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HowTheBibleWasCreated
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Do you think the age has passed when there can be no new religions?
by truthseeker ini think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
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Do you think the age has passed when there can be no new religions?
by truthseeker ini think we are already living in the age where there can be no new religions.
we have access to information like never before and anyone claiming revelations of something new and starting a whole new religion can easily be discredited.. christianity and islam may continue to subdivide but i think we've pretty much seen the end of anything new in terms of a new belief system.. .
what are your thoughts on this?.
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HowTheBibleWasCreated
Hell no.
Kopimism is a very new religion for instance
There are many MANY new religons however they end to be either:
Gnostic
Spritual
Pagan revised
Universalism
Christianity is on the way down because not as many new age christian based religions have started in the last ten years.
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About Human Birth- (Which I've just seen) First Child today
by HowTheBibleWasCreated ini have seen many witnesses with 4,5,6,7 kids.
no problem with that.
they are mostly loving families but today i experianced the birth of my son.. the emotions of my wife... the pain... the fear... the hope combined with the joy of the birth and seeing my wife reaction when she held the baby was well balanced.. .
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Thank you all.
Villige girl- I am constanly awed by mountains and oceans and trees (I live in British Columbia) That doesn't prove there is a God. I can be spritual without being religious.
While I agree modern medicine can help and in the case of baby #1 this was the option we chose a home birth can be easier and often better.
Actually from an evolutionary standpoint a birth in water is probably the best but I'll save that topic for another day.
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Why has the watchtower never written a commentary on the Greek scriptures?
by kneehighmiah inthey have writes hundreds of other repetitive books, but no bible commentary.
is it because an actually commentary would destroy their doctrine and prevent them from being able to cherry pick scriptures?.
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The Gospels- Greatest Man
Acts- Benifit Book
1 + 2 Peter- Choosing Best Way of Life
James - Commentary on James
Revelation- The Red Revelation book and also the old Babylon Book
BTW
The prophets are all coverned
Isiaiah - Two Books
Jeremiah and Lamentations - Jeremiah Book
Ezekiel - The Nations shall know that I am Jehovah
Daniel - Daniel Book
the 12 minor prophets are covered in a small book called Living with Jehovah's Day in Mind.
Actuall it's Genesis to The Song of Solomon as well as 'Pauls Letters that are in need of JW commentary.
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Ray Franz - is he REALLY a hero?
by baltar447 inon one hand, he's enlightnened many to the internal circle jerk that is the governing body (circa the 70s).. but if there's one reason that can be pointed to for the jws becoming full on cult, it's ray franz.
without him leaving in the manner he did, and stirring the pot, they might not have change the rule (retroatively i might add) on shunning of disassociated ones.
they specifically changed that so they could remove him and eliminate his influence.. his actions single handedly have created the situation where we have to fade, evade, leave marriages, say goodbye to family, just because we don't buy the jw bullsh!t anymore.
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His reacding of the Gsoepl of John in th earky JW tapes are soft and inviting. While I am an athiest Ray Franz stood for whathe belive and there is no shame in it
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About Human Birth- (Which I've just seen) First Child today
by HowTheBibleWasCreated ini have seen many witnesses with 4,5,6,7 kids.
no problem with that.
they are mostly loving families but today i experianced the birth of my son.. the emotions of my wife... the pain... the fear... the hope combined with the joy of the birth and seeing my wife reaction when she held the baby was well balanced.. .
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HowTheBibleWasCreated
Thank you
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Facing old age
by teela(2) inhaving just past 50 i have been reflecting on my childhood with the witnesses.
the people i grew up with who are the same age with elderly parents some still alive.
i tend to have a positive attitude but i realise that for me this is it.
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HowTheBibleWasCreated
You will all laugh. Im 35. I have acepted that the following years are DOWN and not UP lol.
However I will never let my son belive this. In fact I DO plan to read some parts of the book of bibles stories. With Mother goose too..
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Fake friends and other things that annoy me about the Kingdom Hall
by MysticMage init was easy to figure people out.
as long as you got out in service and put money in the money box people will pretend to be your "friend".. but let's be honest is most of business associates.
they are your friends as long as you are active doing the watchtower bidding.. and then let's talk about the lack of hot women.
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I know one guy my age. 36. almost... An elders son. Becam an MS at 18. Dated a 16 year old sister unofficailly.... they never had sex... I don't belive it!
Later he met a 19 year old girl elder;s daughter and got her pregnant. He was of course simple removed of being an MS but it broke his pride and to be honest he in a good father of 2 now.
The ones I hate are pioneers who never married and lived everywhere on assignment and tell me what I SHOULD BE DOING! In the meantime their parents are int he 80's with nor grandkids cause their sacred kids became pioneers.
Even when I Belived I never agreeed this this and would then constanly show them scriptures in Geneis to prove they should LIVE
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About Human Birth- (Which I've just seen) First Child today
by HowTheBibleWasCreated ini have seen many witnesses with 4,5,6,7 kids.
no problem with that.
they are mostly loving families but today i experianced the birth of my son.. the emotions of my wife... the pain... the fear... the hope combined with the joy of the birth and seeing my wife reaction when she held the baby was well balanced.. .
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Thank you. I hope all turns out well. I am raising us agnostic or skeptic.. she is sill a jw but is inactive and after today this will break her. There were 6 phone call to the hospital from the local elder asking if we needed asstince with blood.
I will decided that I know more of medicine on wikepedia then he does in 30 years of truck driving lol
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Coping with becoming an atheist?
by Crazyguy inits been a very eye opening experience for me to find out that the god of the bible is as real as thor or ra.
i still believe a higher power created life but can see now how it doesn't really care about us.
so with this in mind realizing one has only 70-80 years to live and that may be just it, is very stunning..
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Actually it is more then stunning. I was an agnostic at first then took the athiest stance and while I haven't offiaclailly joined a religion I am spritual as in I belive in Chi etc and study Buddist texts .. even Proverbs in the bible is useful.
As an athiest I have more respect for the bible as a text then a beliver ever does of it as scripture.
As for life after death. I believe int he mutliverse and if you read recent threads they that explained many of my beliefs in life after death so I need not comment. However.. just in case... if life ends in nothingnes... how is it bad.. you won't know it lol