Topics Started by Fisherman

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They still call it Pizza but it doesn’t taste like it anymore.
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. current
i remember as a kid that a slice of pizza was a dime, the same price for a large bag of m&ms or a large hershey’s bar or an ice cream popsicle, box of cracker jacks, bag of potato chips, bus fare.

the dimes were made out of silver and many of them were mercury dimes with the dates worn off.

…and while nowadays except for the pizza, everything tastes about the same only now costing 10 times as much, bus fare costs 28x as much and pizza costs 40x as much:.
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“This is my son the beloved. Listen to HIM,”
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the apostles and early christians suffered and died resulting from listening to jesus and jesus said this would happen.. but is listening to jesus the same as direction from the gb based on interpretation of the bible, for example, in medical treatment or other directions?

a christian could expect death or injury resulting from listening to jesus but should this validate possible erroneous understanding of the bible?

we know that peter was executed because of his christianity and so was jesus by the way.
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Do you play the LOTTERY?
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. entertainment
jw view gambling as a sin and sadly people get addicted to gambling causing them financial and health problems.

but is playing a couple of bucks a week on some lottery tickets actually gambling?

what do you have to lose?
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Sign of the Last Days
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the sermon on the mount, jesus foretold that earthquakes “in one place after another” would be part of the sign of the last days clímaxing in the great tribulation.. what could jesus possibly have meant?

using a phone app nowadays, there are earthquakes detected in one place after another but is this what jesus meant and did they have so many earthquakes throughout the centuries affter his prophecy or are these modern day detected earthquakes unique to this epoch?

how can we be sure unequivocally that modern day earthquakes are part of the sign fulfilling bible prophecy?.
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Are we living in the LAST DAYS?
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?

if this is true then how long should it take?

as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.
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Should a person die for their religious BELIEFS?
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in ancient israel many of the prophets were killed as a result of their religious assignments —from god.

even soldiers were sent out to fight against idolatrous “uncircumcised” and logically some died for example jonathan, the son of king saul.

these soldiers were said to be fighting the wars of jehovah and there was no miraculous salvation for everybody all of the time.
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Sonthetic human embryo—Imagine that!
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. current
i read a news article that scientists have made from stem cells a human embryo.

poor soul..
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US North East filled with Smoke Hazardous breathing warnings!
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. current
if you live in the northeastern part of the us, the air is filled with smoke.

it is hard to breathe and the burning smell irritates your eyes and breathing.

it is coming from forrest fires thousands of acres in canada.
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Calling DD Data Dog
by Fisherman in
1. social
2. humour
how about you dd?

start a topic, make a comment, do something.

miss your posts here.
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Is Bible chronology true?
by Fisherman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
according to jw interpretation of bible chronology, the earliest human, adam, came into existence some 6,048 years ago compared to scientific dating of human fossils believed to be much older.

since jesus validated the creation of adam and eve as historical people and jc’s own lineage is traced all the way back to adam, bible chronology is certified as true and there must be something wrong with scientific dating.

what proves scientific dating as accurate that humans are much older than what bible chronology says?.