Posts by purrpurr

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How many teens stay because they have their eye on someone they hope to marry?

by purrpurr in

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i was just watching a documentary film about the amish.

this one girl who left said she didn't leave until her early twenties because as a teen until then she had her eye on one of the boys in the church.

she had a crush on him and hoped to marry him.

purrpurr

I was just watching a documentary film about the Amish. This one girl who left said she didn't leave until her early twenties because as a teen until then she had her eye on one of the boys in the church. She had a crush on him and hoped to marry him. That was a big motivation to obey the church rules and try to accept the armish lifestyle.

It made me think... I wonder how many teens in the WT stay and or get baptised because they have a crush on someone in the Cong that they hope to marry if they prove themselves "spiritual"?

What do you think?

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Trolley Cart effectiveness

by freddo in

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does anyone here who goes to meetings know of anyone who comes to their meetings after being contacted on the trolleys?

anyone hear of a real bible study from these carts?.

exaggerations from the assembly platform or jw urban myths do not count!.

purrpurr

Whenever I see one of those trolleys I have an insane urge to grab it and run off down the street with it!

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Sheep who mate in front of stripey trees will produce stripey offspring

by purrpurr in

genesis 30:37 leaving aside the whole "joseph cheats laham out of his flock" issue.

one passage of scripture that i've missed until now is 30:37 where it says how joseph got all the sheep to be stripey etc ( btw have you ever seen a stripey sheep?

cos i certainly haven't!).

purrpurr

Genesis 30:37 leaving aside the whole "Joseph cheats laham out of his flock" issue. One passage of scripture that I've missed until now is 30:37 where it says how Joseph got all the sheep to be stripey etc ( BTW have you ever seen a stripey sheep? Cos I certainly haven't!)

Joseph made stripes in the bark of the trees where the flock watered. Seeing the stripes it appears really got the sheep in the mood and they humped right there and then in front of the stripey trees.... And get this... Because the lambs had been conceived in front of stripey trees... They were born with stripey coats!!!!!

Seriously?! Seriously!!!!? Is it just me who missed this?

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Mandrakes, what are they?

by purrpurr in

i decided to do about of research about mandrakes.

remember the ones found by dan and purchased from leah by rachel?.

now i don't remember seeing any indepth explanation of what mandrakes are in the wt.

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I decided to do about of research about mandrakes. Remember the ones found by Dan and purchased from Leah by Rachel?

Now I don't remember seeing any indepth explanation of what mandrakes are in the WT. Having found out more about them there may be good reason for that.!

Mandrakes are a root vegetables that have a long history of association with magic and witchcraft. They are narcotics and produce hallucinations and hypnosis.

In the bronze age time they were also meant to bring fertility and prosperity if placed within a home.

I cannot find anywhere that says mandrakes make a good meal in fact quite the reverse, they are poisonous and can kill or turn a person mad if ingested.

So it would appear that Rachel wanted these mandrakes to: practice magic with, to get high or to bring their magical powers into the home to help her get pregnant?

Now I perhaps might be wrong but I'm just going on all that I've researched.

I'd like to know what you think?

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Knowing good and bad and being judged for it...

by purrpurr in

the belief is that god created the tree of the knowledge of good and bad right?

but then forbid adam and eve to eat from it because if they did they would understand good and bad.... the belief also is that either at death or armageddon we will be judged as to whether we have been good or bad.... so it seems that god did not want humans to have the knowledge of how to be good or bad in the first place but still wants to judge them on it?!?.

i always thought when reading that part of the bible " what would have been so wrong for humans to have that knowledge in the beginning?

purrpurr

The belief is that God created the tree of the knowledge of good and bad right? But then forbid Adam and eve to eat from it because if they did they would understand good and bad...

The belief also is that either at death or Armageddon we will be judged as to whether we have been good or bad...

So it seems that God did not want humans to have the knowledge of how to be good or bad in the first place but still wants to judge them on it?!?

I always thought when reading that part of the bible " what would have been so wrong for humans to have that knowledge in the beginning? " maybe if they had that wouldn't have listened to a talking snake??

I believe that is what's called beingset up to fail?

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Photosynthesis and the problem with the creation story

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i just noticed in the bible that on day three, god created the plants and trees on the earth.... day four, god created the sun, moon and stars!

so that means that the vegetation that is by its very nature dependant upon light to grow and photosynthesise was created a day before the sun that it needs to live!???.

this gets even more strange when you factor in the jw exhuse that a day to god is like a thousand years.

purrpurr

I just noticed in the bible that on day three, God created the plants and trees on the earth...

Day four, God created the sun, moon and stars!

So that means that the vegetation that is by its very nature dependant upon light to grow and photosynthesise was created a day before the sun that it needs to live!???

This gets even more strange when you factor in the jw exhuse that a day to God is like a thousand years. And therefore each creation day was a thousand years long.

This means (evidently- yes I used that word) that the sunlight dependant vegetation was not only created without the sun but also survived without the sun for a thousand years!

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Why bother creating all the other galaxies?

by purrpurr in

i'm still reading and researching the bible.

a thought occurred to me... the universe is so huge and full yet most of it cannot be seen by the naked human eye.. while jw's could claim that god created the stars to look pretty/ for navigation... what about the rest that cannot be seen?

the huge never ending mass of universe that the bronze age writers of the bible had no idea about?.

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I'm still reading and researching the bible. A thought occurred to me... The universe is so huge and full yet most of it cannot be seen by the naked human eye.

While jw's could claim that God created the stars to look pretty/ for navigation... What about the rest that cannot be seen? The huge never ending mass of universe that the bronze age writers of the bible had no idea about?

What was the point of creating all that? I mean its not like humans can easily go visit and explore it all. The gaseous nebulas out there and lack of oxygen mean that humans cannot live out there without man made technology.

So again what was the point of making it all? From a bible apologists and jw viewpoint of course...

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Happy birthday to me!

by purrpurr in

it's my birthday!

woweee!

i'm celebrating it too!

purrpurr

It's my birthday! Woweee! I'm celebrating it too! I've got a cake and brought myself presents ( although I haven't gone to the extremes of wrapping them up)

Amazingly enough my parents accepted it, I told them why shouldn't I celebrate having lived X amount of years of life? And they agreed that since I was celebrating being alive X amount of years then its OK, they also agreed that the WT's doctrine on birthdays is very loose and jars with the celebration of wedding anniversary's ( why one and not the other)

So huge progress all in all!

Happy birthday to me!

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The Oesophagus of the whale shark and the story of Jonah

by purrpurr in

in the wt's literature it is often theorised that the "great fish" that swallowed jonah was a whale shark.

indeed looking at whale sharks with their wide huge mouths it seems reasonable to think that a human could fit in there.... ... until that is you do any research on it.

while the whales mouth is huge, it's oesophagus however is only a few inches wide.

purrpurr

In the WT's literature it is often theorised that the "great fish" that swallowed Jonah was a whale shark. Indeed looking at whale sharks with their wide huge mouths it seems reasonable to think that a human could fit in there...

... Until that is you do any research on it. While the whales mouth is huge, it's Oesophagus however is only a few inches wide. Nowhere near big enough to fit a human! For that matter the whale shark only feeds on small fare like plankton and small fish. It has 10 filter pads to make sure it can't swallow anything big.

It is easy to see how a primitive bronze age human could have seen one of these creatures and thought it could swollow them whole but with modern understanding we know that that isn't the case.

...just yet another gaping hole in the bible's stories!

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Polish Publishers that became inactive in 2015 will be reported to Branch Office

by wifibandit in

per ohmyjw over at r/exjw:.

i assume that other countries also got this letter to boe dated 1st september 2015 about sending additional information along with s-10 form (annual cong.

report).

purrpurr

I can't believe that they would only do this in just one country, they must be doing it in others or at least planning to.

If they do this in my country then my names gonna be on that list.

In a way this could be a good thing. When therealise the extent of the numbers who have faded it could frighten them into changing?