Try Karen Armstrong's "A History of God."
Sam Harris' "Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion" is great too.
cappytan
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Good books to read?
by thedepressedsoul ini read crisis on the conscience and i am about to start, "who wrote the bible?
does anyone have a list or great books to read for anyone searching for the real truth?
i've only ever seen the world through a jw lens and i am excited to see what other view points are out there!
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Condescending theist tries to comfort fellow exjw's by telling them life isn't worth living without Sky Daddy
by cappytan inthis guy took over the exjw meetup.com group i follow and just sent out this email to all of us.to all members : i stepped in as an organizer to save the group in the hopes of connecting with other believers.
it appears that after leaving jehovahs witnesses you all have given up your promise to spend the rest of your lives serving god.
that now your free to just do whatever you want!
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Stan: Arrrrrrrrrrgh. -
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Condescending theist tries to comfort fellow exjw's by telling them life isn't worth living without Sky Daddy
by cappytan inthis guy took over the exjw meetup.com group i follow and just sent out this email to all of us.to all members : i stepped in as an organizer to save the group in the hopes of connecting with other believers.
it appears that after leaving jehovahs witnesses you all have given up your promise to spend the rest of your lives serving god.
that now your free to just do whatever you want!
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Whats the $15 for?
Apparently Meetup.com charges to host a meetup group, I guess. I didn't know that.
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Condescending theist tries to comfort fellow exjw's by telling them life isn't worth living without Sky Daddy
by cappytan inthis guy took over the exjw meetup.com group i follow and just sent out this email to all of us.to all members : i stepped in as an organizer to save the group in the hopes of connecting with other believers.
it appears that after leaving jehovahs witnesses you all have given up your promise to spend the rest of your lives serving god.
that now your free to just do whatever you want!
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This guy took over the ExJW meetup.com group I follow and just sent out this email to all of us.To all members : I stepped in as an organizer to save the group in the hopes of connecting with other believers. It appears that after leaving Jehovahs Witnesses you all have given up your promise to spend the rest of your lives serving God. That now your free to just do whatever you want! Your promise was to God, not to the JW org. Besides, there is no better way to live. The rewards far outway the consequences of living a self serving life. And yes, there is a god for all those who have decided to become atheist.And he's not far away, way up in the sky somewhere. But right in front of you in another realm, the spiritual realm. If you've lost your faith, you've lost everything. And you can get it back! I'm stepping out as organizer, not even going to schedule the first meet-up since no one has responded to even one of my emails. Oh yes one! an unhappy, unfulfilled atheist who let me know that my faith and belief in our hevenly father was unappreciated. There are those out there that want and need what I have to offer. I'm Certainly not interested in trying to push faith in God and the importance of using your life to serve his purposes on those who feel that its of no value. If anyone wants to step up as organizer all you have to do is pay 15 dollars before a month from now and its yours. You can pay from month to month. Getting together with people is nice. Making new friends, enjoying each others company. But if just having a good time is the sole purpose, it will never be much of a group. An emptiness will eventually pervade. Take the good from all of life"s experinces ( even in the JW org. ) and discard the bad. Life is worth living, but not without the savior. Without him, there is no life. You can put on a fake smile, try to stay positive, hold your chin up, and just keep going. but its all in vain. Its a dead end street with only brokenness at the end. As for me and my house, we will serve the lord.
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Religulous Woke Me Up
by thedepressedsoul inthere are many people that get their wake up call one way or another.. for me, i was bored and went to netflix.
on there was a documentary called, "religulous".
i watched it and that started my search.
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cappytan
Wasn't Maher raised Catholic, Talesin?
I could be wrong. (too lazy to google lol)
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Governing body member has Nervous breakdown due to Bethel pressure!!! Sad.
by Witness 007 inwatchtower life story of karl klien governing body was very sad.
clearly shows the pressure to do more.
baptized at 12 years old he became a teenage elder.
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cappytan
Nervous breakdown at bethel?
*raises hand*
Happened to me.
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Are you in the UK & being shunned?
by Diogenesister incall on exjwreddit for experiences of those in the uk being shunned to send in to the uk charity commission.
https://m.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/3wi621/final_call_for_shunning_experiences_from_the_uk/.
(just realized the title of this post sounds like you're being shunned because you're in the uk!!
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First Jehovah Witness talking about 1914 and "NO SOLICITING" money
by TheWonderofYou inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzhof73nwvy.
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cyberjesus: Enjoy!
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Dear Syrian Refugees
by Simon inwelcome to canada from one immigrant to another !.
calgary is welcoming it's first refugees from syria and iraq so tomorrow i'm going to take all the winter clothing that we have and donate it to a women / children's charity.
it's not much (well, actually, it's a huge pile ... everything from when we first moved over!
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cappytan
Good luck with that.