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  What's your spiritual type?

  by RR in

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  2. friends

  here's a test.

  http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionid=&surveyid=27/.

  questioning believer you have doubts about the particulars but not the big stuff.

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  It's just dawned on me...

  by Billygoat in

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  ...that jw's have a hard time forgiving others because they themselves are rarely forgiven for their own sins.

  according to their beliefs jehovah keeps track of every detail of your life...good and bad.

  that even if you are humble and repent of your sins, that there is still no true forgiveness until the new system.

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  My favorite activity

  by LB in

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  2. physical

  i love scuba, blowing bubbles is about as good as it gets.

  while i enjoy warm water diving the best i will dive anywhere including under ice.

  any other scuba lovers out there?<p>.

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  Should I call the local elders

  by joelbear in

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  witnesses always say if you have questions, you should discuss them with the local elders.. most of you have seen over the past few days, the 5 or 6 questions which led me to leave the witnesses and take up my hedonistic lifestyle.. should i call the elders and give them a chance to answer my questions?

  i've asked my father some of them, but it always turns into an argument and upsets my mother too much for me to really pursue the discussion as far as i would like.. just to reiterate.. my questions are:.

  1. is there a logical explanation of god's justice system for the universe, which includes all sentient creatures and how they are judged?.

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  Breaking Through Cognitive Dissonance?

  by indireneed in

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  i've been thinking alot lately about how my life sucks.

  i guess everyone is entitled to disliking their life a little, but the holiday is really starting to get me down.

  that's strange becaue it used to be my favorite time of the year!

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  It could've been worse....

  by SixofNine in

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  we could've been stupid islamic fundies.

  http://www.secularhumanism.org/wtc.htm#_ftn1

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  "I am haunted by waters"

  by ashitaka in

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  how many here have seen a river runs through it?.

  god i love that movie.

  "i am haunted by waters.....".

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  To my friends-

  by ashitaka in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't want to spam, but i just wanted to post one more topic tonite.

  i was reading bridgette's post, and was moved, but not just because of what she said...mommy made a comment about us being friends here, and you know what...i feel that way too.. sometimes, even though i have a wife who left the jw's with me, i feel so damn isolated and alone, that i'm the only strong one among a bunch of children, who all fight and tear at each other....this is one place i feel semi-normal again.. it's so hard to befriend people now.

  i have so much trouble talking to people and interacting socially with people, although i've been told i'm agreeable to be around.. i don't know, i'm exhausted from thinking.

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  They shun you--Do you love them?

  by ashitaka in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for all who have, are, or will be shunned (which should pretty much be all of us), do you still have a deep love for those who now shun you...now, not familial love, but an active love that yearns for that person's companionship?.

  i have several regrets; one of them is the friends that i've lost.

  how about you guys?.

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  Most romantic line from a song??

  by SixofNine in

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  2. entertainment

  i've narrowed it down to three choices:.

  bonnie raitt singing..... "that summer night in texas, baby.

  too hot and wet to sleep.

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