Topics Started by Isle of Lewis

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Why are the Jesus people so obsessed with spreading their message?
by fulltimestudent in
1. jw
2. friends
are they fearful that they are mistaken, so they must argue with everyone, and try to prove all otehr religions wrong, but their's right?.

i'm not talking about the well-known jw persistence, in which we all once shared.. i'm talking about nearly all brands of christianity, the witnesses and their other branded counterparts.

here are two incidents to demonstrate.. a week or so back, i read in a chinese newspaper of a complaint by two tibetan buddhist women in the city of xining, qinghai province, in western china.
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Why Do Atheists Struggle So Much Against God Who Supposedly Doesn't Exist?
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
an athist made this casual statememt on another thread:.

this would suggest to me that there are at least some atheists that do have consistant beliefs.. .

as an atheist, how could he possibly trust the reason that suggests this to himself?
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Should I attend Kingdom Hall meetings to discreetly "preach"?
by CrytoJesus in
1. jw
2. friends
christians, should i attend kingdom hall meetings to discreetly "preach" to jws about the real jesus and the lies of the watchtower?.

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i plan to go undercover and plant seeds into them.. .
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Looking for Truth with a capital "T"?
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
stop begging for crumbs like a pigeon in the park!.

nobody anywhere has truth tied up with a red ribbon to hand to you so you.

can go skipping down the road with a smile!.
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How to fade intelligently ?
by TheFadingAlbatros in
1. social
2. family
how to fade intelligently ?

tell me your secret and then i will tell you in due time my secret.

it's important when we have to face a manipulative cult with some members of our family trapped inside, yes it is important to know how to fade intelligently so that our jw family members are not going to shun us.
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My problem with Original Sin
by leftbelow in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i found this quote in a book i was reading and it struck me this is why original sin is a problem for me.. damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means and end.

your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice.

it demands, as his first proof of virtue, that he accept his own depravity without proof.
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Get Out. Get Away. Free Yourself. This is a Dangerous Cult. Nobody can help you but yourself.
by Jehovanomics in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
you can measure the degree of passive aggressive control the jw's have over you by the degree to which you feel guilty when you stand up for yourself.

it's a multi billion dollar real estate corporation.

it's all about the money.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Psycopaths?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.

what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.

(by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).
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crisis of conscience
by venting in
1. jw
2. friends
if you were going to skip some parts of this book which ones would they be?

whats the best part?

i know i sound lazy, but i can't read this in bed next to my wife.
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .

selection to account for the complexity of life.

careful examination of the .