ignorance is strength
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Raised a JW... did you have a childhood?
by ignorance is strength inpersonally i was quite serious at a young age.. there was no "boys will be boys" growing up.
personally i feel kind of cheated out of a childhood by an organization that forced you to think that "everything around you was going to be gone soon so you better grow up, start publishing, and giving talks.
" did any of you experience a less than stellar childhood, especially because of the lack of holidays and socially-isolating religion gowing up?
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Which Doctrine Convinced You That This Wasn't Right
by ignorance is strength inwhat wt doctrine convinced or made you doubt your faith in the wtbts?
for me it was the 144,000 and the nature of christ's resurrection.
i seriously could not believe that there were two classes of christians when it was not stated implicitly in the bible, but was expected to be believed in as absolute truth.
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Well, here's my story
by ignorance is strength inwell here's my story:.
i was born into a jw family, my father having been converted and not really much of a believer and my mother being born into it .
my mother's family first became involved with jw's when my great grandmother was converted from, i think, catholicism (i'm only saying that b/c she was irish).
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Guess what I just did
by ignorance is strength inwell, i told my parent that i didn't want to be a jw (having not gone to meetings for many years) and it went pretty well.
i even disproved watchtower doctrines, but of course i was the one who was mistaken.. i aslo said that i would be going to other churches... i didn't specify because i didn't want to see the reaction to catholic.
i also signed up to start the process to become catholic (unlike the jw's you can just learn about the faith without any obligation or harrassment) i went down to st. francis de sales church and i signed up for the rcia program.
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"All those who call on the name of Jehovah..."
by ignorance is strength insound familiar?
doesn't it bother you how jw's think that just by saying the work "jehovah" it will ward off anything evil?
you've heard it all, yelling "jehovah" can exorcise, prevent rape and robbery and the list goes on.
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"Kingdom Melodies"
by ignorance is strength inwhy exactly are they so bad?
are they afraid that a true orchestral and choral piece will glorify god too much?
btw, can you think of any other songs that kingdom melodies sound like?
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The Star, God's Plan or Malicious Plot of Satan?
by ignorance is strength ini'm not talking about stars in general; such a subject about stars in general would be ridiculous.
i'm specifically talking about the star that the three magi saw that led them to jesus.
the wt holds that this was a malicious plot of satan's to bring jesus to herod.
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Creed
by ignorance is strength inwhy do you think that jws are so against putting all their beliefs down into a creed?
is it because they realised it would change so often?.
i always remembered in the das that they would criticise other christian denominations for having creeds, but if you asked them their faith in a nutshell, would they be able to tell you?
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Thomas Acquinas' Five Ways
by ignorance is strength inacquinas had five ways to prove that god existed (summarized).
1. motion.
since things like planets are moving, something must've put them into motion.. 2. the cause of existence.