Superfine Apostate

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  Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories

  by kurtbethel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .

  quick!

  hide it from your children!.

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  Superfine Apostate

  i prefer this book: http://www.ferkelbuch.de/ (click the "read the book" link on the left, then open both text and illustrations)
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  watchtowers at my threrapist's office

  by loosie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i go to my threrapist's office, while waiting in the waiting room, i look for wts and awakes.

  when i find them i write on them a website either this one or silent lambs or i just write "this group is a cult" across the front of it.. one visit i found like 12 wts.

  i didn't have time to scribble a note on all of them before my therapist called me in.. well this week.

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  Superfine Apostate

  a few weeks ago i stayed in an apartment and found an awake magazine with the front cover removed... nice spiritual guerilla warware strategy, but i still recognized it right away.
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  Finding Faith

  by Ima Apostate in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many of you ex-jw kids were able to believe in mainstream christianity after leaving the borg?

  within the last year, i have opened up to getting to know god again.

  what's funny is that when i prayed for truth and to know god, i knew and had a real feeling in my heart that i was getting closer to something real, but there was still a voice going, "hey, it's me jehovah, and you have rejected me!".

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  Superfine Apostate

  i did believe in custom-buildt christianity after stopping believing in the watchtower - for a while. i even said some prayers to jesus. strangely he (just like his father) never responded. so i tried satan, still no luck. which is one of the reasons why i chose to spend my time with more useful things than talking to invisible wizards - and pretty much anything is more useful, even doing nothing at all.
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  I got my discharge from the Army National Guard today

  by Bring_the_Light in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  wow, getting mail from the department of the army is a scary moment nowadays.

  it wasn't certified mail, but i still had to stop and breathe before i could open it.

  turns out its just my honorable discharge papers and certificate.

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  Superfine Apostate

  as if military fights for freedom. military fights for whatever it's told to fight for.
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  Atheist in U.S. poll 4% ------ Atheist on JWD 90 % ?

  by caliber in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ( one recent post indicated this 90% figure) .

  i don't wish to debate the pro's and con's of atheism, just help me understand your personal.

  reasonings for this huge difference in figures.

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  Superfine Apostate

  fundamentalism is faith in it's purest form. fundies build their lives upon their faith. every single move is faith-oriented. a bible-under-the-arm-christian who goes by the letter might be viewed as fundamentalist by liberal jesus-loves-you-christians but in the end the former is more honest, more true to his belief.
  
  now if someone, who knows religion in it's purest form - which usually coincides with it's most horrible form - finds out that it's all full of rubbish - and this is far from being a rapid process, it may take years and decades full of doubt, anger, depression and sleepless nights to come to this conclusion - you can't just sell that someone your next best religious flavour.
  
  if you think, the bible is true to the letter, you can't love god. the bible's paints a monster of a god. you can't possible like, less worship such a god - a mass-murdering, anger-laden, nationalist, unjust, completely insane maniac.
  
  if you think, the bible should not be taken literally, well... what's left for your christian faith? what's the base? if you just pick some verses about love, you might as well take some humanist literature and drop the bible and it's sick superhero.
  
  if you read the bible, you can't believe in it anymore. if you drop the bible, you can invent your own god, but you know it's just invented. which makes you pretty much anything between a deist and an agnostic. once you turned agnostic you might as well call yourself an atheist. because if you can't know anything about a god, why would you believe in one?
  
  the USA have a high religious tendency as of lately. i heard it's not allways good to declare yourself an atheist publicly (and why would one do that anyway). and stats always lie.
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  demons, spirit creatures

  by megaflower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do any believe that we are infulenced by these creatures.

  the wts would give talkes about the demons saying, do not talk out loud about things that bother you.

  they will know your weakness but they are not able to read your mind.

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  Superfine Apostate

  your PS3 is full of demons, but you need a HDMI cable to be fully influenced.
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  demons, spirit creatures

  by megaflower in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do any believe that we are infulenced by these creatures.

  the wts would give talkes about the demons saying, do not talk out loud about things that bother you.

  they will know your weakness but they are not able to read your mind.

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  Superfine Apostate

  demons only exist in movies and computer games. so do angels, trolls and fairies. and gods, btw.
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  Bizarre Foods

  by Layla33 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have any of you seen the show, "bizarre foods with andrew zimmern"?

  for some reason i have become a huge fan of this show and i am always interested in what kind of things people all over the world eat and how much of it i would actually even think of eating.. what is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

  and what was your response when you ate it?.

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  Superfine Apostate

  chicken talons in vinegar
  fish and chips
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  Stop buying things made in China

  by joelbear69 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  reasons.. 1. china has a horrible human rights record.. 2. they are evaporating the us economy.. stop buying.

  tell your store manager you won't buy their products..

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  Superfine Apostate

  china would give a damn. the world is big enough, even without the usa.
  
  btw. referring to the usa as "the worlds greatest democracy" is kinda funny. while it's called a democratic republic (NOT a democracy!), i wonder who is represented in that republic.
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  High incidence of demonic activity.

  by chicken little in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone wondered about the large numbers of jewish people in the 1st centuary that were under demon control?

  the jews were very much warned to keep clear of demons and any occult practises.

  i find it odd then that there are so many people coming to jesus with this problem.

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  Superfine Apostate

  the JWs give the impression that the average jew back then was highly educated, studied the bible daily and was just waiting for the messiah to come. apart from the "demons" (*cough*epi*cough*lepsy*cough*), where did all the prostitutes and boozehounds that jesus mingled with come from? and you'd also wonder why they were herding pigs when they were not allowed to eat pork. but then again - it would be a even more boring story if you'd left away demonized pigs and drunk b1tches.