I don't have a lot of advices for you but I can tell you that I became an atheist too, after many researchs. In the beginning, I was more like an agnostic (someone who believe there is no way to proove if god exist or not) but now, I recognize that this way of thinking is like "magical thinking". If we can accept that there may be a god somewhere, whitout any good proofs, we could also accept that Santa Claus exist and live in the north pole... Althougt we don't have any proofs of it.
Nicolas
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From JW to Atheist; Now, how do I face my family?
by AlmostAtheist inhey gang,.
i've read dozens of threads here, some sounding similar to what i'm writing now.
i can't help it, i want to talk about it.
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Proud to be canadian!
by Nicolas inwhat do canadians have to be proud of!
1. smarties .
2. crispy crunch, coffee crisp .
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And also, we don't have to worry about all kind of exotic insects and viruses, because most of them won't survive our cold winter.
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Proud to be canadian!
by Nicolas inwhat do canadians have to be proud of!
1. smarties .
2. crispy crunch, coffee crisp .
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WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF!
1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down
4. Lacrosse is Canadian
5. Hockey is Canadian
6. Basketball is Canadian
7. Apple pie is Canadian
8. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
9. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
10. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans
back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington,
under the command of William Lyon MaKenzie King who was insane and hammered
all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and
partied...Go figure..
11. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to
Germany.
12. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or
withdrew during any war to anyone. anywhere. EVER.
13. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an hour.
14. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American
mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in
time to get caught.
15. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
16. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and
is still around as the worlds oldest company.
17. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in
under 3 minutes.
18. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
19. We don't marry our kin-folk.
20. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin,
zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each
year.
21. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell
about it.
22. A Canadian invented Superman.
23. We have colured money.
24. Our beer advertisments kick ass
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
25. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with
mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada!!
26. And we don't bomb our allies.
oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!
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Dont walk on the grass.New system rules.
by sleepy inwhat rules do you think we would have had in a watchtower run new system?
when my local assembly hall was built it had grounds around it , which had a very large amount of money spent on them.brothers would come every week to look after them.you would think then that you could have a taste of the new system in these surroundings.the assembly hall with its large gardens could be a glimpse into the new system.the brothers and sisters just like the cover of the paradise tract sitting on the grass.but you havent bargined of the insanity of watchtower rules.we were told dont walk on the grass.
now why in gods name build an enormass garden around the assembly hall only to be told you carn't use it?all you could do was stand on the concrete pathway and look.
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"I remember as a kid that we were told that we would speak only Hebrew and that we would have to learn it or be left behind. All other languages would become obsolete. I think some wanted to even go ahead and get a jump start on it and learn some before the big A. As a kid, I absolutely dreaded the idea of learning Hebrew. It scared me to death to think that I might not be able to learn it well enough to be included in the new system."
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Would You Go To A Seminar Exposing The Society's "Secrets"?
by minimus ini was sent a letter stating that on friday august 27, 2004, there will be a seminar exposing the watchtower society's history and secrets.
during the program, they will have a guest speaker telling his story as to how he was abused by a governing body member at world headquarters.
another will testify that he was about to be appointed a ministerial servant while carrying on in an adulterous relationship.......besides exposing the "secrets", the letter says they'll be exposing the occult connections of the society, the mental manipulation and mind control, even elevated anxiety and mental illness amongst jws.
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I don't think that I would go to this kind of seminar. Personnally, I think that it's time to move on and I won't waste my precious time with something related to the Watchtower. I already wasted too much time because of the Jehovah's Witnesses
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Interesting Quote....
by TallTexan ini ran across the following quote in tom clancy's "rainbow six" and thought it interesting...druids had been pagans...and to which human lives had been sacrificed.
that had doubtless been a measure exercised by the priesthood to maintain their control over the peasants...and the nobility too, in fact, as all religions tended to do.
in return for offering some hope and certainty for the greatest mysteries of life - what happened after death, whty the rain fell when it did, how the world had come to be - they extracted their price of earthly power, which was to tell everyone how to live.
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Yes, of course really interesting
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How many here are still technically JW?
by Nicolas ini'd like to know how many people out there are still jw (inactive)?
and if you are inactive, what are you doing to stop the elder from disturbing you?
do you still have family in the org?
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I'd like to know how many people out there are still JW (inactive)? And if you are inactive, what are you doing to stop the elder from disturbing you? Do you still have family in the org?
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Kingdom Ministry
by Fullblast indoes anyone know where i can download a km on a monthly basis?
i checked the wt site but it would be to convenient for us to have that priveledge.
or should i say freedom?
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By the way, where can we find a zip of this 2003 WT CD?
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What they are not saying is that, we're going to move to a different economy than the economy of petrol, sooner or later as the price of this ressource become higher. There's a lot we can do to reduce our consommation of petrol but presently, we don't really care about it because it's still easy to get gas in our car, at a fairly low price. By example, we could possibly extract biodiesel from a fast growing algae: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25/1838201&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=134 and there's more about alternative energy here: http://www.geet.com/ ... I don't say that the transition will be easy, but it will come naturally when it won't be economically viable anymore to use petrol.