the spring of 1988 i had reached the end of my rope with the wt.
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Resurrection Shuffle
by PopeOfEruke inone of jw "beliefs" that was and still is most confusing to me is the condition of married persons after the resurrection.
in particular, if one marriage partner dies before the big a and then gets resurrected.. its surprising how many jw's hold sacred their own private interpretation on this.. generally i found that if the marriage had been a happy one, a lot of jw's believe if the surviving marriage partner does not remarry, then they will end up back with their dead-but-back-again married partner after the resurrection.
in a normal sexual marriage relationship.. if the survivng partner does remarry however, the the old chestnut gets rolled out about people in the resurrection "will neither get married or be given in marriage.
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WE ARE DAMNED ANYWAY
by plmkrzy inif we do not accept the book of mormon
anybody ever scan all the other sites to see how they compare?
below is a sample letter to a ex=mormon site
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Yet another batch of "new light"
by caligirl ini was talking to my sister yesterday, who spent the weekend with our still active parents.
over the weekend, they all had dinner with another couple, who were sharing some of the "latest news.
" i am getting this second hand, but my sister is excellent at remembering exactly what was said.
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Prostitution in Isreal
by Tashawaa ini've always wanted to know.... why were there prostitutes in isreal?
why weren't they "stoned", and who were "visiting" them... hmmm, and why didn't they have a test for adultery for men?
i think its pretty obvious.
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WTS puts foot in mouth and downplays sacrifices
by stichione inin a watchtower magazine article of september 1, 1951 entitled "hated for his name", an era of 10 persecution of christians is discussed.
but just to show how little insight the writer of this article shows, it goes on stating:.
-it is said that in the year 95 alone some 40,000 suffered martyrdom.
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UN & Df'ing
by Tashawaa ini'm curious... does anyone know of situations where jw inquiring into the un have been df'd?
i did all the research and got info from the original sources (so when i show my family there's no doubt).
i wrote the society once, then got the "usual" reply (2 weeks later) - wrote again, this time pointing out specifics and wanting answers, but instead i got df'd (hmmm, 3 weeks later) for living with my sister (who was disassociated for some time, and was no big secret here in my congregation).