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  Which is your favourite single malt Scotch Whisky, and why?

  by lifelong humanist in

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  as a true scot, i'm deeply passionate about most things scottish, any possibly one of our small nation's most successful export is my main favourite - our single malt whisky heritage.. i'm writing this while savouring a 12 year old highland park - distilled in the orkney islands, the most northerly distillery in scotland.

  it is one of my favourites - it was my late father's favourite tipple.

  yet, only 500m from my house is scotlands oldest legal whisky distillery - glenturret, in crieff.

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  Can you Believe Some of the New Posters on Here?

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  in life, i usually trust new people, at least on face value, until i discover otherwise.

  yet, my normal belief system is now in doubt.

  i've just replied to a thread started by 'goldensky' - an alleged spanish lady with lots of history as an extremely devout jw in spain.

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  How Long Before JWs Alienate all Professional Career Counsellors?

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  please stop for a moment and think about it - i understand that most 'modern' jws pride themselves that they don't waste any time studying, in favour of doing any mundane job that's available to non-qualified people - they'd probably go so far as to say that this is even a wise decision.

  for those with some ability, i'd say, wrong, wrong, wrong!

  while i totally disagree with this stance in the present context, i have to concede that in a world of full employment, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that, unless you have greater skills and abilities to offer.

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  How long until religion is no more?

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  what do you think - how long before all religion is no more?.

  i live in rural scotland, a country that is probably still quite religious on the surface.

  yet, i rarely come across anyone that is in the least bit religious.

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  What do you think - are most ex-JWs atheist, agnostic, or still involved in some form of religion?

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  i dad 6 years ago because, after a rational search came to the conclusion that there probably is no god.

  shortly afterwards, i concluded that (for me) there is no god, which made me feel that i really was a natural-born humanist - a position that i'm entirely comfortable with.

  i know that many former jws hold a similar, atheistic viewpoint.

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  Please nominate your favourite film and say why you rate it so highly.

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  i've just watched all 3 parts of francis ford coppola's epic godfather once again.

  it is a superb achievement on many levels.

  each viewing reveals something new and fresh.. i recall, as a good jw at the time, not seeing it when released as it was not certified as 'suitable' given the content for jws.

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  Would there have been a funeral for Jesus?

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  Your thoughtful opinion is requested, please, on a possible proposal to free my wife from JWs

  by lifelong humanist in

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  six years 'jw free', my wife is still in, although she's now nowhere neary as zealous as i was when in.

  for this i'm grateful.. please take a moment to review my current situation as far as my wife's involvement is concerned with our 4, adult male children:.

  my wife regularly contacts my dfd son, invites him and his wife to visit us, along with their 4 year old son, and thinks absolutely nothing of it!

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  Acquired morality

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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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  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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