GapingMouth
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Creationist Evolution
by GapingMouth ini've been having some small but effective chats with my wife of late.
she is, i hope, starting to think about some things a bit better now regarding the wts.
when i told her of the rule about not hugging in the prayer, she thought it so absurd and thought i was telling lies until she saw it herself.
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Help with a 'study' please - atheists side.
by GapingMouth ini was having an email chat with this guy (i dont know him very well) but he wanted a debate on gods existence.
his english is terrible, but can you help me formulate a response please?
he isnt jw, i don't think, but there are some questions here about evolution etc.
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How to teach a child?
by GapingMouth ini have a daughter who is nearly 16 months old, and it won't be long before she starts understanding more and more of the rubbish at the khs my wife takes her to.
she will be very exposed to a lot of creationist junk and i can just imagine her getting brainwashed just as i was a born-in.
luckily i am in a position to reduce that or perhaps counter it completely.
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JW Census
by GapingMouth inthe wts claims membership of somewhere in the region of 6 million if i am not mistaken.
is this true, or have they embellished the facts?
including those hiding or fading, technically how many jws are there really?
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Stupidest JW meeting answers
by GapingMouth ini was thinking about some stupid non-sensical answers i have heard over the years.
"we all know the blue whale is the biggest fish"
"we were on the ministry and met a coloured couple.
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Intelligent JWs only outside the KH?
by GapingMouth inhi to everyone out there and thanks for all the amazing posts on here i read every day.. there are a few people in my area that i would consider intelligent - there is one guy who used to be a chemistry teacher, for example.
another one knows his sciences too, and his job revolves around that knowledge.. but he confuses me a little... he knows all this stuff and then at the same time he completely ignores it and casts it aside and says the earth is only 7000 years old.
(yes, he holds to this - he told me himself and grew annoyed when i tried to show that the new wts leave it a little more open for explanation -- the bible agree with science 'special' one for example).
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Disfellowshipping reasons
by GapingMouth ini grew up as a dub, and i was taught that there weren't specific reasons why people got disfellowshipped.
i was taught they didn't announce what the wrong was as they were df'd because they were 'unrepentant'.
now i know the wts is full of **** and i see a few posts about tattoos and piercings etc being cause for df'ing.
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Asking for money at the hall.
by GapingMouth ini don't go to the meetings anymore for i am fading, but a short while ago something happened in a meeting i'd never seen in my entire life as a jw.
the local needs discussed the fact that the local branch had bought a new kh for a whopping 1 million euros.
that's insane, but not the part that got me.
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Pastafarian blog
by GapingMouth inafter leaving jws i have found myself increasingly impatient with religion and just how stupid some things are that people believe.
i understand not all of you on here are atheists, but i wanted to point out my new blog.
in my blog i am a believer that the spaghetti monster exists and base my writings as such.
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WTS causing more anguish
by GapingMouth ini don't really know where to start on my first post; i feel i have so much to say and yet i am so emotionally tired that it is hard to go through it all again in my head.
but, i do need support and advice and so i will make the effort.. i started having doubts about certain beliefs of the witnesses about 2 years ago and did research since that i now come to the belief there is no god, and witnesses definitely are a cult.. at first it bothered me more on the god issue, but now i am more bothered by the cult issue, mainly because it dictates my life even though i am aware of it.. when i was a child, my mother and father divorced and my mother told me i will live with my father because she was going to die at armageddon being a non witness.
i think, as well as many other pressures i cant list for fear of a very long post, this was the main pressure that made me get baptized even though i wasn't that happy being a witness.