It's extremely tough when a parent dies - you have my sympathy. You are in the ironic situation of wanting to be a person of faith like your mum; but her passing has somehow lessened your faith. You just have to let yourself grieve, and accept your feelings - life is a journey - it does get tough, and a lot of ideas & beliefs to get thrown away on the trip. You will find out what you want to know in time.
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Death of a loved one and faith
by ilikecheese inhey all.
i haven't posted in forever and a day, but i feel like this is a great place to ask this question because of so many people who are unsure of their beliefs.
my mom was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer about four years ago.
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Dear God,
by punkofnice ini miss you.
you were supposed to be a hope in bad times.
when i was in my darkest hour you weren't there.
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transhuman68
It's a good book - funny clever & incisive. Another good book is:
http://www.amazon.com/Misery-Christianity-Pelican-Joachim-Kahl/dp/0140213244
Sometimes it just takes the right person to say 'It's a complete crock...' and then you realise that it is a crock, and always will be, so then you chuck it all away and move on. Not just knowing the facts, but being emotionally able to come to a decision - that's where the anger of these 2 authors
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Dear God,
by punkofnice ini miss you.
you were supposed to be a hope in bad times.
when i was in my darkest hour you weren't there.
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transhuman68
LOL, this book will explain it all:
http://www.amazon.com/God-Interview-books-Terry-Lane/dp/0733302424
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The Gates Ajar and Charles Taze Russell
by slimboyfat ini was listening to beyond belief yesterday, a radio 4 programme that treats religious ideas as worthy of consideration and discussion.
yesterday they were talking about belief in the afterlife.
they mentioned something i'd never heard of before.
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transhuman68
Yeah, but what about this guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov
He believed that people could live forever and the dead could be resurrected.
C. T. Russell jumped onto a very popular bandwagon; complete with ideas that seemed plausible in his
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I thought Christmas was more a catholic origination???
by EndofMysteries infrom when a jw, it was at least always told to me how catholics took on christmas, and all the other pagan celebrations etc.
recently i met a russian who said they are catholic and in russia they don't really celebrate christmas.
it's more an american thing and that new years is the bigger deal and the closest thing to christmas to them is something on like jan 7th.
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transhuman68
LOL, you do realise that everything you want to know is at Wikipedia?
The Russkies didn't celebrate Christmas when they were commies, so that might explain something there.
But who really cares what its origins are? Only a sicko dead-beat r would ban Christmas, lol.
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merry xmas
by Sabin init has just turned 12 o'clock in n.s.w, australia, is i am just saying merry christmas to all you on the forum & i hope you all happy a happy new year.
big hugs all round.
sabin.
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transhuman68
Merry Christmas you crazy mofos!
Ho ho ho.
TH68 in the land of Oxz.
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How Deep was your search in Bible or Religions ?
by Kick50r inhow far / deep was your research on the origins of the bible or religions or most importantly the concepts (heaven -gods - immortality-etc)today many millions of people believe as the truth?.
why did these concepts existed ?.
why so many people today still believe in these concepts ?.
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transhuman68
Probably a good book to read is 'Breaking The Spell' by Daniel C. Dennett. It explores the origin of religions, the supernatural etc. as an explanation of 'unexplainable' events - but then, a couple of thousand years ago almost everything was unexplainable, lol. -
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Should Obama and coalition troops push ISSI'S out of Iraq??
by Witness 007 inwe are having weekly terror attacks.
you cant just keep carpet bombing as little ground has been won against issi's in one year.
they are making millions from oil and farming.
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transhuman68
LOL. Syria is a media black hole- it's impossible to know what is really happening there, and we are just being fed propaganda. But as I see it, the West needs ISIL - they are the only ones who can stop an alliance of Assad, Hezbollah,Iran & Russia from controlling a huge portion of the Middle East; and controlling oil production, and so prices. Ask yourself, who does ISIL sell it's oil to? It's going to our ally and NATO partner Turkey, who are allowing arms to be shipped to ISIL in return. It's a fake war- put on by Western politicians to increase their own popularity. In a year or two ISIL will change their name like the PLO did, and we will all love them. This war is a scam and will make the West look very foolish, especially as all this chaos was started by George W's ill-advised invasion of Iraq in 2003. ISIL in Iraq are the Sunni ex-Ba'ath party army, who were dismissed without pay by Paul Bremer. ISIL is just an ideology - it can't be beaten militarily anyway.
Well, that's my opinion,
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Sex and Marriage
by nicolaou inmost religions indoctrinate a standard sexual 'morality' into their followers.
sex before marriage is wrong, gay sex is wrong, same sex marriage is wrong, masturbation is wrong.. let's not turn this into another religion bashing thread (too easy), i was wondering how much of that pre-packaged thinking you still hold to?.
i still value marriage, more than ever.
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transhuman68
I actually have no morals at all, and probably most people are less moral than they think they are; as they always approve of what they themselves do, but not what others do, as sex is a very individual taste. But that's the way it is, and people reap the consequences of their actions- or not, but life goes on and many things that seem like a big deal really -
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Old Books and Magazines
by twice shy init's been a minute since i was here.
question?
what to do with old books and magazines?
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transhuman68
The old JW books from the 40's are really worth reading- hard to believe, but it's true, lol. I bought one and read it a couple of years ago, and it made me happy as I was finally able to see a pattern in the JW beliefs- how it all seems to make sense at the time; but 10 or 20 years later it's no longer relevant or even possible- so it all keeps changing. The PDF's are great, but there's nothing like the real thing, lol.