Topics Started by EyeDrEvil

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Jehovah's Witness Oddities
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i now enjoy telling people about the things jehovah's witnesses can and cannot do.

for instance, witnesses can work in a store that sells lottery tickets and tobacco but they can't own the store themselves.....whole blood is forbidden to be transfused yet blood fractions are acceptable.

donating blood in any form is wrong but accepting blood fractions is a conscience matter.........can you think of other jw oddities????
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Hi everyone!
by schne_belly in
1. jw
2. friends
well - this is my first post.

i want to express my gratitude to all of you in jwd land for the help you provide.

i'd be glad to relate stories, and experiences in the future, but wanted to introduce myself first.
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well why dont you tell me where I screwed up????
by mouthy in
1. jw
2. experiences
to listen to mouthy's interview just click here and download it!

(33.2 mb) .

thanks go to nathan natas for providing the audio recording!
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Sacred Feminine
by New Castles in
1. watchtower
2. bible
can someone help me with this topic??

recently i have been interested in investigating on how historical and mythical information has shaped religion today, particularly christianity.

one important piece of information that i keep coming across is the sacred feminine.
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Just read "Who Wrote the Bible", another book recommendation please?
by lookingnow25 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just finished reading "who wrote the bible" by friedman after seeing someone reommend it on here.

i was enthralled and finished it in record time for myself.

i'd never considered anything that could be called 'higher criticism' before.
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Reading Glasses and Headaches
by Big Tex in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i've had a terrible time the last 2 weeks with headaches.

they usually come on in the early afternoon and by the end of the day i can hardly see straight.

i don't wear glasses but i noticed that after working on the computer or documents and i get up to walk around my distance vision is poor, i.e.
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USA, are the flags still at Half-Mast in your city?
by Elsewhere in
1. jw
2. friends
ever since president reagan died a few weeks ago on june 5th, all of the flags in the dallas area have been flying at half mast.

i can understand flying them like this for a week or so, but they are still at half mast to this day.. has anyone else noticed this?.

does no one want to be the first to stop flying their flags as half mast?.
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Jesus Christ - just a myth?
by davit in
1. jw
2. friends
recently recommended to read a book called 'the pagan christ' asserting that the whole story is just a myth (beggars the imagination) and with parallel stories in most other religions preceding and borrowed by (so-called) christianity.

can anyone throw some light on this for me please or tell me where i should go next .

davit.
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When do the nightmares end?
by EyeDrEvil in
1. jw
2. friends
just a question for the board's input.... background information:.

my wife, raised in a jw home, very popular elder as her father, living through the entire 1975 thing ("honey don't worry about passing 7th grade.

next year will be the new system..."), but beat up for years by the mind-control and spiritual abuse by the wts.... she has recently officially da'd from the society this spring, had her first birthday party ever (a huge blast of a great time!).
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Are you afraid?
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. watchtower
2. bible
fear not:

1st john 4:18: there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.

but he who fears has not been made perfect in love.. 2nd timothy 1:7: for god has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.