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There is no YahWeh (Jehova(h))!
by DeWandelaar in
1. jw
2. experiences
according to scripture god would not let his name be used without a form of respect.

disrespecting it would result in death itself!

some days ago i thought: you know what?
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Data that's Gnosticism. Read any Marcion recently?
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Do you know your neighbors? Is it just me?
by neverendingjourney in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i'm a single hispanic guy in my mid 30s living by myself in suburban america.

i own a home in the kind of neighborhood where you have to get hoa permission to do just about anything, including chopping down a tree.

i'm a white collar worker and lead a pretty boring life.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

I live in a trailer park now and have met many nice neighbours. Others not... buts thats okay they are friendly mostly.

I have a wife and son but she rarely walks around the park.

I work 200m from work. So every morning I get up and walk past many of my neighbours at 5:30am with cowboy boots on making a 'thump sound'.

No one has complained.

I'ma ham radio op. I have many antennas... no complaints.

However rereading your post the second time I have found what might be the problem. HOA<<< I don;t live in the US but I know Nazi Germany when I see it.

You are a homeowner BUT THEY are in control of YOUR property. If you want to cut a dying limb off you tree THEY need to say yes. So as such they fell since they were here first you are beneath them.

HOA.. bas situation.

Jamiebower also mentioned another reason I suspect
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HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

suggestions welcome.. .

dd.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Although I have made strong statements against religions in the past I personally see no problem with believeing in something greater then yourself (which is what spirituality is defined as) Thus I have found a study of religion facinating.

That said when born agains post here I shy away. They believe a guy from 2000 years ago lives inside there somewhere (Call a Doc. Mr. Jesus ran up my A**.) Seriously I know how they get that (the bible) but I shy way for those people nowadays. Let them live with 'Jesus in their heart'. << Maybe the cause of the next heart attack lol
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

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HowTheBibleWasCreated

Objective I trust it in many places but doubt somethings. Don't trust everything you read of Herod for instance.

Since Josephus becomes his own main charactor later in the etxt we must be careful when you see Josephus doing heroic acts. It is a very prideful book.
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

I like Bart Ehrman but disagree about Jesus.

I think based on eye witness testimony there were 2 Jesus's

1. A high preist of Jerusalem in the Jewish war... his borther was named James and was executed.

2. A crazy (likely Essenes) preacher during 70CE that after crying for many days Jerusalem would fall was crush by a rock for and engine in the Roman attacks.

Don't believe me.?? Read 'War of the Jews"
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They sure took website worship far
by cookiemaster in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
- well, i'd be damned.

i'm a born in jw and never in a million years i'd thought i'd see this.

from internet is evil to website worshipping in less than a decade.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Has anyone noticed the tablets, live feeds, half the magazines original material on the web, the elders reporting things by the site?

The WBTS is becoming and internet religion quickly. The oldies are dying and the younger ones are leaving... the WT is using a last hopeful methoid.
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HOW TO AVOID THE A-HOLE SPIRIT OF SOME HERE...
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1) take meds for your megalomania and delusions of grandeur.. .

suggestions welcome.. .

dd.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Actually I like some of the religious posters here that maintain thier faith despite others. Often the majority make simple faith based comments and I don't ignore them but neither do I feel the need to debate them.

Ones like the thread being discussed here are simplt idiotic. The poster challenges everyone at once and claims reading the bible will help some.

Reading the bible will:

1. Make one a better JW (if their mind is condtioned)

2. Make one born again likely as the Pauline and Johannine works seems to teach it (sort of)

3. Make ones atheists.

4. Makes some Catholic or Islamic.

The possibilities are endless. As such it was a good debate. Then it went downhill.

I for one despite being atheist find religion and their ideas facinating //
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How to Avoid the Faithless Spirit of most here-
by DocHouse in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1- pray to god (whomever you may imagine him to be) asking for understanding.

2- study the background about the bible (from non-religious sources) to see where it came from.

3- discard (or at least set aside) chuyrch claims and dogma.. 4- read it, looking up archaeological/historical sources about the places and peoples referred to.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Why do people insist the human body is so perfect?

We have only one spinal cord that can easily be damaged..... Poor optic nerves... Hair as an evolutionary byproduct....a decended lyrax causeing a choking hazrd.... bad neuron connections that are easily damaged or inhibated....

I could fill this page with bad design
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Psalm 50 is exilic and likely from the Jeremiah school. Good find.
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Debunking the Bible
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there seems to be an endless number of ways to show the bible is not devinely inspired but all of it seems so complicated.

anyone know any simple arguements for this?

.
HowTheBibleWasCreated

Objective thanks. The Epic is word per word in a few places like the sweet savior and rhe sacrifice. James Kugel drew attention to this in his book: How To Read The Bible. I think it's tablet 11 but it's been a few years since I read it.

I have read the book of Enoch. I believe it 'predicts' event down to the time of the Maccabean rule around 100BC, The book of Jude quotes from this text. The 'predictions are in the final chapters of that book about wolves vs sheep etc.

The comment in jeremiah 8:8 I have noted a few times. For me I belive this is refering to priestly writing vs. the Jeremiah/Deuteronomist school. Jeremiah goes out of his way to say Yahweh NEVER commanded rules for sacrifi