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Is Faith Immoral?
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when people willfully believe something without evidence, or contrary to evidence, are they neglecting thier moral responsibility?

so many people say faith is a virtue but i just can't comprehend why anyone would think that.

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Let's take romance as an analogy. In the early stages there is plenty of deception on both sides as we present our best selves. There's a fair bit of self-deception too, as our hormones kick in, the rose coloured glasses are firmly installed, and all our evolutionary drive is hurtling us towards coupling and commitment. It is not logical or reasonable, but we do it anyways.

That usually only applies to young naive and often inexperienced teenagers. Not mature, experienced and critical thinking persons. I mean when was the last time you 'hurtled towards coupling'?

Between blind love and blind faith I think blind faith to be the more dangerous.
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My summer camp job experience
by d in
1. social
2. relationships
this summer i met a russian women i worked at a summer camp for people with developmental disabilities and she is going back to russia in september.

i grew to really like her as a person.

i just feel empty that she is now gone to new york heading beck to moscow we hung out on three seperate occasions and i enjoyed myself and her company .
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Why so long between Skype appointments? Does she not have a laptop or something? I never heard anyone in my life say: "Hey let's talk on Skype in 7 days time.."

In my experience such long distance relationships are fraught with difficulty stress and frustration not to mention they can be very expensive. I have been in a few. I had a relationship with a woman that lived 1,484 miles from me. In the first year alone I spent just under £20,000 just on going back and forth visiting her 6 times. Then when you have to leave and come home the feeling of separation and loneliness is worse then you can imagine. It's actually quite horrible.

I would be cautious about getting involved.
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

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The dialogue above between Comatose and ObjectiveTruth..
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

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I now know what it feels like to be in a barn full of headless chickens..
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ELDER LIES AND GET'S PRAISED FOR IT! FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ME!
by BucketShopBill in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
want to know how a lie can turn into a compliment?

only in the jw mindset!!!.

we got called into the dreaded back room after meeting to find two elders wanting to discuss a 'serious' matter with us.
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You should always stand up to elders... I have found them to be generally cowards.

Jame 4:7 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

That also applies to elders.
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HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

suggestions welcome.. .

dd.
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The air of superiority is the core of being a Jehovah's Witness don't you think ? JW's believe they have all the answers. Their whole existence is based on the idea of "us" and "them". JW's have the idea the common rubble of humanity around them simple do not have the "special knowledge" they have. There is no special knowledge in reality, everything knowable can be known. Even those who leave the WT and see behind the curtain and the immense fraud and arrogance of the "organization" often retain, desperately in fact, the need to be "right" to "have all the answers".

That right there is about the only bit of absolute truth I have read in a long time. It's true of ex-jw's that have left the org but remained some form of annoying hippy Christian and it's true of many ex-jw's that have become hard core absolute cold hearted atheists.

This does not include Objectivetruth who deserves a category all of his/her own own. Buddhist practice detachment by the way not attachment.
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Members of the writing department has resigned
by hardtobeme in
1. jw
2. friends
this is what i found at anointedjw.org.

i don't know if it's true.

on august 25, 2014, we received the following comment and inquiry: .
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Since January 2014, I have noticed a palpable, change in the Tone of some Watchtower Study edition articles.. I have seen areas of these articles that place more importance in Jesus and His Example, than on "Obeying The GB".. These shades of humility and genuine concern for Truth in these writings, have not challenged any of the WT doctrines, but nonetheless there was something there.

Do you mean that the other way around?
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Hello
by ladystellas in
1. jw
2. friends
hello i m ladystellas, new here.. greetings to all.. .

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Nice avatar.. looks like an angry aubergine.
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HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

suggestions welcome.. .

dd.
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I'm not sure which is worse.. a superior arrogant, smug 'I'm right your wrong' atheist or a superior arrogant smug 'I'm right your wrong' Christian. Both extremes are unpleasant.
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public WT november 2014
by fastJehu in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
since many years the nov public wt has only one color and no picture on the front cover.. very strange.

so the design department saves time and can go from door to door ...... .

download: http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/42/wp_e_20141101.pdf.
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Hold on a sec.. what's with all the running around? Is it not Satan who is the one who is meant to be doing all the fleeing?

James 4:7 "...Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

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Jame 4:7 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

That also applies to elders.