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  Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!

  by Prometheus in

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  2. beliefs

  it was rather quick one.

  in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!

  (what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .

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  Zoos

  Prometheus, you sound like you got disfellowshipped / reinstated about the same time I did.

  
  

  Turns out I got caught having sex with someone I wasn't supposed to, spent 20+ years exploring the details of that crime, and 5 years years convincing the powers-that-be... I was pure enough to be reinstated.

  
  

  I was baptized in 1983, disfellowshipped in 1986, reinstated in 2009. It never occurred to me to examine the religion in the meantime. I was reinstated with the full belief that I was being acceptable to Jehovah. Boy was I wrong. I even had a testicular problem last year that caused me a long term problem and I had to have surgery on my scrotum in order to put aside a testicle problem that made me me stop for an entire season.

  
  

  
  
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  Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

  by cofty in

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  crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

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  Zoos

  I don't think a news item has ever caught me so off guard and made me so upset. After the string of upsetting news items that have pummeled the U.S lately, I didn't realize I was in such an emotional state. This news really upsets me.

  I'm tired.
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  Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

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  Zoos

  I hate to come off as the RUSH LIMBAUGH spokesman (devil's advocate) here, but......

  ... tomorrow he will be spitting and spewing how France, with all their gun control laws, were unable to stop this rampage.....

  ...and all the conservative southern, CHRISTIAN bubbas in the U.S. will be nodding their heads in agreement, with spit running off their chins...

  How would you respond? (Or does this question belong in it's own thread?)
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  Sixty People Murdered in Nice Terror Attack

  by cofty in

  1. social
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  crowds celebrating bastille day in nice, france have been targeted by a terrorist driving a truck.. initial reports of 60 dead and 100 injured.. i am losing track of how many similar attacks there have been in europe in recently..

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  Zoos

  How does this stop?

  With Armageddon?

  Seriously. How does this stop? With the attackers being (seemingly) individual radicals, how can an organized government/army/anti-terrorist organization... isolate individuals in a community of millions and make it all stop?

  IT CAN'T BE DONE! These lone actors cannot possibly be identified and stopped.

  Without wiping out the INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION IN THEIR ENTIRETY, how can civilized society ever hope to be free of this nonsense?
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  i'm leaving this site forever

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. humour

  as the title says--i'm out of here for good.. the site is full of atheists, communists, 7th day adventists, creationists, believers, deceivers, receivers, football supporters,.

  dodgy types, cantleave---and assorted wankers.. so no place for me--because i'm none of the above so dont fit in.

  so--this is goodbye forever my friends--its been almost average knowing you.

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  Zoos

  Wait jut a damn minute....... I DON'T SUPPORT FOOTBALL.
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  Are gays really condemned in the Bible?

  by jws in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was having this argument with a friend about the westboro baptist idiots.

  my point is that while they are horrible people, they are pretty much right in that the bible is against gays because it has verses in both the old and the new testament.

  which is one of many reasons to reject the bible as merely man-made rules from ancient middle-easterners.. and she argued that there are problems in translation, etc.

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  Zoos

  I found these threads helpful...

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/243651/sin-sodom-gomorrah-what-does-bible-really-teach

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/243779/do-lie-male-female-what-does-bible-really-teach
  

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/243858/god-gave-them-up-disgraceful-sexual-appetites-what-does-bible-really-teach

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/243959/arsenokoitais-men-who-lie-men-what-does-bible-really-teach
  
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  Is wife beginning to turn around?

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so some may have read the long and boring post about our last vacation and some of the things that my wife came to tell me during our time away.

  i am adding the link here but i can summarize it for time's sake.. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5768475763015680/vacation-time-reality-closing-up-on-my-wife.

  in a nutshell, right before we left, we found out of a jw couple we know well.

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  Zoos

  She still claim some good is there and I agree but I told her that whatever good is there is only meant to support the bad, not to help anyone.

  
  

  There's some good in all religions. So? What sets the Watchtower above anything else on the street?

  
  

  Good luck.
  
  
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  JWs anti gay video reaches over 1,000,000 views on youtube

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the anti gay video that watchtower recently produced has now had over 1,000,000 views.

  of those who selected to like or dislike the video, over 92% disliked it.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnk52bu92oe.

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  Zoos

  JWs contribute to creating the motive that inspires homophobic hate crimes.

  
  

  All of Christianity does.
  
  
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  God does not desire any to be destroyed?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so if the idea is promoted that god doesn't want anyone to be destroyed, why does he make it so confusing for people to learn about him?.

  why are there thousands of differing religions?.

  why has "his only true organisation" even taught so many varying doctrines?.

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  Zoos

  The reasoning from the Watchtower organization is that if a person has the right heart condition, Jehovah will direct that individual to his earthly organization. All the confusion of religion will be lifted from his/her eyes because God will have "drawn that one to Him." In this way He demonstrates that He wishes no one to be destroyed.

  Jehovah's loves each and every one of... *hack* ... us and sends His servants out into the world to do the separating wor.... *choke*.... k so that we all have a chance to turn our wicked ways around.... *gag* .... and follow the governing body to salvation.

  * excuse me while I reach for a tissue *
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  Moral indignation against "faders" shows JW apologists are morally bankrupt

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i came across this weird blog that castigates fading jws for their "cowardice" and "hypocrisy" for not making themselves vulnerable to shunning.

  apparently in the view of this blogger jws who discover it's not the truth are morally obliged to play by the watchtower rules and face the consequences of shunning.. http://jwresearchblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/fading-faking-and-lying-as-unbelieving.html#comment-form.

  what is absent from the blog post is any discussion of the statement in the july 2009 awake!, that no one should be made to choose between their beliefs and their family.

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  Zoos

  His friends quickly abandoned him, his family cut ties with him, and his neighbors even set fire to his crops. But the young man never relented in publicly declaring what he thought to be true, even in the face of loss and persecution.

  
  They are using an example of what they feel is unwarranted abandonment due to their new found beliefs as a way of justifying their own abandonment of family and friends who have new found beliefs?

  Because others have done it to Jehovah's Witnesses, people who leave the JWs should suck it up and accept the very same thing.

  THAT'S their logic?