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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 1:48 pm
(April 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Don't JW's shun you if you leave the religion or shack up with a non JW?
Yeah. If you're disfellowshipped or if you disassociate yourself, the policy is that of no interaction whatsoever. Even immediate family are instructed to minimize or even avoid contact (this rule has fluctuated in the past; as far as I know, currently they're using the strictest interpretation).
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 1:56 pm
(April 13, 2013 at 7:43 pm)frz Wrote: Since we all started from the bottom, (lol), basically I'm asking from which religion you defunct from.
For starters, I grew up seven-day Adventist. Almost all of my family have been going to this particular church. So, that makes me a christian-atheist.
Pentecostal. The kind where not having to stop at a red light because it went green was an act of God.
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 2:05 pm
I'm the kind of atheist that sees every theist as a sad deluded person.
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 2:08 pm
(April 14, 2013 at 11:15 am)whateverist Wrote: (April 14, 2013 at 9:37 am)Tonus Wrote: Raised a Jehovah's Witness, bought into it for a good long while, finally came to my senses.
Such a level headed guy for someone who broke out of a cult. Can you tell me something about the JW's? I heard that when a group of them go around door to door with that little magazine thingy some of them are checking out your house for after the rapture. Is that true? I mean, what I heard is that JWs believe the rapture will suck out all the bad eggs leaving only the chosen here on earth. So heaven comes to us?
Well... this officially makes every time a Jehovah's Witness has come to my door a thousand percent more creepy and irritating...
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 2:47 pm
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 3:12 pm
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(April 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Was never baptised, god was never talked about except at school, never really believed that it was ever anything but a bunch of bullshit.
When I was very, very small my grandmother sent me to sunday school "to meet other kids" and I remember being positively dumbfounded - I think it was something about the coat of many colors, when I was asked and related the story - in no uncertain terms as a story- and got a bunch of uncomfortable looks. It was difficult for me then (as it is now) to fathom why anyone would balk at a story, or an explicit mention of the narrative as such.
I'm the kind of atheist who has always been an atheist - and god wasn't "a thing" in my upbringing. I still enjoy the stories for stories sake - probably more-so when I was a child (I've read better stories since). I do recall really liking the pamphlets. Lots of nice pastel illustrations (I still enjoy the watchtowers presentation- had a childhood friend that apprenticed at one of the printing houses in NY, apparently).
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 4:33 pm
(April 14, 2013 at 1:48 pm)Tonus Wrote: (April 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Don't JW's shun you if you leave the religion or shack up with a non JW?
Yeah. If you're disfellowshipped or if you disassociate yourself, the policy is that of no interaction whatsoever. Even immediate family are instructed to minimize or even avoid contact (this rule has fluctuated in the past; as far as I know, currently they're using the strictest interpretation).
Fuckers.
That upsets me. That a father and mother could disassociate themselves from their own son or daughter, their own real live flesh and blood, in favour of an invisible made up being.
How stupid are people?
Religious belief needs to be CRUSHED.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Presbyterian chritians- agnostic atheist. Grew up around a lot of baptist though so really a mix of the radical beliefs with common cloths in church.
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 14, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Still in the process of being raised Catholic -_- But really atheist so whatever
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RE: What kind of atheist are you?
April 15, 2013 at 12:54 am
According to fr0d0, I was an anti-christian, now I'm an atheist.
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