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  New Here and happy to have found you

  by flowerfreaks2 in

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  have been out officially for 5 1/2 years.

  i was the only one out of all my 4 other siblings that stayed with it.

  baptized at 16 and felt the need to carry on the heritage that my mom gave me to do.

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  donny

  Welcome and we look forward to your future posts!
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  Article: To save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients die

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  to save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients diedoctors at the university of pittsburgh medical center plan to treat trauma patients with an experimental procedure that induces hypothermia by replacing their blood with freezing saltwater.. .

  by kate murphy.

  the new york times.

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  donny

  The Society has already responded to this issue. Below in the 2014 update of Acts 15:28-30.

  For the holy spirit+ and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things: 29 to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols,+ from cold saline water,+ from what is strangled,*+ and from sexual immorality.*+ If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”* .
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  "Aren't you going the wrong way at this stage of your life?"

  by donny in

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  2. bible

  that was a question posed to me by a friend who just recently discovered my switch from one who used to have a belief in god to one that has a lack thereof.. they stated "most people i know, including your truly, were not much interested in closely following the tenants of the faith we were brought up in when we were in the prime of our young adulthood.

  you on the other hand, were much more zealous back then and now have pretty much left it all behind.

  surely it is not because you are not sowing your oats at this time.".

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  Xanthippe I do believe that some sincerely believe that religion is the answer to all things unknown and this was definitely true back before the dawn of modern science. However I believe that many of todays outspoken represenatives of things like young earth creationists, i.e. Ken Ham,. Eric Hovind, do it more for the money and adulation they get versus they sincerely believe everything they say.

  Great statement Doug!! I myself am 55 and based on my familys history and the law of averages, I definitely have put more days behind the cart than what lies ahead.

  Donny
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  "Aren't you going the wrong way at this stage of your life?"

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  that was a question posed to me by a friend who just recently discovered my switch from one who used to have a belief in god to one that has a lack thereof.. they stated "most people i know, including your truly, were not much interested in closely following the tenants of the faith we were brought up in when we were in the prime of our young adulthood.

  you on the other hand, were much more zealous back then and now have pretty much left it all behind.

  surely it is not because you are not sowing your oats at this time.".

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  donny

  That was a question posed to me by a friend who just recently discovered my switch from one who used to have a belief in God to one that has a lack thereof.

  They stated "Most people I know, including your truly, were not much interested in closely following the tenants of the faith we were brought up in when we were in the prime of our young adulthood. You on the other hand, were much more zealous back then and now have pretty much left it all behind. Why? Surely it is not because you are not sowing your oats at this time."

  I went on to tell him he was correct that I was not going through my second puberty. I told him it was because I wanted to believe what was true regardless of where that led me.

  After leaving the Jehovah's Witness religion I tried going to various other denominations. However my exit from the JW's had taught me to be much more skeptical in my thinking and I applied this to these other avenues to the Big Guy in the sky I was then traversing.

  After a few years of this it became obvious while these other faith systems might be more palatable and easier to believe, they were just as untrue.

  I also used this time to read the bible from cover to cover and I had no choice but to conclude that this piece of literature was the thoughts and musings of bronze-age nomads who were trying to keep their small but growing clan spirits high and more importantly to maintain control. An invisible being in the sky who watched your every move and knew your every thought was the best security system of the day.

  In due time it became obvious to me that there was no evidence of a benevolent (or malevolent) entity above who listened to our petitions or exclamations of thankfulness.

  Since I was now interested in only believing true things, I was led to the path of agnosticism and atheism.

  Can I say for 100% certainty that there is no God or being existing outside of the natural world? Of course the truthful answer has to be "No, I don't"

  But I am 100% certain that if such an omniscient and omnipotent entity does exist, it surely was not the one who revealed himself as Yahweh (Jehovah) to Moses and Abraham who later had a child out of wedlock and named him Jesus.
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  Disassiociated 22 years ago.
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  Get well Grace (Mouthy)

  by label licker in

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  a loud get well grace from all of us to you.

  everyone, grace has been in and out of the hospital and i'm sure she would love to read your get wells.

  we miss you grace:) wish i could post pictures.

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  donny

  Thinking about you Grace!!!

  Donny
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  UNDERSTANDING "FOOD AT THE PROPER TIME" the duty of the Faithful Slave

  by Terry in

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  during the great depression in the 1930's people lost their jobs.. banks closed, and long lines formed in the streets called "bread lines".. people got up early and had to stand in line all day to get a free loaf of bread to feed their family!.

  in a cabin in the appalachian mountains there was a family of four: two children (a boy and a girl), a mom and a dad (who had lost his job.

  at the local sawmill).. things looked really bleak.

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  Great post as usual Mr. Terry!!! It so represents the "food" offered by the F&DS.
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  Requirements for the Anointed

  by HeyThere in

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  so i have a question...according to the bible, the anointed are virgins, among other things.

  so how are married fathers and mothers able to be anointedwhy xoes nobody question this?

  now, i did see in this past weeks wt they mentioned "spiritual virgins" which is not in the bible...why do people believe this stuff they spew....it is so weird!

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  When you go back an look at some of the Society's early annointed numbers, it appears that anywhere from 50,000 to 80,000 of the 144,000 were from 1874 and onward. So according to their own data, less that 100,000 "true" Christians existed bewteen 33 CE and 1874 CE. When you bring out the vast numbers that were baptized as recorded in the Bible, they would say that "evidently" the vast majority of those fell away in the great apostasy.
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  Which of the SEVEN stages of post JW behavior are you in right now?

  by Terry in

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  2. beliefs

  1. they done me wrong.

  2. i'm depressed.

  3. i'm gonna act like an apostate (smoke, drink, drugs, sex, outrageous behavior).

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  donny

  Hey Viola
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  Which of the SEVEN stages of post JW behavior are you in right now?

  by Terry in

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  1. they done me wrong.

  2. i'm depressed.

  3. i'm gonna act like an apostate (smoke, drink, drugs, sex, outrageous behavior).

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  donny

  Number 7 here