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Anyone read the book "Was Jesus Married?&q...
by Judith in
1. jw
2. friends
i was given this book by a psychiatrist 30 years ago.

the thought behind the book was that jesus would not have stayed single and they gave the reasons why.

now that i am looking for more insight into religion, i would like to have the book again.
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Religious Sexism
by Judith in
1. social
2. entertainment
i attended college for the first time at age 46 after quietly walking away from the jw's.

i really wanted my children to go to college and thought my going would inspire them.

by the way, it worked.
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Did Jesus Teach Parents Should be Honored?
by JosephAlward in
1. watchtower
2. bible
matthew says that jesus tells his disciples to "honor your father and mother" (matt 19:19), but luke thinks that jesus requires his followers to hate their parents, "whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother...cannot be my disciple.

" (luke 14.26) .

couldn't god find a way for one to be a disciple of jesus without having to hate one's parents?
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Taliban/JW shuffle
by messenger in
1. jw
2. friends
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http://www.madblast.com/flash_shows/taliban.cfm
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Population BOOM!
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
let's assume that there are about 9,000,000 armageddon survivors (baptised jw's and their children), after just 30 years every survivor will be sexually mature and with increased vigour and health.. .

chemical contraception, condoms, i.u.d's etc will all be long gone so any married couple with a normal sex-drive will be producing children at an average rate of about 1 per year.. .

world population at the beginning of the 20th century was less than 1.5 billion.
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fading away quietly
by DIM in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife and i are moving 3000 miles away so that we can fade away as jehovah's witnesses.

i am looking for suggestions as to what i should do about our publisher record cards (keep them in pa?, get them forwarded to seattle?

) so that we can start our lives on the west coast with a fresh start and so we'll just be left alone...any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Funerals
by Xena in
1. jw
2. friends
i haven't been to a "worldly" funeral...well ever that i can remember.

all the funerals i have been to have been jw ones where they use it as another opportunity to preach to everyone in sight.

they usually make a token mention of the dead loved one and then begin with the resurrection and earthly paradise and how you have to be a jw to get there.. today i went to my aunts funeral.
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UN stuff
by why144000 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i have been watching the wt/un issue unfold.

while i am personally disappointed with the limp response from the 'spindoctors' from the society i believe that we are flogging a dead horse.

many of the people who would leave the society over this issue are already at a stage that they only need the 'straw to break the camels back'.
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Bizarre Urban Myth...have you heard it?
by Preston in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember a couple of years ago when i was out in field service i heard a story (haven't we all) about a district convention in california where the speaker was invited to give a talk, and as he was standing before the platform, he unexpectedly began to tell a slurry of sex jokes, profanities, and stories about his sex life.

everyone in attendance was shocked, and after he was removed from speaking, an elder had to inform the audience that what happened was completely unexpected and uncalled for.

being that i was a jw at the time i had no use for critical thinking, so i thought every word of it was true.
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most embarrasing thing ever at a meeting ...
by alliwannadoislive in
1. jw
2. friends
hey ... i'm just getting into the swing of this great 'apostasy' thing right ... ?

... i thought y'all out there might well have a story or two to tell, so ... plz tell me tell me tell me about the most embarrasing thing you ever saw at a meeting ...