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  Cheers to all! I'm in the house now! Finally signed up.

  by Lifeisfun in

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  2. experiences

  hi readers and lurkers, .

  i decided it was time to register to the site.

  after all these years, it was just a matter of time.

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  freemindfade

  Welcome, if you have some anxiety throw my a PM I may have some similar experiences and things that helped me cope.
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  Be Happy You Have Traded Belief for Knowledge

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.. mark twaineveryone have a good weekend, and feel the peace and happiness of being "awake".

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  freemindfade

  “A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

  ― Mark Twain

  Everyone have a good weekend, and feel the peace and happiness of being "awake"
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  Who leaves first, the husband or wife?

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.

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  freemindfade

  OneEyedJoe said it very well. I have always been the social force in my marriage, but I feel i rely on feeling the warmth of the congo much less than the wife. I have much closer, sincere friends outside that I don't have to hold to as high a idea of perfection.

  In our halls I always reached out to make friends that we still area very close with to this day, moving to new hall in new state, in faded status, I go to the meetings but feel no desire to make this my friends and family, I am nice but don't do my usual thing. So we have no friends lol. The wife has the usual pioneer older/middle aged sister friends, but their friendships are just around that, field service.

  Anyway, well said OneEyedJoe
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  Who leaves first, the husband or wife?

  by snugglebunny in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when it comes to a simple matter of no longer believing the teachings of jw's, it appears to me that it's more common for the husband to make the first move to leave the religion.

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  freemindfade

  Religion is an emotional institution.

  That being said, men despite some beliefs are subject to emotion and women can be very rational. But in general I hope I am not putting my foot in my mouth here, but hopefully we can say that women generally speaking are more emotional than men. For instance, with me and my wife, she gets extremely emotional whenever she thinks about here deceased grandfather and father, and relates this single issue to the strength of her faith. She has to believe she can see them again. I don't consider myself devoid of emotion, but tend to desire to separate emotion from rationality. And not to say I have always been this way, but it can be learned.

  Religion and JW's especially exploit EMOTION. Fear, anger, sadness. Sit down at any meeting and the talk starts off with how bad life is and how miserable we all are, plays on our sadness over loss, disappointment with "bad" people, uses guilt to control. At its core its emotion driven, not reason like JW's think they are. I even used to tell people when defending my faith, that witnesses are different because its rational, how freaking embarrassing I ever said such a thing.

  So I guess what I am getting at is there may (i don't know one way or the other), may be more men, simply for the emotional nature of religion.
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  Jaw Bone of the First Man in Ethiopia Lived.... When?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31718336.

  so this jaw bone of early man has been dated at 2.8 million years old.

  that means that given a margin for error and allowing an unknown but short period of time for adam naming the animals the 1000 years starts in ummm, eerrr.

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  freemindfade

  Finkelstein

  is that Theresa giudice?
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  Fading and not "outing" yourself, what are your thoughts on it?

  by Brock Talon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  fading and not "outing" yourself.. what are your thoughts on it?.

  i ask, because i just received a scathing personal message on facebook from a person who read my latest book and in it i describe myself as a fader.

  i was not dfd and i did not da myself.

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  freemindfade

  As much as you can. Never play to their rules. You want to f@$%k them. Do it on your terms.
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  God was the cause of the evil

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bart ehrman noticed, in his book "god's problem", the fact that god was responsible for job's pain.

  to show it, bart quoted the following verse:.

  and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the lord had brought upon him.

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  freemindfade

  tried to show my family a little and they blasted me. I told my uncle if you had no religion and knowledge of it to begin with , and a bible just fell out of the sky, and you read it in all its original languages, you would see zero harmony and tons of contradiction that men have massaged for out for thousands of years. Sorry witnesses, YHWH and Jesus just don't pan out.
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  God was the cause of the evil

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  bart ehrman noticed, in his book "god's problem", the fact that god was responsible for job's pain.

  to show it, bart quoted the following verse:.

  and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the lord had brought upon him.

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  freemindfade

  So many things about this YHWH make no sense, you are all powerful, all awesome, and still you have to engage in a wager over this persons loyalty. If YHWH is real we are like less than nothing to him, I loving father would never wager with someone he considers his children, even in a temporary situation.

  I believe they are trying to misrepresent it to fit as you say, but the whole story in general is bad. The bible criticizes itself best!

  Doesn't YHWH undermine his own supremacy by gambling with his biggest adversary? Lowering himself to this? Its all nonsense.

  You may have pointed out something very interesting here though.
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  March JW Broadcast: Once again disparaging Higher Education - this time in the Music Video.

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i will have the music video separated shortly.

  will post the link once it's done..

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  freemindfade

  It always kills me how blatantly they portray anyone with education and career as so miserable. When the reality is they are feeding into witnesses persecution complex.

  “When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.”

  —Dalai Lama
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  has anyone seen vidio on youtube about why they changed cover of songbook search youtube jw.org embarrassment

  by poopie in

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  any thoughts.

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  freemindfade

  I somewhat agree with Under the Radar, but its still funny. I think it was an accident but a damn funny one