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Simple. Because it would mean people would be dedicated and answerable directly to God and Jesus alone instead of the organization thus weakening their totalitarian grip and control over people.

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Party in the kingdom hall!

by StephaneLaliberte in

check it out and download before i am forced to take it down!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf_rfrusa1c.

No need to apologize Magnum, you nailed it the first time. This is a first class mind control cult of the highest order and there is no pleasure at all in watching them embarrassingly hop around and trying to call it 'progress' in normalcy when it's not.

When they loosen up on their inhuman draconian disfellowshipping rules, destroying families, apostate labeling, blood issue, education stance, blind obedience and veritable worship of some self titled old men that live in a luxury tower in Crooklyn and for ever lying about and whitewashing their own history then maybe.

Until then there is no joy whatsoever to be had in this awkward and embarrassing display of pseudo freedom. This same happy clappy crowd will tear your family to shreds and condemn you to burn without a second thought and then go home and sing about it.

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Do you "believe" differently from what you "know"?

by compound complex in

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greetings, all those still searching, still wondering .

.. in one of many faith-related books i have read, i recall the author declaring that there's a difference between what we know and what we believe.

while i cannot recall the author nor his commentary, i acknowledge that, while i do know ttatt and that the bible in not without error, yet there's a part of me deep inside that holds onto the so-called spiritual.. how is it for you personally as you make the transition from the invisible to the visible?

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Yes Iown.. I'm with you totally there. I don't have any real idea what the truth is on anything at all any more really.. but I know for a fact the me personally being absolutely honest and truthful in everything feels good and right and ultimately pleasant in my deepest being.

Being kind, generous and loving and compassionate with others and especially for some reason animals also satisfies something very deep in me so I will definitely hang on to these things. I don't know if 'truth' or 'rightness' can be written on the human heart but that seems to be the place where this stuff is coming from lately for me. It's kind of all I have.

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HERE IS YOUR MAP. . . your task is to find the spot which says: YOU ARE HERE

by Terry in

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here is your map:.

1. i suspect the truth isn't what i thought it was.. 2. omg--i realize i've been lied to and duped.. 3. what should i do?--i don't want to lose my wife, kids, family, friends, dog, pet hamster .

.. 4. what if jehovah's witnesses really do have the true religion and it's simple human error screwing it up?.

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1(b). I suspect the TRUTH isn't what I was told it was.

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Do you "believe" differently from what you "know"?

by compound complex in

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friends

greetings, all those still searching, still wondering .

.. in one of many faith-related books i have read, i recall the author declaring that there's a difference between what we know and what we believe.

while i cannot recall the author nor his commentary, i acknowledge that, while i do know ttatt and that the bible in not without error, yet there's a part of me deep inside that holds onto the so-called spiritual.. how is it for you personally as you make the transition from the invisible to the visible?

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I used to believe what I thought I knew. Because of TATT I don't know what I know any more. Probably nothing. I no longer know what I even believe. I don't want to believe any more for the sake of believing or because it sounds good or feels good. There is no point in self deception. Without God himself giving me a personal revelation or experience I'd say all I have left now is hope.

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Lost opportunity to witness to a pair of Moonies

by jgnat in

housebound at the moment, recovering from surgery, two lovely asian ladies approached me in my yard saying they were graduates from the something-something institute and they were practising what they learned.

they wanted to tell me about mother god.... that elicited a pretty fast "no thankyou" and they moved to the next door.

i entertained the idea of giving those two girls a run for their money, but hubby said no- go.

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Do you mean witness as in Witness?

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Have scientists found "a new earth"???

by Nathan Natas in

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1293976,00.html

earth-like planet could harbour life .

tim radford, science editor.

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These people are introducing data and information for mankind that will last forever.

Not really.. their theories are as uncertain as everything else in this world.

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-famous-scientific-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-wrong.php

and more..

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2010/11/the-top-10-most-spectacularly-wrong-widely-held-scientific-theories/

Who want's to be remembered for being wrong eh?

I'm not competing here.. just keeping an open mind. Science is not my new God.

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Have scientists found "a new earth"???

by Nathan Natas in

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1293976,00.html

earth-like planet could harbour life .

tim radford, science editor.

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Apparently not..

Two earlier discovered Earth-like planets do not exist, new study shows.

http://rt.com/news/170668-earth-planets-gliese-scientists/

Great comment:

The hubris of 'scientists' is comical. They have long since redefined and then abandoned the definition of 'science' and have plunged completely into the realm of fairy tales and speculation, needing no proof for their theories than the existence of their theories, proclaiming posit and conjecture as hard fact.

These 'scientists' have become religious zealots with no proof whatsoever of their beliefs.