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		<title>Witnesses for Atheism: Cool Podcasts for Ex-Witnesses Turned Atheists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I&#8217;d include this with my news and links updates, but I&#8217;m lazy and didn&#8217;t want to wait. Witnesses for Atheism is a pretty sweet podcast for those hungry masses of ex-Witnesses that want to hear more podcasts from&#8230;well, ex-Witnesses! I discovered it through Twitter, which I finally joined about a week or two ago. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Biggest Reason Why Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Disapprove Of Ex-Witnesses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have tried to justify their reasons for leaving the Watchtower Society to friends and family who are still loyal Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses. Many ex-Witnesses not only fail to do this, but fail miserably. It seems that there are no acceptable reasons for leaving our former Kingdom Halls in the eyes of many Witnesses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is That An Attack On The Watchtower Society Or Are You Just Criticizing My Religion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 19:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, we see the world through two different pairs of glasses and we don&#8217;t even know it. Ever since I posted my series about the November AWAKE! articles on atheism, I&#8217;ve started seeing more comments from Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses here on Atheist Geek News. Some Witnesses say they only stopped here because they saw my &#8220;attack&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screw The Podcast: Here&#8217;s A PDF Of My Essay Instead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After plugging away on my little essay for some time now, I had hoped to turn it into a podcast that readers could download and listen to. I had even hoped to enlist one or two other ex-Witnesses to help read a few of the parts. (I asked Moxie about that a while ago via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Try Reasoning With Us To Get Us Back In The Kingdom Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have over most ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses? A written narrative for almost any question you can think of, that&#8217;s what. Thanks to the Society&#8217;s narrative, Witnesses don&#8217;t have to think about their answers when a mean old apostate raises objections about the Society&#8217;s teachings. They can just quote the Watchtower&#8217;s narrative without using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanize Yourself In Four Steps When Evangelists Objectify You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know one thing that many atheists and ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses have in common? Dealing with aggressive evangelists who objectify us (or who want us to play our assigned role in their idealized conversion scenario). Whether they realize it or not, many evangelists tend to pigeonhole others into categories that are easy for them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How And Why Doubting Witnesses Can Fade From The Watchtower Society: Bigger, Better, And Uncut!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witness readers know that I have written some articles for Austin Cline&#8217;s About Atheism &#38; Agnosticism web site. One of the more popular ones is called Jehovah&#8217;s Witness To Atheist: How Doubting Witnesses Can Fade, Avoid Shunning &#8211; Advice for Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses on Fading from the Watchtower Society. That article was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice For Ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses: How To Handle It When Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Confront You In Public Places</title>
		<link>http://www.atheistgeeknews.com/jehovahwitnessconfrontpublic-26.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You glance down at those fresh chocolate covered doughnuts in the Bakery isle and begin to lick your lips. Then you feel something tug at your arm and you turn around in surprise. &#8220;You know those are no good for you,&#8221; the man tells you with a chuckle. Your heart sinks at his words. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Really Just a Bunch Of No Good Apostates? Here Are 5 Ways We Can Prove The Watchtower Society Wrong.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, most ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses (or Exxers) have noticed the Watchtower Society&#8217;s talent for hyperbole. The Society often depicts &#8220;worldly people&#8221; as bad associates who choose to dwell in a Satanic world of robbery, lies, and murder. While Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses are portrayed as good, steadfast, and honest to a fault, always struggling to save an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is It So Hard For Ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses To Stand Up To The Watchtower Society&#8217;s Faithful?</title>
		<link>http://www.atheistgeeknews.com/why-its-hard-for-ex-jehovahs-witnesses-to-stand-up-to-the-watchtower-societys-loyal-follower-530.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Atheist Geek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most ex-Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses know how hard it is to stand up for themselves when Witness friends and family come a-calling. Our brains seem to shut down and go all blinky when the questions and accusations fly. So we just stand there and wait for the Witnesses to leave us alone. Then, as we watch them [...]]]></description>
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