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  New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

  of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

  i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

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  rebel8

  woo-hoo!

  I am so appreciative of your work.
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  Watchtower 'Experts' on Being Gay?

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  have you seen this article?.

  the watchtower is trying to be experts on all things having to do with human sexuality.. repressing sexual desires, gay or straight only creates more problems.. http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/pressure-to-be-gay/.

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  The Bible...simply directs those with homosexual urges to do the same thing that is required of those with an opposite-sex attraction

  That is a bold-faced lie. The bible says heteros can get married and do it as much as they want; it says homosexuals can never be together and be pleasing to god. So let's recap:

  A-ok

  • Hetero sex after marriage
  • God impregnating a human female
  • Cain marrying his sister and creating an entire race of people
  • Abraham and Amnon marrying their half-sisters
  • Lot's daughters getting him drunk and raping him
  • Moses' father marrying his aunt
  • Noah's grandkids marrying each other
  • Jesus cuddling with men

  Not ok: any sort of physical contact or marriage between women or between men
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  Leaving with Dignity - a sample document

  by Ajax in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we live in democratic, not theocratic times.. churches no longer imprison, torture or execute.. cults have absolutely no authority over non members.

  we don't have to obey.

  we don't have to subject our selves.

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  I like your idea.

  I have composed and published another idea here.
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  Freinds, how many do you have ?

  by Satanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll start.

  i'm low on friends, for various reasons.

  scientists poke their calculators into everything, and the number of friends we can have is one of them.

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  I have literally a few people who I consider close friends, in that I could talk to them about anything and they would help me if a tragedy happened. However, they live on the other side of the continent.

  I have only mr. rebel8 as such a close friend nearby. This makes me uneasy, because I'm not sure it's entirely healthy, and what if something happened to me.

  I have lots of acquaintences. There are a few I'd like to be closer to.
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  Why Do Theist Struggle So Much For A God Who Supposedly Exists?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a theist made this casual statement on another thread,.

  from ancient accounts hostile to christinity, we can learn about (jesus).

  as a theist, how could they possibly trust the source to suggest this to himself?

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  "Big Eyes" the story of artist Margaret Keane

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  the tim burton film is ready for release.. www.thewrap.com/big-eyes-premiere-finds-audience-howling-at-christoph-waltz-and-amy-adams-dueling-artists/.

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  bluesbrother, are those really in the assembly halls?

  I totally respect and love visual arts...but omg...I am just lol. I didn't realize it was possible to make the wts paradise zoo stories even more tacky and unbelievable.

  Sorry but omg. She's a talented artist, maybe her work is not to everyone's taste, but you gotta admit she has talent. But the paradise petting zoo pieces just freak me out.
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  From 1 to 10, how do you rate the value of the Internet in your awakening?

  by Hidden-Window in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we all know, the internet is a real game-changer in allowing us to know the truth about the watch tower and its history.

  i always had doubts and it was the internet that presented me with the ever-growing number of individuals who were going through a similar struggle.. i give the internet a 9 in my awakening.

  what about you?.

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  0.

  There was no Internet back then.

  There was no way for questioning people to find each other, other than guessing each others' state of mind, if you happened to know someone. I was all alone.

  As for information, I had a lot of the old-time publications so it was blatantly obvious they didn't always have The Truth as they claimed. Then they went on that wacko bend with that red Revelation book, and the big blue creation book, most of which was obviously batshit insane, and the rest was easily disproven in the public and school library. I mean, misquoting scientists to falsely present their views as pro-creation is just dumb. I almost wonder if they think, "I wonder how obvious we can make the lies to see how much the flock blindly trusts us."
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  Why are the Jesus people so obsessed with spreading their message?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are they fearful that they are mistaken, so they must argue with everyone, and try to prove all otehr religions wrong, but their's right?.

  i'm not talking about the well-known jw persistence, in which we all once shared.. i'm talking about nearly all brands of christianity, the witnesses and their other branded counterparts.

  here are two incidents to demonstrate.. a week or so back, i read in a chinese newspaper of a complaint by two tibetan buddhist women in the city of xining, qinghai province, in western china.

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  Evangelizing is a mandate for xians.
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  There won't be snow in Africa (xmas songs you hate)

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  ok so be a scrooge or grinch for 5 minutes.

  you know you want to.. i loooove xmas songs but there are a few that make me cringe.. the old feed the world.

  "there won't be snow in africa.

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  Oooh, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I want to see them IRL sometime.

  Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Kill me now.

  Buble is ok with me. Who's Bing?

  So here's the thing. I pretty much immerse myself in xmas music after Thanksgiving. I listen to a radio station that plays it all the time. Except it's the same versions of the same songs over and over. So many artists have produced xmas music and I do enjoy most of it. Why no variety?

  Here's some produced by the children of a current jw (and a jw at the time the album was produced, as far as I can tell.)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ1iu3skJeQ
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  There won't be snow in Africa (xmas songs you hate)

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok so be a scrooge or grinch for 5 minutes.

  you know you want to.. i loooove xmas songs but there are a few that make me cringe.. the old feed the world.

  "there won't be snow in africa.

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  Ok so be a Scrooge or Grinch for 5 minutes. You know you want to.

  I loooove xmas songs but there are a few that make me cringe.

  The old Feed the World. "There won't be snow in Africa." "Do they know it's Christmastime at all?" A favorite song for people ignorant of climates and world religions.

  Christmas Shoes. Not sure I can put into words why I hate it so much. I actually turn the radio off when it comes on. I think I'd like to know the name of the guy who paid for the shoes. I've got a Nigerian prince who needs help transferring some money.

  Now where's Dominick the Christmas Donkey?