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  Where are you from?

  by BeautifulMind in

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  i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

  but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

  i currently live in georgia, usa.

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  Bonsai

  I'll give a clue where I'm from:

  An old man lived on a mountain. His face fell off a few years ago.
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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

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  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  Hey everybody! How about them Royals huh!? They haven't won a World Series since George Brett was blazing across the bases. Go Royals! I'll never forgive the Mets for what happened in '86. Billy ****ing Buckner.
  
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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
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  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  Exactly what Island Man said. To the T.
  
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  I'm not religious I'm spiritual?

  by Joliette in

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  how do you guys feel when you hear people say this?

  whenever i tell people that i'm not religious, a humanist, they said i'm not religious either, i'm spiritual.

  i consider myself to be a humanist, and i can't tell you guys how happy i am being a humanist.

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  I consider spirituality to mean self sacrifice. To put aside selfish desires and focus on what one can do for the greater good of humanity and the planet. A spiritual person tries to make the world a little better than it was when he first came into it. I consider myself to be a humanist as well.
  
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  Why do people kill each other?

  by The Rebel in

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  why do there have to be wars?

  why is there so much hatred?.

  the collective answer i came up with is natalisam, or maybe the correct word should be politics?

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  The universe is violent. Nature is violent. Most living organisms are aggressive and violent. Man's gods are violent. The bible is full of violence. So-called perfect spirit creatures battled and waged war with each other. Our role models that we created for ourselves were a reflection of us. Is there any wonder why there is so much violence and killing amongst humans? We merely reflect the universe we live in. I wish it weren't so.
  
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  @ - Bonzai - Its true that we have the technology to nearly wipe out all of the planet, at this time, BUT i guarantee you if we were alive during the BLACK PLAGUE, which was many centuries ago, we would have been thinking THOSE WERE the last days. Almost half the Earths known population DID die from the black plague.

  Dunedain, I agree. Good point. I guess what separates nuclear weapons apart from any natural calamity is that nuclear weapons are a man-made weapon specifically designed to wipe out the entire surface of the planet. Witnesses consider this technology an affront to god and the epitome of a Satan-led demonic world. In any argument against the " last days" they will quickly use nuclear weapons as their trump card.

  I personally view nuclear technology as a part of human evolution. With great technology comes great responsibility. The more advanced technology becomes, there will always be a faction of people that will want to weaponize it. It's up to our children and their children whether or not we will use that technology for the betterment or to the detriment of humanity. So far, for 70 years we have managed to keep those weapons in their silos. I think that shows that the good among us have, up until now, outnumber the evil.
  
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  Hello everyone!

  by Planetsmashers in

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  ive been lurking for a while and finally got around to registering.

  about me: i was essentially born in & indoctrinated from youth.

  i was always a borderline "bad association" type because i always did the minimum and always disagreed with much of what was taught; even when i was a child.. luckily for me my father was never a jw so i never had to endure the male head pressure.

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  Welcome! I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts and insights.
  
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  Last Days? Are you serious ....?

  by Aleph in

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  believing we live in the last days?.

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  I was debating this issue with a friend, who is still in, but partially awake. He said that there has never been a time like now, where humans have the technology to wipe themselves off the planet. In fact, humans have built enough bombs to destroy the planet itself. He believes the last days began when the atomic bomb was born. There really wasn't much I could say for a rebuttal. He had a good point.
  

  I don't believe in there being any "last days" in the biblical sense, but I can tell you that having NK, China and Russia for neighbors doesn't make me feel safe. Living in a country that was nuked twice and had a nuclear reactor leak from a tsunami doesn't make me feel like this is the safest time in the history of humanity. I haven't read Stephen Pinker's book yet, but I wonder how he feels about nuclear weapons and chemical/biological/drone warfare technology.
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  JW Gump

  by Esse quam videri in

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  [....the scene opens with jw gump being summoned by the governing body....].

  jw gump: yes sir, governing body member, lett, sir!.

  gb lett: just what is your job at the watchtower organization, jw gump?.

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  So funny! I just watched Forrest Gump last night!

  "My momma always said, a cult is like a box of grenades. You always know whatcha gonna get!"
  
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  Asians are not necessarily governed by western concepts

  by fulltimestudent in

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  by coincidence (considering my posts on gay partner vows in a japanese buddhist temple) this shiseido tv advertisement showed up today.

  see if you can guess the point before the ad reveals it?.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3db6pmq-8.

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  I think sisters in Japan have a huge struggle with fighting their attraction to other sisters. I once asked a pioneer sister to date with me. I thought it was a done deal, but she shyly admitted that she wasn't very interested in guys and implied she was waiting for Jehovah to fix her in the new system.

  Another time, I asked a sister out, but she said her future goal was to live with another sister and pioneer together up 'til armageddon.
  

  Another time I became quite close to this family with two smoking hot daughters (both in their 20s). I was their English tutor. One night we had a lot to drink at their house. So they dress me up, put make-up and lipstick on my face, made me wear a straw hat and drove me to the nearest convenient store. While filming me in the parking lot, I went inside and bought something. The goal was to get the convenience store worker to shake my hand. The guy behind the counter was very disturbed by it all, but I ended up telling him all this was to impress a girl outside, so he shook my hand, patted my shoulder and said, "ganbatte! (good luck!)" with a wink.

  Some version of fun, huh? The things we do for girls right?
  

  Things were going good until the family packed up and moved to Australia where we got out of touch.
  

  Ironically, years later, both sisters are still single and have zero interest in romance.