Night Owl

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  Is your Intellect Pre-Enlightenment or Post-Enlightenment?

  by Terry in

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  before the age of enlightenment the earth was filled with many nations living under vastly differing beliefs about the world.. tribes, nations and empires possessed fanciful superstitious beliefs about their own importance in the big picture.. religion helped man find a place among fearful gods and demons.

  faith and belief, ritual and performance duties, helped man allay fears by.

  becoming active in appeasing the gods and shunning the evil spirits.. judaism allowed adherents a means of ridding themselves of sin (animal sacrifice) and accounting for wrongs (justice via law).. christianity removed animal sacrifice and substituted fealty to the church (catholic).

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  Are you led by logic or emotion?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  on a recent thread i admitted personal difficulties in the arena of critical thinking.

  logic and reason are not my strong suit, but i try.. you?.

  coco.

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  Anyone take depression/anxiety meds?

  by tresdecu in

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  2. friends

  just wondering if any ex or current "concious class" dubbers out there take anything; and if it works!

  my family is still in and with everything else going on in my life, sometimes i consider asking my doc about zolft / prosac.. thanks for any replies!.

  i should just ask 85% of my congregation-mates ... lol.

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  All the accusations- and no substance....how SHOCKING!

  by theMadJW in

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  are there pretenders in our brotherhood- as in all religion- that do what is evil?.

  yes.. have we made stupid guesses about some of the prophecies, as all churches do?.

  yes.. does our "organization" make mistakes- as, you guessed it, all do?.

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  More Mother Wars!

  by ColdRedRain in

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  it's been an ongoing issue with my mother and me.

  the house is very large and it needs 2 people to clean up the area.

  she usually picks times when i'm not around to clean up the place to clean up and i pick times that are convienent for me (saturdays and sundays) to do the same.

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  Atheist believe there is no God? Yes we do, strongly!

  by bohm in

  1. jw
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  there seem to have been a strong increase in entymological arguments lately, more precisely regarding the term atheist.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198111/1/lets-settle-this-for-once-and-for-all-is-atheism-a-belief-a-non-belief-or-an-anti-belief.

  i have reread the thread and i think i see where it goes very wrong.

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  The Bully Chain....................

  by Night Owl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you are sitting in your cubicle at work, doing what you are supposed to be doing, namely, working.. all of a sudden your boss comes over and starts give you a hard time.

  "your work hasn't been up to par!".

  "you've been spending too much time on the internet!".

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  SERIOUS QUESTION: just how many demons will fit inside a person?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are demons big or little?

  do they take up space?.

  do they infest our cells and peer out like they are trapped inside a jelly bean?.

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  A Short Introduction............

  by Night Owl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a former ms and have been active and inactive since i stepped down about 20 years ago.

  i am currently inactive.

  i may attend a meeting or two a month, sometimes none.. i have no feelings of animosity towards the organization, or anyone in it.

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  Toronto neighborhood kicks out street preachers.

  by chrisjoel in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhpixmpwpwk&feature=player_embedded.

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