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  Find your IDEAL religion!

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.

  heres a simple quiz:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .

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  Sirona

  Thanks Naeb.

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  Find your IDEAL religion!

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.

  heres a simple quiz:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .

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  Sirona

  OOOHHHH!!!

  So THATs why noone replied! They've all done this test last month!

  Someone coulda told me...[8>]

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  Find your IDEAL religion!

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.

  heres a simple quiz:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .

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  Sirona

  OK, so I'm not the MOST interesting person here, but I don't think I'm the LEAST! I mean, hardly anyone even READS my threads, never mind responds.

  RANT.

  The number of absolutely BULLS**T trinity threads going on around here is ridiculous. Then theres the "feel sorry for me" threads that people post (all of which get more response than mine has on this occasion). Then theres the multiple threads all on ONE subject (e.g. Xenu).

  Blah!

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  The JWs are the best people myth

  by Leander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure most of you are all aware of the myth that the wts perpetrates.

  they boldly make the claim that jehovah's witnesses are the most loving, compassionate and kind people on the face of the earth.

  thats a really interesting statement considering some of the things that i have seen.

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  Sirona

  IS that for real?
  Woah. Good ol' gossip eh.

  An elder in my cong. was discovered 'altering' his tax return and using false receipts. He was NOT told to stand down, nor was he reproved, but he WAS taken off being accounts servant! (ahem I wonder why?)

  Another elder in the same cong, aged 52 started taking a young spiritually "weak" sister in the cong out on field service....but with a detour to his house for nooky. She was 17. They both eventually got DF (after she blabbed to someone), but he divorced his wife and they are now MARRIED and REINSTATED.

  I think that JWs are human beings like everyone else. They're just high & mighty with it too!

  Sirona

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  Find your IDEAL religion!

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.

  heres a simple quiz:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .

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  Sirona

  bttt

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  Find your IDEAL religion!

  by Sirona in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so if you are not jw, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?.

  heres a simple quiz:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/ .

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  Sirona

  So if you are not JW, perhaps you would like to know what religion is most in-line with your beliefs?

  Heres a simple quiz:
  
  http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/

  I got:

  HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS (%)
  #1: Neo-Pagan (100)
  #2: Unitarian Universalist (87)
  #3: New Age (79)
  #4: Liberal Quaker (75)
  #5: Mainline to Liberal Protestant (62)
  #6: Mahayana Buddhist (60)
  #7: Reform Judaism (53)
  #8: Baháí (50)
  #9: Humanist (50)
  #10: Orthodox Quaker (50)
  #11: Taoism (49)
  #12: New Thought (47)
  #13: Theravada Buddhist (43)
  #14: Sikhism (40)
  #15: Hindu (36)
  #16: Jainism (36)
  #17: Atheist/Agnostic (35)
  #18: Orthodox Judaism (33)
  #19: Christian Science (33)
  #20: Scientology (33)
  #21: Latter Day Saints (30)
  #22: Mainline to Conservative Protestant (26)
  #23: Eastern Orthodox (20)
  #24: Islam (20)
  #25: Roman Catholic (20)
  #26: Seventh Day Adventist (20)

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  By the pricking of my thumbs....

  by Xander in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...some ancient wisdom this way comes?

  pulling over from another thread.... i'm curious how many have dabbled in witchcraft/spiritism after leaving the jws.

  or, perhaps, before joining.. i'm curious what experiences have been had.

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  Prisca, here is a link re Psychic Self Defense:

  http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/defense.htm

  Wicca.com has some good information on the whole subject really, as does paganpath.com

  I'm really happy to hear from all the pagans/wiccans/witches on this board! Its great. As far as putting a label on myself, I'm pagan, although I lean towards Wicca as a guideline for how I do things.

  Sirona

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  By the pricking of my thumbs....

  by Xander in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...some ancient wisdom this way comes?

  pulling over from another thread.... i'm curious how many have dabbled in witchcraft/spiritism after leaving the jws.

  or, perhaps, before joining.. i'm curious what experiences have been had.

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  HI

  What an interesting thread!

  I have had experience with this sort of thing. As a child (not a JW) I saw spirits on different occasions. Most of the time they looked like everyone else until they disappeared or walked through the wall. I'm being 100% honest about this... and as a child I didn't feel afraid of these things.

  When I became JW as a young teenager, I consciously BLOCKED this. I used to wake at night knowing there was a spirit there, but I would close my eyes and mentally block it, while praying to Jehovah for protection. It was JWs who made me very afraid of these entities.

  Nowadays, I don't block. I don't visually see spirits, but I can sense them and have had some communication (one case where I told someone something I couldn't possibly have known on my own). I still take precautions to protect myself because I do think that some entities can affect us negatively.

  I have used "fortune cards" and a normal deck of cards, but not Tarot (I tried tarot but decided to start with the easy stuff). I've done very accurate readings. I don't believe that spirits are the information-givers in divination - I think that its something to do with everything being connected. Synchronicity, or unexplained coincidences, happen all the time. Its something to do with energy attracting similar energy.

  Nowadays, I'm pagan and therefore you could say I have something to do with "Witchcraft" although I don't really like that word. I just simply believe that our thoughts can affect our reality, so I strive to think positively and to visualise my life going in the right direction.

  I think that JWs put way too much emphasis on negative spirits. They also lead intuitive people to think they're "possessed". JWs think they are protected, but it is a fact that ANY faith in a deity and strong belief that you are protected will actually protect you, more often than not. Hence the power of conviction of any Christian priest for instance will likely be enough to ward off something nasty.

  Just my thoughts...
  Sirona

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  what movie, gave you the creeps and why?

  by LyinEyes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just wondering if you have a movie or some movies that have given you the creeps.

  did you see it as a jw or after?

  do you watch " demonized " movies now?

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  I found The Others really scary!!

  Saying that, I can watch horror films OK now...but my boyfriend won't sleep alone after watching one! lol

  I really liked "The Gift". Another scary one is "Stir of Echoes".

  Sirona

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  Questions From Readers-Complete Immersion?

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  must one get baptized (complete immersion) no matter how severe their handicap?.

  (paragraph 2, sentence 3..."since baptism by complete immersion is a scriptural requirement, humans have no authority to exempt someone from baptism.".

  my thoughts: what elder/co/do will dare take a risk in exempting one from baptism if they have been told by the society that no human has the authority to do this?

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  Sirona

  This is simply disgusting. I honestly can't think of any other way to describe it right now without swearing.

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