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  For those who are athest, or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  by Tameria2001 in

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  i'm not asking this question to cause an argument or accuse, but i am honestly just wondering?

  for those of you who are now atheist or non-christian, how did you come to this decision?

  i hadn't given this much thought until about a year ago.

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  I gave it a lot of thought and followed the evidence to where it inevitably led. God—at least along the lines of the one portrayed in the Abrahamic traditions—simply does not exist.

  Frankly, this is a good thing. Why?

  As Richard Dawkins so clearly explains, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

  This does explain, though, why “true believers” of the fundamentalist ilk are as nasty and horrible as they frequently are. They are made in “His” image.

  They are simply imitating their vile god.
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  After watching A&E Leah Remini on Jehovah Witnesses I am going to stop hiding behind my Avatar

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  just got done watching this program and what impress me the most was the bravery of those x-witnesses to sit there on national tv and tell everyone how the wt.

  cult affected them.

  no hidden faces, no avatar names and no disguise.

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  Great to meet you, David and Barbara!
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  Conversation with my Dad today concerning the Leah Remini show

  by joe134cd in

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  joe : i don’t quite know how to tell you this dad.

  dad : what daughter .

  joe : dont get mad or offensive, but there was a documentary that aired a few nights ago on prime time tv in the usa concerning the jws, and there was some very nasty stuff mentioned, and it certainly wasn’t positive toward the organisation.

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  What TBK said!
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  Cart Witnessing along with dramas on the big screen?

  by Tahoe in

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  https://youtu.be/f40ukvgjsqw.

  is it the first of april already?.

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  Being a Witness used to require some actual knowledge and personal skill in talking people. Now you just need to be able to set up a cart and a video screen then stand next to it.
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  Can you ever see a time when Govt`s of this world will attempt to abolish all religions ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  we are now in the 21st century of our common era with its insights into the potential of what can be achieved in the near future to benefit mankind for years to come .. the co-operation of governments around the world on so many levels has never been better than it is today and it is at least encouraging to see this .. whether it has to do with the climate , the environment ,food production ,safe water for all ,and the better health for all in the near future, and in the future space exploration.

  however the problem today is still religion !

  in its many extreme forms that divides us in no ways that politics divide us .. politicians learn how to compromise and work with their opponents for the greater good ,whereas religions don`t.. religions divide humans like no politicians ever did well not to the extremes religions will go anyway.. is their going to come a time in history when governments politicians say enough is enough and try attempt to abolish religion ?.

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  I certainly hope not. That would be terrible because only a totalitarian nightmare of a government would do such a thing.

  I'd much prefer that as a species we outgrow our childish need to believe in superstitions, myths and lies and embrace reality for what it is, or at least as much as we can know it.

  If and when this happens, then religions would just naturally fade away and then eventually die out. This trend is already occurring in many Westernized societies as a result of education.

  Here's a link to a not-too-recent article about this very phenomenon:
  

  • Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says - BBC

  
  
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  It feels really odd

  by Tameria2001 in

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  i was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.

  i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.

  https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.

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  Steve2, that is a bizarrely dysfunctional relationship you have with your unknown relative.
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  Movies that make you cry?

  by new boy in

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  there have been many but i had a total melt down at the end of sophie's choice.

  i hadn't cried in years before i saw that movie in in 1982. i was still very much a jw at the time.

  i have no idea where the pain and sorrow came from, maybe it was the fact there are things people have gone through that we have defied all reason logic.

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  Life is Beautiful
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  Role Call!

  by new boy in

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  how many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.

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  I'm inactive, but still "technically" an ex-JW in "good standing."
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  It feels really odd

  by Tameria2001 in

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  2. experiences

  i was searching through the net and i came across something i was not expecting to see.

  i just found out that my cousin passed away at the age of 34, in 2014, and no one even bothered to tell me this news.

  https://www.ashevillemortuaryservices.com/notices/raymond-pringle.

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  I too am sorry for your loss, not just of your cousin, but of everything else you have lost as a result of mistreatment by uncaring and uncompassionate family members.

  Further proof they are in a cult.
  
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  Elders' new direction.

  by lastmanstanding in

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  there's been a change.

  a rather big one.

  and the kevin bunkers of the world beware.. jw elders no longer need to "turn the other cheek".. in the governing bastard's desperation, they have given a new directive to elders.

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  Violence begets violence.

  Just stay away from Kingdom Halls and enjoy your life. It’s not like going there with an “apostate” message or purpose will ever change any of them.

  Hundreds of people have tried that and—to my knowledge—it has never, ever worked. Not once. If anyone has evidence, or even just an anecdote, to the contrary, I’d love to know about it.

  Let’s review: It’s a cult!