Superfine Apostate

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  Observations about dubs as people...

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

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  i was thinking back on some of the people i knew growing up, as well as my own family - many of whom are dubs... tell me what your own experiences are of these kind of people, did you notice a large prevalence of these types of people in the congs you attended:.

  1. health nuts: into all sorts of alternative health theories like iridology, reflexology, homeopathy etc?

  2. get rich quick folk: always getting involved in this scheme or that, this business or that - especially pyramid type things?.

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  amway and herbalife.
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  WHY I believe there is a GOD..listen up...poster named "parakeet"

  by dirtyknections in

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  simply put...i believe there is a god..and his name is yhwh aka jehovah..and his son yeshua or yehoshua aka jesus..died for our sins as a propitiatory ransom sacrifice to antone for mankinds sins..i therefore am also a creationist...i do not believe science contradicts the bible...rather i think it agrees and compliments it rather well.. .

  i am creating this post in response to comments made in my last post by the poster named "parakeet"... i just thought i should explain myself before he/she starts deducting praise from me (see my last post)..lol...alright here goes.

  i grew in a small town in florida called macclenny..population- 20,000.. my mother and her family were raised in this quaint little city...my family on my mothers side has been in this city since the early 1920's...ok...lemme me get to the meat of the story.. .

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  well, ok, so you heard footsteps and your parents told you they saw things. i don't belive it, but that's alright.
  
  but how the hell do you get from hearing footsteps to "there's a god called jehovah and jesus is his son"?
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  Graduation and elders meeting!

  by why??? in

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  hi everyone, i'm not new here just haven't posted in a while.

  for those who remember me i'm graduating from college on wednesday!!!!

  i'm very happy but there's still a dark cloud (pardon the dramatic-ness) i am still with my non-jw boyfriend of almost three years and i've let my parents know that we want to get married (next month) and they went and told the elders(they did it kinda behind my back) who now want to meet and talk with me!

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  there's absolutely no need to ever talk to the elders. postponing a meeting is fairly easy. blacklist all the elders' phone numbers and if they still get to you, tell them you are too busy with graduation/wedding preparations/whatever right now and you'd call them when you need them (i told them so a while ago, haven't heard from them since).
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  For all those Football lovers-Euro 2008 on its way

  by justhuman in

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  i know in this forum we have some football lovers.

  so are you guys getting ready for the euro 2008?

  fill up the fridge with beers, send the wife way for a few weeks, call your friends to watch the match.... this is what i call a mans-world.... as for our national team the champions for 2004 we hope the best for them.

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  i'm no football fan, but where i live all the cars have flags of their favourite team. plus the austrian one of course. which often means, cars drive around with two austrian flags. or one austrian and one turkish or german flag.
  
  hopefully the hooligans stay home. the rest of you, welcome to austria.
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  Jesus Saves

  by Farkel in

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  prove it.. farkel.

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  i also save... no, to be honest, i actually never save, i spend the money as i get it. just can't stop it.
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  Hobbies post Witness-still feel guilty about the time and expense involved?

  by Thechickennest in

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  my dear wife says she has a hard time investing time and money towards hobbies.

  my wife was born in to the organization.

  she says she still has a difficult time not feeling guilty about activities that would take one away from the preaching work, even though she has made her exit from the organization a long time ago.

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  i never felt guilty about spending time/money for hobbies. always played in a band and spent my money on instruments/gear, went to concerts even when they were on a meeting day and with few exceptions never turned in more than 8 hours a month.
  
  that's the only thing i sometimes felt guilty about, not writing a big number on the time-slip.
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  Atheist in U.S. poll 4% ------ Atheist on JWD 90 % ?

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  ( 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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  who said the bible "alone". but it always depended heavily on "the bible". or, better said, authoritative scripture, no matter if it was called bible back then and no matter if many of the scriptures they used back then are not even available anymore or where not included into any canon.
  
  and you bet they took stories like the flood and talking donkeys literally.
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  What do you know you know?

  by zensim in

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  i have been inspired to ask this question by narkissos' thread: "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  " (et al).. whilst my question is primarily directed to you nark, i want to open this up to everyone else also.. nark - from your opening ramblings (and i mean that in the most endearing way) on "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  ", and from other recent posts, i get the feeling that you are asking these questions because you know something and you are trying to grasp onto what you know.

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  i know many things, but i also know that i have no basis to be sure that what i know is actually true.
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  Atheist in U.S. poll 4% ------ Atheist on JWD 90 % ?

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  1. watchtower
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  ( 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.

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  burn, i've read your comments (and we've debated earlier), but it's clear that "mainstream" christianity only until "recently" - which surprisingly pretty much coincides with it's loss of power - narrowed it's dependency on "the bible". which makes it hard to believe, that this is an "authentic" view of things.
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  Atheist in U.S. poll 4% ------ Atheist on JWD 90 % ?

  by caliber in

  1. watchtower
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  ( 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.

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  > There's a third option you didn't mention.
  you are right, there are still other options, that have nothing to do with the bible at all.
  
  > Some of the largest denominations today, recognize that the Bible is not all inspired. They recogize that men wrote it and that not all of it is what God said. The violent things attributed to God? Some guy said so. That doesn't make it so.
  that's exactly what i mean. a self-service buffet for many tastes. this way the bible becomes irrelevant and random. so the bible says god is violent? so what. so the bible says jesus lived? so what...
  
  > An agnostic is not an atheist.
  most atheists are agnostic and most agnostics are atheist. it's pretty much the same thing, different angle. of course an agnostic can also be a theist or deist, but that's rather the exception.