I have asked the same question over and over and never gotten an answer. Good luck! My JW's answer was, "Well, just because the Bible doesn't say that God created other people doesn't mean he didn't". I wonder if that's a WTBTS sanctioned answer?
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Were Adam and Eve the only humans created?
by heyfea inmy husband asked me a questions that kind of stumped me for a moment.
he asked, in genesis, when cain killed abel, and god, as punishment cursed him and drove him from the land, making him a restless wanderer, why did cain say to god that the punishment was too hard; that anyone who found him would kill him?
who was going to kill him?
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What inspired your avatar and your screen name?
by Princess Daisy Boo intell me the story behind the picture.... why is mr flipper mr flipper?
how much do you look like zappa, jk666?
and gopher - are you really a little old man?
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Mrs. Witness
Well, I don't have an avatar because I just haven't taken the time to figure it out, but if I did, I think it'd be either a big middle finger or Marge Simpson. I can't decide.
I call myself Mrs. Witness because hubby is a gung-ho JW and I am not and I thought it was ironic to call myself that. I love irony & sarcasm. Also, when I think of my screen name, I say it like Tim Conway used to say "Missus-a-Whiiiggins" on the Carol Burnett show, so it sounds like "Missus-a-Whiiitness".
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Mrs. Witness
I've been checking in off & on and I've noticed that nvr & purplesofa aren't here much...anyone know anything?
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My Struggle.............
by AK - Jeff init has dawned on me that i have not become the christian that i thought i would when leaving the jw religion.. i don't deny the power of faith, i retain faith in something beyond just the here and now, or maybe i retain credulous belief that way?
i have discovered that my religion was bad - then i discovered that the 'holy writ' upon which it is founded is pretty leaky also.
then i discovered that most "holy writings" are just as porous.
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AK Jeff, it sounds like you have gotten to where I am. I was never a big religious person anyway, but after arguing the Holey Biblee with Mr. Witness, I started to really read it, I read books about it, read books about the Gnostic gospels, I read "The Gospel of Judas", read about the apocrypha, I read a really good book about who wrote the pentateuch, read things online, and all the time I kept remembering when I was in high school reading Greek mythology then reading the bible and reading about the Egyptian pantheon and thinking "who's to say that the Greeks & Egyptians had it wrong and the bible-thumpers have it right"? (OK, that is possibly the longest runon sentence I have ever written...sorry)
Once I admitted outloud to hubby that I didn't believe the bible (I was strangely afraid to say it out loud...), I was free. I felt airy. But then I thought "shouldn't I believe in something?". So I looked at Buddhism...seemed like something I could get into...chanting, meditating, cool. I read two books about it and realized that there were unbelievable stories in that religion, too.
Once I realized that, I realized that regardless of whether or not any religion has the answer, I alone have to answer for my actions. I alone am responsible for me AND I don't have to answer to anyone but myself FOR me...there is no higher power, body of elders, or group of gossipy grammas that I owe anything to. I owe my mom & dad thanks for giving birth to me and that is IT, man. I am "good for goodness sake". To me, that is better than being "good" because a religion told me to be "good"...and they defined what's good...
Why are we here? Why do bad things happen to good people? Those are questions I don't worry about. I just live my life the best I can and when I get to the end, I'll deal with what happens...and if nothing happens, then I'm done.
Peace...
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help me choose
by Hortensia ini really like the queen as my avatar, and i think it's cute when someone calls me queenie.
and she has so many photos available to express any mood.
but i have a new nickname now, twit #3, and i'd really like to create an avatar in that spirit, but don't have any ideas.
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Mrs. Witness
If you're good friends with purplesofa, maybe she would draw something up for you using "twit #3"...
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HOLY PUBLISHING COMPANY BATMAN!!!
by nomoreguilt inok, so, here i was at the local borders book store the other day.
i had some time on my hands and decided to look up some forbidden books to read.
on a whim, i by chance did a search of the wtbts in the search mode on their computers.
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Mrs. Witness
All 7 volumes of Studies sell on Amazon for $78.88
The Divine Plan of the Ages is available for $13.33
AND, Millions Now Living will Never Die is on Amazon for $9.99.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
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Beauty out of Neglect (Pictures)
by Bumble Bee inon my travels this morning, i drove past an abandonded farm.
i've driven past here before, and stop there every may/june and pick the sweetest smelling lilacs.
something compelled me today to turn around and go back and do some exploring and take pictures.
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Mrs. Witness
Great composition! I suppose you are an Ansel Adams fan? But, then, who isn't?
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My kid comes home from the meeting worried about the devil. I'm not happy.
by jambon1 inthis was one of the many reasons that i left the org.
i just could not agree with some of the beliefs & ideas that kids are exposed to at the hall.
having not been raised in the org, i never had any idea what effect it all had on kids.
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When my JW said that he saw meetings in my 2-year-old's future and would not discontinue reading the f'd up JW kids bible with my 11-year-old, I threatened divorce. I am fierce when it comes to my kids and no matter how much I may love my husband, I am sworn that there's no way in Hell that my kids will be raised JW. I've seen what it's done to my hubby and his sister (they both were diagnosed bi-polar and hubby was a self-destructive alcoholic).
If I were you, I'd put my foot down. Your kid is too important to have the JW's play their stupid mind tricks on.
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Married to a brother or sister (semantics?)
by carla inno offense to the lady who posted and i hope she finds the real truth about the jw's and her husband comes with her at the same time.
now that that is out of the way, is it just me and not having the mentality of a jw but i find it kind of, well, just icky thinking of spouses refering to each other as brother and sister.
i'm sure it is just my worldly thinking here.
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No offense either, but who knows carla, maybe it "helps" some of them... Ewwwwwwwww!
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Concrete Reasons for Being a JW (or member of any religion)
by Mrs. Witness inhere is a question i've been wanting to ask hubby: "why do you want to be a jw?
" and i don't want ethereal answers like "they have the truth" "everlasting life" and other such nonsensical ramblings.
i am not a member of any organized religion and i don't see the appeal.. can anyone answer the question with a concrete reason?.
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Thanks for all your replies.
Layla, great list.
Mr. Flipper, you make me laugh!