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  Need suggestions... how do I respond to my elders?

  by Robert7 in

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  so our fade is not going so well.

  too many people have been asking about us, and therefore giving us attention.

  we've had no choice but tell select few friends that we're discouraged, and one that we're having a hard time believing the fds in general.

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  Fisherman

  If you have reponsibilities in your cong you will need to give reasons why you are not fulfilling them if you still want to keep your office position, however if you are unable to attend your religious services for whatever your reasons you have, that is your personal business and if you want to keep your reasons private, you can.

  The Bible teaches, let your words be few. If I could not attend my meetings I would simply state and only once to the Po that: I have some important matters that I have to take care of. If I was asked why I was not going to my meetings. and that is it, Latter on if you want to attend your meetings, go back to them.
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  When has Science Ever been proven wrong by the Bible?

  by gaiagirl in

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  the watchtower sunday made a claim to the effect that when science conflicts with the bible, the bible has always been proven to be correct.

  if i had been there, i would have asked "could you provide some specific examples"?.

  i'm thinking that reality is actually the other way, science always disproves the bible.

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  Fisherman

  nvrgnbk

  Is not your last statement ad hominim according to the following definition?

  [Latin, To the person.] A term used in debate to denote an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent's argument.

  In your last post, werent you explaining the meaning and purpose of your intial questions, that you wrote?

  Why do people resort to ad hominim?

  Are these not examples of rhetorical questions? Are not these questions simimilar to yours?

• How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?"
  (Cicero, first speech against Catiline)
• "Was this ambition?"
  (Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)
• "Hath not a Jew eyes?
  Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
  If you prick us, do we not bleed, if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
  If you poison us, do we not die?
  And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

If only God knows the meaning of the Bible, is that not a waste of pen and paper?

Although the utterers of these questions may say that they are not rhetorical, are they not, really according to definition?

Is not the Bible wriitten in Hebrew Greek and Aramaic? If that is so, then is it not true that English is not the Bible's first language?

Although the Bible has been translated to plain English, do English speaking people, even masters of the english language and literature, do they all understand the meaning of what is clearly written in the English language in the Bible?

When a person resorts to ad hominim, is it not a waste of time continue to dialogue?