Posts by iCeltic

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Are You Interested In Religion Of Any Sort At This Point In Your Life?

by minimus in

jw
friends

personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.

i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.

iCeltic

That's why there was a split within the Anglican Church, because some were for (folk like you) and some were against. My wife is Anglican and has strong views on same sex marriage as does the vast majority of her Anglican Church (Sydney) and they completely disagree with it. I wish they were more like your church! In fact there's a massive issue in Australia at the moment regarding same sex marriage.

im also aware that you can't paint everyone with the same brush so it's good to know everyone isn't like that :)

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Now that I am out, which bible should i read? Feeling free at last!

by Freethinking76 in

jw
friends

so, now that i am out for good, which bible should i read?

there is no way i will read the wt one..so i still want to have a relationship with god but don't know how to choose a bible.

it is very hard to dewired yourself and ,sometimes i feel that i don't have a relationship with him.the what ifs come and go still.last night i was up all night reading and researching , can't shake off the shock still to know ttatt.

iCeltic

Yes agreed, ask all sorts of questions, learn about different things/possibilities.

Id have to slightly disagree with the view of being tolerant towards those intolerant towards god or the bible, there's absolutely nothing wrong with questioning long held beliefs in the supernatural, it's hardly being intolerant.

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I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

by sosoconfused in

since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

iCeltic

Just watched the pilot of Crossing Lines, looks not too bad, I'm not blown apart but I'll watch the series.

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JWs and E-Cigs

by TheClarinetist in

jw
friends

the other night, two of my jw coworkers were sitting out enjoying an e-cig with one of my other coworkers.

i knew from earlier that there was tobacco (well, nicotine) in it.

out of curiousity, i did some minor digging with my worldlytm coworkers and am pretty darn sure that these guys aren't doing anything else questionable... are active jws allowed to smoke e-cigs now, or did i just witness some extremely minor teenage rebellion?.

iCeltic

First I've heard the spiritism link, any wt's on that? Interesting.

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Now that I am out, which bible should i read? Feeling free at last!

by Freethinking76 in

jw
friends

so, now that i am out for good, which bible should i read?

there is no way i will read the wt one..so i still want to have a relationship with god but don't know how to choose a bible.

it is very hard to dewired yourself and ,sometimes i feel that i don't have a relationship with him.the what ifs come and go still.last night i was up all night reading and researching , can't shake off the shock still to know ttatt.

iCeltic

'Some translations take liberties' -SOME? In my view the entire book is a liberty.

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I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

by sosoconfused in

since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

iCeltic

We watched all three season of game of thrones over three weeks and only had to wait a few days for the last episode, I can't imagine having to wait 10 weeks watching one season, that's my only criticism of it, it's a little slow.

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Posting smutty comments

by Simon in

it seems hardly a day can go by now without someone making a smutty comment and i really don't get it.. there is no need to interject talk of masturbation, sluts, gay sex or toys into every topic.

what are we, teenagers?.

please think twice before posting such comments.

iCeltic

It seems to me he's saying by all means disguss it if its done properly, if its just to be outrageous or seem cool/funny then think about it, this site is here to help not to show us to be smutty.

Talking about things in a normal way is good and healthy, being smutty (although it can be funny) isn't the best really. Just my opinion.

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July 15 Watchtower - Contradiction on Page 22 paragraph 10

by Indian Larry in

the paragraph says:.

who, then, is the faithful and discreet slave?

that slave is made up of a small group of anointed brothers who are directly involved in preparing and dispensing.

iCeltic

What are the scriptures used in the latest wt regarding the slave?

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My 8 year old daughter tells me she is an atheist...???

by sosoconfused in

so since we have not been to a meeting in 6 months or so, i decided to ask my daughter (on the way home from cheerleading practice - yeah i can't believe i am letting her engage in such a worldly activity lol) if she misses going to the kingdom hall.

she says sometimes because she can't see her friend - but she has made new friends so it doesn't bother her too much.

so i ask her, "well, what about learning about jehovah?

iCeltic

Soso, it bothered me for a long time and still occasionally does, I wish it didn't. I know what you mean. I think years of jw mind control is to blame. That and the whole understanding of god from mans point of view makes no logical sense.

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Food For Logical Thought...

by braincleaned in

sometimes we waste hours and hours debating a subject like the flood, and the impossible scientific and evolutionary consequences that it entails.

we go into great debates about how all of is is possible, what a "kind" means (species, obviously not)... etc.... but believers will not stop believing... so here is something even a child would think of more logically:if god is all powerful and love why would he have not just made the wicked drop dead, painlessly?

simply, humanly.

iCeltic

I completely agree with you, it makes no sense, that's why I think on the whole it's made up.

we teach our children lessons as they grow, we don't mow them down with an ak when they get something wrong and then say 'I told you so'