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Who exactly is an apostate?

by SonoftheTrinity in

if you are a non-believing relative or spouse who is hostile to their doctrine are you an apostate?

if you studied with them and rang the logical fallacy buzzer for chits and giggles to see how they would react does this make you an apostate?.

if you are a born in who never got baptised does this make you an apostate?.

Twitch

A word used by those in perceived positions of power to label those who still recognize that power in some form or another

In other words, a meaningless word if you want it to be.

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Happy St Paddies Day !

by Phizzy in

have a good one !!.

i shall be raising a glass or ten of the black stuff to drink the health of all you good people later today.. .

Happy Pi Day!

by Twitch in

jw
friends

and now for something completely nerdy,.... http://www.piday.org/.

lmao.

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Twitch

Strange, 3-14-15 is here and I don't feel any different. Except perhaps a bit more geeky than most days of the year.

The area of a circle.
A = πr2
Where ‘r’ is the radius (distance from the center to the edge of the circle). Also, this formula is the origin of the joke “Pies aren’t square, they’re round!”

Lordy...

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Blast from the past...

by Abaddon in

jw
friends

hi people,.

just dropping by at random to say hi.

i used to be here a lot, from the really early days of jwd up until 2007 or 8 i guess.

Twitch

Welcome back sir

i recall you discombobulating assorted nimrods, jackasses and arrogant theists. It was rather amusing and educational.

Hope life is good beyond the interwebs

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Favorite Music Video

by WildTurkey in

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what is your favorite music video?

after shes my cherry pie, i like foo fighters learn to fly

Twitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

One for Prologos...

heh

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Constructive hobbies

by zeb in

hm have a hobby?

im not asking what.. hm have taken up a constructive hobby since leaving?.

Twitch

Playing bass guitar in an original rock band. Backup vocals where possible. Recording, mixing and mastering the songs we write. Good times.

Chess gave way to PC video games, mostly simulations and strategy games, some shooters.

Troubleshooting and fixing PCs and AV related issues for friends.

Collecting movies, documentaries, concerts and music.

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Freedom, Free speech, Censorship, Religion and Tight Pants

by Simon in

you would need to be living in a cave to not be aware of the turmoil happening in the world with groups like isis murdering cartoonists over their depiction of their prophet and sides being taken to either attack religion or to defend the right to practise it.. the battle lines appear to be drawn between those who believe in freedom and those who would see it curtailed to be replaced with their own version of what is and isnt acceptable.

most people want freedom and free speech but when choosing it are perhaps unconsciously judging it to only apply to things that they themselves believe in.. we need to be crystal clear what freedom and free speech were really talking about.

freedom itself is usually easier to define as there are some fundamental principles: you should be allowed to do what you want as long as you are not harming others.

Twitch

Good OP and thread

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Asshole Atheism – Not for me, now or ever.

by donny in

to start off with let me clarify that by asshole atheism i am not referring to strong atheism or any other type of upfront atheism.

what i am referring to is the belligerent, hateful atheism that smacks of trolls and other types who want to derail conversation or comments at any cost..

i enjoy hearing comments from both sides of the subjects of theism, nationalism or politics, especially from those who have intense opinions.

Twitch

Some ideals I heard about and rather fancy;

Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18

Ironic in a sense, considering the source and common history here, yes?

As with most ideals though, reality falls far short of course. Still, a rather tolerant and fair ideal IMO and one that rings true to me. I'm not alone in thinking such ideals are good it seems.

Humanity will always be diverse. For the most part, I'm ok with that. But I have to remind myself, it ain't all about me. And that gets me through the day.

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How old were you ??

by Clambake in

when you had to start dumping your worldy friends ??.

just curious that's all.

not being a witness ( ubm here ) i think everyone has known a jw kid and at a certain age " my mommy won't let me play with you ".

Twitch

Now that's a nice twist. It's funny how things work out sometimes.

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How old were you ??

by Clambake in

when you had to start dumping your worldy friends ??.

just curious that's all.

not being a witness ( ubm here ) i think everyone has known a jw kid and at a certain age " my mommy won't let me play with you ".

Twitch

Yea I just didn't listen as a JW kid

I made worldly friends though most were in secret, which engendered a double life of sorts from an early age. Of course I was constantly "admonished" and was eventually counselled by 3 elders for worldly associations and smoking at 17. I left home and the org not long after that kangaroo court

I did have JW friends of course but they were either assholes, whacked or boring. Kinda left them behind. A different world I wanted no more part of