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  I just might attend this District Convention next Saturday

  by Terry in

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  religion posted on mon, jun.

  09, 2008reprint or licenseprintemail digg itdel.icio.usaimjehovah's witnesses to gather on six weekends in fort worthby terry lee goodrichstar-telegram staff writer most-read stories .

  more than 42,000 jehovah's witnesses from the north texas/south oklahoma district will converge on fort worth over six weekends, with the first of the three-day events this weekend.

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  Terry

  It might sound like fun but lurking deep in your memory bank are all the emotions you experience as a JW. Many of them were, at the time, happy and deeply satisfying.

  Emotions are not entirely logical and can continue to feel drawn to things that you have valued in the past even though your reasoning mind has thrown them away.

  The happiness you felt as a JW has been replaced with anger and outrage. Stirring up conflicting emotions is a dangerous occupation. You have made the break, why unsettle you self by revisiting a past that has also caused you so much pain.

  As they say - Let sleeping dogs lie.

  Agony Aunt Trevor
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  How did you handle facing the reality of death?

  by song19 in

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  for those raised or who got the truth at a young age, how have you been able to handle the reality that you are in fact, eventually, going to die in this system?.

  for me, this was a real hard reality check.

  as a witness, my entire life i was convinced that i would see armageddon, that i wouldnt grow old and die.

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  Personally I step back and look at the insignificance of myself. A tiny dot on an overcrowded planet.

  The atoms that I am made of have been around for millions of years. They are just spending a few seconds in the form that for the moment I think of as me. I think of all the truly great people who have achieved so much yet had to leave. We are all hostages here and no one gets out alive.

  Life can be hard to face but death is the release. It's no big deal really.
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  Do the religious have higher morals than the non-religious?

  by digderidoo in

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  ok, i was going to ask whether christians have higher morals, but i thought that other religions have the same kind of morals too.. when i look at those who sincerely follow their religion, i think that they do have a higher morality than those who do not follow some sort of scriptural guidelines.. this is not to say that the religious have a monopoly on morality, or to say that some religious people are not hypocritical in doing what they say, rather than what they do.

  but as a whole it seems to me that someone with a religious upbringing has higher standards than someone without.. now some would say that higher standards or lower standards are defined by society, so therefore by whose definition do they have higher morals.

  this would be a fair assumption.

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  It does seem that the question of who has the higher morals depends not upon the existence of a god but merely the belief in one.
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  Zany Questions from Board Members to Wacky Terry

  by Terry in

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  okay, go ahead and make my day: ask me anything!.

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  Terry can you focus your great mind on a question that has me stumped ?

  How can ex Witnesses on this board claim to be free while still believing the Bible to be true and accurate and then sign off as Slaves of Christ?
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  Have you found a new bible translation you like?

  by New light for you in

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  i know, it seems like half of everyone that leaves turns athiest.... but for those of us out there, who figure on still being christian, have you found a translation of the bible that you belive lives "up to par"?

  i'm really trying to research, but there's so many, i wondered if you had any input!.

  thanks!.

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  I don't think it is possible to find a Bible that lives up to par totally. It is best to do what modern Christians do.

  See the Bible as a metaphor that is not to be taken literally and then go to work on it. Remove the pages that appeal to you and support your belief system. Leave in place the nasty bits that make god out to be violent.

  Once you have the few pages you want slip them in a folder and you will have a new abridged pocket size personal Bible that can be easily amended at any time. After all faith is a personal thing.
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  State truthful facts about Atheists that make them look bad, weird, foolish

  by Finally-Free in

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  this is to complement the http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160129/1.ashx and http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160192/1.ashx threads.. i'd hate to have anyone feel left out.

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  If there were 13 people in a lifeboat built for 12, an atheist would throw somebody overboard to save themselves. Probably a baby or some elderly or disabled person. Preferably a Christian. Survival of the fittest you know.

  The atheist would be trying to work out a realistic way to find real dry land.

  The Christians would be busy praying to their various interpretations of god while they imagined they were already on dry land, spiritual speaking, being comforted by invisible angels.
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  expenses -vs- donations............. the fall of the Watchtower empire

  by DaCheech in

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  as long as i've been here, i have preached that $$$$$ will be the only way for the wt to drop.. many agree on a small level, but think the wt has deep pockets.. they may have deep pockets, but i bet the investments they have have lost quite a bit since 2001.. my main calculation reguards the following hypothesis::::::.

  magazine and literature consumption -vs- donations.

  i know of 2 congregations, and let me post some figures:.

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  With all that real estate and their tax free status they are still well ahead of the game. Printing is cheaper than ever with less staff needed.

  I think the only thing that will stop them is when the members stop buying their trashy little promotional magazine - The Watchtower.
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  Abusive People On This Board...

  by cognac in

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  how do you handle them?

  i mean, sometimes they write things that are really hurtful!.

  do you just ignore them altogether?

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  Cognac

  Looking at your avatar it would seem that you are over magnifying the threat of people on this forum. They are all just words not reality.

  Come and sit on my lap and let me stroke away your fears.
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  State truthful facts about Atheists that make them look bad, weird, foolish

  by Finally-Free in

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  this is to complement the http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160129/1.ashx and http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/160192/1.ashx threads.. i'd hate to have anyone feel left out.

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  Awakened07

  Great cartoon.

  I laughed so much my halo slipped and nearly choked me. Thank god I got back on my head in time.
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  Officially THE most twisted, appalling line of reasoning I've ever heard.

  by betweenworlds in

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  i've just received the latest digest from the yahoo groups 'jwtalks' there is a post in it by the person who runs it.

  i've heard some bizarre reasoning in my time, but honestly i think this one takes the cake.

  2008 dc des moines posted by: (removed to protect the identity of the 'person' in question)sat jun 14, 2008 7:01 pm (pdt) someone sent me the files for the 2008 dc des moines iowa.. .

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  I suppose once you base your faith on a book that boasts of Noah and the flood, Egyptians perishing in the Red sea and other acts of murder by the God of the Israelites, it is just par for the course.