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  Is God's name Jehovah, Yaweh, or simply Lord?

  by pr_capone in

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  i am sure that most of you here are familiar with psalms 83:18. .

  so, whats the skinny?

  what is the christian god's name?

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  Jesus. Which is really Jehushua. Which means "Yhwh is salvation".

  or Domino's [the lord/Yhwh] Delivers
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  astrology and compatibility with your mate....a grain of truth???

  by kid-A in

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  2. entertainment

  let me start off by saying i dont believe in astrology and most certainly not horoscopes.

  having said that, i have often considered the real possibility that the time and season of the year we are born in can dramatically influence our pre-natal development and the resulting personality, i dont think this has anything to do with "stars" or cosmology, but we do know that babies born in certain seasons or months are more prone to certain illnesses, temperaments etc.. i'm an aries and had a really lousy relationship with a "cancer" for many years.

  she always pointed out that all of the compatibility charts state that aries and cancers are fundamentally incompatible and it turned out....she was right!!

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  its all Taurus $#!+

  how can a system which is off by one complete sign be worth anything?

  two thousand years ago I would have been a Saggittarius born on 12/12, but now, the sun is near the center of Scorpio on my birthdate

  and has been for hundreds of years.... people forgot about ASTROlogy being linked to the STARS in the zodiac and just kept changing them with the seasons....
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  Is baptism a contract with God or with the Watchtower org?

  by JH in

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  getting baptized should be between you and god, and the watchtower should bud out of your personal relationship with god, right?

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  I was told that baptism was a SYMBOL of MY dedication to Jehovah....now that I see Jehovah never showed up to sign his end of the deal and is likely non-existant and a FRAUD, that contract is null and void
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  Since you left Jehovahs................................

  by defd in

  1. watchtower
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  organization and the faith.

  what hope do yall entertain for the future....the everlasting future?

  do you still believe, want to be on a paradise earth or what?

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  I have come to see that every moment is a gamble, and JWs never gave me reason to see it differently, they never guarenteed me a place in the kingdom and so now after coming to see them as a fraud, I find no real difference...

  I have since come to reject the notion of a god who acts like a con man, with holding key evidence until its too late, so as to make people dishonest by having to pretend to believe in things that they really have no cause to believe in.
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  Why naturalism is irrational

  by Shining One in

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  irrational naturalism (#201) .

  by henry morris, ph.d. .

  abstract .

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  I dont see how postulating a god gives any better explanation than naturalism.... it just makes things more impossible... there is no answer to how this god knew how to make anything when he had no one to learn from and nothing to teach himself with.... did he one day just decide to start breaking off pieces of himself? what made him do that, and how could he think when there was nothing to think about but him? how could thought even get started in such a being, isolated and alone and without anything?

  fantasy beings can be made to be anything you can imagine them to be since they dont suffer the need to exist in reality...

  as to how things come to be, spontenious order is found all over the place, no god[s] required...check out snow flakes, crystals, water, carbon atoms, etc.... even Amino acids have been found to sponteniously generate in deep space. recently RNA has shown itself to be far more durable than previously believed and the origins of life from spontenious order seem even closer to being observed.
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  Are you living your life fully knowing that you will one day die?

  by JH in

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  as jw's it was out of the question to die.

  the end was too close for that to happen, unless you had a bad accident or sickness.

  most of us believed that we wouldn't die, and on top of that we were about to become young again.. since we will all die, do you make it a priority in your life right now to live it fully, and to love fully the ones you care for because every day you skip, its lost and won't come back..

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  I have never known a moment when I did not exist and I never will, so I dont think about death in that way at all....

  what I do believe in now is that this life is only a temporary part of existance and that I have lived before this one and likely will continue to live after this one.

  when I first left JWs, I thought, what the heck, if I mess things up too badly I can just commit suicide and exit stage right...no more problem, right? then I started finding reasons to see that life does not begin nor end here and came to the conclusion that suicides may cause a lot of regrets which can haunt the next life....so simple solution no longer exists
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  Fred Franz stories

  by lawrence in

  1. watchtower
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  need some help... does anyone here have stories about the former "prophet" of the wts?

  ' i would like to incorporate some stories about him, personality traits, mannerisms, etc.

  this play i would like to perform in the future at apostatefests.

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  I will bet words like Behooved and Happifying can be traced to him (^_^)
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  Do the Witnesses Still Go Door to Door?

  by tfsm in

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  i have lived at my current address for approximately five years and i have not had any visits from the witnesses.

  i don't really want any but here's the deal: i left "the truth" about fifteen years ago.

  i wasn't disfellowshipped or anything and (since i moved to another state) it was a relatively clean break.

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  dont know if its like this all over, but when I was a BORG drone, I lived in a white town surrounded by mostly poor black towns. my town was nicknamed the last white hope.... here's the deal, while each neighboring black town had multiple congregations and often several sharing one building... my town had zero.

  the door to door in my neighborhood was probably very minimal and hardly noticed as whitey didnt play that....

  there were two not two distant white towns, each with one cong in one building.... and their presence in my neighborhood was zero.

  the difference in energy was there too.... in the black cong, which I attended as I lived right down the road from it, they sang the opening and closing songs.... while the white cong's whispered theirs making me look like a fool for singiing when I visited them....
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  God and Science

  by Shining One in

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  now here is an interesting take on all things..... .

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  http://www.crosscurrents.org/godand.htm

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  if what science has learned so far is true.... then the only world we KNOW and can test is a shared dream at best or a personal nightmare at worst.... if science is wrong, then its just a personal nightmare/dream.

  the best we can hope for is collective subjective agreement which has no necessary validity to the reality underlying these subjective experiences.

  while people may think the matrix is simply a joke, the movie is a great illustration of some of these points which apparently were brought up by Plato [the cave] thousands of years ago and have not been successfully removed since.... namely that the world we know may be shadows on the wall of the mind which do not resemble the actual sources at all.... but we deal with them as the only reality we know.

  science is a great tool for discovering what does NOT appear to work as well as what does appear to work but it really has never been able to show what is true. many things in the past worked, like classical physics and the solar model of the atom, they worked quite well for what could be tested in those days.

  They still work now, but the beliefs about why are very different. and those reasons are subject to change too...there is no way to tell where that may end.
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  Who am I thinking of? Question to all

  by Sam the Man in

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  who am i describing here: .

  - i am god made flesh, the saviour and the 'son of god' .

  - my father is god and my mother is a mortal virgin.

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  www.jesusneverexisted.com