I've never agreed with this policy and I never followed it. I have had two close childhood friends DF'ed as well as my sister. Always kept talking to them, even at the hall, I would sit with them at conventions, and hang out with them. The elders never told me anything, I think because they knew I wouldn't listen anyways. I wasn't allowed to have privileges because of my immigration status at the time so they couldn't really take anything away from me. Last time my mother asked when I was returning to the org, I told her when they stop practicing shunning. I know that will never happen or droves of people would leave. Half the people in my congregation were there for the social club aspect of it.
WasOnceBlind
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New Watchtower Propaganda and hate speech destroying families (Feb 2016 WT)
by Daniel1555 inthe following is a paragraph from the new february study watchtower article "learn from jehovah's loyal servants.".
7 a conflict of loyalties may arise when a close relative is disfellowshipped.
for example, a sister named anne [1] received a telephone call from her disfellowshipped mother.
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I'm Catholic and madly in love with a Jehovah Witness...
by Luge62 inwe are madly in love with each other and she is in the process of being divorced.
let me make one thing clear i'm not the reason for the divorce.
she attempted to reconcile with him but to no avail.
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WasOnceBlind
OR.......she might end up like me!
I married a catholic girl while being a JW, I was marked, everyone except my childhood best friend starting treating me different and pretty much shunning me. It was one of the factors in realizing it was a BS cult, I stopped attending and never missed those hypocrites.
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WiFi problems? Want a faster network? Try Powerline Adapters!
by Simon inwifi is great.
it's so easy and convenient.
but it can be slow.. years ago when it first came out you maybe had a pc and a couple of other devices at most.
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WasOnceBlind
Yeah I use it since I have my wifi router in the bedroom and my media pc in the living room seperated by a cement wall. It works really good, the only thing I wouldnt use it for is for something that requires a fast ping response time like online gaming. -
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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WasOnceBlind
The math is not bad. You have zillions of chemical reactions around the universe under very wide range of conditions going on for billions of years. It's like playing the lottery. If you do it one time, the odds of winning are very, very tiny. But if you play lotto for billions of years, you are bound to get the prize many times. Abiogenesis is the same thing. I am quite confident that scientists will be playing God some time in the future, and create life out of organic substances.
Yeah but then you have to account the probabilities of that happening under the perfect environmental conditions, then one you have that you have to factor the probability of that single cell organism becoming a multi cell organism under the perfect conditions and you need to have that happen billions of times.
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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WasOnceBlind
So how can you better explain what you are holding onto, you said God or Creator. What about creators? How would you describe this person, is it a person or a thing? What did it actually do? Where does the creation part begin and end? What are you holding onto exactly?
I am actually open to the idea of creators, I am not strict in my belief of even a deity. I mean is it so far fetched to believe that maybe humans are not exclusive to earth? Even now we are thinking or hoping of someday colonizing Mars, is it so far fetched to think that this has already been done when it comes to earth? Anyways the point of this post was more about the fact that believing in a god that cares about humanity almost seems comical.
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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WasOnceBlind
Are you sure it's evolution that you feel is too far fetched? Or the current hypotheses on abiogenesis?
I never knew of this term but yes you are right. I believe in evolution just not in abiogenesis.
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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WasOnceBlind
Take a closer look at evolution. Not as the source of everything but as the progress of it.
I believe in evolution, just not as the source. The math just doesn't add up for me.
Then explore the real reasons you feel the source had to be a creator of any kind. What do you solidly found that on. If our explanation for needing a creator is the complexity, beauty etc then by that very thought a creator would also need a creator endlessly..
Yes, just because we had a creator(s) does not mean it did not have a creator. The mathematical probabilities of every single thing that had to go right at the exact moment in time go right don't add up.
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Hello from Orange County!
by Ghiagirl inwould love to see if any users are from orange county area??
been around newport beach, laguna beach, and costa mesa for the last 12 years!!
been hesitant on posting my area, but i have nothing to hide my family, as well as my husbands know where we stand.
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Beast of no nation
by WasOnceBlind ini always had a problem with the belief that god is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong.
i watched this movie on netflix and i can really see why the atheist movement is growing.
it really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world.
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WasOnceBlind
I always had a problem with the belief that God is allowing all the suffering in this world to go on just to vindicate his name and prove the devil wrong. I watched this movie on Netflix and I can really see why the atheist movement is growing. It really does a good job of portraying the suffering in some parts of the world. How can it anyone explain why god will listen to a prayer of say someone in a first world country vs someone in a third world country? I now find my self in a place where I still hold on to the believing in God or a creator (because evolution seems to far fetched) but that he is not what we portray him to be. I do not think he cares for us on a personal level like we would like to believe. -
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Template to dump Special Pioneers
by avaddohn94 in"downsizing" has reached special pioneers.. this is the template mexico is using to get rid of many of its special pioneers.
see how cold and unloving is the language they use.
a translation attempt is as follows:.
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WasOnceBlind
Is that Vow of obedience real? I don't know how it gets more culty (probably not a word) then that! I picture the victims of Waco or members of scientology reciting something like that.