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  What does "NFL" stand for?

  by Glander in

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  i thought it was the national football league but it is starting to be the national felons league.. whatever, the season is off to a good start!.

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  Spectre

  Hmmmm.....maybe instead of a Fantasy Football League, people could pick their favorite felon player to bet on.
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  Social Isolation & The Witnesses

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the truth is that jehovah's witnesses purposely try to insulate their own members.

  they want their own to be "no part of the world".

  they do not sanction unnecessary association with "worldly people".

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  Spectre

  But, but, but....I've heard that the definition of a cult is a group that follows a charismatic man. The j-dubs definitely do NOT fall in this category! How was the donkey show?
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  Watchtower admits Bible Teaches Trinity & hellfire!

  by williamhconley in

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  2. bible

  the wathtower admits that by reading the bible alone without their help, people will believe in the trinity, hellfire, visible return of christ, heavenly hope for all christians etc etc.. here's the quote:.

  "from time to time, there have arisen from among the ranks of jehovah's people those, who, like the original satan, have adopted an independent, faultfinding attitude... they say that it is sufficient to read the bible exclusively, either alone or in small groups at home.

  but, strangely, through such 'bible reading,' they have reverted right back to the apostate doctrines that commentaries by christendom's clergy were teaching 100 years ago..." (watchtower, aug. 15, 1981, p. 29).. why would people revert back to christendoms doctrines unless the bible actually teaches them!.

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  Spectre

  "apostate doctrines"....Hahaha!!!
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  Stressful Session with Uber-Zealous Parents--The Mermaid needs a hug!

  by Cadellin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  okay, for those of you who don't know, i was raised jw by really great though uber-zealous parents.

  i'm now an adult and have been inactive for about two years due a bunch of reasons, the primary one (or at least the one that got the ball rolling) being the pathological intellectual dishonesty of the wt in how it handles secular quotes and citations.

  anyway, my parents are aware of all that and have left the issue alone for about the last year.

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  Spectre

  Damn! I'm too late for the group hug. When I was a witness and see the list to identify a cult, I would say, "but there are reasons we do this." After I went to college and took critical thinking, it does become an issue of, ok, when does their BS reasoning stop? Is rational, logical thought really a tool of Satan? Hmmmmm......
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  Florida Pastor Doesn’t Get Why Atheists Aren’t Registered Like Sex Offenders

  by fallen_princess in

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  2. friends

  i thought this was so insanely stupid that it made it funny, so i had to share.

  living in "the bible belt", i meet people with this sort of mentality all the time but this guy takes the cake!

  let's all applaud this guy for reaching new lows in his preachy narrow-mindedness that it was barely interesting enough that a reporter was desperate enough for a story wrote about it.. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/florida_pastor_asks_why_atheis.html.

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  Spectre

  This reads like a piece right off The Onion. Proving that truth can be stranger than fiction.
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  Florida Pastor Doesn’t Get Why Atheists Aren’t Registered Like Sex Offenders

  by fallen_princess in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i thought this was so insanely stupid that it made it funny, so i had to share.

  living in "the bible belt", i meet people with this sort of mentality all the time but this guy takes the cake!

  let's all applaud this guy for reaching new lows in his preachy narrow-mindedness that it was barely interesting enough that a reporter was desperate enough for a story wrote about it.. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/florida_pastor_asks_why_atheis.html.

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  Spectre

  Bwahahahahahhahahaaa!!!!! To quote Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."
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  12,000 year old cave drawing found in South Wales

  by Mickey mouse in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14721056.

  that's got to be a mistake, right?

  man's only been on earth for half of that time.

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  Spectre

  Those demunz will do anything to test a true christians faith!
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  Something I struggle with mentally. Anyone Else?

  by thinking_1 in

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  Another movie I think about when thinking about the witnesses is Malcolm X. Malcolm was in jail and through Islam turned his life around. Later he found out his mentor was a fraud. But he still had the Islam faith to fall back on. Witnesses are taught how horrible and disgusting every other religion is. When the veil is lifted, for many there is nothing to fall back to. I can see people being religious and using religion as a calming force in their life but anymore I view JW's as a worthless religion(cult) devoid of any benefit whatsoever. (basing what I know about Malcolm X and Islam on the movie and in no way am I endorsing becoming Islamic)
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  Something I struggle with mentally. Anyone Else?

  by thinking_1 in

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  Kind of like The Matrix, red pill versus blue pill, eh?
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  I wish I was dead ...

  by talesin in

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  not much to follow that .... day-umn, life is hard sometimes .... .

  feel free to encourage me ... i need it.. .

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  Spectre

  Been away from my computer for a few days or would have said something earlier. What was the Youtube video on page one? It says it won't play in my country.