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  When did you realize evolution was true?

  by Coded Logic in

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  ) which person/source first made you reconsider your position on creationism?.

  ) how long a period of time did it take to fully convince you?.

  ) what books and videos did you read and watch?.

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  1.) How old were you? Probably 25. Keep in mind, I was prevented from attending science courses in school. (Yes I know that's illegal but the school let Dubbie Dearest have her way.)
  

  2.) Which person/source first made you reconsider your position on creationism? I started to understand some facts when I was exiting at age 21 (customers at work told me), but it was in biology and anthropology courses a few years later that I started to shed my belief in intelligent design.
  

  3.) How long a period of time did it take to fully convince you? It was a process. I would say it probably took 15 years.
  

  4.) What books and videos did you read and watch? I don't remember any.
  

  5.) How much better do you think you understand biology is now vs. before? Understand biology--it's beyond my understanding. I just have not been educated in it much. But I get the basics.
  
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  Time to criticize another religion: Islam

  by SonoftheTrinity in

  1. social
  2. current

  please understand i have nothing against islam.

  i have something against alpha muslim men.. i was walking my cute little chihuahua mix in the park the other day when darts off sniffing since i am using a retractable extension leash and i am not minding the fact that he comes up on a muslim family and gets within a foot of them.

  the paterfamilias gives me a dirty look and then says something to his wife and i can make out the word "saif" which is arabic for "sword.

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  How did you know what religion they were?
  
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  Had a major blow out

  by freemindfade in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mom was emailing a group thread of rhetoric about isis and armageddon, and i finally got sick of it and said some pretty intense harsh things about ideals, and wishing for armageddon.

  then it went back and forth like some debate, all the while i am holding back unloading serious ttatt on my family.

  i put a whole bunch of scriptures where the wonderful yahweh committed infanticide.

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  rebel8

  Someone talk me off the DA ledge.

  Ok. DAing is playing by their rules and will give them the satisfaction. You can do your own things to have closure. Make up your own ceremony if that's what you need.

  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2014/12/sample-letter-of-resigation.html
  
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  JW Children - We're normal, and have fun at conventions, etc.

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was reading a poster's experience with custody, and the info in wts child custody packet.. children are prepped to present themselves as normal, with school friendships, hobbies, activities, etc.

  and not to mention that their life-goal is to pioneer.. the school brochure (1983) contains this gem:.

  "they [witness families] also travel several times each year to attend larger gatherings called circuit assemblies and district conventions.

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  rebel8

  Yesterday, stumbled upon this contradictory gem

  Great find!
  
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  God does exist here is my nonbiblical reason:

  by Curious Kitten in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  (before you read i hope no one gets offended by the word retarted...that s how i thought when i was 13)my mom and dad are divorced and my father never helped my mother on raising us, so basically she was a single-mother.

  he just abandoned my three brothers and me and my mother had to work two jobs all of the time so we never got to see her.

  when we did see her it was after school, but all she did was yell at us, make food, and leave to her next job.

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  Any books or links I should check out

  I would recommend Richard Dawkins' books, which explain why evolution is true. Maybe start with that.
  
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  How to wake up and reverse the trance???

  by J-DUBBED in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do you wake up someone taken from us by these screwed up people?.

  our son was hooked by a jw at the age of 25. within 3 months they were married and we never even new about it.

  he is now 29 and has nothing to do with his family(except his sister the odd time, when he needs something) of any freinds.. we are lost and have been for four years.. .

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  There are some scriptures about honoring your parents and older people. There are others about it being sinful to have no natural affection for your family. Those might help.
  
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  Hearts aren't really heart shaped!

  by rebel8 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a message brought to you by the people who have the unique true knowledge that jesus wasn't born on 12/25:.

  hearts aren't even really "heart shaped"--it's just a pagan symbol and everyone wrongly believes they're shaped that way.any questions?

  (this forum gets totally buggy when you use emoticons!).

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  The doctrine in the thread title was a jw teaching back in the 1970s and 1980s.
  
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  God does exist here is my nonbiblical reason:

  by Curious Kitten in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  (before you read i hope no one gets offended by the word retarted...that s how i thought when i was 13)my mom and dad are divorced and my father never helped my mother on raising us, so basically she was a single-mother.

  he just abandoned my three brothers and me and my mother had to work two jobs all of the time so we never got to see her.

  when we did see her it was after school, but all she did was yell at us, make food, and leave to her next job.

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  rebel8

  Using hallucinogens and then hallucinating, even if you believed you were no longer high at the time, is not remarkable.

  Occam's razor is a good method to find the truth.
  

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI

  If you still believe God is the most reasonable explanation for your hallucination, after considering all we've posted, then it will be apparent you have already decided what you want to believe. *shrug*
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  a parable has a fullfillment? and, is there now no faithful slave?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does a parable have a fulfillment?

  lol, i thought only prophesy had fulfillment.

  march 15 2015 wt.. after the previous articles and questions from the readers, where the writers try to explain that .

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  rebel8

  Fulfilling a parable. I wonder how stupid it can get.

  Maybe next they will start interpreting the patterns the toothpaste makes when you spit it in the sink after brushing. The number of tiny bubbles will fulfill a prophecy.
  
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  God does exist here is my nonbiblical reason:

  by Curious Kitten in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  (before you read i hope no one gets offended by the word retarted...that s how i thought when i was 13)my mom and dad are divorced and my father never helped my mother on raising us, so basically she was a single-mother.

  he just abandoned my three brothers and me and my mother had to work two jobs all of the time so we never got to see her.

  when we did see her it was after school, but all she did was yell at us, make food, and leave to her next job.

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  rebel8

  It's impossible to grow up in a community with xians and not have any idea what xians believe, unless you grew up in a cave without human contact.

  You wanted to hallucinate and you did. Hallucinations don't "mean" anything.

  jws will tell you this--Jehovah does not speak to any humans in modern times, he does not send anyone messages, and he certainly does not bless people with special knowledge when high (which they believe is a sin and defilement of the body, offensive to God).

  It does sound like you've already decided to believe whatever you want. By posting this story here, are you hoping to convince us?