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  Do you recall your first encounter with a atheist? What was your thought?

  by jam in

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  growing up in the south everyone i knew believed in god, even the.

  town drunk.

  i remember watching some special tv program around xmas .

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  maninthemiddle

  I live in the south also, north Georgia if you are curious. around here the second thing most people ask after meeting you is what church do you go to.

  so I also don't remember meeting any in service.

  after I left the JW mindset, I set out a a journey (in a way) asking people at work about their church, and researching other mainstream Christian beliefs.

  that path led to me research how the bible came to be, as well as read real scholarly work on evolution. This led me to a place of non-belief. At that point I actively sought out a atheist group to meet and talk to them directly. There are not many groups like this, but I live close enough to Atlanta that the group is fair sized.

  A couple of the folks I met have turned out to be really good post-jw friends. including several ex-Mormons so we have similar stories to share.
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  Old Jws view on old Societys books

  by Decided in

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  i was asked to come by and get some old pictures and stuff that my cousin who died left with her non jw husband.

  he had two boxes of old pictures my aunt had left to her daughter(my cousin who died after her).

  i went by another cousin who is still a jw and left the boxes of stuff that my aunt and cousin left when they died.

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  My MIL collect the old books, she probably has everything ever printed by now. yet she doesn't read any of them.

  There was on out, i don't remerber which, but one of the "Studies" set, I was looking through it, My FIL saw me and said, "That basically the same as we tech today, no different."

  Yeah, right.
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  Truth Be Told Documentary

  by poeticmommy in

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  i have heard so many good things about this film and i am really hoping to see it myself!

  it will be playing soon near me, in grand rapids, michigan.

  if anyone else is interested in attending the link is below!

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  maninthemiddle

  Bump.

  We need more poeple in Atlanta!

  http://www.tugg.com/events/5867
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  My experience

  by ZuluTime in

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  just wanted to introduce myself.

  i've made a few comments here and there on the lovely jwn i started to wake up to ttatt this year.

  basically, i'm a born in jw and was baptized at 16. lived a double life until i wa 25 and beat myself up about it constantly.

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  maninthemiddle

  Welcome, sounds like you have good parents.
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  From the recent video, what is the Tuxedo site used for?

  by maninthemiddle in

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  i have never heard of it before this video..

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  maninthemiddle

  I have never heard of it before this video.
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  Surprised the Jephthah account was not rewritten

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  they had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there..

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  maninthemiddle

  Midrash says otherwise.

  Other biblical commentators5 disagree. Though Jephthah was one of the Israelite judges, he was chosen for the position because of his bravery and might, not because of his Torah scholarship—indeed, he was woefully ignorant.6 And though he was not bound whatsoever by the vow he made—as it clearly transgressed the rules of the Torah—he ignorantly went ahead and offered his daughter as a sacrifice.

  Had he only consulted with Phinehas , the learned high priest of the time, he would have been informed of his error. But that didn’t happen. Jephthah was too arrogant to travel to Phinehas to receive guidance: “I am the general of the Israelite forces, and I should go to him?!” And Phinehas was too proud to unilaterally go to Jephthah to advise him: “He needs me; why should I make the trip?”

  The hubris demonstrated by these two leaders cost an innocent girl her life. According to the Midrash 7 both were punished. Phinehas lost the divine spirit that had hitherto rested upon him. Jephthah became ill, and he lost many of his limbs. Because his limbs were buried in many locations, the Bible says that Jephthah was “buried in the cities of Gilead.”8
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  Surprised the Jephthah account was not rewritten

  by maninthemiddle in

  1. watchtower
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  they had a chance to rewrite the bible and they leave the word "burnt offering" in there..

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  Fulltime: I'm not saying that, simply suprised that they didn't choose to concidering the index to the book puts their spin on it.

  11 Judge Jephthah expelled, later made
  leader(1-11)
  Jephthah reasonswithAmmon (12-28)
  Jephthah’s vowand his daughter(29-40)
  Daughter’s life of singleness (38-4
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  39 years down the road (pictures)

  by JeffT in

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  october 6, 1974, outside the kingdom hall in pullman, wa.

  good grief, we look like children.

  friday afternoon on our way to celebrate on whidbey island.

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  From Prison to Prosperity - new JW.org video

  by cedars in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofo9xmhis5c.

  let no one say witnesses don't catch people at their most vulnerable, or use love bombing.. .

  cedars.

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  maninthemiddle

  I wouldn't call this Prosperity gospel, at least it's not what many televangislst preach. in typical Wt speak properity here is not a refernce to Money.
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  Why no children allowed at the annual meeting?

  by not bitter in

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  2. bible

  i've never even heard of this annual meeting or whatever its called.

  is it a new thing?

  sure it wasn't around in my day.. my elderly parents must have gone to it yesterday.

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  maninthemiddle

  the no kids was for places that were over/near capacity.