Posts by tepidpoultry

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Hi forum

by A Believer in

i proably shouldnt be on here but i feel like saying this.

i have been for the last couple weeks been studying religion.

i've learned the only ones who today do what the bible says to is jw.

tepidpoultry

The dust is now settling on this thread,

The JWs are experts at polemics,

With a sick twist,

A good defense lawyer will fight for his client with every argument true or false,

Painting his client in the best possible light,

The problem and the difference with JWs

Is that they now believe their own dreck,

Nothing in life ESPECIALLY religion is this black and white,

Deep down inside I believe they know this too,

But there's great honor, whether in a service car are at a door (why do you think they're in twos) to win each mini crusade/argument,

You do know they congratulate each other when the door closes?

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Hi forum

by A Believer in

i proably shouldnt be on here but i feel like saying this.

i have been for the last couple weeks been studying religion.

i've learned the only ones who today do what the bible says to is jw.

Hi forum

by A Believer in

i proably shouldnt be on here but i feel like saying this.

i have been for the last couple weeks been studying religion.

i've learned the only ones who today do what the bible says to is jw.

tepidpoultry

This man is arguing to win, take note, he will not concede even ONE point,

JWs talk a lot about if a house holder is "sincere" or not,

Mark my words,

Not ONE point

129

Hi forum

by A Believer in

i proably shouldnt be on here but i feel like saying this.

i have been for the last couple weeks been studying religion.

i've learned the only ones who today do what the bible says to is jw.

tepidpoultry

When I see folks clearly lying and yet talking about having "the truth" makes me feel good about being out, I've always hated hypocrisy :0)

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666 or 616? Do we have to choose a number or could it be both?

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

i'm sure that most longer term readers on this list know that the use of the number in the revelation was a 'code' using the jewish concept that assigned number values to the letters of the hebrew alphabet.. a promoter of modern judaism ( dr. eliyahu lizorkin-eyzeneberg) explains:.

today gematria is well-known as a jewish interpretive method that assigns numerical values of hebrew letters to words, phrases and/or sentences.

then, by adding them together, seeks to determine their deeper meaning.

tepidpoultry

Marker

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Why Is YHWH Used Regularly In OT and NEVER in NT?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and if the name jehovah is that important why is it that jesus christ never use that name in a record of scriptures?.

tepidpoultry

Tetragramaton was transliterated to PIPI in early Greek texts and then discarded is one theory proffered,

Which means actually that the Almighty couldn't figure out how to preserve His own name until FW Franz came along,

(This being "the nations shall know" guy)

Go figure

:)

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I guess the latest WT killed any hope of US jws growing beards.

by Crazyguy in

in my area i'd guess 30% of the men maybe more have some kind of beard.

this craps gotta wake up somebody still in!.

tepidpoultry

There's official stupid and grass roots stupid in this, one of the grass roots (especially popular among women) is that men with beards are "hiding something"

Please bring that wall nearer so I can bang my head against it some more

Oh wait, I left, I don't have to to that anymore :)

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I guess the latest WT killed any hope of US jws growing beards.

by Crazyguy in

in my area i'd guess 30% of the men maybe more have some kind of beard.

this craps gotta wake up somebody still in!.

tepidpoultry

It's amusing to think that the Guy in charge of the UNIVERSE cares whether I have a beard or not, Honestly, maybe when he's not critiquing my socks lol, quite touching really, I would have thought Him too busy, :0)

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"It's a cult, mom."

by schnell in

my mom has been extensively texting me, trying to argue that the un ngo scandal is not a big deal and that the child abuse scandal is to instigate the great tribulation.

even worse, she kept saying how great it is that the gb is imperfect and fallible and that teaching changes all the time.

maybe it was aggravation or impatience, but i finally just snapped and told her, "it's a cult, mom.".

tepidpoultry

You cannot reason away a belief from anyone who desperately wants to believe it;

Applies not just to jdubs, applies to everybody,

If this fact could be changed what kind of a world would it be?

:0)

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RANT: Isn't Cognitive Dissonance Amazing?

by Sorry in

this is piggybacking off my previous post (about my 'personal study').

while i haven't been a long time member, i'm sure if you have my posts you'll know that i'm disenchanted with the wt and am just grunting and bearing until i have a stable enough support system to break away.

however, lately i'm just getting extremely angry at nearly everything that's going on.

tepidpoultry

I'm Agnostic now but when I was thinking this thing out on my own years ago, I was reading the Gospels and I thought, these guys are modern day Pharasees, heartless, legalistic, a self-serving machine, there are some good people, but they can't think normally any more, I'm just so happy that I still can!!! :)