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  Apostate Artwork

  by sacolton in

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  for use on any jw discussion/website .... .

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  (insert your captions here).

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  Straight from the C.O.

  by swa in

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  2. beliefs

  hello all, i have been lurking, looking, reading, and digesting for around 2 years and it seems the time is right to post.

  i recently had one of those moments at the kindom hall where i found myself looking around thinking "am i the only one who gets it, why doesn't anyone else have this puzzled look on their face?".

  said during is second talk to the congregation "all of our food, our magazines, and all our wonderful books, and videos come from/through these 9 men".

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  Acquired morality

  by lifelong humanist in

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  as a humanist, i meet like-minded people, and accept that they are highly pricipled, moral people, capable of reasoning why they take the stance that they do.

  i likewise meet religious people that also fit this description.. most humanists weren't always that way - probably no more than 25% were members of a religion before abandoning it.

  those that had a previous religious belief - like myself for 50 years as a born-in, third generation jw, feel that they are now more 'moral' people, and set even higher standards of being honest, fair, reasonable, decent, non-dogmatic, etc.

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  How Many Personally Heard F. W. Franz Speak?

  by snowbird in

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  2. experiences

  i believe i did in 1974, but i was just coming into the org and didn't realize the significance of the part he played.. it was a sunday at a stadium on the campus of the university of alabama in tuscaloosa.

  all the "friends" were almost beside themselves with excitement, so looking back, it must have been f. w. franz!.

  i'd worked until 6 pm that saturday night, had a one year old teething child, and had to arise at 3 am to get ready for the bus trip.. when we arrived, the weather had turned colder, the stadium was quite warm, and i fell asleep a few minutes into the talk.

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  What's the best way to reason with and help your wife to give up her JW religion?

  by lifelong humanist in

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  i dad myself 6 years ago, and was quite surprised that my wife (of 38 years) did not follow suit.

  perhaps this is because her father and brother are still active jws, and she doesn't want them to shun her the way that they have done to me.. so, my wife is still a jw, albeit losing interest in her religion.

  as far as i know, she doesn't even go door to door anymore.

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  Not been on for AGES but need to rant

  by billie jean in

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  i've not used any boards for a long time because i felt i'd got what i needed from them and felt i needed to 'move on' for want of a better word.

  i've just come back from staying at my j.w parents house for a few days (which was long enough) we don't usually bring the subject of 'it' up but the other night i got it all, the bile was out, they were on defensive mode, to the point of shouting, insulting me, telling me that they'll 'cut me off' if they find out i'm apostate, then laughing at me and causing me to actualy feel worthless it was unreal.

  i told them i'm an atheist and tried to tell them what the 'truth' does and what it really is but i got absolutely nowhere.

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  Do You Care What Happens To Indiviual JWs At This Point In Time?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  other than possibly family members, do you care what happens to those you called "brothers and sisters"?.

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  How many here actually still believe that there is a God??

  by annalice in

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  after being gone from the jw's for many years now , and having done extensive research on the history of god and the belief in him , i can't seem to find any logical way to have a belief in an invisble being up there ruling over us.

  how many here still believe?

  how many don't?.

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  What are the current rules to have a JW funeral?

  by JWoods in

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  in light of the mj debacle clogging up almost all channels of communications today, i began wondering: what does it take to be told that you cannot have a proper jw burial service?.

  in the case of jackson, we suspect that he was either da'd or dissasociated at some point in the late 80s.

  i can remember rumors before i left in the early 80s of a rift with the elders over that thriller album...and that he was either privately or publicly reproved over it.. he is known to have married a scientologist, divorced her, and later married another woman to have kids by arrangement, then divorcing her, and possibly getting into a third marriage.. he is known to have dabbled in both islam, the kabala, and possibly other religions.

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  Do You Use Floride?

  by sammielee24 in

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  2. friends

  i'm a believe in non-floridation because i believe that the introduction of toxins into our bodies does nothing but harm us in the long run.

  fluoride has shown up in the blood of newborn babies and given that it affects the neurological systems, and given the fact that parents are warned not to mix formula with tap water in some areas or allow children under the age of 6 to use fluoridated toothpaste, you have to wonder who is making all the money on the product.

  i watched a report on this just the other day where a dentist was saying that cavities are down in the popuation but what she didn't point out was all the casualities showing up now with tooth enaml wore off, tooth discolouration, bone loss and some cancer links.

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