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  Went to SAD

  by leaving_quietly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  b.o.r.i.n.g.. same ol' stuff.

  highlights:.

  - reading the bible "must be more than an intellectual experience".

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  breakfast of champions

  You could desdribe me a lot of different ways. Lazy would not be one of them.

  Because "apostates" don't want to go door to door spreading their horseshit, they're lazy. Bunch of arrogant assholes.
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  I am at a gay bar!!!

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. friends

  so fun!!!

  full report later..... .

  dd.

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  breakfast of champions

  That's great!

  Glad you had a good time.
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  Watchtower® and their education

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok. i'm a brit as some of you know.. what i noticed with the wbt$ is how they only seem to write from an american cultural standpoint.

  not a bad thing if you're one of my cousins form the usa i admit........ but.... here in the uk there are some things that are meaningless to us.. eg hazing.

  this was warned about in a study and over here we had no idea what it was and it kind of alienated the congregation from the study.

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  breakfast of champions

  "It struck me that the WBT$ was either incredibly lazy or myopic or both."

  Both. And much much more. . . .
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  In Defense Of Pantheism

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/03/a-new-form-of-intelligent-life-on-earth-plants-found-to-have-a-memory-and-make-complex-decisions.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3a+thedailygalaxynewsfromplanetearthbeyond+%28the+daily+galaxy+--great+discoveries+channel%3a+sci%2c+space%2c+tech.%29.

  i hope the link works....it's on dailygalaxy anyway and deals with the mystery of how plants seem to make decisions.. rather than choose between atheism or theism, i choose pantheism - that the universe has a degree of consciousness distributed thruout it, perhaps even down to the quantum level.

  we can call this background of a maintained cosmos "god" if we want.

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  breakfast of champions

  "I choose pantheism - that the universe has a degree of consciousness distributed thruout it, perhaps even down to the quantum level."

  I think what you are describing here might be panpsychism.
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  Hello

  by GoUnion in

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  hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

  this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

  please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.

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  breakfast of champions

  Wow. Great post GOUNION. Welcome!
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  I did it !!!!

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.

  i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.

  i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.

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  breakfast of champions

  Awesome!!!!

  Lots of REAL good news today.
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  I'm not trying to brag, but being an EXJW is awesome!!! Status Update-

  by Coffee House Girl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello jwn!

  i don't get to check in here or comment as often as i would like because i have been working so hard at school...but i just have to share my news in hopes that newbees can see that taking the leap to enroll in higher education is worth it-.

  i am graduating this spring with a bachelor degree in art history, minor anthropology...many people (including nonjw's have given me flack for choosing a "dead end" career path) but since leaving the watchtower organization's group-think mentality and "leaning on my own understanding" instead... i decided to say fuck everyone else's opinion...i am going to pursue my passion to work in a museum as a curator or archivist-.

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  breakfast of champions

  Awesome, awesome AWESOME!!!!!!!

  Congrats!!!!!!!!! Go for it!

  Best,

  BOC
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  Hardcore JW Friend Predicts the End of the Organization within 10 years.

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had a conversation with an aspiring elder.

  he said the end must be close because people are so discouraged that the organization can't last more than 10 years.

  this is before we received the please come to the international convention letter.

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  breakfast of champions

  Interesting, KNEEHIGHMIAH.

  My BIL is a reluctantly "aspiring elder" as well ( he thinks he's going to help 'change things' - Ha!). He also doesn't think "the system" can last longer than a few years.

  I don't know. . . Perhaps not an implosion, but something's gonna give, IMHO.
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  hello

  by fakefading in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello my fellow "apostates".

  just wanted to say hi.

  i'm still in the borg but mentally out.

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  breakfast of champions

  Welcome!
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  Every JW should pay attention to Steven Pinker's lecture: A History of Violence

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  came across this lecutre (or alternatively you can read the transcript) in a class from yale on moralities of everyday life:.

  a history of violence edge master class 2011some excepts:.

  "believe it or notand i know most people do notviolence has been in decline over long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.".

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  breakfast of champions

  Better Angels: great book, but a bit dense. A lot of statistics, if I remember correctly.

  No JW would ever read it. Too long.

  Pinker should release a set of pastel-colored tracts.