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  SURVEY: Is a JWN members post count a reasonable indicator of their theist/atheist position? If so what can be learned from that?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. beliefs

  i've done no research on this but i suspect that a members belief or absence of belief in god may have some correspondence with the number of posts he or she has made.. my tentative suggestion is that members with fewer than 500 posts are mostly believers while members with more than 3000 posts are mostly non-believers.

  of course there are exceptions, maybe quite a few, but i'm only dealing with generalities here.

  so how about a survey?

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  Is a JWN members post count a reasonable indicator of their theist/atheist position?

  Nah, just a good, introverted listener.

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  2011 District Convention Program

  by truthseeker in

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  9:30 song no.

  10:10 how we know that god's kingdom will come soon .

  10:50 song no.

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  Those are some looong days to sit in racetrack / stadium bleachers. What a relief not to have to go.

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  Samadhi: The Ultimate Achievement of Spiritual Awakening

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  well just what is samadhi?.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/samadhi.

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  Poppers,

  I love this. Where does the will, drive, motivation come from that makes me want to do things? The need to create things, express my truth, etc.? The need to leave something of myself behind when my physical being ends? What is it that wants to keep me moving, growing in this life?

  (Hi JamesThomas!) JT also helped me on a journey of seeing differently years ago. I am grateful for the sharing. I keep seeking (why?).

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  What musical groups or songs were bad according to JWs?

  by Victorian sky in

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  2. beliefs

  what songs or groups were you forbidden to listen to as a jw?

  were any specifically mentioned from the platform or were you counseled not to listen to a certain song?

  for me it was the entire def leopard hysteria album - bad heavy metal told it was demonic, i listened to it in secret, silk's "freak me" - a virgin listening to a song about hot sex?

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  Who the hell listens to records played backward?

  ROFL!
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  After Exiting the Witnesses - Are you O.K. Not Knowing about the Future ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  it seems that religion has always been considered the opium of the people.

  or at least many tend to gravitate towards religion to have or solidify some sort of future with a supreme being overlooking them hoping to have a reward either in heaven or in the jehovah's witnesses case - living forever in a " paradise earth ".

  it seems that people can't just live day to day and let each day come to them with whatever happens.

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  After Exiting the Witnesses - Are you O.K. Not Knowing about the Future

  Somedays yes, somedays no.

  I'm at my prime on this unknowable variable while I'm sleeping.

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  For what do you stand?

  by Satanus in

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  2. friends

  as a jw, i stood for god not being a trinity, creationism, no blood transfusions, 'wickedness' not being gods fault in any way, god would soon solve all the worlds problems by destroying it, etc.

  i was thinking about what i stand for now, and it's not much, compared to when i was a jw.

  i stand for my self respect, the middle class and i don't like seeing innocents being hurt.. s.

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  For what do you stand?

  On my two legs, with sometimes two left feet.

  I can only stand in the moment, in awe at this life-sustaining atmosphere, grateful to breathe.

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  Lee Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance ...

  by snowbird in

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  heard it this here morning, and really paid attention to the lyrics.. http://www.lyrics007.com/lee%20ann%20womack%20lyrics/i%20hope%20you%20dance%20lyrics.html.

  awesome!

  syl.

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  Heard a chorus sing that song at my first "worldly" benefit for a beautiful organization in our area a few years ago.

  Sitting next to me was a woman about 20 years older breathing with oxygen tanks. Cancer.

  As they sang, and I heard the occasional clicking coming from her tanks, I knew I was in a moment teaching me a lesson.

  My whole life as a JW wallflower flashed through me; the undeniable knowing that this is life right here and we (I) will not live forever...

  I hope you dance

  I had tears in my eyes. I knew I had to start living NOW.

  Months later the woman next to me died.

  I went to her memorial service, given in a shady pine forest by the non-profit organization.

  It was another beautiful moment.

  I'll never forget that song. That woman. That day.

  And the lessons I learned.

  Keeping my sense of wonder,

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  Most Overblown Examples Used at Assemblies

  by What Now? in

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  at a recent assembly, there was a talk highlighting the dangers of higher education.

  the brother used an example of a young girl who went to university, began going to bars, and ended up getting drugged and gang raped - as if this happens to every young jw who chooses to get higher education.. .

  what ridiculous examples have you heard used at meetings or assemblies?.

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  And you never hear the ones about the brother driving home from the special talk and having another driver plow into his rear-end at a stop light totaling the car (thankfully the brother wasn't hurt).

  Or the one about the family of four JWs murdered after stopping off at a diner coming home from an assembly (that happened in a southern state about a decade ago).

  Or the one about the JW Elder and his wife murdered by their 16-year-old son (80's Willie Carlson case).

  Or, or...
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  It is time to thank some important people

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  thank you randy for creating out of thin air the freeminds ministy reaching out to people damned and damaged by the watchtower.. you've been at it indefatigably and with little money for---what?

  thirty+ years?

  bravo!.

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  P.S. Thanks, Kirsten!
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  It is time to thank some important people

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thank you randy for creating out of thin air the freeminds ministy reaching out to people damned and damaged by the watchtower.. you've been at it indefatigably and with little money for---what?

  thirty+ years?

  bravo!.

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  Broken Promises,

  I know! And it sure makes me wonder what % of pro-JW board particpants from the late 90s are now outside the JW box.

  Terry, my very first apostate email encounter was in 1998 with Kirsten Haugland, who with (now ex) husband Jan created the Web site "The Internet Superhighway Freed Their Souls" or something like that. Scary days!

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