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  JWs Celebrating Brithdays

  by Franklin Massey in

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  i keep hearing of more and more jws that are celebrating their birthdays or, doing "special days" for their children on the day of their birth.

  i'm sure this has always been done but what interests me is that many people aren't ashamed to admit it since they have used their own fully functioning minds to figure out that the society's birthday ban doesn't hold up.

  one young couple with two kids (he's an ms, she's an ex-pioneer who dropped off the list to tend to the kids) explained it to me this way.... "the happiest days of our lives include the births of our children.

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  Christmas and Easter, on the other hand, possess pagan roots and I will have nothing to do with them.

  Then do you reject the practice of wedding rings too? You may want to stay away from cereal too. “Cereal” comes from Ceres, Roman counterpart of Demeter, Goddess of agriculture, harvest and grains.

  You might want to think twice about baptism too. It too has pagan origins, and yet it was approved of by Christ.

  In Egypt, the Book of Going Forth by Day contains a treatise on the baptism of newborn children, which is performed to purify them of blemishes acquired in the womb. Water, especially the Nile's cold water, which was believed to have regenerative powers, is used to baptize the dead in a ritual based on the Osiris story.
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  Yeah, that we do. And I reread my post that was judgemental. I said you "claim" to be a Christian. I didn't mean it that way, and I'm sorry. I was just asking how can one be a Christian and feel like the apostles fraudulently added to the story of Jesus. I didn't mean to call your Christianity into question. Just how that could be resolved in ones mind.
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  there is much to learn and understand about God and Christ that is NOT in the bible but is in God's greatest creation: The Universe we live in.

  And that is one thing that we definitely agree on, PSac.
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  You are being judgmental Dan and viewing things how you see them, rather than as they are and that is certaibly your purogative to do.

  I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be judgemental. Just trying to figure your beliefs out. I guess it's because I've never talked to anyone with beliefs quite like yours. So I'm sorry if I came across judgemental. I was just thinking of how I could get to the same point, and it doesn't seem like I could go down that path. But like I said, respect to you!
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  You are one open book dude

  Always keeping it real, dude!
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  Have you made MAJOR CHANGES since you started posting here?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i ask because i've been posting at jwd/jwn for 10 years now.

  i was a rapidly fading jw when i started but still considered myself a christian for a good few years more.

  now i've embraced reason and rejected faith i'm a very happy atheist and enjoy learning more about the fact of evolution.. what about you?.

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  fact of evolution
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  I'm circumsised and had my kids circumsised. But that was just because I didn't want them to have "tin man hats" and get made fun of. Plus uncircumsized doodles are creepy to me.
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  See, PSac, that's just it. I don't get you. No disrespect! But I don't understand how you can claim to be a Christian because you "like" what is said about Christ, but the ones who wrote the very account about Christ...you discredit them. If they went beyond what was written then they were deserving of death, according to scripture.
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  brotherdan

  Interesting chart. Should you trust ANY of these books as trustworthy copies?

  Author	When Written	Earliest Copy	Time Span	No. of Copies
  Homer (Iliad)	900 BC	400 BC	500 years	643
  Ceasar (The Gallic Wars)	100 - 44 BC	900 AD	1,000 years	10
  Plato (Tetralogies)	427 - 347 BC	900 AD	1,200 years	7
  Aristotle	384 - 322 BC	1,100 AD	1,400 years	49
  Herodotus (History)	480 - 425 BC	900 AD	1,300 years	8
  Euripedes	480 - 406 BC	1,100 AD	1,500 years	9
  New Testament	50 - 90 A.D.	130 AD	30 years	24,000
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  What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

  don't google it.

  i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

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  I would never be an atheist. I guess if I thew out the Bible I would go the way of Thomas Paine (obviously I'm reading Age of Reason right now). If the Bible is not true, then what Paine says MUST be true. Atheism does not make ANY sense to me.