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August 9, 2010 at 2:37 am
Hi everyone, just sort of stumbled onto this forum the other night and it seemed pretty interesting, so I though I would join up.
About me then; I was raised a jehovah's witness until I was about 17 and decided it was all bullshit. I suppose the one advantage to being a JW was that we were taught to be very critical of other religions, so it made it pretty easy to turn it around like "I don't believe in Zeus, Athena and all that because of... so why do I believe in Jesus?" That was nearly 10 years ago and now I'm as dogmatically irreligious as I once was religious! Does that sentence even make sense?
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August 9, 2010 at 3:12 am
(August 9, 2010 at 2:37 am)cdog Wrote: Hi everyone, just sort of stumbled onto this forum the other night and it seemed pretty interesting, so I though I would join up.
About me then; I was raised a jehovah's witness until I was about 17 and decided it was all bullshit. I suppose the one advantage to being a JW was that we were taught to be very critical of other religions, so it made it pretty easy to turn it around like "I don't believe in Zeus, Athena and all that because of... so why do I believe in Jesus?" That was nearly 10 years ago and now I'm as dogmatically irreligious as I once was religious! Does that sentence even make sense?
No, but it doesn't have to. Welcome to team atheism, where existing isn't a sin and you dont' have to apologize for your whole life for existing. 
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August 9, 2010 at 2:00 pm
team atheism? this has got nothing to do with Twilight.
Hallo and welcome
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August 9, 2010 at 2:07 pm
(August 9, 2010 at 2:00 pm)Cego_Colher Wrote: team atheism? this has got nothing to do with Twilight.
Twillight? I was thinking more along the lines of Axe Cop.
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August 9, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Hi there! I've always wanted to ask someone this: Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses give blood?
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August 9, 2010 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2010 at 5:44 pm by cdog.)
Short answer (because I assume you don't want the theological hairy fairy version) they think blood is sacred. So the only thing blood can be used for is sacrifices to god, anything else is a sin.
edit: also hello!
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August 9, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Ah. That's interesting. Welcome to the board!
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August 9, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Quote:That was nearly 10 years ago and now I'm as dogmatically irreligious as I once was religious! Does that sentence even make sense?
Yes, it does,and is not surprising.However, dogmatism is not something to boast about,if you mean implacably opposed and closed minded.
Me? Well no, I'm not dogmatically irreligious,but I am rather ant- fuckwit. Not my fault if most of the fuckwits I run across are theists of varying flavours.(I think it might be a statistical thing) 
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August 10, 2010 at 8:56 am
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(August 9, 2010 at 2:37 am)cdog Wrote: Hi everyone, just sort of stumbled onto this forum the other night and it seemed pretty interesting, so I though I would join up.
About me then; I was raised a jehovah's witness until I was about 17 and decided it was all bullshit. I suppose the one advantage to being a JW was that we were taught to be very critical of other religions, so it made it pretty easy to turn it around like "I don't believe in Zeus, Athena and all that because of... so why do I believe in Jesus?" That was nearly 10 years ago and now I'm as dogmatically irreligious as I once was religious! Does that sentence even make sense?
hello cdog welcome to our madness!!
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