I was hoping for more details, maybe an excerpt, from the Awake in question. Nevermind.
I'm with the others--rape is not caused by pent-up sexual desire, it's caused by a desire to dominate. Thinking it's a sexual outlet is going down the road of blaming the woman for her rape because she dressed too sexy.
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Masturbation is a Gift From Jehovah (Stupid Awake 11/06)
by metatron indoes that title sound blasphemous?
well, i'm sorry if it does - but who ever imagines what the world would be like if sexual urges .
could not be satisfied by oneself?
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It's a well known fact that the Watchtower is owned by a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as the Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet trianually at a secret country mansion in Colorado known as The Meadows. In the Pentavirate is the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothchilds, and Colonel Sanders, before he went tits up.
Oh, I hated the Colonel... with his wee, BEADY EYES! And that SMUG LOOK on his face! "Ooh you're gonna buy my chicken, oooohhh." He puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, smartass! -
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666 newspaper article--Do you think JWs paid for it?
by Atlantis indon't you wonder who paid for this newspaper article?.
please note the next to the last paragraph.. http://www.panaynews.com.ph/archives/0831/world.htm.
cheers!
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My theory is that this is a podunk crappy third-world newspaper in the Phillipines, and either the editor of the paper or the webmaster is a Witness and puts that stuff in there. If you click around you will see that the journalistic quality is barely higher than Watchtower and Awake level even on the "real" news stories.
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Masturbation is a Gift From Jehovah (Stupid Awake 11/06)
by metatron indoes that title sound blasphemous?
well, i'm sorry if it does - but who ever imagines what the world would be like if sexual urges .
could not be satisfied by oneself?
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I'm a bit confused. Metatron, can you please explain what you're talking about?
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Your opinion: Are those raised as Witnesses more likely to end up godless?
by under_believer inwas thinking about this the other day and wanted to get your (yes: your) opinion.
i find myself slipping farther and farther down the agnostic scale in my thinking--it's possible that i'll end up an atheist.
my suspicion is that because i was raised being taught that all other religions are false, that i came to the conclusion that if the witnesses don't have "the truth" then nobody does.
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Thank you for the answers so far--I actually find them to be somewhat comforting. Nice play on my handle, Narkissos...
To clarify, the question I meant to ask was "Are ex-Witnesses who were raised as Witnesses more likely to be godless than ex-Witnesses who converted to the Watchtower?"
But all answers on this subject, whether they answer that question or not, are appreciated. veradico, in particular, highlights the direction I've been going lately--definitely nihilistic and perhaps slipping dangerously close to classic Descartean Idealism... wherein the only assertion that cannot be doubted is "cogito, ergo sum."
I can come up with all kinds of plausible scenarios that allow for the existence of a Creator (though not the vain, silly biblegod we find in the Old Testament Bible as we have it today--sorry YHWH) but what I can't find in any of them is verifiability, falsifiability, or indeed proof that such a Creator actually wants something from me. -
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Your opinion: Are those raised as Witnesses more likely to end up godless?
by under_believer inwas thinking about this the other day and wanted to get your (yes: your) opinion.
i find myself slipping farther and farther down the agnostic scale in my thinking--it's possible that i'll end up an atheist.
my suspicion is that because i was raised being taught that all other religions are false, that i came to the conclusion that if the witnesses don't have "the truth" then nobody does.
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Was thinking about this the other day and wanted to get your (yes: your) opinion. I find myself slipping farther and farther down the agnostic scale in my thinking--it's possible that I'll end up an atheist.
My suspicion is that because I was raised being taught that all other religions are false, that I came to the conclusion that if the Witnesses don't have "The Truth" then nobody does. At this point I gotta say, I don't see any good arguments to convince me of God's existence, and it's hard for me to imagine any.
On the other hand, I see a lot of ex-Witnesses who were Witness converts going back to their previous religion, or a new one.
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666 newspaper article--Do you think JWs paid for it?
by Atlantis indon't you wonder who paid for this newspaper article?.
please note the next to the last paragraph.. http://www.panaynews.com.ph/archives/0831/world.htm.
cheers!
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What the hell? Something really hinky is going on there. Check out the daily text.
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After the way they were treated in seeker4's thread by a couple of rabid, stereotypical, caricature apostate assholes, I'd be surprised if they ever came back again.
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BREAKING NEWS: BUILDING ON FIRE IN MANHATTAN
by What-A-Coincidence incheck the news.. they say terrorism isn't related.
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/sigh.....
Folks, it doesn't look to be anything more sinister than some retard in a Cessna crashing into a building. These things happen. Also--let's not make the mistake of reading too much into specific dates and drawing parallels. Most of us made that mistake once before, remember? -
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Hardships and Assemblies
by Sunspot ini just left a post on the "pa convention" thread concerning some of the hardships and difficulties that jws had to (or some here still have to?
) endure just to either get to a convention or what they go through after getting to the convention.. having to trot around from designated doors to the restrooms (rather than being ordered to use the door they told you to) no matter where your family was sitting..... or having you and your family have to climb way too many stairs on the last upper tier to find seats.....while plenty of empty seats remained on the ground floor that were never used that whole day?.
or the designated wts-regulation-sized cooler you had to lug into the stadium because you weren't allowed to leave the site to get a snack or a drink?.
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Thanks, XJW4EVR. I was hoping someone would post their non-Witness assembly experiences, for comparison.