I am going for a great big I DON'T CARE what it is. To me its all just a little irrelevant, it does not matter. When out socially and this topic and the belief in God discussion comes up for me its like watching paint dry.
teela(2)
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Let's settle this for once and for all...... is atheism a belief, a non-belief or an anti-belief?
by Quillsky inmy opinion is that atheism is not a belief.
it is a belief in no belief..
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Witnesses and aging
by man in black inlast night my dad called, (he has become more jw - like since my mom died two years ago).
we talked about normal things, relatives, weather, etc.
until an opportunity rose up and he started with the.
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teela(2)
My parents are both dead. When they talked end of the world , I gave them a particular look and said "I bet you when 1975 comes you will be laughing" I said this up until 2002 when they stopped saying any c***p like that and as they got close to dying there was a saddness never spoken that the big A had never come and they had missed out on so much.
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Have you ever considered completely abandoning the people in the so-called "Truth"
by gubberningbody inthey seem quite content to do that to you.
why not just let them live their futile, dysfunctional lives and let time be the judge?.
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teela(2)
Done. Parents both passed, no family or extended relatives in. The only connection is my sisters sister in law, (her husbands sister) who converted 10 years ago She still does not know own family history and my sister has threated me if I talk. So we just avoid the whole subject and if she insists on bring up religion I ask innocently if thats the one that said the world was going to end in 1975. She disagreed I said we ought do a search on the net and she dropped it ( I think she did not want to start talking about Satan controlling, evil apostates etc) So any family meals with her are such fun playing cat and mouse with my sister and her sister in law.
Back to the question. Abandoning is not the right description. I have nothing in common with these people. I have 4 papers left to complete a bachelors with a double major. A wonderful husband and a great social life. I have fun hobbies, beekeeping, quilting and recently machine knitting.They seemed to have stopped still, slowly walking the streets, saying the same old thngs waiting for life to happen. To be honest after speaking to the witnesses I always feel better and they seem sadder and older.
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Would the world be a better place without Atheism/Religious-ism?
by AK - Jeff inmy thread here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/197200/5/atheists-do-you-ever-talk-to-god has taken a decidedly new twist.
one that has made me think it prudent to discuss a related matter.. would the world be a better place if all atheism was gone?
would it be a better place if all religion were gone?
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teela(2)
My take on it. It would be good to hear people justify there actions without reference to God, bible etc and then realize how stupid there behavior really is. Maybe then the world would be a better place if they have logical reasonable arguments for there actions.
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Do you know anything about Morocco?
by asilentone ini am going to meet attractive lady that is from morocco on july 3rd.
she teaches the language of french for living.
i do not know anything about morocco culture or anything like that.
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teela(2)
Stay away from anything that looks like a home made chocolate bar.
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What happens when a elderly dub is put into a care home?
by highdose inspeaking from my experiance i have seen no less than 10 elderly jw's put into old age care homes and promptly forgotten about!.
no visits from their "loving shepards" no vists from their spritual family.
they were left to rot out of sight out of mind.
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teela(2)
My dad starved himself to death. He was dumped in the rest home by my mother. I did not have the courage to tell him he could catch a taxis home at any time, because the truth was the home treated him better than my mum did. As for the witnesses all talk and no action. People my Father considered life long friends never came. Two "worldly" friends visited regularly and a couple of old witnesses only. The only one he could discuss his religious beliefs with was the Presbyterian minster that came once a week. He came to realize that his whole life was a waste. His children had all left the Witnesses, his wife hated him and the church that he devoted his life too did not give a f****k. So he stopped eating except when his wife came to visit (occasionally). It took two months until they put him on morphine . I could see the internal organs moving under a parchment like skin. He died the next day.
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For born ins- what tipped you off it was wrong
by teela(2) inat a young age i remember watching tv and commenting why is the red cross always helping people and we don't.
the second big one is if the witnesses only started up in 1890 - 1900 did jehovah not have anyone else doing the preaching work?.
as a child i don't think we think about theological problems so what tipped you off?
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teela(2)
At a young age I remember watching TV and commenting why is the Red Cross always helping people and we don't. The second big one is If the witnesses only started up in 1890 - 1900 did Jehovah not have anyone else doing the preaching work?. As a child I don't think we think about theological problems so what tipped you off??
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Have you ever won anything? In a raffle, lottery, etc?
by restrangled ini am so disgusted right now, more with myself than anything.. we have this big albertsons grocery store monopoly game going where i live.....the more of certain products you buy, the more tickets you receive.
not only are there instant winners, but then you enter codes on line.. ha....after 2 months, i've won $5.00 and a bottle of clorox beach.
i have spent more than i ever would have normally.
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teela(2)
Yes I have. In 1987 I won a brand new 4WD suburu legarcy. It was an AFS raffle the ticket was 50 cents and I sold the car for NZ$15,000. I lived for nearly 2 years in England including a 6 month stint in Africa. This was a lot of dollars back then. It changed my life.
I have also won a Harrods huge christmas hamper complete with all the bozze and goodies inside. A colour TV. I figured that buy not buying raffle tickets when I was a child that I saved my luck up and won as an adult.
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Anyone from New Zealand?
by AWAKE&WATCHING ini am interested in finding ex-jw's from new zealand.
does anyone know if we have any posters here from that neck of the woods?.
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teela(2)
That would be me. I am in Gisborne. Send me a PM. There is a "Steve" that posts here sometimes.
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Did You Ever Secretly "Sin" & The Elders Never Knew About It?
by minimus inwe, as elders, would every so often give a little talk about keeping the congregation clean and that if anyone felt the need to talk to us, to get whatever is bothering them off their chest, we would be readily available to them.
you'd be shocked to see how many would tell us some naughty things they were feeling guilty about.. i'm sure there were plenty of smart people who simply kept quiet and didn't say a word.. here's your opportunity to tell us what you wouldn't tell them..
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teela(2)
All the time. Ran into a gay friend a couple of years ago and her story made me cough up my drink laughing.
She was called before the elders. The elders confronted her about smoking cigarettes, she was so relieved, she thought it was for sleeping with her new girlfriend. She just nodded her head and took the disfellowshipping, left home all without the family and congregation knowing about her lifestyle.