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  Lack of open-mindedness

  by ilikecheese in

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  a lot of religious folks can have an open-minded discussion about their beliefs without getting defensive.

  some can actually consider things from another point of view and point out the validity in the other person's point.

  obviously, a lot of jws may just be scared to think/speak in a semi-detrimental way about their religion.

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  Death of a loved one and faith

  by ilikecheese in

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  hey all.

  i haven't posted in forever and a day, but i feel like this is a great place to ask this question because of so many people who are unsure of their beliefs.

  my mom was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer about four years ago.

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  If you still believe in God, what are your thoughts on the Bible?

  by ilikecheese in

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  do you believe it's inerrant?

  do you believe it's based on things that happened, but a lot of it may just be stories and it's not perfect because men wrote it?

  do you think it's just a good guide?

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  You know what their magazines kind of remind me of?

  by ilikecheese in

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  the parable of the boastful prayer vs. the humble prayer.

  they're basically always saying, "thank goodness we are so holy and not like those crass 'worldly' people.

  ew.

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  Want a good laugh?

  by ilikecheese in

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  http://www.conservativerefocus.com/index.php/2014/06/09/jehovah-s-witness-organization-now-promoting-one-world-government-and-need-for-new-world-leader.

  someone on my facebook posted this.

  some dummy got a pamphlet that talked about the convention, the "one world government and who can lead" pamphlet.

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  JWs and catastrophic events

  by ilikecheese in

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  a natural disaster, a mass shooting, a building collapse, etc.

  i sometimes peruse jw facebook groups or look at the public topics on jwtalk.

  it seems like every single time something like that happens, at least 75% of the responses contain something along the lines of "i hope all the witnesses are okay!

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  So George Takei posted a JW pic on his Facebook

  by ilikecheese in

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  http://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei.

  it's just a silly door-knocking related picture, but it's generated a bit of arguing about how he shouldn't make fun of them.

  plus there are some apologist/"apostate" facebook wars... the best kind of wars, right?!

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  If JWs were around in the time of Jesus...

  by ilikecheese in

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  how do you think they would have treated him or responded to him?

  you know, apart from shunning him due to his blasphemous facial hair..

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  If there's anything that convinces a Christian the Bible isn't infallible...

  by ilikecheese in

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  it's got to be reading the old testament.

  that is some messed up sh!t.. .

  your choices are basically to think it's based on things that happened but men's version of events, there is tons of allegory, that it's just a bunch of made up nonsense, or to rip those parts of your bible out and pretend they don't exist.. .

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  I hate watching this religion screw with my BF's mind

  by ilikecheese in

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  cheese lover here.

  i don't post much, so refresher course: i've been dating an unbaptized jw for years.

  he's not super into jwism and probably never will be because he thinks a lot of it is a pile of poo.. .

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