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  "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character...

  by digderidoo in

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  ...in all fiction:jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevent bully.

  ", says richard dawkins in the god delusion p51.

  he goes on to say, "those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror".. would you agree?.

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  It must be an assembly weekend here...

  by Jim_TX in

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  for about a week now, there's a fella where i work who has made known his plans to take off...well, it started out thursday & friday of this week to go to belton, tx.

  i know he is a jw (he don't know i am an ex-jw), and so figured he was going to the annual picnic... err... i mean assembly.

  anyway, things changed at work, and he had to come in thursday morning for something work-related.

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  Allow me to introduce myself

  by RollerDave in

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  i was raised among the witnesses and left in my early 30's due to a mixture of doctrinal disputes and social isolation.

  my mother and both of my sisters remain within the organization.

  i also have two brothers, one df'd, one who never quite caught the watchtower bug.. my road within the organization was a rocky one that eventually lead to a place where i found myself socially isolated within the congregation as a person simply unfit for fellowship with proper, upright, theocratic people who must cut off all 'worldy' association, suffer the ensueing isolation, and eat humble pie until such a time as they determined i was 'spiritual minded' enough for them to associate with.. baptism was held up as my expected goal, but despite trying, i was never quite good enough for them.

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  I wonder if my son is having 2nd thoughts about getting baptized?

  by lavendar in

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  several months ago, our son informed us that he has been studying with the jw's (his wife being one), and that he will eventually be joining the b. anyway, he just told us a few days ago that he is accepting another job.

  this new job will be 8:00 to 5:00 monday thru friday.

  after we hung up, i got to thinking.....hmmm, so when is he going to have time to go door-knocking??

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  I baked a cake today!!! :D

  by Elsewhere in

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  i thought, what the hell... i'll try to bake a cake today!

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  i think it turned out just perfect!

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  I'm back..JW's at my door left stunned and in tears

  by toladest in

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  well, i'm back after a couple years away from this site.

  i still recognize a lot of names here, but there are a lot of new ones too.

  i wanted to share an expierience i had with two witness "sisters" at my door a couple weeks ago.

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  PLEASE HELP ME GET TO DALLAS CRAWFISH PARTY ON MAY 6TH...

  by wildfire in

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  hello dear friends...

  i have a chance to get to dallas for the crawfish party on may 6th..i live in austin, tx and was planning on taking a bus to dallas on sunday....( i really dont like to drive in dallas)

  the problem is i need someone to help me to get from point a to point b//namely from the bus station to the party and from there i would need a place to stay for sunday night...my funds are limited so was hoping to room with someone at the nearby hotel..or someones home if thats possible..

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  When a family member has bi-polar.

  by purplesofa in

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  as some of you know, my daughter has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.

  its been years of dealing with it, until a proper diagnosis, plus she has addictions....alcohol and drugs.

  she did get approved for disability and just now has medical benefits.

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  WILDFIRE IS BACK IN THE SADDLE...

  by wildfire in

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  hi gang , its good to be back ...........i have gone through 2 years of captivity ,,i have been out of the jws since 2002, i moved to austin ,,texas in 2004.. i even had the priviledge of attending a true dallas apostofest,which i will never forget..met alot of great apostates..

  but for 2years i have been in a tailspin..last april my 20yr old jehovah witness daughter got married in minnesota.

  oh ya i was invited, only to the wedding which was not held in a kingdom hall (because of me iam sure)..my son who was never baptized came allthe way from florida to his little sisters wedding, only to be treated like he was da or df..we were not allowed at the reception and the only pictures i got were from my other daughter who (she was studying at the time so she was allowed to stay for all the festivities..) so me and my son decided to do what any out cast would do...went drinking and checking out the quaint little town that night...had a blast...they had not won ,,i was down but not out...haha

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  Hi Everyone...I'm New

  by exjwshell in

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  just wanted to say hello to everyone on this forum.

  i've "lurked" for quite some time, thought it was time make my first post.

  my story is long and boring and too complicated to remember so the short version is this:.

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