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  Do flat earth beliefs deserve respect?

  by azor in

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  what say you.

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  No. Check out Eratosthenes of Cyrene and how he figured out the Earth's surface was curved.
  
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  Why do people need religion in this century?

  by sweetgrass in

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  i think people need religion because of fear.

  fear of death and what will happen at death if they have been good or bad.

  people say it gives them hope but is this not born too out of fear of not seeing dead loved ones again, or having a better life in the afterlife?

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  Some people need their security blanket.

  
  
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  "New Heavens & New Earth" (Why The Need For New Heavens?)

  by NoMoreHustle in

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  i have been thinking about this phrase lately "new heavens & new earth".

  the new earth piece i guess i can see that one...... (still not really sure about that one) .

  but why the need for "new heavens"?

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  "New"... is a marketing and sales aid.
  
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  slimboyfat joins the Mormons!

  by slimboyfat in

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  i know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.

  at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.

  in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.

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  Perhaps you can make it your life's quest to discover what happened to the golden tablets/plates.
  
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  Who are the "Inactive"?

  by thereishope in

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  this was my starting point in this journey of rediscovery, and i've made great strides, but here i am again asking the same question.

  all this talk re the rc and the shunning of the inactive ones.

  there is no announcement made obviously about "shun sister so-and-so, as she is inactive.

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  My Dad is inactive. He has a brain disease called frontotemporal lobe dementia. He will never be active again
  
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  Anti-religion T-Shirt idea

  by Simon in

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  i want a t-shirt.

  something that says "religion is crap, i don't care which one".. i was thinking of adapting the "coexist" one to say "toxic" instead which is great because it removes 'science' but includes all the major world religions.. anyone else have any ideas?.

  also a tag-line ... "whatever god you worship, he's a weirdigan".

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  slimboyfat joins the Mormons!

  by slimboyfat in

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  i know that some people on the board have experience of being mormons, so i would be interested in your feedback.

  at church this afternoon it was an uncanny experience.

  in the past i've read a lot about mormons, so i thought i was prepared in general for what it would be like.

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  The man who founded the Mormon religion was a fraudster. I think that says it all.
  
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  Ever-changing teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses - probably the most comprehensive compendium about Watchtower doctrinal changes

  by WTS Archive in

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  two days ago a new book was released for download, called "ever-changing teachings of jehovah's witnesses".

  it was originally written by a polish jw scholar (who never was a jw himself) włodzimierz bednarski, with a help from szymon matusiak, who was a jw and an elder, and is a result of years of labourious work to compile quotes regarding every single doctrine the book describes.

  it covers the most important changes in years 1879—2015.

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  slimboyfat said: See page 6 of The Photodrama of Creation for example, under the heading "The Fifth Day or Epoch". and See also pages 31 and 32 of The Divine Plan of the Ages.
  

  Thank you for posting this slimboyfat. I KNEW there had to be some document(s) of Botchtower's that my Mom had read. She did a complete 180 on Evolution when I was in my teens, telling me that there was something to the Theory of Evolution after all. I was left in shock. This was just one of a few things that occurred as I grew up that led me to the conclusion this religion was/is not for me.
  
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  The smug arrogance of "having the truth".

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  has anyone noticed that witnesses (from the top down) seem to have a quiet form of smug arrogance toward all non witnesses?.

  perhaps it comes from being told how "special and unique" they are but they end up looking down on all normal members of the community because they are not witnesses.. so any form of "love" they show those in the territory is also limited as long as they accept the message...otherwise they are viewed contemptuously as "worldly" and therefore of little value...after all,they will be destroyed right?.

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  Once my parents became baptized and 'zealous' in the truth, they became holier-than-thou, self-righteous, mean-spirited a$$holes. But their aging knocked the wind out of this particular adopted type of sail for them. So much for "never growing old in this system of things".
  
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  Do you work a lot of overtime?

  by hoser in

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  what is the normal attitude as to working overtime?

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  how many hours do you work in a week?.

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  So far I've been allowed to bank the hours and take them off in lieu of getting paid.

  Here's another little tidbit that I didn't mention. We used to bank our hours in a company tool/application. NOW we just track these hours personally/privately. That way, the government doesn't know how many hours are being worked as overtime.