"she was telling me things like they are the only people with strong principles and families"...She may actually believe this, however it only shows that she hasn't spent much time in a Kingdom Hall. Ask her "What percentage of people in the local KH have been divorced at least once".
gaiagirl
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A woman that strongly supports the dubs
by greendawn ini was talking with a woman today who admires the jws, though not one of them, and she was telling me things like they are the only people with strong principles and families and the only ones that really try to apply god's laws in their lives and uphold biblical truth.
also that there are many diseased individuals among the blood donors and most donated blood is contaminated so the dubs are doing well to avoid transfusions.
i was going to say to her i am surprised that you did not join them.
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Things You Did When Bored To Tears!
by serotonin_wraith init's been 8 years since i had to go to a meeting so i've forgotten alot of what i did myself, but add to the list what you did if you were a child made to sit still and in silence through the meetings and assemblies.. .
i went on amazing journeys with the power of my imagination!.
*recite entire music albums in my head.
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gaiagirl
Sometimes when I was young, I would enhance the illustrations in the magazines, modifying their features or changing their expressions, or drawing in a word ballon like a comic book. I also would experiment with OOBE, and sometimes went to some really neat places. At other times, kegel excercises provided a very pleasant experience.
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Mortality
by spawn2u ini have two children, one daughter 18 months and a son 7 years old.
since the day my son was born i started fearing death.
i love my life and do not want to ever die, that is carry over from brainwashing.
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gaiagirl
The idea that we are living in a "special" time period in which the world will end is something promoted by many churches and authors to pump up membership, or to sell books. Christians living in the 1st century believed that Jesus would return during THEIR lifetime, and history shows that is simply did not happen. Think of how many MILLIONS of JWs (not to mention other religions), who would have gone on to college, had satisfying careers, etc, had they not been consumed by a belief that "the end is just around the corner". Instead of ruining ones life by dwelling on an anticipated Armageddon which will never occur, live so as to have the highest possible quality of life now.
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Would you have stayed if essential changes were made?
by greendawn inwhen you began doubting the wts did you decide that there was no remedy and you had leave them, or did you say if they change on such and such points i will stay on?
what were those points that if changed you would approve of the jws and stay in?
for me it was not an issue because i wanted to see many changes and they wouldn't carry them out.
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gaiagirl
I no longer view the Bible as a document any more inspired than other ancient texts. So, to use it as a yardstick to govern conduct today just doesn't work for me. In any event, people who say they believe the Bible to be inspired STILL pick and choose just which rules to apply, for example, many Bible believers condemn various sexual acts, but have no problem with banks charging interest, or with wearing garments made of two kinds of fibers, or with working on "the Sabbath", etc.
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Evolution expiriment help...
by Tuesday in.
this is from the falling in truth book i read a while back (looks like it's offline now due to an actual paperback version coming out) but there's mention of an expiriment in which some sort of atom when exposed to light turned into an amino acid.
i'm looking for the details of this expiriment, you know name of the professor who performed it, the element of the atom, when it was performed, where and so forth.
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gaiagirl
The experiment you are probably thinking of was performed in the labs at Cornell University in the 1950s by Stanley Miller and his advisor Harold Urey, in which they filled glass vessels with the gases which made up the atmosphere of the early Earth, and subjected them to an electrical spark to simulate the lightning which would have been common (and which is visible in the clouds of Jupiter), and the UV radiation from the sun. After several hours, a rich collection of complex proteins and nucleic acids formed. These are considered to be the building blocks of life, and it is generally considered that if the experiment were allowed to continue for several hundred, or several thousand years, these compounds might have given rise to actual life. Of course, in the early Earth, the experiment DID continue for thousands of years. This was commented on in the book "Cosmos", in the chapter "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue", and is demonstrated on the video of that chapter.
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Name a rock band that describes the JW's...
by TresHappy in.
real or not.... i say "twisted scripture"
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gaiagirl
OK, not a BAND, but a very funny original song by Weird Al Yankovic: "Everything You Know Is Wrong".
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JW's, science, and how old is man?
by clovis inone thing that always got me about the org.
was how they praised modern science when it upheld or agreed with their thinking or doctrines.
however they totally bashed it when it refuted something they taught.
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gaiagirl
There are many problems with the Watchtower timeline. At the Witte Museum in San Antonio I once saw a display of native American artifacts which proved that Texas was inhabited 9000 or more years ago. Similarly, dendrochronology proves that there are living trees which were hundreds of years old at the time the JW's say the Earth was covered with a worldwide flood. It is just not possible that those trees would have survived months of total submersion in hundreds of feet of salt water.
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The Best I've Heard Yet
by Gordy intonight i had a call from one of my daughters (16) who is not a jw.
she wanted to borrow some money.
so she could go and attend a funeral.
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gaiagirl
Just curious...doesn't she know ANYone who is going to be there, who could give her a ride?
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What movie makes you cry?
by MsMcDucket ineverytime, i watch the movie "a time to kill", i cry.
that movie gives me chill bumps!
that's one of the reasons why i love *************(dang!
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gaiagirl
In "Artificial Intelligence", there is a scene where a robot boy is captured in a net suspended from a balloon. His robotic teddy bear is trying to stay with him, but is hanging on the OUTSIDE of the net. You can see the bears paws are slipping, and he looks over his shoulder at the ground far below, looks back into the boys eyes and says "I'll break".....then falls. My heart just stopped. The end of the movie, when the boy, the bear, and his "mother" are reunited was just wonderful.
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gaiagirl
Re: ameobas- The cellular body material of the ameoba wears out and must be replaced, similar to other animals. This is part of why animals eat (also to provide energy for life processes). So, even within its own lifetime, an ameoba replaces all the material in its body as it wears out or is broken down to provide energy. Additionally, ameobas evolve just like everything else. At the University of Tennessee biology lab, ameobas exposed to a fatal virus have been observed to evolve within a few generations into a new strain which incorporates the virus in a symbiotic relationship which is beneficial for both the ameoba and the virus. So, existing ameobas have some of the same genetic material, but none of the original proteins which make up their body material as the originals. Rather, they are copies, improved in some ways, of the original ameobas.