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Are you really ready for big moral issues?
by Mindchild inwhile reading the abortion thread on this site today, i was reminded of a college class i took on dealing with ethical and moral issues.
i learned something interesting in this class and it was that just because we have strong beliefs about something, it doesn't give us any rights to impose our beliefs on others.. this is of course the "christian" way...to demand that their beliefs should be the standard by which we all live our lives.
this intolerance, or in milder cases disgust for nonconformers, is in itself one of the huge moral issues we face.. essentially, regardless of things being right or wrong, our world defines societal norms by community standards.
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marrying jw
by dorian inhey i have a questio i am a non jw and i would like to marry a jw that is disfelllowshiped because of me any help possible
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Continue progressing as spiritual men
by betweenworlds inhere is one paragraph from the aforementioned talk from the kingdom ministry school.
it talks about the chieftan class.
this is apparently new light from the march 1st 1999 watchtower.
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Lottery Tickets
by Beans inmy sister is a jw and she buys lottery tickets and says if she wins i will get half and that makes it ok.we also went to the race track and i placed bets for her with her money,i guess if it`s ok in there eyes it`s not considered gambling!!!.
i mean hey the magic kingdom will be heer soon anyways,right?
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Define spirituality
by sleepy indefine spirituality if you can.. what does the society mean when they talk of being spiritual?.
all i could figure out is just someone who follows the rules.. so if there is no god is spirituality meaning less or something still desirable?
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The Problem of Evil --- The Plot
by LoneWolf inhello, again.. this is the second of three parts.
we're starting to get into the meat of the subject here, and you should find some information on many of the objections that were brought up on the first one, as well as gravedancers thread.. let me reiterate again that these thoughts are not meant to be definative answers.
they are a work in progress and reflect the direction that seems logical and interesting.
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Amish and shunning
by gambler ini just did some research on the amish and found out an interesting fact.shunning created the amish.a group of people broke away from the mennonites in germany because the mennonites would not suport the shunning doctrine.these people became the amish.as a side note, do you guys remember the 60 minutes that delt with shunning.they had amish and jw teenagers that were shunned by their parents because the wanted out of their religion.
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Difficult People . . .
by LoneWolf ina perspective on difficult people.
difficult people are among the many.
even when people appear not to be in rapport, they may actually be so.
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The WT and Native Americans
by Valis ini was just browsing the officail wt site...hmmm i thought we were, but just for the sake of this post i'll admit going there.
they have an article at the url below which i thought was hillarious.
it talks about how the native americans are facing more and more assimilation and the destruction of thier indigenous culture by "the world".
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The Smoking Gun!
by Kent inall bodies of elders in britain - december 1, 2000 .
maximus quoted this letter in another thread, and of course the letter is real.
but it is a smoking gun, and i have now posted the scan of that part maximus quoted as evidence to the validity of the posting :).