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  The WTS Almost Cost Me My Life

  by VoodooChild in

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  in may of 1999 i attempted suicide by over dosing on medication.

  i thank goddess & god every day that i didn't succeed.

  at that time i was a member of the jehovah's witnesses cult.

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  Why'd you become a witness if you were gay?
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  To Babyboo

  by finalcall in

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  hello babyboo.

  i was a jw for 38 years and was blind to many of the things that go on inside.

  i never really began to see or acknowledge these things until i was on my way out.

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  If you're not part of the JW organization, what are you part of? According to Matthew 25:31-46, only those who were actively supporting Christ's "Brothers" will be considered sheep. How are you supporting his brothers? Who are his brothers?
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  The Purpose of Life

  by radar in

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  every living thing as an overwhelming desire to live and reproduce itself.

  when life began, why did it want to reproduce itself behond its own existence?.

  any takers?.

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  The only way I can explain the alacrity of living things towards reproduction is through the programming that their creator engineered within them. By creating mankind with strong mating instincts, for example, the creator would insure that the human race would never die out.

  Through a materialist perspective solely, I find it a mystery as to how a desire for reproduction could arise, especially since it would have to be accidental, haphazard, random, blind, a sheer mistake.
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  Anyone up on witness dogma?

  by FrightMare in

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  anyone here know if witnesses are allowed to serve in the military?

  i know they're not allowed to fight in war, but are they allowed to be chefs for soldiers, for example.. when cornelius became christian, the bible doesn't say that he left his military career.. furthermore, matthew 5:41: "if someone in authority impresses you for a mile, go with him two miles.".

  any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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  fredhall, are you a witness?
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  Anyone up on witness dogma?

  by FrightMare in

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  anyone here know if witnesses are allowed to serve in the military?

  i know they're not allowed to fight in war, but are they allowed to be chefs for soldiers, for example.. when cornelius became christian, the bible doesn't say that he left his military career.. furthermore, matthew 5:41: "if someone in authority impresses you for a mile, go with him two miles.".

  any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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  Anyone here know if witnesses are allowed to serve in the military? I know they're not allowed to fight in war, but are they allowed to be chefs for soldiers, for example.

  When cornelius became christian, the bible doesn't say that he left his military career.

  Furthermore, Matthew 5:41: "if someone in authority impresses you for a mile, go with him two miles."

  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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  straight from the horse's mouth.........

  by jeffory in

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  the horse in this case is district overseer aimee .

  commenting on what brooklyn is doing about the wtc tradgedy he said that after the initial lock down, [ done because of security concerns due to lack of police in areas as they were all down town] as if that excuses it, they are now providing assistance in the form of a shuttle for fireman from brooklyn to the downtown area as well as the providing of cutting torches and equiptment which may be needed.. he made it sound as if they were actively doing something but i think it was merely an offer as opposed to an act done.

  i am sure their pr machine will have a glowing report of their activity in the days ahead.. he also said that brooklyn bethel has provided all po's in us with a sermon outline incorporating this tradgedy in order to give "hope to others".

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  I'm confused Jeff. How would you know what a district overseer said?
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  To Babyboo

  by finalcall in

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  hello babyboo.

  i was a jw for 38 years and was blind to many of the things that go on inside.

  i never really began to see or acknowledge these things until i was on my way out.

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  From your post alone, you seem narrow-minded. What if you were simply in a screwed up congregation? Would that mean that every other is likewise? You criticize the actions of some, but not the doctrine. What do you think about the doctrines of the jay dubs?
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  Evolution/Creation

  by FrightMare in

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  a professor is debating with one of his students, a christian: .

  professor: "let me explain the problem science has with jesus christ.

  " the atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.

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  My thoughts about the "debate":

  I love the caricatures. The professor jumps in his class's face without provocation. He is described with such evocative phrases as "The elderly man runs his bony fingers through his thinning hair and turns to the smirking, student audience." (His bony fingers and baldness are described twice, just to make sure we get the point.) He shouts at his student for no reason at all, then sticks his face in front of the student. He's always smiling, smirking, and generally acting like a comic book villain. But when reacting to the other student, he sucks, hisses, freezes, gets angry, "goes toxic", etc. One wonders how in the world he ever got his Ph.D when he obviously has never received any criticism in his life and doesn't know how to deal with it.

  The heroic Christian, of course, gets described with neutral words like "explains", "replies", "continues", "looks around". Unlike the prof, his physical features are never described, except that he grins once.

  But the most salient feature of the story is that neither the professor nor any of his students have an adequate grasp of the most basic concepts of science. What kind of idiot is this professor, whose idea of science is that if you can't smell it, taste it, feel it, hear it, or see it, then it doesn't exist? If that's the case, then what happened to electrons, cells, Newton's laws of motion, living dinosaurs, black holes, photons, magnetism, infrared light, and general relativity? For that matter, what about abstract concepts like "harmonic chords" or "Thursday"?

  Science isn't about what we can perceive with our five senses. If that were true we wouldn't need scientists, because most of us already HAVE those five senses. It's about organizing facts about the known world into descriptions that can explain the way things happen. These descriptions make predictions which can be tested, repeated, and falsified if they're wrong.

  Of course, science can't actually prove that the professor has a brain. Just because every human or animal body that has ever been dissected and analyzed has always had a brain; just because countless experiments have demonstrated that the brain controls an organism's ability to move and speak and reason; just because an animal with a damaged brain becomes an inanimate mass of carbon... these things are hardly conclusive proof. What science can do is make predictions with confidence and high accuracy; it can prove things beyond reasonable doubt but it can't prove anything with 100% certainty. The fact that it is able to change and correct mistakes is part of what makes it a powerful tool.

  If the professor had any kind of clue what he was on about, he could have explained all this. Of course, the problem isn't with the professor, who is after all only a fictional character. The problem is that the author of the story has never heard of or simply doesn't understand the scientific method. It's easy to make up little stories where the opposition is always an evil overlord who doesn't know how to argue and your side always wins. It's also easy to win at chess when you control both sides of the board.

  Oh, and one final point...

  OTHER STUDENT: "Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the absence of morality. Is there such a thing as injustice? No. Injustice is the absence of justice. Is there such a thing as evil?" The Christian pauses. "Isn't evil the absence of good?"

  No, evil isn't the absence of good. An empty universe would be devoid of both good AND evil. A universe with no life or intelligence would not be good or evil. "Good" and "evil", assuming they exist, are not passive activities or "absence" of something else. A professor of philosophy should have seen through that immediately. But he doesn't because he, like the story's author, is completely out of his depth.
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  Evolution/Creation

  by FrightMare in

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  a professor is debating with one of his students, a christian: .

  professor: "let me explain the problem science has with jesus christ.

  " the atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.

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  A fine post indeed Alan.

  I'm assuming you're an atheist because most here are, that's what it seems to me at least. If that's true of you, I would like to know what your take of good and evil is, especially since the common consensus among the high priests of materialist reductionism insist that free will does not exist.
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  Eye for Eye, Life for Life????

  by Cassiline in

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  in light of the recent events, and all the different viewpoints of the members of this forum.

  i would like to ask what are your thoughts of exodus 21:23,24?

  just would like to know what your views of these scriptures are?.

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  FrightMare

  ohhhhhhh, ok, thanks julien.