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  Canada RC Baptism Numbers

  by berrygerry in

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  from a redditor.

  abbotsford bc.

  forgot to post this from last weekend!.

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  berrygerry

  From a Redditor
  

  Abbotsford BC

  Forgot to post this from last weekend!

  Saturday: 3,885 in attendance, 10 baptized.

  Roughly 0.0257% (if my math is correct, and it's probably not!)

  (S/B 0.25%)
  
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  not one but four witnesses at my door

  by gerry in

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  2. experiences

  having not had a witness knock on my door since i left over 13 years ago i was surprised a few sunday mornings ago to find two young sisters who i had not seen before at my door.

  it was not long before their husbands who were witnessing at my neighbors joined the conversation.

  the conversation went on for some time so i am keeping the experience as brief as i can.. mind you with all what has been happening lately with the australian royal commission here in australia i had been looking forward to having a discussion with any witness who comes within earshot.

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  berrygerry

  nice username
  
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  Why are anniversaries allowed but not birthdays?

  by hyperpen in

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  2. beliefs

  the scripture quotes aside, i was always told that we don't celebrate birthdays because that is a celebration of the self, which has no place in jehovah's organization.

  then why celebrate anniversaries?

  anniversary celebrations are about the joining of two selves, isn't that twice as selfish?.

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  berrygerry

  Because Job's children were commemorating their day of birth, and no where in the Bible do we read of marriage anniversaries ...

  Umm, wait a minute ?
  
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  Another UK Jehovah's Witness Elder Off to Prison

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  'it was the 13-year-old girl's fault.'.

  http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/disgraced-jehovah-s-witness-elder-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-a-girl/story-29528336-detail/story.html.

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  berrygerry

  'It was the 13-year-old girl's fault.'

  http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/disgraced-jehovah-s-witness-elder-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-a-girl/story-29528336-detail/story.html
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  Animals not meant to eat meat

  by Carl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw don't believe in evolution .

  how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?

  sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .

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  berrygerry

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5diMImYIIA
  
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  Don't have sexual fantasies! Today's watchtower...

  by purrpurr in

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  2. bible

  the watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.

  i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?

  sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.

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  berrygerry

  Is it a bad sexual fantasy if you are thinking about your spouse?

  Cannot locate the article, but was within a few years, and worded to the effect that 'No fantasizing about someone not your spouse.'

  Fairly big breakthrough, IMO.
  
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  Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!

  by Prometheus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was rather quick one.

  in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!

  (what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .

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  berrygerry

  "Hopefully I will follow the plan and in few months I will start to miss meetings, and become inactive again"

  
  

  Change congos, even into foreign language, and disappear.
  
  
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  We Cannot Understand Because We Are Not Perfect

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  starting this thread because of katewild's post.

  (from where came god?).

  the unanswerable questions of life are usually attributed to: "we are imperfect, so cannot understand.

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  berrygerry

  Starting this thread because of KateWild's post. (From where came God?)
  

  The unanswerable questions of life are usually attributed to: "We are imperfect, so cannot understand. We only use, at most, only 10% of our brain, and more likely, only 1%. Once restored to perfection, then we will be able to understand."

  Adam, however, was perfect, and therefore had 100% brain function. Which would be better, 1% to 10% of a genius, or 100% of a perfect man?

  So, perfect Adam with 100% brain function, allowed his little head to outmanoeuvre his unparalleled perfect brain (even though they never actually had had sex yet)?
  
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  If God is the Creator, who created God or how did he evolve?

  by KateWild in

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  2. beliefs

  if god is the creator, who created god or how did he evolve?.

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  berrygerry

  Glad you asked.
  

  LP book, page 80:
  

  Consequently, all evidence points to a source of life that is itself alive. The Bible says of Jehovah God: “With you is the source of life.” (Psalm 36:9) Someone may ask, ‘If life must exist to beget life, who created God?’ But this is merely pushing the answer farther away—a form of evasion in facing up to the question.
  
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  exposed 3 jw's in front of my jw dad

  by JunkYardDog in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on a road trip with my jw dad and stopped at the rest stop.

  this jw lady walked up to me with a craptower.

  big mistake.

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  berrygerry

  Username not "lapdog." He has no alternative. Ruff.