Posts by _Morpheus

can anyone confirm they seem to be having disagreement writing dept and service dept some feel that df ok as long as you do not add wholesale across the board shunning regardless of the sin ..

_Morpheus

Again i will say: this is 180 degrees from reality. Word is shunning is due to be mentioned and reinforced in upcomming study articles and parts on assemblies.

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Mandatory voting in USA

by Sour Grapes in

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i am sure that president obama's saying today that mandatory voting in the usa would be a good thing is going to get the witnesses all excited as they look forward to being persecuted for not voting.

just another sign showing how deep we are into the times of the end and how close they are to burying billions of people who don't read the watchtower.. sour grapes .

As predicted, this caused a small stir here in washington dc among faithful dubbies. When i pointed out the branch long ago had addressed this by saying that you would show up, go in the booth and write in "jesus" and call it a day they (three of them I was speaking with) actually looked deflated. They wanted the persecution amd seriously felt this was aimed at jw's. It made my head hurt the rest of the day.

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rumor out that governing body is going to adjust the loveing disfellowshiping arangment df yes shunning no.

by poopie in

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can anyone confirm they seem to be having disagreement writing dept and service dept some feel that df ok as long as you do not add wholesale across the board shunning regardless of the sin ..

_Morpheus

No. False and untrue.

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The desert god is a real A hole in this weeks bible reading

by _Morpheus in

so this week dubbies read that the mean bad philistines were punished by the desert god for having his ark.

the desert god punished them with (drum roll please)....... hemroids and rats.

yep.

_Morpheus

Its interesting, i was wondering what city at that time and place could have supported so many people, let alone lost so many in death and kept functioning. I didnt bother looking it up because.....well.....i assume the number is as fraudulent as the hemroids and rats, but why would they say the number is bogus in the insight book? If its a scribal error them it opens up the whole bible to error if its a lie then the whole bible is open to the charge of exageration or lies. Its a no win to admit its a bad number

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Hasta la Vista,.. I'm outta here

by insidetheKH in

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the time has come to leave this forum.

this is my last post.

mission completed.

_Morpheus

Sigh... If only.

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Why do religious people make claims and then refuse to back them up?

by Viviane in

several times over the past few months i have had conversations, both here and in real life, with religious people making all sorts of interesting and conflicting claims.

i like to know how things work, so generally i will ask questions to net out what i am being told and see if it can be explained and make sense.. for instance, if someone said 2+2=4 and i asked how, there are a variety of ways that could be shown to me, a number line, physical objects being put together, counting on fingers and toes, etc.

indeed, in my personal life, i often have to explain how certain technologies work, sometimes planned, sometimes off the cuff, from a variety of group sizes to a varying degree of technical expertise.

_Morpheus

Yep. Same frustrations here.

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Why do religious people make claims and then refuse to back them up?

by Viviane in

several times over the past few months i have had conversations, both here and in real life, with religious people making all sorts of interesting and conflicting claims.

i like to know how things work, so generally i will ask questions to net out what i am being told and see if it can be explained and make sense.. for instance, if someone said 2+2=4 and i asked how, there are a variety of ways that could be shown to me, a number line, physical objects being put together, counting on fingers and toes, etc.

indeed, in my personal life, i often have to explain how certain technologies work, sometimes planned, sometimes off the cuff, from a variety of group sizes to a varying degree of technical expertise.

_Morpheus

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Richard Dawkins Promotes ABC's Expose of Child Abuse in the Watchtower

by cofty in

the story is painfully familiar.

children are sexually abused in a closed-off cult that is averse to secular justice.

the victims either dont dare accuse their influential tormentors, or, if they do, no one believes them.

_Morpheus

Nice promo :)