Posts by mraimondi

i love it how begetting is clearly understanding one point whilst totally ignoring the fact that if you beget something, you are seperate from it, and older (and in more authority) than it.

lol

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Must see video on Youtube where a JW is clearly defeated on the trinity subject...

by Tuesday in

personally i hate bible ping-pong.

i don't think it ever gets anywhere, i don't think it solves anything and i don't think the participants ever make any head room.

however i will say in this case, i have been proven wrong.

mraimondi

either there is no trinity

or the bible contradicts itself...

those are the only two answers. That bible jim guy was really reaching for straws, and the JWs were dull.

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A religion with nothing to Celebrate

by eyeslice in

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how sad that the witnesses have nothing to celebrate.

the more i think about it since i stopped going to the meetings, the more i feel that spirituality and religion are about opportunities to give thanks and to celebrate life with family and friends.

christenings or name giving ceremonies celebrate the gift of a new life to a family.

i am not a witness and yet i have always viewed holidays (before being a witness and of course during) - as a way of society itself to control its populace... and for people to validate themselves. I think we can have celebrations every day,...

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The League of Apostate Pioneers

by Megachusen in

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recently it's come to my attention that the other teens in my congragation are being pressured by their parents to pioneer.

the main problem is that, like me, they're all "apostates".

because of this amusing turn of events, i'm thinking about starting my own apostate pioneering group with them.

mraimondi

megachusen

Some of you might as well still be in the religion -- you are still as dogmatic and judgemental as any of them.

lol yup

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Christians risk rejection and discrimination for their faith in Britain.

by BurnTheShips in

the first poll of britain's churchgoers, carried out for the sunday telegraph, found that thousands of them believe they are being turned down for promotion because of their faith.. one in five said that they had faced opposition at work because of their beliefs.. more than half of them revealed that they had suffered some form of persecution for being a christian.. the findings suggest a growing hostility towards religion in this country, which has been highlighted by a series of clashes between churchgoers and their employers.. and so on.

more at the link.. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5413311/christians-risk-rejection-and-discrimination-for-their-faith-a-study-claims.html.

silver lining: there are still christians in gb!.

mraimondi

presecution complex

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Washington Post article - Knocking guy

by Dagney in

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(apologies if this has been posted already...couldn't find it had).

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/05/prop_8_ruling_a_blow_to_all_minorities.html?hpid=talkbox1.

i was sent this by a missionary.

mraimondi

well he makes sense...

its true, there is, in this case, an appreciative difference between mormons and JWs - the former impose their beliefs into legislation, the latter does not.

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Author of the book "J.W.s and the hour of darkness" Darek Barefoot speaks up on the conference call concerning subliminal images in the Watchtower lit.

by koolaid-man in

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darek barefoot, author of the book "jehovah's witnesses and the hour of darkness" will be one of our quests on the six screens conference call on saturday june 6,2009 at 7 p.m.est.

darek barefoot, a former jehovah's witness was ostracized from the organization for trying to expose the truth about the occultic influence in the watchtower organization.

his book documents the existence of disguised, or "subliminal"images in watchtower illustrations, and further demonstrated that these images were occultic, being drawn from witchcraft and demonology.

mraimondi

15 year old masterbating.....Can you IMAGINE That.? I cant draw
a picture, but my heart aches every time I think of it....

taking this out of context is BAD.

since it was highlighted i read it first and was like there better be some context lol

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The FIVE questions that elders consider whether to form a judicial committee for an inactive person

by BonaFide in

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this is according to the pay attention to the flock book.

i can't remember the page.

i handled this situation a number of times but i may have missed a detail, these are the basics i am pretty sure.

mraimondi

thanks for these posts BF