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  Why do I feel bad about my children leaving the JW religion?

  by lifeisgood in

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  2. friends

  (please, no jws come in here to convert me, i don't want to talk to you).

  i left the jw religion after twenty years.

  i had one teenager and two small children then.

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  I'm Starting To Understand Atheist and Evolution

  by Philadelphia Ponos in

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  2. bible

  for many years i was sincerely perplexed when someone told me they believed in the evolution theory or were an atheist.

  i never understood how someone could ignore all the evidence for intelligent design and overlook all the holes in the evolution theory.

  for example, the human biology clock is synced with the rotation of the earth, the earth is the perfect distance away from the sun to sustain life, the earth has an ozone layer to protect us from the sun's radiation, the earth naturally produces fruits and vegetables to be used for food, our bodies produce enzymes to break down the fruits and vegetables so it can nourish us, the earth produces water and oxygen, etc.

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  To my fellow atheists:

  by NomadSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just curious to know the steps that brought you to become an atheist.

  just wanted to shared mine in a nutshell:.

  1. learned that evolution had credibility.

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  my story....

  by losecontrol in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well i am new to this, and i must admit that at first i was very opposed to this site.

  i grew up being a witness and was warned about looking into apostate things, which is exactly what this site would be that they are referring to.

  i always tried to live my life the best that i could under the societys control, and never really got to have any life experiance at all.

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  The first Jehovah's Witness I ever met is now my wife.

  by wyorobert in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  our story like many of yours is way too crazy and long to tell.

  the short version is that i was crazy about my wife from the minute i met her.

  she seemed to like me and before we had time to think about anything, she left her husband and religion and moved in with me.

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  Why does God permit suffering? Don't let others answer this question for you

  by sabastious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wasn't the answer to this question wrapped up in a neat little package when you were young?

  it was easily explainable and it made you feel so warm inside that you knew that god felt passionately bad about the suffering and that it was going to stop.. there is so much pain in this world.

  people are starving, people are being torchered by others who have lost their minds, there is endless suffering on this planet.

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  Why I no longer believe the Bible is "God's Word" and I no longer believe in "God"

  by lifeisgood in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i became a christain at the age of 9. not by going to a church or asking a preacher to baptize me, or anything like that.

  i started reading my mother's king james bible cover to cover at the age of 8. my father was very abusive and when he was abusing me, i would close my eyes and pray.

  i never hated my father, which is one good thing i got out of prayer.. when i turned 13 i became a lay preacher and traveled, on my own, preaching in any church that would let me.. when i was 15 i studied with the jws and was baptized after four months of study.. i was a zealous christain but not a zealous jw, according to them.

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  I've decided to take the plunge, but....

  by ColdRedRain in

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  2. friends

  don't tell my girlfriend.

  secretly, i've had feelings for a person she doesn't know about.

  we've been seeing each other for the past 3 months, and so far, he's been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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  How and when was the New Testament Compiled?

  by ProdigalSon in

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  2. bible

  early christian writings.. .

  let alone "inspired by god?

  church councils) this is what i mean by spiritual osmosis.. there are other early lists of new testament books that.

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  Are you suspicious of LURKERS?

  by VampireDCLXV in

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  2. friends

  we all know they're here but we don't really know who they are.. they are people who sign up here and then never comment (or rarely ever do).. doesn't that make any of you regulars here at the very least a tiny bit suspicious?.

  why would a person sign up to a forum like this and then never say a damn thing?

  it seems to me that there is a primary reason why some folks sign up and then never comment on anything: to spy.

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