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  Why does god allow suffering?

  by GBSJG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i always had trouble with answering that question.

  if there is a god why is there so much suffering?

  so i looked up the offical explanation of the wts in the bible teach book chapter 11 paragraph 12 says: let us consider an illustration.

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  Brigid

  James_Woods,

  I honor your position on this subject and do fully understand your point of departure...in fact, I share it in many ways. I am just faced with the nature of these things we view as good and evil. For example; I sat in a philosopher's circle a few months back and that was the first time I'd been faced with questioning my own black and white perceptions which I was hotly contesting. The moderator posed this: There is a region in India (I believe it is the Haran?) where it is not only customary but considered the religious duty of a father to take his daughters at the onset of menses and deflower them, teaching them the ways of men. Now, that feels evil to me. Do the girls have a choice? An educated choice? But everyone around them is doing it...do they even question? I mean, is the wrongness, the invasive feeling that I have around this due to what I have been taught (that to lie with one's daughter is wrong wrong wrong?) What are those things that we do without question that others may find absolutely repulsive and predatory (i.e., I am a meat eater, but in generations to come, will humans view the eating of the flesh of other living beings as grossly distasteful?).

  Then, I sat a long time with the question of Hitler....now mind you, I have a beloved son who has more than enough semitic blood to have had his head dashed against the rocks by Nazi's trying to rid the human race of "the Jewish problem".....we are taught that Hitler was wrong...he is proffered as the embodiment of evil in our time and many generations to come (YES! He feels evil to me)...but...what if the Nazi's had won? What if the version of history I learned had been colored by their philosophy?

  I just dunno....

  That is my struggle.

  ~Brigid
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  Tutor says sex assaults are sacred ritual

  by Big Tex in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  you know, i've said before that pedophiles are insane.

  i truly believe that they see nothing wrong at all in raping children.

  i've read accounts where pedophiles say that boys are "naturally hedonistic".

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  Brigid

  Yes, and it is stories like these that cause me lean toward the notion that true evil does exist in this world in extreme cases.
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  Hello. My name is John Walsh

  by Mistah MOJO in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am currently domiciled with my girlfriend whose family became jws too late for her to be sucked into the hole, and her younger sister who was sucked into the hole.

  i was briefly involved.

  for two years i studied but never was baptized.

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  Brigid

  It's just nature worship as far as I can tell.

  That's about it in a nutshell. Anyhow, tell us more about your gf's adventures--she sounds like someone I'd like to buy a beer!

  ~B.
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  thinkin of goin back

  by searching4truth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was df bout a year back and have since been enlightened by a life long friend.

  i am leaning toward returning anyway but mostly for familyand friends.

  i recognize the hypocrisy of this move but also don't feel that i should be subject to there authority and in my current state i am.

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  Brigid

  Personally, there is nothing I could imagine that could make me return. Therefore, I have a visceral reaction much like posters above me--NO, DON'T GO!! However, having said that, I realize that each must walk their path no matter where it takes them. Only you live in your skin, see your world through your eyes and all I can say is good luck with whatever decision you make. We will be here for you when you need to "talk".

  Love and Light (yer gonna need it lol!!)

  ~Brigid
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  Why does god allow suffering?

  by GBSJG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i always had trouble with answering that question.

  if there is a god why is there so much suffering?

  so i looked up the offical explanation of the wts in the bible teach book chapter 11 paragraph 12 says: let us consider an illustration.

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  Brigid

  Do you mean, why does biblegod allow suffering? I have to concur with Daystar's thoughts on this.

  It is a fundamental problem of seeing the world only in black and white--one extreme or another with no striving for balance.

  Now what I struggle with is: Do good and evil truly exist? And if so, what is the nature of each? What determines what is evil? Perception? Social mores? Cultural conditioning? I mean, I certainly have my own ideas of what "evil" is and what I perceive is "good".

  And if they do exist and our sole purpose is to vanquish evil from our schema (which I do not believe necessarily) what does a universe without "evil" and only "good" look like? Who determines that? How does one see Light without the contrasting darkness?

  I have no answers for these questions, hence the struggle.

  ~B.
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  Wish me Luck!

  by whyamihere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my sister just called me........ my aunt is in town - so my sister, my aunt(queen b&tch) and my grandmother would like to see me for lunch.. well this is odd, i only get invited when some dies or get married.

  i am a totally different person around my mothers side of the family.

  i was raised not to speak unless spoke too.

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  Brigid

  Good luck, hon. I think stand-up-for-herself Brookie is gonna be just fine!

  You go girl!

  ~B.
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  Came out to my parents

  by jstalin in

  1. social
  2. family

  just wanted to write about my experience in coming out to my parents in the last two weeks.

  it's a long story, but my sister and i are both gay, but we haven't come out to our parents until now.

  my sister and i have been debating with each other the best way to come out to them because we've known that it would be a serious blow to them.

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  Brigid

  Jstalin,

  I cannot imagine how much courage this takes. My hat is off to you (I had the hardest time just telling my mom I wasn't going to meetings in my new city!). Seriously, I know it could not have been easy but kudos to you.

  Now, hopefully, you can just be you and take each day at a time integrating your true Self with your place in your family.

  Love and Light,

  ~B.
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  Had to put my Cat to sleep last night - very sad!

  by lovelylil in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am really sad today and miss my cat already.

  he would have been 16 in november.

  i found him out on the street when he was a year old.

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  Brigid

  (((lovelylil)))

  I'm so sorry for your loss. It is difficult to loosen the very real connection we can feel with "pets" especially when they truly are family members, loved and cherished.

  Holding you in my heart,

  ~Brigid
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  Fluff a dub: Brushes with Fame?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so who have you met who is famous or slightly famous and under what circumstances?

  (for the benefit of cross atlantic variations in celebrity - attach a pic and/or explanation of who that celeb is) .

  or have you never met anyone even slightly famous but have aspirations to do so!

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  Brigid

  My ex-sister-in-law (who I still adore!) is a plastic surgeon. She pierced Oprah Winfrey's ears on national television. Only Oprah would hire a plastic surgeon to pierce her ears.

  ~B
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  What does a JW look like?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember many years ago, a sister in her 40's who just joined, told me that i looked like a jw.

  she said i have the face of a jw.... .

  i've never been so insulted in my life.....

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  Brigid

  You know, at the risk of sounding offensive, I think fundamentalist Christians in general have a certain look and a certain tonal quality to their voice (not in all cases, however). It's not so much an outward appearance (though there are tell tell signs from dress, etc.) but it's in the eyes....the way the veil comes down over them whenever anything remotely spiritual is mentioned or might be. It's kind of sad, like the individual disappears from before you and the hive mentality takes over.

  JH, you do not look like a JW, so rest easy, my brother.

  ~Brigid