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  So what questions should I be asking?

  by HappyBlessedFree in

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  so i am still trying to help my husband realize ttatt.

  i have asked him some questions .

  .. “are you okay with jehovah killing your mom, sister, nephew (non-witnesses) at armageddon?”.

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  cofty

  Everything that Z said.

  Don't bombard a JW with facts. Slow and steady. Know when to say things and when to back off and let him think for a few days or weeks.

  Try to reach his 'authentic self' — the reasonable person that resides behind the cult defensive wall. Nobody really believes that billions of good men, women and children deserve to be destroyed tomorrow just because they are unconvinced by the ramblings of an organisation that has got so many things wrong. Nobody really thinks it was a moral good for Joshua to follow god's instructions and commit infanticide. Try to reason with that person. Pick your moments. Be patient.

  As for not going to war be content just to sow a few seeds of doubt. If your life was in imminent danger would he want armed police to save you? Apart from scale what's the ethical difference?
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  Radio Carbon Dating / Dendrochronology / Ice Core Data

  by HiddenPimo in

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  so i was using our current (mankind's) scientific understandings to refute the possibility of a global flood.. i was not being argumentative but used the reasoning found on jw-facts.. what was the reply?.

  https://wol.jw.borg/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101972243 (remove the b).

  an article over 47 years ago smh.... how do you scientific minds help to show the accuracy of dates?.

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  Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens

  The topic of dating and the flood is also covered very well by Prothero in Evolution - What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
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  Unky Punky just wanted ...

  by punkofnice in

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  ...to drop by and say, 'ayup, mates', to you all, my old friends.. i am so totally over the jobo thing i have surprised myself.. if anyone asks, 'what do you think of the jobos?

  ' my reply would be, 'i don't think of them.'.

  all my rage, anger and sadness have dissipated over time.

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  Hi Punk. Good to hear you're doing well.
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  Julián Assange—What’s Your Opinion of His Situation?

  by minimus in

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  do you think he’s a hero?

  do you sympathize with him or do you feel he’s really a bad guy?.

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  Investigative reporting is important and should be protected. Assange is no investigative reporter. He dumped masses of secrets into the public domain - some of which needed to be exposed but much of it did not. He harmed governments for no good reason, assisted the GRU, and put the lives of security personnel at risk. He is a narcissist.

  Trump is conflicted for obvious reasons.
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  Suspected sex offender finally arrested!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  ... aaand it's julian assange.. here's the footage of his arrest.

  try not to laugh.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqjinzjq_e.

  #believeallwomen.

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  The charges of sex offences have been dropped long ago. He was arrested for skipping bail in the UK.

  Knowingly or not he became an agent of the GRU. A British court will have to judge whether he should be extradited to the USA. Free speech is essential in a democracy but governments also need confidentiality in national interests.
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  JWs & Scientology

  by APieceOfShitNamedTate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been trying to learn more about how scientology works in regard to how they investigate, interrogate, and discipline their members, and how similar their methods are to jehovah's witnesses.

  i am currently pimo, and while i have never faced a judicial committee, the elders have tried to investigate me.

  i won't go into detail, but basically it was just a case of me not wanting to reach out like they wanted me to.

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  Read Jenna Miscavige's book for an all too familiar account of life in the cult
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  So I've been warned about whether I should reveal my feelings of a Deity

  by HiddenPimo in

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  all i have to say about that is that i agree with the following quote attributed to marcus aurelius:.

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  a Chicago Tribune investigative journalist went on a hunt to find proof that God was myth

  He should have had a chat with me. I could have saved him some time.

  To be fair nobody can prove there is no god as long as we are vague about the meaning of 'god'. What we can prove beyond all reasonable doubt is that the god of christian theism does not exist.

  Having said that, I think the standard of debate on both sides leaves a lot to be desired.
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  Do old time present day active JW`s genuinely believe in overlapping generations ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  for the life of me i can not come to terms with old timers in the "truth" who could swallow this interpretation of scripture about an overlapping generation .. when jesus spoke about "this generation" .

  are their any real bible students among younger ones any more ?.

  here are 3 bible scriptures that confirm a generation is approximately 40- 50 years long give or take a few years .. 1. matt:1 :17 abraham born 2016-18 bc jesus born 2 bc approx.

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  Tenacious - Despite all the world's woes we are living in the best time in human history.

  Even allowing for the two world wars there has never been a safer or more peaceful time to be alive. By every possible measure of crime, conflict, disease, education, freedom, poverty, famine etc etc things have never been better.

  Please name the decade in which you would have preferred to live.

  This sense of angst is the sine qua non of the religious mindset.
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  Who Resurrected Jesus?

  by snakeface in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the heresies of the wt is denying the divinity of christ.

  during this "memorial season" they say that jehovah (god the father?

  ) resurrected jesus.

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  no one is claiming that Jesus raised himself from the dead - Ratty

  Yes they are. You should go back and read the thread.

  Should they go unchallenged? - Half banana

  As you know I frequently challenge theism. Have any posters been more active in doing so?

  I just think that if a topic is starting from an assumption of the basics of xtian faith and wanting to discuss a particular doctrine from scripture they should be allowed to do that. We are in danger of creating a political and anti-religious monoculture on the forum.

  Why would anybody bother talking in an echo chamber?

  
  
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  Watchtower analysis on Tony Morris

  by corruptgirl in

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  i never post on here.

  i am sanchy's wife.

  i posted my coming out story about 3 yrs ago.

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  cofty

  Corruptgirl - a search of WT index for Luke 12:48 might throw up some more interesting references about the need for elders to be held to a higher standard.