El blanko

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  How much of a Witness are you? Take the quiz!

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  2. friends

  i've wasted most of a day putting this quiz together.

  it's only 10 questions, please give it a go and see what you get!.

  if you think it could make a decent anti-witnessing tool, i might dress it up with links to the quotes site and the watchtower site to prove the accuracy of the points made.. if you see any inaccuracies or misleading comments, please let me know.. url = http://www.thebentinel.com/jw-quiz.php (embedded below).

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  El blanko

  43%

  Hey - I don't drive! Another option is needed.

  What about a section on facial hair and grooming?
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-6-05 WT Study (Abbreviated)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the march 6, 2005 wt study (february 1, 2005 issue date)

  review comments

  will be in black and parentheses ().

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  El blanko

  Thanks for uploading and your comments. Thought provoking stuff.
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  Have any of you examined early christian history and found many problems?

  by booker-t in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just for a moment imagine that you are talking to a person and he mentions to you that you have to baptize animals in order to be saved or that you have to believe in the trinity doctrine that is composed of god the father, god the son and god the mother(mary) would you believe that these were some of the things early christians believed in.

  would you be shocked to know that many dates were set for jesus to rapture up the christians in the sky and nothing materalized?

  many born-again christians argue you down tooth and nail stating that born-again christianity does not have skelatons in their closets like the mormons and jw's but the truth of the matter born-again christianity has many, many embarassing skelatons.

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  Be extremely present in this moment.

  That is a very true statement.

  I'm sure that Christianity if used correctly can provide the same degree of enlightenment.

  Staying alert and awake are part of the scriptures
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  607? 587? What does it matter

  by IP_SEC in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  personally i believe that 607 is not the right date, but here is another point of view.. does 607 or 587 or 609 or 586 or 1914 really matter?

  yes but only after you have a pivotal date.

  5 starting from the pivotal date.

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  El blanko

  I think love is more important, although as a JW, I would have said 'accurate knowledge' ...
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  How would a JW handle this? 587 proved correct date for fall of Jerusalem

  by confusedjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i put it out to you who believe the wtbts is the agent used by god's channel on earth based on the belief that in 1919 (3 1/2 years after the gentile times ended in 1914, per pastor russell) they were appointed the fds.. what if it was proved that not 607, but 587 was the date jerusalem was destroyed?

  would that affect your faith?

  would it matter that the teaching of 1919 turned out to be false?

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  El blanko

  I am not interested in your silly wager and neither is anyone else.

  I'm interested
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  How would a JW handle this? 587 proved correct date for fall of Jerusalem

  by confusedjw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i put it out to you who believe the wtbts is the agent used by god's channel on earth based on the belief that in 1919 (3 1/2 years after the gentile times ended in 1914, per pastor russell) they were appointed the fds.. what if it was proved that not 607, but 587 was the date jerusalem was destroyed?

  would that affect your faith?

  would it matter that the teaching of 1919 turned out to be false?

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  BA MA Studies in Religion

  Woooooooo - impressive stuff.

  I couldn't resist cutting in.

  587, 607, 70 years, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Did the "Watchtower" Originate In the Occult?

  by metatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at one time, no one had any particular set of mental associations with the word "watchtower" - no one, except occultists!.

  at the turn of the century, there was a highly influencial occult group called the "golden dawn".

  they liked egyptian.

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  El blanko

  A friend of mine is actually writing a book, not specifically centred around the JWs, yet highlighting synchronicities between Russell and the world of the occult.

  Intriguing eh

  To me, parts of the Bible are steeped in ' the occult '.

  The JWs love to tell us that ' they ' hold the keys to unlock the mysteries of the Bible (Revelations/Daniel etc). How occult is that! Hidden knowledge/wisdom, explained by the high priests at the Watchtower.
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  faith, faithlessness and judgmentalism

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's a shame that nobody ever looked good in responding to the question, "do you have faith in god?

  ", by answering "no".

  it makes one seem.....well, a bit of an onion.

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  El blanko

  What I'm trying to say is stop worrying whether God exists or not, look for things that are true and make you ahppy - if God does exist that will become self evident - if He doesn't then whatever is true will manifest itself.

  Good outlook

  (well, unless Crack Cocaine makes you happy!!)
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  faith, faithlessness and judgmentalism

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's a shame that nobody ever looked good in responding to the question, "do you have faith in god?

  ", by answering "no".

  it makes one seem.....well, a bit of an onion.

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  El blanko

  Maybe you are right though. Maybe God is something inside each and everyone of us. I just wish I had the answers. All I really know is I've come to have no faith in God. That makes me sad, because I see no real hope for the future.

  All I can tell you, is that I know how you feel.

  I exist within each day and try to make the best of each day and basically, I'm waiting to see what happens in the future.

  I read a little, think a little, sleep a little and eat a little.

  It's all we can do really.

  I also know that virtue is always worth pursuing regardless of our belief system.

  Personally, I'm tired of the debating and have been for a few months.
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  faith, faithlessness and judgmentalism

  by pepheuga in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's a shame that nobody ever looked good in responding to the question, "do you have faith in god?

  ", by answering "no".

  it makes one seem.....well, a bit of an onion.

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  El blanko

  What has he done lately for the world, oh let's see, how about absolutely nothing.

  It depends whether you seperate God from all that we are I suppose. If you view God as being ' we happy few ' - all of the matter and energy combined, then what God has done for us is simple:

  Without God we would not exist to enjoy and sometimes endure this life we share.

  I usually believe that God runs through all and is all, thus, God is life.

  That has become my major stumbling block with the JWs ... they create a remote God that I can no longer associate with the reality I feel.