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  Do you have to be part of organized religion?

  by trumind in

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  ok. this is my first thread and i am very interested to see the kinds of responses i get.

  my question to you all is do you beleive you have to be a member of some type of organized religion in order to have god's approval?

  i was raised in jw household, never baptized.

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  Are you Possessed?

  by peacepipe in

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  warning: though this is very long if you read as much as you can it may lead to some interesting conversation.. seriously, in my battle with good and evil in my life i have come to the conclusion that i am not meant to "know god" and that i was possessed sometime in my early life(ok not exorcist possessed but just possessed meaning "i'm not meant to get it/cut off from god")examples (yes, i realize these are only fictional portrayls but they show what i mean):.

  1) there is an older movie called the rapture.

  it stars david duchovny(pre x-files days)& mimi rogers(an occasional x-file charachter) anyhow she's the main character and it's about this:.

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  Very Pathetic questions but. . . .

  by peacepipe in

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  1) does anyone have any explanation as to why so many/most/all of the people in the awake magazines always say *name changed* or the letters from readers in the back only give first name/last name initial & country?.

  wouldn't it be more interesting to know the names of the "brothers & sisters" and maybe what congregation they were from?.

  i found this to strike me as being made up.. 2) does anyone know anything about if it was john the apostle who wrote the book of revelation?

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  At the zoo with a dub...

  by Princess in

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  i went to the zoo with my cousin's wife and kids today.

  they are in town from wisconsin to say goodbye to his mom who is dying from breast cancer.

  mulan and i thought it would be nice to get the three kids out of the house for the day.

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  Post WTBTS Life

  by Angst in

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  i have been inactive for about three and a half years now and just recently after making some big changes in my life have i made a commitment not to return to the "organization".

  for quite awhile now i've just felt like i was apathetic towards religion.

  now i'm disgusted by religion, religious dogma, and fanaticism.. one thing that i've noticed in those i deal with that are ex-witnesses is that many tend to swing the exact opposite direction once they leave.

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  Question for you RE: Holidays

  by peacepipe in

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  gathering that there seems to be a mix of active jw's, inactive jw's, ex-jw's, atheists etc.

  here, i am wandering on your thoughts on the holidays with more focus on the more religious based holidays like christmas & easter.. i'd like to know if you celebrate them like the mainstream of society or if you still have your reservations about them based on what you learned as part of the wt.

  i myself have been very turned off by the holidays in recent years - not because of the wt though- but for my own personal reasons.

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  Curious... Why so many planets?

  by StifflersErSlayersBrother in

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  i usually for some reason wake up pondering on my life and coming up with questions about certain things... this morning i looked out my window and thought... if god made earth for humans to live on.. then why did he create billions, and billions of planets inside billions and billions of galaxies?

  if earth is the one out of allll these planets that has life on it... why?

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  Rookie on the Field

  by peacepipe in

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  i've been reading this forum page for about a year.

  at first i thought it was a meeting place for practicing jw's but after reading many posts found that most people here have been hurt or don't see things eye to eye with the wt org.

  i am not a jw but i have been associating with them for about 3 yrs.

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  satanism, witchcraft and devil worship. . . . . .

  by DCs Ghost in

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  contrary to popular belief and what society and the media will portray satanism, devil worship and witchcraft are 3 very independent systems of belief, .

  sure, to those who are afraid of looking into books dealing with the occult, for fear of being possessed or what have you, i write this as a vent because it makes me laugh when i hear people assume that the three are the same, they aren't, .

  and the reality is that even though the three get bunched up as the same, many times it is the ignorance of the practitioners which keeps the ignorance alive.

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  How Many States / Countrys Are Represented Here?

  by Big Jim in

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  i am from houston texas myself.

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