She's on the way out as well, my friend. She just won't verbalize it. If she is anything like my wife, the religion is more a social network than a core faith.
Posts by zack
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12I always wondered why my wife's best friends left the religion
by OnTheWayOut inmy wife's maid of honor at our wedding- married a worldly guy and left the religion .
after years of pioneer service.. my wife's former best friend from her single days as a teen- grew up to leave the .
religion entirely, came back for a brief stint, left again.. my wife's most current former best friend- is now a fringe jw, as she has been .
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Why are so many so hard on RR?
by zack ini came to the threads about rr a little late this week.
the tenor of many of them really surprised me.
some were downright vitriolic.. i have seen rr around for quite some time.
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zack
Thanks all. I need to keep up.
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Why are so many so hard on RR?
by zack ini came to the threads about rr a little late this week.
the tenor of many of them really surprised me.
some were downright vitriolic.. i have seen rr around for quite some time.
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zack
I came to the threads about RR a little late this week. The tenor of many of them really surprised me. Some were downright vitriolic.
I have seen RR around for quite some time. I have given talks at his Hall, at his Circuit Assemblies, and know some of the family's friends. I felt almost ashamed of myself when I would see him at an assembly, because he just let it all hang out here on the forum. Some of the things he's posted were incongruous with my knowledge of him, but I never felt the need to confront him or "expose" him. I thought he was far braver than I was for exposing himself. I felt like a coward compared to this young man. I certainly wish him well. The lessons of life come hard and the building up of one's inner self takes time. Just remember that RR is a young man who was raised to believe one thing as the incontrovertible truth. I know how I felt when I learned for myself what utter nonsense it all was; how angry and disappointed I became. How disillusioned and depressed I felt. It gave me an empathy and a sympathy for him. It seems to me that some of the reaction is piling on.
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Congress to religion..wheres the money? cnn report
by candidlynuts init's a start.. hopefully they'll start scrutinizing all religions finances.
if there's nothing to hide there's no reason not to make it all public.. .
http://www.cnn.com/2007/politics/12/07/prosperity.preachers/index.html.
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zack
Congress should compel by legislation that all non-profits, including religious ones, make their accounts public. If they pay no taxes then the rest of us (including those who have no religion or no belief in any deity) are subsidizing their activities.
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Standish Arms Sold by WTS, 5 other buildings on the market
by blondie in5 other buildings remain on the market.
by linda collins.
brooklyn daily eagle.
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zack
Just reaffirmation of the business nature of this Org.
Thanks for the news!
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YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad
by nicolaou inlet's assume for the moment that god decides what is good and what is bad.
does he 'a' choose what is good because it is obviously good or 'b' is it good simply because he says so?
if 'a' then what is good is independant of god and he has no choice but to accept it as good.. if 'b' then the definition of what is good is arbitrary - god could decide that child abuse was good and it would be because he said so.. clearly this is ridiculous because we all recognise child abuse to be a bad thing and that is why god would never label it as good.
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zack
Maybe if the Lord didn't work in such mysterious ways everyone could then have the same basis of understanding. What I mean is this:
It seems like the Bible stipulates a contract between men and God. If men do not honor the agreement, then they forfeit and pay with their lives. Yet, the Bible is ambigous about the terms of the contract, the fine print. God can interpret it any way He wants, He can change the agreement at any time, and He can even change the terms of payment when it is obvious that a violation has occurred.
If human society functioned as the Bible portrays God as functioning, there would be nothing resembling order, fairness, or equal justice.
I am not saying this about the deity, but about the way the diety has been explained in the bible.
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Good things = Praise God, Bad things Diss Him.....
by LouBelle ini've got a "christian" friend - he's been having a hellofa time - his wife left him about 2 years ago, sued for custody, the wife gives him a hard time about seeing his kid and a whole lot of other things that i won't bore you with.. he know questions gods' existance, simply because god hasn't waved his wand and sorted out his problems.
he keeps quoting scripture and i keep telling him not to take everything so literally in the bible....he is cross with god and of course ranting and raving.. i keep trying to tell him that 1. sometimes nonsense does just happen and it has nothing to do with god.
2. if he truly were christian he would follow god simply so things can go well with him.
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zack
Perhaps the reason an all loving, benevolent god seemingly permits so much suffering is because he simply doesn't exist.
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new public edition of the WT
by loosie inok i have about 4 friends who don't know that i am out of the org.
because there is 3000 miles between us and the subject has not come up.. well one of them has emailed me a jpg copy of each page of the public edition of the wt.. i was feeling a little ornery, and i replied back.
i said wow having a private copy and then a public copy of the wt makes me feel like a secret agent.
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zack
Tell your friend that the flock gets the meat alright, they just have to bend over for it.
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Watchtower Parody Page #8
by AlmostAtheist inhey all, .
i can't sleep tonight for some reason, and so i took a whack at correcting some of the more glaring typos on the watchtower's site.
(for instance, they keep misspelling "lie" as t-r-u-t-h. weird...) anyone wanna double-check me, here?
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zack
I am awed.
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Lots have asked for me to post why I did the research on Blood here is why
by skyking inhe asked why couldnt we auto-transfuse ourselves?
everyone at the study group wanted me to answer the question.
was it true jw's could take a transfusion without any sanctions in bulgaria kept flooding in my mind.
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zack
Good for you! Glad your free. Religion is a poison.