"over the years i have come to know and know of many ex-christians, most of whom were well-churched, their numbers including former ministers, apologists, missionaries, theologians etc.
why should such people leave christianity?
these people are the best versed in christianity and yet leave despite so much personal and professional investment in their religion, enjoyment of their time as believing christians and social pressures to stay.
Why do so many sincere Christians leave Christianity?
For me its not the concept of Christianity that is unappealing, it's associating with his followers many of which are judgemental and self righteous. As a former dub I've had a bellyful of that already.
i am not a jehovah's witness.
i am a physician, training in pathology.
in that capacity, it is my duty to perform autopsies on patients who die in the hospital where i work.
There is no scriptural reason not to have an autopsy. Witnesses believe that when you are dead you are dead.
scientists have claimed to have found the missing link between fish and land animals on ellesmere island ,canada.
Dr. Jekyll----is that YOU??!!!Gob smacked by Marys Cheek! No!
the watchtower's cure-all for any injustice or question is to "wait on jehovah".
have you had any experience showing that "waiting on jehovah" is useless??
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I had to wait on Jehovah to have a birthday pressie for 25 bloody years ! I never did get one
Cheers Jehovah
religious people gone wild
title:great video of religious people getting pissed and trying to beat the crap out of people.
jehovah's witnesses, how art thou make my black ass crack up (that's the sub title)
As danny suggested this was staged.
The people def weren't witnesses, the "hello brother" the invite to refeshements and the "sister" telling one of the clowns that he would "go to hell" all point to that.
ok, i was reading the "worst bookstudy book" thread, and it got me thinking about the worst book study groups i went to.
once, my dad was study conductor and the study was held in an elderly sister's home.
there was antique furniture and doilies on the tables.
Some of the other sisters got real crappy about it too because they weren't asked to read... Sigh.
Ah I remember something like this happening at a CBS.
There was a lot of flu going around andall the brothers in the group except me were struck down with it. The Elder had left no contingency plans so we just planned our roles as we went along. As the only one with a penis there it was down to me to ask the questions and i let the girls sort out who would do the closing prayer and reading and there was a right ding dong over that. It was handbags at dawn over who was going to read. The sisters were so keen to take the lead and do something they wouldn't normally do... is this what they mean by "penis envy"?
ok, i was reading the "worst bookstudy book" thread, and it got me thinking about the worst book study groups i went to.
once, my dad was study conductor and the study was held in an elderly sister's home.
there was antique furniture and doilies on the tables.
I once went to a book study group that was held in an MS's house. There were just a few brothers there so I couldn't slack and get away with it, I had to do the prayers, reading and answering up.
Now my accent wasn't local to this group, in fact it was pretty strange and I already had something of a complex about having it. To make matters worse the MS had a teenage daughter (17) and every time I opened my mouth at the study she would giggle. This went on for weeks and no one said anything because it was her dads house. I'd put my hand up to answer, I'd say just one word and then there would be a giggle and I would become very aware of my accent and that I was being laughed at and that would throw me off what I was going to say causing me to be further embarrassed. It was really cheesing me off because I thought she was taking the piss. Eventually I stopped answering up and taking part. This was noticed by the elder who questioned me about it on service one day. When I explained I thought I was being ridiculed he explained to me that it was nothing of the sort. The real reason she giggled was because she had a crush on me, she couldn't help herself even though she'd been spoken to about it by several sisters.
I then had to put up with the giggling until I was moved by the PO
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i start my padi open water scuba diving lessons later this month and i'm really looking forward to it.
anybody here done the course?.
Ha, the wrath of Jehoovah got clamy!
scientists have claimed to have found the missing link between fish and land animals on ellesmere island ,canada.
I missed that link. Is it an APOSTALAXOLOTL?
No, it was this thing that they have called "Austroderobludgersorearse" (jokes wasted on non aussies)
Heres a pic of what they think it might have looked like...
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the maximum penalty for my crimes is 8 years and a potential fine of 5000 pounds!
(must have been evil miss peaches)
Taken from the page mentioned above about strange UK laws.
I guess that rules out Sat night piss ups back home for Slugga and his girly friend
lol
Maybe thats why he moved!
