I always welcome Tammy's, PSac's and OTWO's comments (and the others, too). Spice makes the thread palatable.
Robdar? Is that really you?
Will do, unshackled.
You're welcome, Dagney. Your comments resonate. Thank you for dropping in.
Nickolas
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The God Delusion - online documentary films - Parts 1 & 2
by Nickolas inwhile searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
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Wanted to get reinstated... Almost ready to give up
by headisspinning ini'd like to hear from anyone who was disfellowshipped but fully intended to go back as soon as possible and how that worked out or didn't.
i'd like to hear how soon you went back to meetings, how many letters requesting reinstatement you wrote, how you were treated, and how long it took you to get bitter and jaded.... or in the off chance you had a positive experience, what exactly happened.. really struggling here... thanks!.
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Nickolas
Take your time, headisspinning. Don't be in a rush to go back. Truth is not stale dated and the measure of who you are is not a label and not a process. Keep asking questions. The most important being, "why am I not allowed to ask questions?"
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The God Delusion - online documentary films - Parts 1 & 2
by Nickolas inwhile searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
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Nickolas
Yes, I've seen Religulous, OTWO, and agree that it's great.
Sure would like to find those two documentaries mentioned in my OP. I've read the Silent Lambs transcript and think it would be something I would try to convince my wife to watch (I can dream). I've contacted the CBC and Fifth Estate by email asking for sources.
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The God Delusion - online documentary films - Parts 1 & 2
by Nickolas inwhile searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
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Nickolas
And he is wrong.
I don't think so, but I respect your right to your opinion, PSac.
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The God Delusion - online documentary films - Parts 1 & 2
by Nickolas inwhile searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
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Nickolas
Dawkins has come to an inexorable conclusion that Creationism and Theism are joined at the hip and that both are in direct conflict with science. He is sticking to what he does best.
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The God Delusion - online documentary films - Parts 1 & 2
by Nickolas inwhile searching for online documentaries about jehovah's witnesses (in particular "children of jehovah" by the cbc and "silent lambs" by the fifth estate - neither of which i found) i came across this one, featuring richard dawkins.
free to watch online.
48 mins.
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Nickolas
While searching for online documentaries about Jehovah's Witnesses (in particular "Children of Jehovah" by the CBC and "Silent Lambs" by The Fifth Estate - neither of which I found) I came across this one, featuring Richard Dawkins. Free to watch online. 48 mins. Looks pretty good.
http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=349
Edit. This is the first of two parts of the BBC documentary, Root of All Evil, which as it turns out I have already seen. Still worth watching. The second part, Virus of Faith, is available on the same site.
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Evolution vs. Watchtower Society
by FrankWTower ina few months ago i had a part in the service meeting about evolution.
it was based on the reasoning book's entire section on the topic.
my conscience bothered me because it was the scientific method and science in general that led me to doubt my beliefs in the first place.
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Nickolas
I could be wrong.
A fair assumption.
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Creationists . . . . hope you can laugh at yourselves.
by nicolaou in.
because i sure as hell laughed at you when i saw this!
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Nickolas
Good one.
Of course, creationists would argue that it's still a bacteria, and its recent drug resistent mutations prove nothing. Ignorance, and rationalisation of one's irrational beliefs, is bliss.
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Who REALLY IS the Faithful and Discreet Slave?
by TimothyT inim 23 and im still a jw.
the jehovahs witnesses claim that god is using their earthly organisation in the last days!
im realy not too sure.
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Nickolas
I do not know. I don't even know if god exists, although I am as certain on that score as logic and evidence allows. What I am absolutely certain about is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is not what it represents itself to be, so the GB is also not what it represents itself to be. It took me a few decades to come to that conclusion, so it's not that I jumped to it. Keep asking questions, TimothyT. And don't let the trolls in here scare you away.
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I THINK IT'S RIDICULOUS !!!!!!!!!!!
by wasblind in1) i think it's ridiculous to tell anyone when and how to use something they paid for ( computers and internet service ).
2) i think it's ridiculous to tell married couples how to act in the bedroom.
3) i think it's ridiculous to tell people what kinda cars they should buy ( 4 door for fieldservice ).
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Nickolas
It's ridiculous that people fall for the Watchtower story at all, then again maybe it's not so surprising when you consider from whence we have come. A hundred years ago we were quaintly intellectual and just starting really to understand physics and science. There were horseless carriages, ocean liners and flying machines in those days, considered miracles of science and engineering. A couple hundred years before that we didn't even have the steam engine. Our intellectual evolution is growing exponentially. But we as a species go back hundreds of thousands of years. That's a whole lot of hard wired heritage to go through, and we still have a ways to go. How does a bronze-age story endure? Such remarkable persistence. If you compare absolute contexts - reality when the Bible was written and reality today - it's astonishing that anyone with a brain can buy into the Watchtower story, but it happens nevertheless. Happened to me, in fact. Maybe I don't have a brain, after all. Or didn't.
my .02