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  I disfellowshipped my parents this week..

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wrote them a mail, telling them to not contact me any more under any circumstances, illness or death (79 and 83 years old).

  unless they leave the cult and would apologize for our f*'.ed-up upbringing which ruined our whole life.

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  Village Idiot

  Harsh but then I'm not in your shoes.
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  Revelations only book with specific warning about change.

  by umbertoecho in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  revelations seem to be the only book out of the supposed 66 books in the bible that has a specific warning about taking or adding one word to " this prophecy".

  i am curious as to what others make of this.

  i have looked at a few bibles, the last chapter and verses 18-19, state this warning.

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  "...many religions seem to feel they and only they, have the best bible."

  The only religion that I know of who thinks that are the JWs. Others, might use any version they please.

  You can go to biblegateway.com, which is an Evangelical website, and you will find nearly 50 versions you can pick from.
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  What is their position on IVF?

  by voodoo lady in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for example, if a married couple had fertility issues relating to the male partner's sperm, could they use a donor?.

  is it frowned upon in a more general sense because people should be preaching rather than procreating?.

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  Village Idiot

  There is a supplement called Arginine which increases sperm count. You can read about it here:

  http://menfertility.org/improve-sperm-quality-with-arginine/
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  The Bible is NOT Error-Free

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for many christians, the bible is viewed as the 100% error-free, perfect book straight from god, where every single word was carefully chosen by god for a reason.

  but, usually, when you have a discussion on the topic, these christians will end up saying that only the original copies written directly from the hands of the prophets and apostles were error-free, and all manuscript copies since then are subject to copyist mistakes and other errors.. since zero original copies are in existence, how do we know the originals were error-free?

  why should we think the originals should be error-free to begin with?

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  A Most Evil and Stupid Book: The Bible’s Moral Depravity, Contradictions and Absurdities.

  It's only two pages with hyperlinks straight to the scripture in question.
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  If you were put in charge of the Governing Body tomorrow...

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you were somehow magically put in-charge of the governing body tomorrow, by jesus, with the rules being, you could not teach anything that would be considered outright apostasy and you could not teach anything that would be considered to cause doubt about god's existence... (so as not to arouse suspicion).

  what "new light" or "clarified understandings" would you introduce first?.

  and which later on?.

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  I would write an entire book explaining all their false prophesies from the beginning as well as other issues such as child sexual abuse and distribute it to every Witness free of charge. In conclusion I would say that this organization is not worthy of existence and that all should leave it and let it collapse.

  Then I would sell all their properties including Kingdom Halls and give the money back to the Witnesses in general and the victims of child sexual abuse which can be verified from their records as well as relatives of those who have died from lack of a blood transfusion.

  Finally I would dissolve any legal entities that they have created.
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  when you were a JW what did you do with your fortune cookie?? LOL

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone who is not familiar with jw none sense would think, are you.

  serious, a fortune cookie.

  is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when.

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  Village Idiot

  James Mixon,

  "I'm waiting for one of those cookies to tell me to play the lottery and you will win."

  I used to get fortune cookies that had lucky numbers on them to play the lotto.

  "Village Idiot: Was Jesus Chinese? I had a friend who is Chinese and his family had a picture of Jesus and he was Chinese. LOL"

  No, he was Japanese:

  
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  when you were a JW what did you do with your fortune cookie?? LOL

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone who is not familiar with jw none sense would think, are you.

  serious, a fortune cookie.

  is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when.

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  One of those fortune cookies that I opened said that major changes were going to happen in my life. That was over ten years ago and I'm still waiting.
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  when you were a JW what did you do with your fortune cookie?? LOL

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone who is not familiar with jw none sense would think, are you.

  serious, a fortune cookie.

  is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when.

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  Village Idiot

  James Mixon,

  "VI: that's not fair, Jesus can foretell the future but not Satan...."

  Was Jesus Chinese?
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  when you were a JW what did you do with your fortune cookie?? LOL

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  someone who is not familiar with jw none sense would think, are you.

  serious, a fortune cookie.

  is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when.

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  James Mixon,

  "Is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when the big one comes if you read your fortune cookie, they may ask."

  Yes there are scriptures:

  The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. Deuteronomy 18:14 New International Version

  Fortune cookies are considered to be a form of divination.
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  Why is a mass shooting in a church worse than other mass shootings?

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll preface this by saying that i was horrified by the news of the shooting in charleston, a town that i visit quite frequently, and i know where the church is.

  i don't mean to make light of the situation, but my question is serious, after having watched news pundits, politicians, neighbors, friends, express shock, horror and outrage over the events.. they, like me, were shocked by the school shootings, and the theater shootings, and other mass shootings.

  but i sense a different shock, a different reaction, to this event.

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  Village Idiot

  undercover,

  "Why? Why is a shooting in a church where nine people are killed worse than twelve people killed in a movie theater?"

  What Laika and CalebInFloroda said. Those people actually interacted with their shooter and put trust in him. I speak as an atheist.