It seems it would be natural for us to evolve beyond archaic tribal superstition and beliefs. What's amazing is that it is taking so long.
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Is Active Disbelief a New Development?
by metatron inin decades past, i can't ever recall anyone who 'left the truth' , who openly believed it was false.. i knew lots of people who drifted away but none who actively proclaimed that what the organization.
taught was false.
usually, you would bump into them and they would say , "i know its the truth but.
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Guys, do you lay your wifi laptop on your lap?
by Elsewhere inone of the things i enjoy most about wifi is the way i can sit in my favorite living room recliner and surf the web while watching spongbob.
i was just sitting here browsing around the web when it suddenly occurred to me: am i microwaving my "boys"?
has anyone heard if there is are, ahem, "manly" dangers to using a laptop on the lap?
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new invention that will save lives
by shadowofbathory inlets say that i have invented a contraption that removes all contaminates ( organic and inorganis ) from any sample of water, including desalination process.. what would be your marketing plan ?
who would you approach initially?.
would you sell the technology to a firm that would take care of marketing and distribution?.
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Shadow, you have a PM.
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new invention that will save lives
by shadowofbathory inlets say that i have invented a contraption that removes all contaminates ( organic and inorganis ) from any sample of water, including desalination process.. what would be your marketing plan ?
who would you approach initially?.
would you sell the technology to a firm that would take care of marketing and distribution?.
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Hey Shadow, have you developed such a device? It sounds intriguing. Are you using frequency modulation or pulses by any chance?
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Does Someone's Religion Matter To You?
by minimus indo you care if tom cruise is a scientologist?
or that mitt romney is a mormon?
or that a person is either a very devout muslim or a card carrying communist?
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Yes, it does arouse some concern that Billions of people worship as the "most high" exemplar of morals and behaviour a divisive and psychopathic deity which lavishly destroys and kills.
Makes for a pretty crazy and dangerous world.
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Necco Opened
by Necco ini am new to the website and i am witness.. i am astonishingly happy to be here and i wont be going anywhere else.
it's about time i found a forum with jehovahs witnesses!!
i'm almost doing cartwheels.
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Welcome, Necco.
Perhaps it may be helpful to ask yourself a question, and ponder on it until you are certain of your answer, and then act accordingly.
The question is: Do you want to know the truth the best you can? Do you want to get a deeper sense of what is real, and what is not?
If you desire truth, then, like a CSI team, thorough investigation is required. Everything must be questioned, and nothing taken for granted or accepted too quickly as fact. Truth, demands that we perform honest and painstaking analyses and inquiry. It is the nature of truth that the deeper we look and discover what is false, the clearer truth becomes.
This requires courage and the willingness to let go of preconceived and cherished notions and beliefs that prove themselves to be incorrect.
Perhaps such personal effort is not your thing, and you would rather be fed what to believe with the stipulation that you do not question (however, since truth is authenticated via questioning and analysis, this may be a dangerous place to tread). It's your call to take such a path or not.
On the other hand, if you want truth, and you have the courage to investigate, this may be the place for you; because we welcome pretty much anything and everything to be questioned and discussed on this forum.
Welcome again. So glad you joined us.
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Are JWDers helpful to each other?
by AuldSoul ini used to think that this place was a good spot to recommend for exiting jws.
in some wasy, it still is.
but if they want to test the waters of doctrinal evaluation i believe it is nearly impossible.
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My sense is that Terry is acutely aware and sensitive to the fact that much human suffering ensues from the division of mankind into the saved and the damned which Christianity emphasizes and institutes. Such empathy can cause us, at times, to do or say things which may seem on the surface as unkind.
One need only read our dear Chris' (Big Tex) post in the Grace vs. Forgiveness thread to see how Christian beliefs shove a stick in an already bleeding wound.
Of course this does not authorise us nonbelievers to crash Christian threads (as I too have done many times in the past). It just means that it may not be our meanness and insensitivities that are the cause, but rather, perhaps, just the opposite.
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Post your Simpsonized self potrait here.
by 5go init really kind of does look like me.
though i look yellower in real life because of a vodka related insisdent.
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Where I am a spinal-column kinda guy using neither my right, or left brain, this gal uses both.
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Post your Simpsonized self potrait here.
by 5go init really kind of does look like me.
though i look yellower in real life because of a vodka related insisdent.
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Online Buisness - Does Anyone Have One?
by gumby ini went to a free internet opportunity meeting yesterday and of course they were there to sell you something, but you got a free daily planner book and a free lunch.
i went since i've always believed money can be made by using the internet if you approach it properly.
i didn't buy anything since i know there are cheaper ways to start an online buisness.. anyway, just wondering if any of you have tried it or are currently doing it.
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Hey Gumboat, I'm in the process of presenting some new products to the world, which will be marketed via the Internet and brick and mortar stores.
Here, will be the corporate website which will link to others specifically geared to the products.
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