Why not ask him? He has given hope and shown the real light to so many of us, at great cost to himself. His integrity is beyond reproach. I'm sure he would give an honest reply and explain how he feels. I totally agree with the non-shindig aspect of it, though. I don't think he would be down for getting trashed and talking smack about the WTS.
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the biggest apostafest
by ninja inwhen ray franz finally shuffles off this mortal coil.....(which i hope will not be for many more years) i think there should be the biggest gathering of apostates ever....in thanks to the man who freed the minds of many of us ....i for one will be there come what may.....(unless it's raining....kidding)...franzy....ninja salutes you
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SHOULD A JW BE IVOLVED IN ANY WAY WITH THE OLYMPICS?
by badboy inespecially as the original olympics had pagan connections?
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gloobster
Yes, in the 100 meter Run From The Catholics Sprint.
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What is YOUR bible of choice?
by gloobster inalthough i'm pretty much an atheist, i still like reading the bible.
it's an amazing literary masterwork to say the least.. my question is, after discovering that the new world translation of the wts was poorly translated and altered in ways designed to support their various peculiar doctrines (see john 1:1, etc.
), what bible translation are you all the most fond of?.
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Although I'm pretty much an atheist, I still like reading the bible. It's an amazing literary masterwork to say the least.
My question is, after discovering that the New World Translation of the WTS was poorly translated and altered in ways designed to support their various peculiar doctrines (see John 1:1, etc.), what bible translation are you all the most fond of?
I guess I'm old skool, I like the King James Version.
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Hello Atheists......need advice
by wings inhow do you deal with "no faith"?
what do you put faith in?
how was you transition from belief to non belief?
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gloobster
How do you deal with faith?
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Hi...
by Regehr inhi.... uhh...long time lurker, first time poster.
i'm 23 years old, was raised as a jw and was df'ed about eighteen months ago.
look forward to getting to know some of you!.
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Welcome! Looking forward to reading your posts!
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Are You a Night Owl?
by compound complex in.
i feel at my best and do my best at night .... how about you?.
coco.
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4:06 a.m. CDT post here!
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I've been studying JW for 6 months. Please help..
by fb130 ini'm still trying 2 figure out if this is a pro or anti jw forum but here goes..
i started studying jw 6 months ago & i do feel i'm growing.
i think at the rate things are going i'll b babtised in another 6 months.
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gloobster
Listen to the people on this forum. These are sincere and honest replies. Although we don't know you, there is genuine concern for your future here, something you won't find with Jehovah's Witnesses.
Also, read Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz. He is an ex-member of the governing body of JW's. I'm reading it now, and it is really opening my eyes. Everyone here that's read it will tell you this.
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SOME OF YOU ARE SCARY
by beerose ini can't just give up believing in god,but its understandable when god was taking from you,i hope you find peace gods not in a building!
and he does forgive you when you go to your private place sometimes you can't right a wrong,as long as you add the one you wronged and mean it,we pay all sins through death,christ did that for us!
no i'm not planting seeds!
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sorry I wasn't tring to judge anyone,I just feel a lot of hate coming out of some of the post
I feel that most of the hate in this post is coming out of you. Were you wronged by an atheist? Someone obviously has made you think that atheists are immoral rapists and murders, that we like to kill people "just to see what it feels like". I imagine an equal percentage, if not more, of those who call themselves Christians have done the same. Throughout human history, most of the worst atrocities have been committed in the name of religion, although these are admittedly perversions of these religions. They are usually small, fundamentalist groups.
This by no means applies to all Christians, but I have always felt that a big tenet of many Christian sects, certainly JW's, is that human beings are unable to police themselves, unable to control the impulsive animal instincts that we all have, and thus need to live in fear of God. In other words, if one has no fear of punishment, one has no control over their actions. To me, not performing bad actions out of fear, rather than not performing them out of a compassion for humanity or knowledge of right or wrong, is just as bad as actually performing them. If you don't steal because you think you will get caught, rather than because you don't want to take something you don't own from your fellow man, does that make you less of a thief?
Most of the atheists I have met have been highly intelligent, highly educated, highly compassionate and highly moral people. Maybe you were just angry at something else, something tweaked you off, you had a bad day, I don't know, but I feel very judged by that post. I am an atheist now, and I am proud to say I don't need to live in fear of punishment, from above or from worldly authorities, to keep me in line. I do what I know is right and don't do what I know is wrong.
Please think before you spout hateful generalizations at groups of people.
That said, you really didn't offend me. But please, please, please, be tolerant of other people's beliefs or lack thereof. If there is one thing you should have learned from being a JW, it is that.
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What's the worst thing the JW religion has done to you?
by lfcviking inonce having been a member of the jw religion and now that you have left, what is the worst thing that you realise it has done to you?
i.e has it left you mentally scarred?
has it left you with serious family trouble?
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They have a talent for putting you 'behind the power curve' and you can practically never recover.
Thank you for you response, mustang. I would like to re-emphasize the "Nazi bastards" portion of my post.
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suicide and explosion at Kingdom Hall on Sat. July 27
by kool aid man06 ina bizarre explosion at a church east of kansas city killed one man on saturday afternoon.
atf agents said the explosion at the jehovah's witness' kingdom hall on foggy bottom drive was intentionally set, and that the person who died appears to have committed suicide.
witnesses described large amounts of smoke pouring out of the building, which they said was just recently completed.
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gloobster
It's a very common happening in buildings where someone died.
If not physically, have people not died spiritually in all Kingdom Halls?