For me, it's an ongoing journey
Agreed. According to Peck's model, I think most JW's might be at level two. Most of us who have left are at least at level three.
Outahere
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How Many People Here Still Believe In “God”?
by minimus inbecause of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
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How Many People Here Still Believe In “God”?
by minimus inbecause of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
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Outahere
Not a game Minimus just a perfectly reasonable question.
Many people who claim to believe in god actually have in mind a vague, nebulous notion of some - hopefully benevolent - supernatural being. Others are thinking about an imminent god who answers prayers, observes everything that happens, cares about who we sleep with and how we do it and who is going to punish those who don't return his 'love'.
The difference is so profound that asking people if they 'believe in god' is a meaningless question that nobody should indulge without further explanation.There's an old poem that's tangentially related to what you're saying. It's about blind men and an elephant.
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Bucket list
by Jrjw indoes anyone have a bucket list and has it helped you achieve anything?
someone said i should do one.
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Outahere
I hope you guys get to see and do all the things you dream of.
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How Many People Here Still Believe In “God”?
by minimus inbecause of this site i realized that there were many people who were active jehovah’s witnesses really didn’t believe in god at all.
i’m curious how many people believe in god?
i’m not interested in debating why you shouldn’t have a belief in a god or should.
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When I learned the truth about the truth, I stopped believing. For me those were the first steps in a long journey.
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"Righteous in a sense"
by floridaborn ini cannot believe i let 7 men in new york tell me god didn't consider me righteous.
how do people that believe in god put up with this crap!!
no wonder in all my years i had a hard time praying.
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The heavenly/earthly hope bifurcation has to be one of the stupidest things they teach. The memorial, where everyone basically just passes the bread and wine over, is one of the stupidest things they do. Basically it's a great "reject Jesus" celebration.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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Outahere
Well, what they've shown is that it's highly statistically improbable that we didn't all descend from a common ancestor (which is good enough for me).
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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Outahere
Well, from my perspective, the Sun rotates about the Earth.
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Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution
by dubstepped inso i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
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Evolution simply explains how the millions of species alive today, and the tens of millions that have gone extinct, all descended from a common ancestor through natural processes, including but not limited to, natural selection.
Evolution does not attempt to explain ultimate causes, cosmic origins or the dawn of life
So many people just don't get that. They end up merging it all together.
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So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?
by Simon init seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
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Sweden May Call in Army to Deal With Immigrant Violence
by cofty inin 2016 there were over 300 shootings in sweden, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.. “people are shot to death in pizza restaurants, people are killed by hand grenades they find on the street,” sweden democrat leader jimmie akesson said in parliament on wednesday.
“this is the new sweden; the new, exciting dynamic, multicultural paradise that so many here in this assembly ... have fought to create for so many years.” reuters....
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