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  Was everyone surprised by how nice worldly people can be?

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  i, like most born ins grew up being taught that everyone who was not a jw was inherently wicked, that they were dishonest, unloving, selfish, bad parents who don't care about their children, and also sad empty people with no direction in life.. as i grew older i started to see that this wasn't always true with every one, that what i was taught wasn't equating with what i was seeing.. by high school i could see that my friends at school, (yes worldly friends eek!

  ) we're actually decent people with morals, they may have engaged in a little fornication here and there but not promiscuously, and they were good honest people, with goals and parents that cared for them.. but after high school i was phsycologicaly bullied into ceasing contact with my friends altogether, leaving me with little contact with outside world, and the cult mentality had more room to grow, not fully, but enough to unconsciously not fully trust 'worldly' people.. however, once i'd left the org and began to meet people again, i was amazed at actually how good, honest, loving, kind, and caring many people can be!

  who love their spouses and children and try their very best to be good parents and partners.

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  Answer I got to the UN association.

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  so, this a long story but i'll try to keep it short.

  this was about 2years ago,.

  my wife brought up the un thing to my parents, much to their horror and despite me advising her not to.

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  Please! I need a plausible excuse for getting out of going to the memorial!

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  i have been thinking about this for weeks!.

  nothing short of death will be acceptable to my mother!.

  i thought of saying i will go to another cong but my parents know people there so that won't work.. help!.

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  How does my mother manage to sound very convincing about the WTS?

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  seriously, the wts quite often comes upin conversation with my mother,i get all the updates and who was asking about me etc.. and inevitably i can hold my tongue no longer, tho i'm very careful to phrase everything as a question.. so, the subject of dfing came up as someone in her cong just got the boot, and we were talking about shunning and why i don't think 'quit mixing with' means quite what the society says it does.

  now, even she doesn't entirely agree with the wt on this one, but then she still defends it and goes on about keeping the cong clean etc.. and we have also talked about other things i don't agree with, un, college, spirit appointed elders, 7th king etc.. and while she doesn't always completely agree with th wt she always defends it and i find myself almost buying into it!

  it's not until later that i can think more clearly and see my original point of view makes much more sense!.

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  Do demons really exist?

  by Inisc in

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  i mean, is there really any scientific evidence to support their existence?.

  is it used as a scare tactic of thewts?.

  and i suppose if one doesn't believe in god, a belief in satan and demons and angels for that matter would be contradictory... im not sure what i believe now but would love to hear everyone's thoughts..

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  Children who are born to unbelieving parents.

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  so i remember a scripture, (i forget which one exactly) that is quite specific in that if a child has 2 unbelieving parents then god is going to kill that child.. but if a child has one believing parent then that child will be saved at armageddon.. how is this fair?.

  i always even as a small boy found this to be utterly disgusting and not indicative of a loving fatherly creator.. not to mention some people would say that some would get a kind of 'benefit of the doubt' such as the mentally handicapped as they could not be expected to gain an accurate knowledge of truth.. and also the unrighteous who die now will be resurrected later.. so, if your a bad person but die your home free.. but if your an innocent child and your folks are too busy to go to the meeting, your worm chow..

  wtf!?.

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  Mo

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  Remarrying, then paradise =problem?

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  this is a question i always wondered about and never got an answer to.. its also another reason why i'm finding it harder to believe in an 'afterlife'.. th idea that humans can live forever, now seems so scientificly impossible.. so i wanted to ask all the great minds on here,.

  if someone's spouse dies, and then they remarry,then armageddon comes and goes then the deceased is resurrected,.

  how,is that ever gonna work?

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  The bible, seriously?

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  so i've been reading the bible, (for the fist time ever and i was a born in) i stopped going iilike 3 years ago and i wanted to have a good understanding of the bible and not just the wt.

  but holy crap that's some 18rated stuff!

  i mean i'm still in genesis and it's all vengeance this, condemn that and genocide everything else!

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  And another one

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  newbie here, been reading jwn for a while now, and i'm so glad i found this forum.

  so many thoughts i had about the org i thought it was just me!

  so nice to find out there are others!

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