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Fall of Giants---Ken Follet
by ldrnomo in
1. social
2. current
one of the most freeing things i've been able to do since fading from the watchtower's tendril like grasp is, "read what i want to" i particularly enjoy historial novels because they entertain and inform all at the same time.

i'm just finishing the first of a trilogy "fall of giants" and there was a paragraph that made me think of the great influence of propaganda machines (probably because i was so influenced by the watchtower) i am hugely aware of it's power to lead people all over the place like the waves of the sea i suppose.. here is the paragraph:.

maud knew the proprietor of the mail, lord northcliffe.
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Catfish Learn to Catch Pigeons
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.businessinsider.com/catfish-have-learned-how-to-hunt-pigeons-2012-12.

it's that devil-inspired evo-lution at work, i tell ya!.

metatron.
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Interesting Jesus cults
by Christ Alone in
1. jw
2. friends
larsinger and his posts got me to thinking about others that believe/believed that they are/were jesus.

i started looking up a ton of info and stumbled across some pretty interesting cults.

i just wanted to create a thread to talk about or post videos, links, or articles about modern day cults that you have found interesting.
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What would Jesus think of Crosses everywhere?
by Simon in
1. social
2. humour
.

http://imgur.com/gallery/k9hiq.
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Why did the Early Church Accept the Four NT Gospels and Reject the Gnostic Gospels?
by Christ Alone in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this has been a subject that has been explored by many secular scholars today.

bart ehrman is one of them.

the divinci code had this to say about why the gospels were chosen:.
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I Still Can't Celebrate Xmas. Can You? Christians vs Atheists
by Malsonilla in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
while in the organization we learned one bit of truth regarding christmas; that it was originally a pagan observance, the summer solstice, adopted by christians much later in church history, and has nothing to do with jesus christ whatsoever.

no biggy for most true believers who left the organization who have slipped into (or fell back into) the grind of commercialized christmas with all the trappings and traditions of ritual binge spending that takes them even farther away from jesus than christmas' pagan roots ever could.

these true believers might say something like, "i know xmas has its roots in paganism, but we celebrate anyway because of x y z", perhaps echoing or paroting the frustrating responses we use to hear from "worldly" goats/folks when we would explain to them how christmas is not a christian observance whatsoever.
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JWs Could Learn A Lot from the First Baptist Church
by jamiebowers in
1. jw
2. friends
the other day i found a red plastic bag hanging on the knob of our exterior door.

it contained a calendar with beautiful landscape scenes and scriptures for every month of the year.

i'm not a bible believer, but i hung up the calendar because of the pretty pictures.
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Anyone know of any effective but simple diets/diet tips? Weight gain after giving up smoking!
by Lozhasleft in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm really struggling with this.

i gave up smoking a few months back and have put on around 20lbs already.

i've gone up another dress size and i wasn't slim to begin with!
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Argentina Must Suffer!
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/03/argentina-paying-economic-vulture-fund.

the banksters are afraid.

argentina must suffer, not succeed!
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An interesting chat between Dawkins and Gervais
by cedars in
1. jw
2. friends
i obviously don't agree with everything that's said (especially when gervais talks about agnostics!

), but it's an intriguing discussion between two clever people, and some mostly good reasoning on display.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd92qy2zmv0.

cedars.