Topics Started by losthobbit

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Pension funds and the end of the world
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ignore this if it's been asked a thousand times before, but what's the policy on pension fund contributions?.

do jw's tend to contribute towards pension funds, knowing the world's about to end?.

theoretically they would take out the biggest loan they can afford, not expecting to ever pay it back.. talking about the end of the world... when's the next one due?
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The Zeitgeist Movement
by losthobbit in
1. jw
2. friends
just wondering if anyone here is a supporter of the zeitgeist movement?

it's not a religion, and it's not zeitgeist: the movie.

it's a group of people who want to eliminate the world's biggest problems by removing their root cause.
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What's your favourite scary metaphor?
by losthobbit in
1. jw
2. friends
you can't argue with a scary metaphor.

and i have to credit djeggnog for his scary phrase referring to people who don't believe the same things he does, as those who: "unknowingly walk about blindly in religious dungeons of ignorance.".

my favourite scary metaphor i've read is for people who leave the religion: "those who enter the world of satan and become part of the antichrist.".
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I also have questions about field service...
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i never was a jw, so please excuse my lack of knowledge here.... after reading some posts on this forum it seems i've realized that i don't fully understand what field service is.

it seems that field service is the following (and please correct me):.

- something jw's have to do for a specific number of hours per month.
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21 April 2011 was judgment day...
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sorry if anyone's already posted this, but i thought it's important to point out that 21st of april 2011 was judgement day.. http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/2011/04/21.

in case anyone missed the end of the world, that's because it happened "invisibly".... guess that means i can stop believing in terminator prophecies and enjoy the rest of my life... party on!.
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What is the soul?
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
having been religious i often searched for evidence agreeing with my point of view.

i have since left my religion, because of the vast amount of evidence against it, but there are still two concepts that boggle my mind: the beginning of time, and the soul.. my understanding of what the soul is, is not a ghost that floats around, scaring people at night.

it is you, the thing that makes you alive, that allows you to experience pain and happiness, and differentiates you from a robot.. perhaps you're believe that pain and happiness are merely electrical signals travelling around in your brain, which i think is partly correct, but i will share some examples as to why i think it isn't that simple.. i don't think of humans as being their bodies.
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Is it possible to define faith in a simple, logical, unambiguous way?
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was wondering if it's actually possible to define what faith is in a simple, logical, unambiguous way.. .

i have a theory that words which cannot be defined in a simple, logical, unambiguous way do not really mean anything specific, and therefore should probably be avoided.. .

i know there have been books written on this subject, but i think that anyone who has to write an entire book to define a simple word like faith, does not really understand what it means.. .
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Hidden implications of Genesis
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. bible
today when i read it, i see a completely different story.. the bible is completely true, or at least that's what many people believe.

when asking them which translation is true, the person might pick their favourite translation.

when asking about things that contradict, be logically incorrect, or refer to unscientific things like the four corners of the earth, one might get a response that some of it is symbolic, and not meant to be taken literally, but everything else is entirely true.. the same principle can be applied to any piece of writing.
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Free novel
by losthobbit in
1. social
2. entertainment
hi you wonderful people.

they let anyone write a novel, and so i did.

it's called "the mischievous nerd's guide to world domination.
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A question to the ex-JW's...
by losthobbit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm curious about what made you realize that your ex-religion was not "true"?.

i've had discussions with many religious people, and they're always trying to protect their beliefs, rather than allowing anything i say challenge what they believe.

was there ever something someone said to you, or something you read that maybe made you doubt your beliefs for the first time, or had a similar effect?.