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  I Offer You This Choice

  by simon17 in

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  suppose the following choice were offered you, and you had to choose one or the other.

  which would you pick (and perhaps why):.

  1) you can continue living your life as it is, die when you might, and that's that.. 2) you can instead agree to die in 1 year in exchange for this: you will be granted access to the entire past and future history of intelligent life in the universe.

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  Notes from a Talk on Evolution

  by simon17 in

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  2. beliefs

  so i've been cleaning out my house of theocratic stuff, but its still fun to look through everything and see how life was.

  i looked through my study copies of bookstudy books and can pick the year based on the bands, sports players, songs, etc that are scribbled in the margins out of boredom.

  also i laughed at how bored i must have been.

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  First Ex-JW Experience with XMas Spirit

  by simon17 in

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  so obviously as a recently parting jw, i've never had the hastle, the annoyance or the joy of experiencing christmas.

  this year in our office was the first time that we did a secret santa, so i would joke with a few of the people looking for advice because i had never really celebrated christmas.

  it was kind of a fun running joke for the past month or two, as they laughed and pitied over my past with me, which they pried about and i explained.

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  WT at its most clever?

  by simon17 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  Went back out in Field Service Today... Feedback?

  by simon17 in

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  after three years i dusted off my bible put on my sunday suit and walked door-to-door in the glorious morning sun for 90 minutes solid (no breaks--old-school).

  ' i always felt some subtle compulsion to do this, i don't know why.

  it was not for subterfuge or causing trouble.

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  My Local Congregation are Idiots

  by simon17 in

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  had my semi-annual jw visit and it was the local congregation giving the invitations to the upcoming dc.

  the presentation was the standard 3 second "all the information is inside--goodbye" wastes which this work has become.. .

  just one problem.... the congregation i guess didn't realize that they had to put on the time, date and address themselves!!!!

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  Non-Bible Believers: SAT style analysis of Bible Issues

  by simon17 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those that have dismissed the bible as god's word, but nonetheless sat through endless hours of jw analysis on certain major bible doctrines, i wanted to know, just based on reading comprehension, what you thought the bible was trying to say.

  now that you don't believe it, you are the most objective persons to give critical analysis of what the words say.... .

  1- hellfire:.

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  Survey: How Sure are you of Your Beliefs?

  by simon17 in

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  i find it interesting to see, not just the state of people's beliefs, but how sure they are of them.

  or asked another way, what is the percent chance people feel they are wrong about their current beliefs.

  so state your current core beliefs about jws, christianity, god, and a percentage 0-100% of how sure you are that this belief is correct.

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  Views on the Creation of the Universe

  by simon17 in

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  2. beliefs

  i was thinking the other day about the fascinating dichotomy of how the creation of the universe plays a role in the belief system of believers and non-believers.

  it is the difference between a top-down vs. bottom-up view of reality.

  in this post i'm mainly disucssing highly rational, scientific type believers and non-believers, open to fully exploring their belief system, of which i have talked to many.. to the non-believer, the creation event, the big bang, is the one utterly unexplainable event.

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  The Little Aggravations: Things I Don't Miss

  by simon17 in

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  there are some major problems with the jws, doctrinally, socially, and organizationally.

  from shunning to crazy elder bodies to guilt trips, there are many things that were really bad.

  this thread is devoted to the small, insignificant things that just really really irked you.

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