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  Atheism or Agnosticism, which one is correct?

  by Joey Jo-Jo in

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  this has been bugging me for a while, and while i dont want to turn this into something about semantics i think that we should quickly define what an agnostic and atheists are.. richard dawkins defines 7 different types of atheist ranging from weak to militant atheists, but along these definitions there appears one definition with a strong resemblance to agnosticism.. to me an agnostic is a person who neither believes nor disbelieves in deity/deities, but there are those who define agnostics as a ignorant who simply just don't care or don't have the intelligence to come to sound conclusion.. an atheist can be a person who disbelieves in a deity/deities based on the current mathematical and scientific understandings of the universe, as well as understandings that can refute certain religions such as the strong influence of protestantism christianity in america.. .

  from here i will refer deity as anything ranging jehovah to a real spaghetti monster, it's not important because a) we dont know b)for the purpose of this discussion it is not important to define what we believe god to be.. an argument that can be used about a deity is -we cannot prove nor disprove that god exists- this is referred to as a null hypothesis, an assumption that we cannot create a hypothesis to prove or disprove this deity.

  this to me is agnosticism and is more correct than the idea of atheism.

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  I am an atheist I put God in the same section of mythological creatures
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  REAL life of a JW!

  by Silent_Scream in

  1. jw
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  born into jw family.

  5 years old - you are told celebrations and gifts on those days are from satan.

  therefore, in school, your an weird outcast.

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  I have to admit life was hard as JW and now I see life from a different perspective.
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  Growing Old in this System of Things

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the other day, i had to make a stop at a personal care home to do something work-related.

  while i was waiting, who do i see walking through the hallway?

  why, it's sister k!

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  I see how some Jw's I know are aging quickly and still probably think armageddon is just a few years off. It is actually sad to see how many have wasted their lives doing this.
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  You know you're getting old

  by beksbks in

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  2. friends

  when you are in the grocery store, and they are playing the ramones "i wanna be sedated"!.

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  When your cousin asks you what a walkman is, I am 21 and I feel old at times.LOL
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  Angst

  by onacruse in

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  2. friends

  do you feel it?.

  i feel it, almost every day, and sometimes so intensely that it literally wakes me up in a cold sweat at 2 in the morning, just to toss and turn for the next 3 hours, like a pig on a spit.. that damnably frustrating anguish about so many things: the "what ifs," the "could have beens, "the should i have...??".

  on the one hand, as an ex-jw, i can, and do, easily find a certain satisfaction in saying to myself "it was that god-damned religion in which i was raised.".

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  I agree I feel that way sometimes. I feel that sometimes I have lived a lie but take comfort in the sense that I am a constantly evolving person who does not have all the answers.
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  Is It Later Than You Think?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. jw
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  well i can't be bothered printing this off and going to the kh parking lot tomorrow morning, so i did the next best thing.

  an anonymous email to my jw contacts with this all by itself.... subject line: can't wait for the special talk tomorrow!.

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  They seem to have recycled the same theme
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  Are you attending the Memorial this year?

  by XPeterX in

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  dunno about you but i'm going..

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  A family member of mine went just to prove that just becuase I an disassociated you cannot scare me. I wanted to be their to prove a point myself but I had class.Debating me would have been interesting.
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  What was the last meeting you ever went to?

  by lilbluekitty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i figured out it's been 4 months and 5 days since my last meeting ever.

  july 10th, it was a sunday.

  i hadn't been there in 2 months or so and decided to see if anyone noticed i'd been gone.

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  Timebandit. I do the exact same thing I see a JW and say hi and they try to ignore me. I find it funny how judgemental they are when in fact they are not supposed to be.
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  Huxley on how to control followers

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just directed to a great website lettersofnote.com that contains many famous and interesting letters.

  one is from huxley to orwell, and displayed at 1984 vs brave new world.

  huxley made the following prediction in 1949 on how a government can control its followers, which seems to align with the methods used by the governing body.. .

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  It may work for some but not everyone.
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  What was the last meeting you ever went to?

  by lilbluekitty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i figured out it's been 4 months and 5 days since my last meeting ever.

  july 10th, it was a sunday.

  i hadn't been there in 2 months or so and decided to see if anyone noticed i'd been gone.

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  In Nov of 2008 it was raining and I was with some family members and we left and did not return. It has been 4 yrs and it feels good.