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  The Bible - God's Word or Man's? - What Convinces You?

  by sweet pea in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  having believed the whole bible, hook, line and sinker all these years i get the impression many of you have come to the conclusion that we should take it with a pinch of salt and not hold to it so dogmatically.

  and some possibly believe in it just as much as you did when you were a witness.

  to save me some time please, lovely people, as i am very lazy - could you share with me why you do or don't believe in it - what evidence there is either way and if there are any particular books that you found helpful in coming to your conclusions?

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  catbert

  I wish I had a reset button on the back of my head that would clear out all the programmed superstitions from my childhood.
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  Skeptics Guide to the Universe

  by catbert in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  do any of you listen to the "skeptics guide to the universe" podcast?.

  http://www.theskepticsguide.org/.

  its a great podcast that encourages critical thinking.

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  Perry DeAngelis was married to a Jehovah's Witness.

  Perry died recently and was one of the founders of the SGU (Skeptics Guide to the Universe)
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  Skeptics Guide to the Universe

  by catbert in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  do any of you listen to the "skeptics guide to the universe" podcast?.

  http://www.theskepticsguide.org/.

  its a great podcast that encourages critical thinking.

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  catbert

  Do any of you listen to the "Skeptics Guide to the Universe" podcast?

  http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

  Its a great podcast that encourages critical thinking. I recommend it.
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  JW's Are The Key to Survival

  by proplog2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is an elaboration of a comment i made on gills post about the demise of jw's as the years pass.

  gill suggested that humans have survived turmoil in the past.

  but our world is different.

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  When things get really bad, won't the guys with guns be the most successful at survival? Witnesses will be prey for the predators. Known to be pacifists. Easy pickings.
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  Are ex-JW still gullible or serpent-like?

  by BEROEAN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just wondering if ex-jws find it hard to trust others since their bad experience or are they still gullble souls?

  just wondering because some of the stories i read about past experiences are off the charts!

  some of you, your childhoods, your parents are seriously jacked up!

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  catbert

  Beroean, Do you believe there is a God and that his name is Jehovah and that he has a visible organization on earth that is called "Jehovahs Witnesses"? Do you believe the "Faithful and Discreet Slave" is actually inspired by this God, or are the FDS just bible interpreters?
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  OK, so let's test the Creationism advocates out here.............

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i responce to this post .

  i'll start it off, then someone else give them a different challenge if you can think of any.. please give definitive examples that by evolution, a species has changed into something else.

  give two separate findings by scientists, and it can't include any comments like "so we believe", "so we conclude that", or "the evidence shows that there could have been".....the wts has those copyrighted.. try and give un-doctored photographic proof, where possible, etc.

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  If you believe a God created life on earth, you must at least believe that he/she/it is experimenting with "natural selection", survival of the fittest.
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  WHAT IS JW VIEW ON CREATION OF BACTERIA AND VIRUSES?

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is jw take on this issue?

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  In the New System, when the lion lays down with the lamb, the E. Coli will lay down with the bacteriophage.
  
  http://www.cellsalive.com/phage.htm
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  Jehovah's Witnesses & "worldly" association (sad story)

  by lovelylil in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today a jw friend of mine related this story to me.

  she was at the park with a sister whose husband is an elder.

  the elder's wife had their four year old son, an only child with her.

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  Lots of kids have to deal with sick crap growing up. Trust me, when this kid is in his teens things will change. They changed for me. When I was big enough to block my moms slapping hand and she hurt her wrist, things changed. And now I am just another happy skeptic like many of you! I love my quest for real truth, as do many of you. My mother is still strict JW.
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  THE BIBLE ADVOCATES GENOCIDE?

  by steve2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have biblical apologists satisfactorily explained the blood-drenched biblical passages in which jehovah orders his people to wipe out every living soul - young, old, men, women, child, infirm - in the territory they're told to invade?.

  who needs bin laden when you've got jehovah?

  or is jehovah excused because he's truly mightier, like, because he's the creator he can call the shots, no matter how much and who's blood is shed?

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  http://www.evilbible.com/
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  AWAKE! Urges Questions on United Nations

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. current

  dear friends,.

  i am hearing regularly now, from local jws and jwd, that the governing body says the end is -- this time for sure -- near or soon or at hand.

  though the following awake!

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  Where does Islam fit into JW prophecy? Seems like Islam is a key player in all of our futures now. Is Islam just lumped into the "false religion" group?