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Is it difficult to believe in a loving God?
by Kosonen in
1. jw
2. friends
is it difficult to believe in a loving god?.

if yes, i understand you.

it has been difficult to me too.
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Is this the wisest way? - there is no truth!
by fulltimestudent in
1. jw
2. friends
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I believe that the greater percentage of JWs-You Will Not Be Able to Help, no Matter What Facts You Show Them.
by John Aquila in
1. jw
2. experiences
so i ran into this brother whom ive known for a while and the conversation led into me being invited to come back to the kingdom hall.

we talked for about an hour during which time i explained to him 607 being the wrong date and a lot of other stuff including the child abuse cases in australia.

but what i wanted to relate was the last few minutes of our conversation.
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Going to a bad place when i die
by 060702015 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've thought and said too much to ever gain jehovahs forgiveness and love if i want to be a christian again.

i made a topic on my unforgivable sin and blaspemy of the holy spirit.. i feel saddness everyday having no relationship with god, no religion and fear of the afterlife.

even when i was kid i feared death and the end of the world.
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Where are all these New Anointed Ones Coming from?
by John Aquila in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
back in the early 70s, right before 1975 we had about 7 or 8 thousand professed anointed.

cant remember the exact number.

but at every convention we were told that the end is close ---because---the number of anointed is getting smaller and smaller.
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How do you deal with Anxiety!
by little_Socrates in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so the other day i was walking through the huge local regional outlet shopping mall.

i see this sign "how do deal with anxiety" didn't take very long at all to confirm it was a jw booth.. that sign bothered me.

do jw actually think they have something to say about anxiety?
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What kind of errors in the Bible?
by TheWonderofYou in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the new testament specialist daniel wallace notes that although there are about 300,000 individual variations of the text of the new testament, this number is very misleading.

most of the differences are completely inconsequential--spelling errors, inverted phrases and the like.

a side by side comparison between the two main text families (the majority text and the modern critical text) shows agreement a full 98% of the time.[18].
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Try Other Religions
by Sofia Lose in
1. jw
2. experiences
sometimes i get a strong curiosity to start dabbling into other religions, other faiths, you know?

really different ones such as islam, judaism, hinduism, etc.. has anyone here looked into something else?

has your spirituality been satisfied by any other than christianity?.
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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?
by Doltologist in
1. jw
2. experiences
in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.
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Are You "Technically" Still A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
even if you don't regard yourself as a practicing jw, some may view you simply as inactive, a lost sheep, etc.. if you were baptized but not disfellowshipped or disassociated, you may still be a jw---right?

your thoughts please..