sparrowdown

Joined

• started 55 topics
• posted 5,667 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by sparrowdown

• 
  19

  "No junk mail". How witnesses ignore these signs!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as we know, many people have "no junk mail" signs on their home letterboxes.

  this clearly means that they do not want unsolicited mail or advertising material.. so how are witnesses getting around this?.

  during the campaign to distribute the convention invitations, when they come across a house with "no junk mail", they are just putting the leaflet inside an envelope and hand writing "to the householder" on the front and putting it in the letterbox!.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Not everyone lives in the US.
• 
  44

  Verifiable proof of Jesus' existance outside the Bible

  by unsure in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thought i'd start a separate discussion on the subject.. those who know me know i'm struggling with faith; i want to believe, some days i do but it becomes difficult.. many believers say there is verifiable proof of jesus' existence outside of the bible.. please post this proof..

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  There is no verifiable proof that a man named Jesus was the son of god outside of the bible account, even early christians who converted after his death and never met him, saw him or heard him needed to put faith in hearsay evidence - hence the need for faith

  Although there is the whole calender thing hmmm...
• 
  6

  McEnroe Puts Serena at About 700 on Men's Tour

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  john mcenroe was challenged by npr reporter lulu garcia-navarro to amend his comments about serena williams in his new book in which he rates her as the best women's player of all time.

  lulu suggested he should not call her the best "women's" player but simply the best player of all time.

  mcenroe was taken aback and explained that the men's and women's tours were very different and that serena would be around 700th on in the men's game.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  So whats stopping us from having unisex sport?

  Ahh...biology.

  Ignore it, we'll just medals to everyone.
• 
  6

  McEnroe Puts Serena at About 700 on Men's Tour

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  john mcenroe was challenged by npr reporter lulu garcia-navarro to amend his comments about serena williams in his new book in which he rates her as the best women's player of all time.

  lulu suggested he should not call her the best "women's" player but simply the best player of all time.

  mcenroe was taken aback and explained that the men's and women's tours were very different and that serena would be around 700th on in the men's game.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Yeah, I know right. Men are stronger than women - end of. If all sports were merged into unisex competitions the sports that required physical strength and power would be dominated by men. A fact of biology.
• 
  30

  Had twin babies with a married JW?!?!?!?!?!?! advice & thoughts

  by Gokumonkey in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  before i begin i just wanna say, im not proud of what i did, it was wrong but it happened now im just trying to do the right thing.. ok so im a "worldly" person and i meet a jw women at my job.

  i had no idea she was married due to the fact that she hid her wedding ring.

  i even ask if she was in a relationship and she denied it.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Do not give an inch or give up on seeing your kids if you want them in your life and you want them to have any idea of what a normal life is. Jws are a CULT.
• 
  13

  No brain, No Life -- says JW Professor Rajesh Kalaria

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so continuing my review of the current bull shit my family in this cult are subjected to i found this article about professor rajesh kalaria, a jw since 1973 and a scientist who has studied the human brain for 40 years (hmm... so he converted into this cult very early in his career it seems).anyway i also found this jw broadcasting piece about him where he says:.

  “and brain is what we are; what i am, what you are.

  no brain, no life.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Yes! I have thought along similar lines myself.

  For the JW version of a "resurrection" of the exact person to be possible genetic material would be needed to be saved not just a "memory" of the person. So even if Jehovah has access to all the genetical material ever created the so-called "resurrected" would be a clone of the original.
• 
  13

  A Poll Regarding Shunning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've created a poll here: https://goo.gl/7xburo.

  i'd be interested in seeing the results.. .

  #qp_main1119848 .qp_btna:hover input {background:#00355f!important} #qp_all1119848 {max-width:815px; margin:0 auto;}if watchtower scrapped the shunning policy due to "new light" and your family suddenly agreed to speak to you again would you accept them back?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  No, if they could shun an innocent loved one because some organization told them to then there are some underlying issues going on there. If they're capable of unjustly shunning me over a religion then how much do they really love or care about me. They would need to show they have grown a backbone before I accepted them back.
• 
  62

  Russian Ban upheld - JWs lose appeal

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the supreme court of russia has rejected the jehovah's witnesses' appeal.. https://jw-russia.org/news/17071719-195.html.

  july 17, 2017 the supreme court of russia has missed the last chance to restore law and justice for the 175,000 russian citizens professing the religion of jehovah's witnesses.

  it took less than an hour of the meeting a panel of three supreme court judges, to leave unchanged the decision taken earlier by the judge yuri ivanenko, the liquidation and ban any and all registered organizations of the religion.since there is no more effective domestic remedies, the believers will appeal to the european court of human rights and other international organizations.. *note: as reported by the jworg source, jw-russia.org.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Jehovah the mighty smiter strikes again.
• 
  83

  Russell's Pyramidology Originated In Edinburgh Scotland

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the edinburgh city observatory sits atop calton hill at the east end of the city centre adjacent to burn's monument, scotland's national monument modelled on the parthenon, and nelson's monument with the time ball that falls at 1pm every day except sundays.. .

  the second astronomer royal of edinburgh was charles piazzi smyth (jan. 1819 - feb. 1900).

  smyth was a man of many and varied interests including meteorology, producing weather observations that still form an important part of uk climate records to this day.. building on the work of james taylor, smyth became fascinated by the great pyramid of egypt at giza.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Vienne- and what is the aurgument exactly?
• 
  12

  Worse than the maggots apparently...

  by NoviceLocs14 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so after a couple of years, i've finally re-established contact with a close relative (not revealing too much for privacy reasons).

  it turns out that he is dfd (for the typical jw reasons, of course).

  we caught up about a lot of things, including family.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  sparrowdown

  Cool, they're fraid of us.😆