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  I need a little help

  by Darryl in

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  2. experiences

  my story is i've been df'd for about 20 years.

  a couple years after i started attending church and found it to be a tremendously uplifting experience.

  from the people to the music, message everything drew me in.

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  Heaven

  Hey Darryl, many believers have issues with faith, I think largely because what is preached doesn't match reality. In our present day, we know a lot more about our natural world and the Universe than the Bronze and Iron Aged Middle Eastern desert dwellers did. Our knowledge has surpassed any need for superstition. Christianity is just an adaptation and modification of previous belief systems.
  

  Using logic, reason, and critical thinking are key. Wishing something were true doesn't make it so.
  

  Theodicy is a huge issue for many believers. It was for me.

  Each of us have been taught someone else's interpretation of the Bible. We've been maneuvered through it, with our various religions cherry picking scriptures to convince us of the validity of their agenda.

  Have you researched the history and origins of the Bible? This might help you.

  Ask yourself "What is more likely? That the laws of nature are suspended or you have been told something that isn't true."
  

  As for 'belief', I think the fundamentals of love and helping others always works regardless of which deity you identify with (or don't identify with).
  
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  How To Spot A Cult - This is what started woke me up!!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is the article that woke me up.

  i felt sick after reading it.

  then sad.

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  Heaven

  PE, thanks for sharing this. It is good to be armed with this type of knowledge as it can apply to non-religious groups as well.
  
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  Do you think any animals will ever reach human intelligence?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if all life was truly random, then what happened that allowed humans to it's current intelligent state, do you think non humans could and will reach that in the future?

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  Heaven

  Chimpanzees are estimated to have the intelligence of about a 13 year old human.

  Corvids (species of bird including magpies, jays, crows, and ravens) are highly intelligent too. Checks this out (if you don't have time to watch the whole thing, just watch the first 2 and a half minutes):

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiAoqwsc9g
  
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  Heaven

  Soooo... when they say 'animals' are they just talking mammals? Because there are many other species that eat meat such as birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, bacteria, insects, arachnids, mollusks, fungi...

  Could you imagine if nothing ate meat what this Earth would be like? Holy crap! We'd be overrun, competing for food big time, as well as suffocating in carcasses.
  
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  Don't have sexual fantasies! Today's watchtower...

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.

  i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?

  sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.

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  Heaven

  "Don't have sexual fantasies."
  

  That's like telling people not to breathe.
  
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  Heaven

  I think Lewis Black explains things fairly well here:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_utZaJUL0
  
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  Graph of world population (from 10,001BC to 2015)

  by Fernando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you make of this graph?.

  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth.

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  Heaven

  Simon is 100% correct. Oil is the foundational energy that supports everything we've come to know in our world and enables us all to have everything we own including your vocation.
  

  I've always found that the facts, the math never jives with religious ideas. As an example, Botchtower's "We're preaching to all the inhabited Earth". This is 100% bull shite! There aren't enough JWs to accomplish this.
  

  Check out Dr. Hans Rosling's presentations on stats. In one of his talks he says the world population will probably plateau at around 11 billion (if I remember correctly). Here's one of his TED Talks - very interesting stuff:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
  
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  I thought this was such a well written article I decided to cut and past it here

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i read this article on exjwreddit and thought it was so well written, that just summed everything up.

  i've cut and paste it.

  here is the link to it on reddit.. https://m.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/4spw99/where_have_all_the_jws_gone/.

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  Heaven

  "There are just not as many "older ones" at the Kingdom Halls."

  Well, my Dad doesn't attend anymore. He is chronically ill. My Mom is dead, so are most of her family that were JWs, and so are a lot of their friends.
  
  
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  Terry tells his story of Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin)

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ox2ypajugq.

  sit a spell and listen to my story.. i once met a fella unlike any other.

  let me tell you about the man--a strange and wonderful guy--one of a kind--but housing two personalities at the same time.here’s a quick list to capture your interest.. .

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  Heaven

  Terry, thank you for sharing your story about meeting Tom Laughlin. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
  

  I was a kid when the movie Billy Jack came out. It came to television and was one of 2 movies I remember 'sneaking' to watch (the other one was a few years later at the theatre - we got in underage to Life of Brian). There are some very disturbing scenes in Billy Jack. The "One Tin Soldier" song is one of my all time faves.
  
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  Jesus Knows the Day & Hour Now?

  by KillerJones in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was skimming the july 2016 wt study article and came across a paragraph indicating that, despite scriptural evidence, the governing body indeed feels that god's son now knows the exact day and hour of armageddon.

  is this 'new light'?

  from the second study article, page 14, pgh 4:.

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  Heaven

  I still don't understand how a 2,000+ year old dead guy can have any thoughts at all. A decomposed brain and central nervous system are no longer functioning.