7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.
i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.
i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.
Wonderful News. Congratulations on your achievement.
Thank you for your commitment to fix this world, save real lives and cure real ailments. Also, thank you for your efforts to fight cult leaders and rescue the innocent from their evil grasp. All is very much appreciated
about a year ago i had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my jw relatives attend.
i asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education.
as anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one.
Archaeology confirming the existence of 50 people mentioned in the Bible only means that the writers of those books were real, had a brain and stay informed of the events of their times. It does not confirm at all that the Bible came from God.
top ten signs you're a fundamentalist christian.
10 - you vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.. .
9 - you feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the biblical claim that we were created from dirt.. .
people speaking in tongues is not much different from the FDS calling themselves the mouth piece of J. or his channel of communication. or claiming that God is the editor of the WT, or that the preaching work and the name JW's is proof that they are the chosen ones.
about a year ago i had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my jw relatives attend.
i asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education.
as anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one.
Thanks transhuman,
The moment I saw Leolaia in the links you provided I knew I would get great answers to my questions.
here's my story.
i'm 24 years old and i live in brazil.
i'm a 3rd gen born-in jw and all close relatives in the borg (parents, grandparents, uncles, wife, inlaws) except my little sister (she's 16 and didnt buy jw doctrine).
Welcome!
It all comes down to how much love your wife. i am not saying you should love her very much. It's your life and it's your wife. Your patience, caution, dilligence and dedication to preserving this relationship should be commensurate to your love for your wife.
about a year ago i had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my jw relatives attend.
i asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education.
as anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one.
I prepared an answer for everyone, but towards the end I decided to correct something by pressing the left arrow to go to the part needing correction. Damn it, I ended up in another website that talks about big cats. I try to come back to my comment and it was GONE. I hate when that happens, especially considering that I only used four fingers to type. I will prepare something later again.
Thanks everyone.
I just want to point out that my interest is mainly to determine what is the most possible meaning that the writers of the Bible ascribed to the 4 words that are used to refer to the afterlife.
about a year ago i had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my jw relatives attend.
i asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education.
as anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one.
Thank you guys. My interest is both scholarly and theological. I get the feeling that, according to a literal reading of the Bible, many of its writers meant to say that they believed in a literal place of torment for the wicked. There are different words for the final destination after life:
Hades
Sheol
Gehena
Tartarus
Do all mean a metaphoric way of saying death as explained by JW theology, or is there room for a different interpretation?
about a year ago i had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my jw relatives attend.
i asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education.
as anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one.
About a year ago I had an exchange of emails with an elder of a congregation where all my JW relatives attend. I asked him all kinds of questions regarding blood, 607, shunning, evolution, higher education. As anticipated, he either had no answer or provided an evasive one. Interestingly, in one of his non sequiturs he proudly said that it was JW's who had properly interpreted that there was no hell. I believed also he mentioned trinity, but quite interestingly he never made any reference to the Cross (having some doubts maybe)
Back to the main topic, from my readings of the Bible it seems that there are multiple references to a fiery place in the NT and the OT. Therefore, according to the Bible, there is hell and JW's may have it wrong again.
What do the Bible scholars in this site have to say. Please help.
therefore, if the 70 years period is for the destruction of jerusalem and exile at babylon:.
if zedekiah had not rebelled against babylon, had he surrendered during the final siege that lasted two and a half years, then the destruction of jerusalem and the deportation need not have happened.
then in the jubilee year, they were set free and their hereditary land was returned to them.
If 1914 was, and still is, so reliable for JW's, what was the point of Rutherford concocting 1925, or Freddie concocting 1975, both predictions completely unrelated to any chronology having to do with the Gentile Times. Weren't they, by their actions, implying: "we don't trust your 1914 prophecy Jehovah" or simply put "we don't believe you Jehovah"
i stopped believing in god in july 2013. in the first 3 months or so i felt liberated and relieved that i can live my life anyway i wanted without worrying about an invisible being watching my every move.
i also felt slightly superior that i was able to figure out that god isn't real while the majority of mankind continued to be fooled.
atfer the feelings of excitment statrted to wear off, i started to become more depressed and empty.
You sound like the kind of guy who needs religion to cope. Reality is not good for you.
As many others have mentioned, it seems that your data is not reliable. It seems that you are using correlation, not causation, as a way to infer that atheists are more depressed, angry and suicidal than religious people. Maybe, maybe not. Your data definitely provides no help to get a clear answer. I would question the sources of the study and their methods.
Overall, non-religious people are making greater contributions to advance our knowledge of science so we can overcome the challenges facing human kind (population, limited resources, contamination, diseases, etc). In this regard religious people, especially those fundamentalists and cultic groups, are just a drag.
