Captain Obvious

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  Don't let your job interfere with your meeting attendance

  by Quarterback in

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  2. friends

  recently, a public speaker brought up this point that i remembered being preached in the 70's.

  when they bring this matter up, they always manage to give you an experience of how one person stood his ground, and got a great job offer, as a result.. what about the many experiences of ones that were not blessed?

  i can memtion horror stories of ones that should have kept working their meetings..

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  Captain Obvious

  Easy for someone to say when they go in service and give talks for a living.
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  Is there going to be a 2014 district convention?

  by booker-t in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have heard rumors for over a year now that the wt is not going to have a 2014 dc.

  i know they are having a circuit assembly and special day talk assembly but what about their yearly dc.

  has anybody heard anything?.

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  Yep, we get to make a 7 hour trip each way this year for the 3 day bore fest. Yippee.

  The only ones who say there won't be a 2014 convention are the ones who actually think that the big A will come before then.
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  A Purpose

  by DeWandelaar in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "everything in life has a purpose" is something a lot of (religious) people tend to say.

  i used to believe that too... but i have always been wandering about animals, bacteria and everthing around us.

  what purpose is there?

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  Well you should already know this, but bacteria serve a very important purpose in decomposition and digestion. Right now you have more bacteria living inside you than you can imagine. You need them there.

  Animals? Well they're tasty, so there's that...

  But purpose IS a human invention. There is no end goal or purpose. We just happen to be living in this time period right now.
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  What science has left UNTAUGHT!

  by abiather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when one goes deep into the science, there are things that suggest the existence of immortal soul or a caring supreme soul.

  hence, the question is not about lack of proofs, but is all about whether one is willing to accept or not (mathew 11:14).

  let us take some samples:.

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  How... HOW does someone wake up from their JW slumber, free themselves with all the cost involved... And just slide right into an even wackier cult?
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  Free Will - What a Joke !

  by cookiemaster in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  everytime i hear jw's talking about free will, i either feel the urge to burst in laughter or feel sick.

  each publication keeps talking about how wonderful jokehova is for giving us free will.

  the only small thing is that he'll kill you if you don't do exactly what he says.

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  Are you a Sam Harris fan at all? He wrote a great short book on the subject.
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  You got questions? We got answers.

  by WhoYourDaddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is it about the jws that draws them together?.

  group think?.

  ambient abuse?.

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  Hmm sneaky. Perhaps we become atheists because the same logic that brings us out of the religion brings us out of all religion. To just stop thinking after leaving JWs is to be willfully ignorant. If a person is to be willfully ignorant, they might as well stay with the JWs.
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  Creationism or evolution, or do I believe in god

  by moley in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the past year or so i've been completely evaluating whether i believe in god.

  i studied marine biology at uni for the last 3 years and it completely change my view on evolution.

  even when i was in i believed in evolution to a certain extent (ie the flood made no sense, the earth being 60000 odd years old etc etc) and this has made me question the existence of god.

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  So what will you do once abiogenesis is proven?
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  NEED Help before Monday

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i noticed in a thread a day or 2 ago that someone mentioned a wt dated back in 1981 i believe where it stated that the policy of the jw's were that if anyone even thought a doubt about the jw's that they were infact apostates!!!

  i downloaded the article in the 1980 8/1 pp17-22 and that was not the article.

  can't find the thread, help anyone please!!!!!

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  Goof luck with your upcoming disfellowshipping!
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  Don't Masturbate

  by mynameislame in

  1. social
  2. humour

  don't masturbate.

  thought this was funny......

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  Can anybody actually provide some "scriptural" evidence for this? What is the actual biblical basis for prohibiting the most natural thing?
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  Is it Humanly Possible, that the writers believe this stuff?

  by objectivetruth in

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  2. beliefs

  as many of you know, whom have been in the org for a while.. the wt is hard coded into your mind.

  sometimes, i will read a wt, to make sure that i hadn't imagined all of the ridiculousness... and then i read a wt like this : http://m.wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004168 (is linking to this legal?).

  i especially enjoyed this section : .

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  Captain Obvious

  They don't need to believe it, they just have to force you to