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  Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?

  by punkofnice in

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  don't start fighting, darlings.

  i am genuinely curious.

  after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.

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  I just believe in a God and I think Christ was a role model and I try to learn about him in order to becoming a better person

  Why do you think that imitating the god of the bible will make you a better person?

  
  
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  Have you ever looked back at your early posts on here?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  no doubt we are all overjoyed at how we have progressed since breaking the shackles of the society!.

  for those that have been here on this forum for some time, have you ever looked back at the version of "you" that first started posting here, and compared yourself with where you are at now?.

  i am overjoyed at how much i have grown as a person!.

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  My beliefs have not changed at all. I have never stopped reading and learning new things so I guess I know more than I did then, particularly about science, nature, history and politics.

  I am just as convinced as ever that there is no god but I am more sympathetic to those who think otherwise. I have a suspicion that religion has been/can be useful even though it is not true.
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  For Christians: What do you think about an Armagedon and the Afterlife

  by John Davis in

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  i don't mean for anyone to get into argument over this, i just want to hear what people believe.i hope that no one will mock or argue with someone else about their beliefs, i know that i won't in this topic.. i still believe in a christian god, not what jws believe, but believe that there has to be something after this life.

  i am not sure about how armageddon would go, would it be like how evangelicals believe with a rapture or timing or anything, though i still believe in a form of armageddon.

  i do think that all good people will go to heaven but i don't believe in a hell.

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  I often wondered why the vast majority never considered his words at the sermon on the mount: Matthew 5:5 - "The meek will inherit the earth." - Fall Guy

  In the beatitudes Jesus declares certain types of people to be happy or blessed, and in each case he makes a promise concerning their future. (Matt.5:3-12) Among the promises that Jesus makes are, “the kingdom of the heavens belong to them”, “they will inherit the earth”, “they will see God” and “they will be called sons of God.”

  Inheriting the earth and being in heaven are not mutually exclusive destinies in christian theology.
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  I left the organization

  by Issa in

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  i left the organization.

  my awakening was this month of july, the first week of july.

  i couldn't answer my own questions about the organization or the doctrines, i couldn't understand the prophecies, i couldn't figure quite well what i was feeling.

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  Congratulations. The rest of your life begins now.
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  BBC News "The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families"

  by snare&racket in

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  bbc news website has this linked on front page.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40704990.

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  Interview is on Victoria Derbyshire on BBC2 this morning. Interview is just after 10am.
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  Evolution is a Fact #6 - Human Chromosome 2

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genespart 5 - vitamin c.

  the big book of how to build a human - your genome - is approximately 3 billion letters long.. the text is arranged in long molecules of dna called chromosomes.

  each letter of code in a chromosome is joined to its compliment - a to t and c to g - and the whole string is arranged in the iconic double-helix shape discovered by watson and crick in 1953.. our chromosomes come in pairs, one from our father and one from our mother.

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  Yes it is all dishonest quote-mining.

  What is the source of your copy-paste?
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  Evolution is a Fact #6 - Human Chromosome 2

  by cofty in

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  part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genespart 5 - vitamin c.

  the big book of how to build a human - your genome - is approximately 3 billion letters long.. the text is arranged in long molecules of dna called chromosomes.

  each letter of code in a chromosome is joined to its compliment - a to t and c to g - and the whole string is arranged in the iconic double-helix shape discovered by watson and crick in 1953.. our chromosomes come in pairs, one from our father and one from our mother.

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  Here's what he specifically said:

  Who is "he"?

  Source please.

  They come up with several explanations, but of course they have to keep riding with the Evolution assumption and can’t admit that the data just don’t fit their assumptions because they have no other option with God excluded. The Christian response that these telomeric repeats are simply normal telomeric repeats

  What explanations do "they" come up with and why specifically are those explanations not satisfactory?

  Why is a rejection of evolution by the unnamed author being equated with a "christian" response? Millions of informed chrisitians accept the fact of evolution. What he means is "the fundie response is..."

  The very first paragraph quote-mines a peer-reviewed paper the presents the genetic evidence for telomere - telomere fusion in chromosome 2 to make it sound as if the authors of the paper are saying the exact opposite.

  Typical creationist dishonesty. Having noted the rank dishonest of paragraph 1 I stopped wasting my time right there.

  
  
  
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  Hi from England

  by victimofdeceit in

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  recently quit being a jw because i realised that beyond armageddon i was going to be ruled by people who cover up child abuse, not telling the congregations by their letter where the money they donated in the box is going towards paying compensation for legal battles which they caused, and also i was bullied by elders and discriminated against for being homosexual, even though i am not practicing it.

  it wasn't until i threatened legal action for a breach of confidence that the elders were deleted.

  so through the media and my own personal experience, i realised that they were no different to corrupt businesses in the world.

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  Welcome from Northumberland. It will be tough for a while. Step one is to get over the whole attitude we were taught to have about "worldly people".

  Be open to new friendships and relationships. Don't spend another minute fretting over how unkind or corrupt the organisation or the elders are. They are not worth the time or energy. You will be okay.
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  Dunkirk.

  by zeb in

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  i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

  do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

  (not for kids).

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  Hitler has no Quarl with the British. He was really about finishing off the slavs, jews and communists

  What a bizarre statement!

  Is this myth taught in American schools? I bloody hope not.
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  Dunkirk.

  by zeb in

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  i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

  do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

  (not for kids).

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  There was nothing Hitler would have wanted more than to destroy the British army on the beaches. He thought he could do the job with planes. He didn't count on British ingenuity. Mustering an armada of small craft was genius.