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  A lurker says hello

  by Madame in

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  r. f. wondered how many lurkers there are on the board.

  i don't know the answer, but i will admit that i since a few years am one of them.

  i read here almost every day.. like many others here i am an ex-jw, left the organisation about 25 years ago and never regretted it.. .

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  hi madame welcome, I'm also sort of new here.
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  Time and Distance - a Guy Thing?

  by compound complex in

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  hi guys and gals,.

  this is probably a really dumb question, but are there others out there who measure time and distance when they travel - anywhere?

  i understand the occasional setting of the travel odometer to check your auto's mileage.

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  coco not a dumb question at all.

  This is probably a really dumb question, but are there others out there who measure time and distance when they travel - anywhere?

  I always do when I'm cycling but never when I'm driving.
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  Let's welcome quietlyleaving.

  by nvrgnbk in

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  neat nick by the way.

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  ak-jeff, Leslie, Dagney, Warlock (hahahha)

  Brigid, Twitch - I certainly shall

  Hi Anony-Mouse, cellist, free2think.

  thanks all for the warm welcome
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  Science and Religion.

  by Blueblades in

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  religion and science, science and religion, so often it's portrayed as a fight to the death, no holds barred.

  does there have to be a winner?

  i think there's a lot of room for comfortable dialogue, lots of areas with interesting questions of overlap.

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  From a personal POV I have little if any conflict - putting it simply for me, science is mostly concerned with 'how' and 'when' whereas religion is more about 'who' and 'why'

  good point sad emo.

  A related point is that having knowledge (religious or scientific) is somehow seen as investing the possessor with authority and ownership. I suppose when we come to see the gaining of knowlegde as something for sharing and not as something for owning then we'll begin to make some headway imo.
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  Vacation, wonderful life, lurkers beware :)

  by DeusMauzzim in

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  2. friends

  dear all,.

  this is my first vacation free of the borg, and i would like to share some of my feelings:.

  university (the evil place where you learn critical thinking) has just stopped, and after a semester of hard and succesful study it feels like sliding into a warm bath.

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  Deus Mauzzim

  (of the Creator-of-his-own-world-class)
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  What jobs have you done as. . .

  by Lady Lee in

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  ok we all have stories of "window-cleaners" but some of us had other kinds of work - that you got payed for (slave labor excepted).

  so what kinds of things have you done?

  what did you enjoy?

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  Window cleaning, domestic cleaning, child minding, receptionist work, secretary, bookkeeping,
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  WTS hasn't corrected mistakes in NWT on John 20:28.....

  by A-Team in

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  2. bible

  nwt scriptures: john 20:28-29 .

  28 in answer thomas said to him: my lord and my god!

  29 jesus said to him: because you have seen me have you believed?

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  Wayne

  I am on these sites because every JW I ever met is the person we should all be. They raise their children to be honest and good by example.

  Glad you appreciate their story because it a convincing one, well packaged and presented and above all it's a very watertight story - too violent for me though - but each to their own.

  The disgrunteled people on these sites have a beef of one type or another, and from what I see they haven't swapped their JW belief for anything else. Or they're not telling what it is.

  For myself I don't need or want to be in a particular story but understand and accept that others do. I enjoy the freedom of seeing things from the perspective of lots of different perspectives. Do we need to have one set of beliefs?

  sincerely and respectfully

  quietlyleaving
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  WELCOME BLINDBUTNOWISEE !

  by juni in

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  2. scandals

  welcome to the forum!

  excellent first "thread" about jws and the use of blood.

  it is amazing isn't it how they put out these "doctrines" and then give the disclaimer, " but do according to your conscience.

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  Glad to have you with us blindbutnowisee.

  And welcome too, to Mary. Thanks for sharing your story.
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  Did anyone here ever make the truth their own?

  by slimboyfat in

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  only encouraging comments please.

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  slim.

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  Looking back I don't think I ever did but definitely thought everyone else had

  It wasn't for lack of trying though

  Not sure if you'd consider that an encouraging comment
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  Spiritual Self-Assessment

  by purplesofa in

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  worth taking a look at:.

  http://www.martycrouch.com/spiritualassessment.html.

  spiritual self-assessment.

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  JamesThomas

  I'm not sure what the hell a "spirit" is, and I don't much care. So, we may be talking apples and oranges here, and this probably can't help but confuse further comment, but I'll go ahead anyway. Fool that I am.

  thanks for the laugh