Posts by DuvanMuvan

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How Were You Affected by All The Rules & Regulations From The Watchtower Society?

by minimus in

jw
friends

there are so many directives for elders, pioneers, ministerial servants and "publishers", it is mind boggling!!!.

to fulfill all of their expectaions, you would have to be perfect!.

i must say, that i really don't know how some do it, every day, ever week....i wonder how long some of the elders that frequent this board will still push the flock like the watchtower says they must..

DuvanMuvan

I remember a couple of weeks ago when I missed my first meeting completely by choice and i couldn't stop smiling when i realised I have my weekends back to myself and the gb have no power over me anymore

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Need advice for asking a girl out

by DuvanMuvan in

well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.

DuvanMuvan

Ask it from her or a friend? Because I can't ask her for her number without running into the same problem and her friends will just tell her before I could do it.

i have overthought this many a time

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

DuvanMuvan

did my title put people off? I thought there'd be at least one jw to talk to about this. I was hoping to hear a newer opionion on this because almost all the stuff I looked at before deciding that it didn't happen is really old

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Need advice for asking a girl out

by DuvanMuvan in

well long story short, i've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and i would prefer to ask her in person.

we've liked each other for a while (i was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and i'm also i bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.. i was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me.

DuvanMuvan

Well long story short, I've been meaning to ask this girl at school out for a while but i can never do it because her friends are always there in the way and I would prefer to ask her in person. We've liked each other for a while (I was oblivious until about a month or two ago) and I'm also I bit worried she'll get tired of waiting.

I was just wondering if anyone had any advice or something that they could give me

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

DuvanMuvan

That's a shame because I promised my mum that I'd still go to the memorial and I would have loved to have seen the look on the brother's face after he sees me after they dropped that bombshell. I actually had this plan where I'd walk in, shake his hand and say "oh I forgot to give these back to you last time I saw you" then hand the "old light" bullcrap to him and walk off before he could try it give it back to me.

If you ever get into a discussion with someone about this just mention the fact that penguins either made their way from antarctica onto the ark (with a years supply of high quality antarctic veggies) or that they evolved "within their kind" from a bird that was on the ark are the only ways they could be around today without relying on divine intervention

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

DuvanMuvan

Funny story, I started this thread about an hour before the router at home went and did a die so when I saw how many responses I got I was more than surprised.

I still have a load of wt extracts about the flood that this brother brought over to try and convince me that the flood happened. I made a load of annotations on them but when he read them he didn't really care.

I liked seeing a lot of new things I hadnt thought of like the ark not drifting to a completely different place or the fact that the bad angels didn't even die in the flood so it pretty much failed.

Im sorry for being lazy but I can't be bothered to see who it was that asked something along the lines of "why aren't they allowed to say god must have if thats what they believe" but I have a reason. I didn't want a whole load of speculation on what god MIGHT have done without offering any proof. When I was going to the kh they always made a point about being able to go out on the ministry with juse your bible because the bible is the truth and it's all you need blah blah blah. Well I thought that, sticking to what it says in the bible, anyone should be able to answer a question about something it says in the bible.

I'm willing to bet that in the next 4 years they'll have a flash of new light and declare that Noah's ark isn't literal

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

DuvanMuvan


I have a number of problems with the Noah's ark story that I could never find the answer to in the bible and so I thought I could ask here: 1.How did Noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) 2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.(There are cave paintings in France of humans hunting woolly mammoths which I have noticed weren't on the ark) 3. The wts say that Noah only needed two of each "kind" of animal (not an actual scientific term btw) to be on the ark. What is the actual definition of a kind? 4.how could the small number of animals apparently "evolve within their kinds" but one species evolving into another (what the wts refer to as macro evolution) be impossible 5. How did the freshwater fish survive when all the oceans and rivers mixed together? 6. What did the animals eat, not only on the ark, but on the journey to and from the ark? 7. Why did god not just kill the evil people in their sleep or something, why flood the entire world? 8.Where did all the water that was able to cover Mount Everest by 10 (it might have been 15) cubits go? If your answer contains the words "well god must have...." Then that's speculation and independent thinking which the gb do not approve of "14 In modern times, a very small number among God’s people have become disgruntled with some aspect of Christian teaching and have murmured against the earthly part of Jehovah’s organization. Why does this happen? Such murmuring is often caused by a lack of understanding of God’s way of doing things. The Creator progressively reveals the truth to his people. Hence, our understanding of the Scriptures is bound to be refined from time to time. The vast majority of Jehovah’s people rejoice over such refinements. A few become “righteous overmuch” and resent the changes.(Ecclesiastes 7:16) Pride may play a role, and some fall into the trap of independent thinking. Whatever the reason, such murmuring is hazardous, since it can draw us back into the world and its ways." -w06 7/15 pp19-23

This is copied and pasted from a post on a different forum so it's weird looking I'm sorry

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Can god see into the future?

by DuvanMuvan in

this is something that's been bothering me for a while.. if god could see into the future, why has he allowed so many bad things to happen?

for example in the garden of eden.

he should have known from the beginning what would happen.if there was even the tiniest chance that they'd eat the fruit then god obviously didn't think it would be benefical to, idk, prevent it from happening?

DuvanMuvan

James Brown I'm not sure I like what you said about hitler being used by god and I don't think that really has much to do with what I'm asking. I might just be blinded by my disbelief and am unable to see what point you were trying to make.

Endofmysteries my question was mainly directed at the wts depiction of the god of the bible i.e someone who knows how everything will play out in the future, can and has (supposedly) influenced humans so his prophecies would come true but decided to place a tree that would doom billions of people to suffering and death in the middle of a garden without using his powers to see if his little test would work

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A Dummy's Guide to the 'This generation' doctrine

by Honesty in

a jehovah's witness explains the watchtower society's 'this generation' doctrine..... .

http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/t3heh0tafiuk6f9t3.

what do you think about his explanation?.

DuvanMuvan

my response:

"There is entirely no point quoting Watchtowers at me or telling me what you think is logic.

Here is the reality in the real world

A generation does not have to be all born in the same year.

If you think they do then you are retarded.

No I did not get that from the Watchtower Its common knowledge.

So if in apostate land a generation all have to be born in the same year then apostate land truly is a land of make believe"

1. The whole idea of quoting publications is to show you and anyone else reading this that there have been major changes to this "understanding" over time and there really isn't any point arguing for it because it will just change.
2.the point everyone is trying to make is that the reason this "new light" came about was because the old light wasn't making sense anymore and the gb didn't want people to start questioning things
2.you keep arguing against the fact that people in the same generation aren't born in the same year. No-one is saying that. You said it yourself, said that other people said it, then called them retarded(which btw isn't very nice amd I don't think the elders in your congregation would condone you insulting people)
3.you mention common knowledge but common knowledge of what a word means is usually the dictionary definition. Which you're ignoring.
4. If you think that it's just "apostates" that disagree with this stuff then why don't you try explaining how a generation works to someone who's never been a jw in the first place.
5. Just a little thing to think about. The human population is increasing at a faster rate than the number of jws. So really, the longer God waits to start Armaggedon, the more people he's gonna have to kill for not becoming a jw when they had the chance.
If you got this far down my post without sticking your fingers in your ears, burning the computer and singing kingdom songs while you wait for the 4 horsemen to come and kill all the apostates then thank you for reading.

it was a nice surprise to see DD and some people try to talk some sense into that guy i must admit

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Jehovah just wants the Deaf to stop Masturbating

by Watchtower-Free in

one vid with over 100,000 views thanks to jw.org.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jehovah%27s+witnesses+masturbating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5f_yghhiss.

DuvanMuvan

I saw this for the first time on collegehumor, i couldn't stop laughing after I found out it was real