A year or two ago I was in horrific neurological pain. I took some capsules of marijuana oil and they left me disconnected from the pain. Not perfect but ok. Truth be told though the amount of codeine I was taking was way worse for my health them those capsules.
HowTheBibleWasCreated
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JW's and medical marijuana
by QuestioningEverything injust wondering what the current jw stance is on medical marijuana.
if you have any articles or links to show this, that would be wonderful.
i have an inactive family member who was wondering .
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''Faith in Action'' video....Jesus Disciples depicted with ''field service bags'' and preaching with ''Scrolls''
by RULES & REGULATIONS inhere is a screenshot from a video on jw.org.
go to videos, our organization, history .
jehovah's witnesses—faith in action, part 1: out of darkness.
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I highly doubt christians went door to door until the very late second century. More likely third.Adnt hey had all sort of beliefs. Some were Gnostics, Some we would roughly call Caothlics, Some were Messianic Jews. Some were like JWs. Arian. Did they carry scrolls. No. How cumbersome and dumb. If they carried anythign it would have been a codex of selected books. But not door to door. In church.
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Watchtowers next big revenue stream!
by nowwhat? inevidently it would seem the wt sold the rights and will get royalties from "listen obey and be blessed.." this obviously is a trial balloon for what's to come.
kim and mikey alluded to this and i have been wondering why they are planning on spending hundreds of millions on a new movie studio in n.y. and also in australia just for the benefit of the few million jdub's.
well here's the answer, they are going to make money off the royalties from their music and video content selling to other church groups.
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There are several song in the JW songbook that are universal. I already mentioned the eastern religion song of 77.Using Jehovah is not restricted to JWs. If Pollyanna, Indiana Jones and Ben Hur can say it as well as Life of Brian in just all can. Truth be told most Christians know the name of God in the KJV at least is Jehovah. In factI listened to a podcast of a normal dude reading the KJV that at Exodus 6:3 figured out LORD is Jehovah.
Since many protestant religions use Jehovah the JWs can sell their songs easliy.
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Apostasy
by frozen2018 inhas anyone seen the 2017 movie apostasy?
set in britain, the story is about a family, a single mom and her two daughters, who are jehovah's witnesses.
i'm not going to give away too much of the plot, but holy moly!
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There are 3 very accurate movies about JWs
1. Confessions of Teenage Jesus Jerk is most accurate.
2. Worlds Apart from Denmark is second
3. The last one is Apostasy and is lower because of the horrific imagery and dark 1970's tones.
The two movies by Lori McGregor need not be mentioned as they lead from one religion to another
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What’s Your Prediction For The Future Of The Covid Virus?
by minimus inwill it ever end??
will a vaccine end this pandemic?
will it suddenly dissipate if joe biden becomes president?
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Wow th USA and Italy has the two biggest issues from CoVID and say 'good job'. Ok...
While the rest of the world might be under tougher restrictions or not they are not suffering as much it seems. (Some unmentioned countries excluded)
The amount of court cases next year will be horrific however. Even here in Canada the Charter has beeen violated many times this year. Wait until next year! And in the US I imagne another civil war. Good though. About time.:P
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Height of mountains before and after the flood .
by smiddy3 init was stated many years ago in answer to how did the flood cover the top of all the mountains on earth in noah`s day.?.
mount everest ?.
and it was explained away by saying that the mountains before the flood were a lot smaller / lower than the mountains that exist today.. so there was no problem .. when the deluge began with so much volume of water now covering the earth ( water being heavy ) pushed down into the weakest parts of the earth and raised up in other parts of the earth to where we now have higher mountains than existed before the flood of noah`s day.. in other words mount everest didn`t exist at its present height before the flood and neither did any other high mountain that exists today ,the topography all changed with the noachian flood.
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JWs often like to use flood stories of other cultures like the Hindu Vedas or The Babylonica/Gilgamensh or Plato's Atlantis etc.
But the is a problem. Anyone with a grade school education knows that the Earth is still receeding from the last ice age. In the time of 15000- 8000 years ago there WAS alot of flooding due to receeding ice. Many coastal sttelments are now lost underwater. But yes the legends lived on. This does not prove Noah's flood though
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Politics and Hope
by lriddle80 inso there are a lot of atheists on here.
my question: where does your hope come from?
that the right people will be put in political positions and will eventually form a utopian society that will meet all needs and we will have equality for all?.
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Well my hope as far as politics come have already been versed here and mostly rejected by american posters. But simply put the world today is far better then a hundred years ago when empires ruled. Today even though indivisual people might be racist most developed countries are open to other people. I think with the exception of North Korea and the Muslim countries the majority of the world is doing far better today then ever. Sure there is starvation and plague. But what are you going to compare that too? 1919? the 1300s?
I would rather live today. The so-called nifty 50's of my father's youth were racist and christianised. Although I disagree with theists I would fight for their rights to believe.
My hope is that in 2120 we will look back and shake our heads at 2020 and before for the same reason we shake our heads at 1920 and before.
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Collapse of JW Org - Possibly on the Horizon?
by JWTom inthis topics get a great deal of discussion here.
what i find interesting is even some of my pimi family is embracing the reality that all is not well with jw.org and that many current jws are just going through the motions due to not having a good way out of the org.
wondering what could realistically lead to the collapse of jw.org in the not distant future?
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I think the so-called collapse is actually planned by the governing body. They already introduced the 'rapture of the anointed' on 2013 so if they 'vanish' one day with all the funds the believers will hang on for a time. After most will disperse.The Governing body will be sipping tequila in the caymans
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Many Jw’s Love to Speculate About the New System
by Davros ina comment on another thread cracked me up where the poster related what some elder said on the platform that: .
in the new system, we likely will not have genitals.” lol.
i’ve heard so much speculation from many jw’s on what will and won’t be allowed in the new system.
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As for the new system. I expressed my hatred of this doctrne a month ago and my personal reasons for my anger. (It kills people)
The new system at first glance is nice... tropical... the whole world to explore...animals living in peace.... and...WAIT
Who on here has beeen attacked by a wild animal? I mean it is a rarity. As for the first two of tropical and the world well there it is>> many of those countriees are low on covid too!
So far no hope.. ok... ressurection and grampa comes back at 20 and looks for 20 year old grandma chasing alaexander the great (also 20) whose handsome. My dad might end up with someone else beside my mother who still lives... Is this paradise or a $hithole?
Okay.. we live and die... accept it and move on and make a differeance.... leave the world a better place then you entered... it's easy today in the 21st century!
In fact I would propose that the world of over 7 illions people despite some in some areas being in poverty and some having covid and other illnesses... we are better then the Jews of Jesus day!
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The Documentary Hypothesis and the 20th century trap.
by HowTheBibleWasCreated inthis post will be for the schoolars amoung us.. in the late 19th century were many of the worlds best scientists.
darwin, faraday, testla, edison etc.
and amoung them wasa lone archeologist named william albright who screwed up biblical schoolarship for over a hundred years.. before albright schoolars in europe hit on several conclusions about the bible:.
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To answer Phizzy's question I obviously prefer atheistic schoolars however the majority of the ones I listed are all atheists. It's hard to be a theist an still know modern biblical schoolarship. (Bart Erhman is a classic example of a Christian that became agnostic over time due to his research)
As for who the men are I have some theories but they are speculation so far. Here it goes:
P was a high priest andbelve it or not likely of Samaritan decent. Nehemiah 13:28 states:
One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
Thre is evidence from letters between Egypt, Saamria and Judah of a close kinship between the three so-called Jewish communities.I have proposed that P might be Eleazar the son of Simon the Just but this is speculation.
As for J and D I have proposed Andreas and Aristeus two of the men who along with Eleazar went to Egypt to write a 'history of the Jews' under the rule of Ptolomy II Philedelphius. But again these are guesses at best.
I have disregarded an E source as belonging to D. Thus I proposes (as of a few days ago) a Suppliment of P---J---D running from Genesis to Kings (P likely added H/ Leviticus 17-26 later)I should add this makes the historicity of this material very low. before 1 Kings 14 it is unlikely anything is historical. From 1 Kings 14 on there are quotations from the two annuls of Isreal and Judah and here we line up with history to a degree.