iCeltic

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

  by Freethinking76 in

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  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.

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  '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

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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?

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  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.

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

  by sosoconfused in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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?

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  iCeltic

  Best thing you can do is stop talking about invisible beings that may or may not exist. Good on her for using her mind to work things out :)
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  Food For Logical Thought...

  by braincleaned in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  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.

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  I often think exactly the same. Why didn't god (if the story were true) deal with the first problem of one of his angels going bad? Why allow the bad angel to cause thousands of years of damage so that at the end of it you could say 'see, I was right, I'm god'

  ive never understood the whole idea of allowing suffering. Just to prove a point. I always remember the WT answer of how all the angels would have been watching and if god had just destroyed satan then it wouldn't have answered the question. Really? So, god then had to concern himself with the thoughts of all those perfect angels in case they thought satan had a point? Where does that stop?
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  Are You Interested In Religion Of Any Sort At This Point In Your Life?

  by minimus in

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  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?.

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  iCeltic

  Abbasgreta - I know a number of Anglicans and some are happy, some aren't but without fail all are self righteous (the ones I know) condemning of equal marriage rights ( homosexuals having equal rights digusts them even though it makes absolutely no difference to their lives) and have absolutely no reasoning when it it comes to discussing god or the bible. I also was on the receiving end of the local ministers hate (without him ever meeting me I may add) because I 'didn't know jesus'

  and the reason there are thread here regarding god killing children is because the bible says he does, I'm not sure which part of that you don't get.

  these, and many other reason are enough to put most people off religion for good.
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  Where Does Material Success Come From - The Devil or God?

  by Iown Mylife in

  1. jw
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  how can you tell if your business successes are coming from satan or god?

  because if your work gets real busy and you miss some meetings and/or fs, is that how you tell that it's from satan?

  but then if you contribute a big amount every week, is it from jehovah?

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  Neither, they'd need to exist first.