chief rabbi leon ashkenazi said: "the difference between an atheist christian and an atheist jew is that an atheist christian does not believe that god exists, while an atheist jew believes that god does not exist.".
i'm not so sure about the jewish-christian borderline, but i love the nuance.. so which sentence suits you better?.
"i don't believe that god exists.".
I'd have to go with
"I believe that God does not exist."
That's telling me that that person has his or her mind made up about that particular sort of thing, or that they may believe in another omnipresent force.
and something else got me to thinkin'--isn't atheist Christian or atheist Jew kind of an oxymoron?
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growing up in the jw religion and having a dad who was an elder, i remember how controlling they were.
i find it amazing now just how much of my childhood i missed out on.
i couldn't watch alot of t.v.
Be nice Dustin.
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that's what she just told me.
2 elders plan on giving her a shepherding call and will outline exactly what and what not she can do with her granddaughter----now that she is marked.
I think she enjoys telling them off.
Well, I know how that sheperding call is gonna go. Hope she tells them off good so they'll get the point. When I get to that age, I hope I can still tell people off effectively. laters kaykay_mp
hi i cant say to much i am 3rd gen witness 8 1/2 yrs inactive on the work :-).
3 yrs no meetings best thing i ever did was stop going any way...i am baptized .
i have read the crisis of con book 1st class!!
I'm thinking about sending COC to my mother anonymously. Trying to figure out how I can do that since they want your return address on whatever you send nowadays. She's too cool to be a JW.
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can any one tell me what the 'significant differences' are between the old green bible and new black bible?.
having been a jw for almost forty years i never knew of a difference except that my mum is the only jw i know who still uses one.
is it possible that i could show her anything 'interesting'?
Yeah, the green one had some bitchin pictures in the cover. When I was a kid I had an overactive imagination, and I could waste half the meeting looking at those pictures.
Those maps on the inside were cool. I used to draw pictures on them of people having swordfights. Boy, did I get busted for that big time.
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i think i still might have a complex.
so i'm gonna tell my story so you can all laugh at me.
dustin
I don't think you realize that as far as I'm concerned the JW religion is a crock of shit. I'm an apostate through and through. I don't fear Jehovah or his rules.
woooo! It's getting hot in hrrrrrr!
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growing up in the jw religion and having a dad who was an elder, i remember how controlling they were.
i find it amazing now just how much of my childhood i missed out on.
i couldn't watch alot of t.v.
it's time for me to wax serious on one of these posts today:
My grandparents were total control freaks. They had me watched virtually every second of the day, even at school. They knew everyone in the town, and my g-dad was an uber-elder. Anytime I broke a routine, talked to a member of the opposite sex (even if I asked to borrow something), etc.
I was drving to school one morning and I found a few bucks in the van, so I decided to deviate from my usual route to school to go to McDonald's for a yummy Bacon Egg & Cheese Bisucit (the staple of field service goers in Tennessee). I thought every thing was kosher until I got home from school. Thirty minutes later my g-mom pops in and says, "What were you doing going to McDonald's this morning?" "Oh no, I don't understand, I went straight to school." "No, someone saw you go."
Son of a bitch.
And I can remember this other time I went to Wal-Mart to get a pregnancy test (bc I was messing with a worldly boy on the dl, which was eventually found out as well). I managed to get the test home and waited until late at night to take it. Then I put the test with the box deep in the outside garbage can so I wouldn't be found out (results were negative btw). The very next day when I get home from school, my aunt tells me, "so, are you pregnant or not?"
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every time i've attended a dc in an indoor arena, i 've noticed a u.s. flag hanging on the rafters or somewhere prominently displayed.
of course it is a permanent fixture of the arena.
anyways, since national flags are symbols of idolatry.
Yeah, especially after 9-11 with all the patriotism going on.
It would drive the dubs freekin' crazy if the stadium had all these flags hanging from the rafters and patriotic-colored streamers everywhere. I'd love to see the looks on their faces if that happened. That would definitely be a time when there would be absolutely nothing they could do about it.
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i think i still might have a complex.
so i'm gonna tell my story so you can all laugh at me.
dustin
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every time i've attended a dc in an indoor arena, i 've noticed a u.s. flag hanging on the rafters or somewhere prominently displayed.
of course it is a permanent fixture of the arena.
anyways, since national flags are symbols of idolatry.
Another slap in the face for the WT. Yay!
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