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  Neanderthal man

  by scary21 in

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  my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

  he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

  i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

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  Homo Erectus, an ancestor to the Governing Body?

  
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  Neanderthal man

  by scary21 in

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  my ex husband and father of my daughter was never baptized but is still a believer in the wt.. a couple years ago we were talking about evolution ( which he does not believe in ) i brought up the subject of the neanderthals and how we all have their dna except africans ( the ones that never left africa ).

  he said neanderthals are apes and not humans and jw's do not teach that they are humans.

  i said i believe they do.. in the life- how did it get here book, under the sub heading " the human family "is says " neanderthal man....... was undoubtedly human.. his response was " they are just talking about what other people believe " ahhhhh .

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  As a person who is fascinated by Paleoanthropology and vaguely remembers JW creationism I seem to recall, don't remember where, the Watchtower saying that Homo Erectus was the drawing line between humans and 'apes'.

  If that is so then it should be said that Homo Erectus was more primitive than Neandertal with a brain capacity 30% less than ours.
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  PBS program

  by wannaexit in

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  watching the pbs program as i write...........

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  wannaexit, thank you.
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  PBS program

  by wannaexit in

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  watching the pbs program as i write...........

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  Sorry I missed it, what was it about?
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  For God So Loves the Western World...

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

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  ...that only people from those countries can lead 'his organization'.. a few years ago, one conversation stopper people would often bring up to jws in my country is: 'you guys are an american religion'.

  the standard answer we were formatted to give to shoot that down was that "god does not favor any nationality over others.

  however some countries do possess some advantages needed for the advancement of the divine work.

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  @ Billy the Ex-Bethelite:

  "This time, the boss is prepared to let the JW go and can deny their request for unemployment benefits because they chose to quit."

  It's possible to apply for underemployment while still working. That encourages the company to reverse their decision.
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  Flier on "Day and Week of Christ's Death" to be mailed out to Kingdom Halls this week!

  by CharlieSmith1975 in

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  the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.

  it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!

  but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.

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  Charlie, your whole flier is a bit cumbersome to read but I'm basing what I said on the last paragraph:

  "So in the context of the "great tribulation" possibly occurring after the April 4th eclipse, some will get a hint that they are in a false religion and are about to be destroyed. It's too late to escape now. As I said, the lamb-dragon beast represents the WTS' Governing Body and the 666-Beast represents Christendom. But BOTH of them are killed at the same time in the lake of fire."

  First you're predicting a date for the end; second you're elevating the Watchtower to a position where they are an actual fulfillment of certain scriptures.

  Why not throw in the Mormons and the Apostolic Reformation? There are other religions that are authoritarian and absurd so why should God focus on just the Witnesses?
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  Flier on "Day and Week of Christ's Death" to be mailed out to Kingdom Halls this week!

  by CharlieSmith1975 in

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  the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.

  it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!

  but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.

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  Charlie, with all due respect, I think that you need to meditate on this and your beliefs before sending anything out.
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  Religion is nothing but bad ideas

  by freemindfade in

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  in light of the continuing disgusting acts by isis... just remember.

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  All three of the 'Abrahamic' religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - are genocidal in their view of outsiders. ISIS even more so since they believe that most Muslims are in fact apostates and therefore worthy of death. This situation will live on until society secularizes like Europe did centuries ago.
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  Flier on "Day and Week of Christ's Death" to be mailed out to Kingdom Halls this week!

  by CharlieSmith1975 in

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  the tricky thing about a mass mailing to all the kingdom halls is that mail is often not delivered to the kingdom hall but to a po box.

  it is super easy to get all the addresses to hundreds of kingdom halls across the country and even have those addresses printed out for you as labels!

  but when i did that before i got about a third of them back.

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  Village Idiot

  CharlieSmith 1975, I suggest the same thing that others here are - keep it very short. One topic, preferably the one on the organization's self glorification including one quote from Russell and one from Rutherford about how they claimed their literature was more important than the Bible and another on about how there was more proof of the date 1925 being the end than Noah had proof of the flood.

  Whatever you send should be no more than a single page with a minimum of words from you. Make the quotes take up most of the sheet.

  Ignore the issue of the correct week of Christ's death - nobody cares.
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  The best reasonable, rational, intelligent discussion on religion I've ever seen

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl6e4emx-4k

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  "I'm the one who is finding and pointing out the moral high ground and you're not. You CAN'T find any moral high ground in the situation of a tsunami (as an atheist) because natural occurances don't happen with any thought to morality."

  There is no "moral high ground" in a tsunami or any other natural disaster.