Posts by streets76

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thinking of writing a book this summer

by John Doe in

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after brainstorming a couple hours, i'm thinking of writing a book about a man with a wife and two kids.

wife and possibly two kids get into accident and become permanently disabled, wife braindead.

man, who's had a crush on wife's friend, becomes torn between being faithful to his wife and moving on with her friend, and the book centers on his search for answers that are not there.

streets76

John, get yourself a copy of this book:

Structuring Your Novel: From Basic Idea to Finished Manuscript

by Robert C. Meredith and John D. Fitzgerald

Check it out on amazon. It helped me with my novel.

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Are You Surprised That Some "Intelligent" People Still Are Witnesses?

by minimus in

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i know some very sharp men and women that remain as jws and that perplexes me at times.

i even know of a jw whose daughter got molested by her jw ministerial servant uncle and she still believes this is the "truth", even though she took her family member to court and won!.

i don't get it..

streets76

I'm not very smart, and nothing exists in a vacuum.

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Atheists - Please answer this

by Nellie in

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i guess i lean more towards an agnostic point of view; though if asked, i will still identify myself as a christian.

why, i'm not really sure if i'm honest with myself.

it all boils down to how i feel about the earth and all of the inhabitants thereon.

streets76

If there has to be a creator, then it also follows that the creator has to have a creator. Don't you see where that logic leads you?

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good analogy

by jam in

iam sure many of you here have heard this comment when you were a jw..is this a good analogy to prove.

creationism?

if you have a automobile that have not been assemble how long will it take without any.

Jehovah's Witnesses and their American roots

by drew sagan in

i've thought of this for quite some time but have never posted anything about it.. .

for many of us who bought into the watchtowers ideals of a "restored christianity" the thought would never have crossed our mind that the movement was anything but nothing but just that.

even after a person leaves it still may be hard to get beyond these clouded ideas and see that many of the origins of the movement and essentially american in nature.. .

I read a good book a number of years ago called (I think) The American Religion, by (I think) Harold Bloom. There was a great section about JWs (and a good one about Mormons, too). I would highly recommend it.

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Does love exist ?

by caliber in

love exists .

then prove it!

.......only solid, concrete evidence please !

streets76

There is a chemical reaction that happens inside our brains from time to time. It can become particularly strong with the onset of puberty.

This chemical reaction is what we have come to refer to as "love."

That's all I know about it, but I think it explains the subject well enough. I also think it has something to do with evolution.

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Jehovah's Witness here.

by nimzo in

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i have a question about my religion.

when people turn apostate, why do they seem kinda... weird.

they turn back to false teachings and their bible knowledge even proves that.

streets76

Let this be the last word: "The End of Faith" --Sam Harris

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You can't blame The Truth anymore.

by wanderlustguy in

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someone related a story to me a couple of months ago over the last few days it sunk in.

there was a time it was so easy for me to get mad and angry and virtually meditate on how the organization systematically stripped me and so many of my loved ones of their lifethe life that could have been.

real love was replaced with a recipe of what love is, putting god first and then defining what the perception of god was supposed to be, to include a group of men directed by a corporation that decides who we can or cannot speak to, as well as who we can or cannot love in the common sense of the word.