The elder who studied with me and took out on my first day of field service said that we were not under any circumstances to accept anyone else's literature.
Village Idiot
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Where Does It Say JWs Can't Read Pubs By Other Churches?
by Cold Steel incan jws read publications by other churches?
or by atheists?
i've always heard these are apostate materials.
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Around 100 billion people have died
by Funchback inaccording to some, the earth may have 10 billion people living on it by the end of this century.
there is genuine concern about space and resources.. imagine, then, 100 billion people being resurrected to live on earth.
some jws will argue that not everyone will be resurrected to earth, including 144,000. imagine 50 billion then, assuming that half of the people who ever lived did something so horrific that they aren't deemed worthy to be resurrected.. jws who are lurking and reading this: where are they going to live?
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DATA-DOG,
If Jeehobo makes the Earth bigger, how would that affect our atmosphere?
If the Earth were twice our current diameter it would have four times the surface area but with greater gravity. Don't know what that would do to our atmosphere except perhaps compressing it somewhat.
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Around 100 billion people have died
by Funchback inaccording to some, the earth may have 10 billion people living on it by the end of this century.
there is genuine concern about space and resources.. imagine, then, 100 billion people being resurrected to live on earth.
some jws will argue that not everyone will be resurrected to earth, including 144,000. imagine 50 billion then, assuming that half of the people who ever lived did something so horrific that they aren't deemed worthy to be resurrected.. jws who are lurking and reading this: where are they going to live?
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Village Idiot
Come on folks. Some simple facts and figures.
The Earth's land surface is 57 million square miles (Including oceans, 196 million). Divided into 100 billion that comes out to about 1750 people per square mile. That rounds off to 3 persons per acre (208 X 208 square feet).
That's much less than suburban density in the United States. It's also possible to feed that many with such land density under ideal - but not realistic - conditions.
Just playing devil's advocate.
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Do You Remember When JWs Relished Explaining Their Beliefs?
by minimus ini bet most witnesses could not explain their blood policy, their understanding of the slave, and even simple biblical doctrines....they are an embarrassment to any old timer..
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I use to hang out with a couple of Witnesses whose IQs were in the genius range (170 for one of them). We would research the original Greek and Hebrew, in interlineal books, covering subjects such as the Trinity and Hell. We were a little above the rest of the Witnesses. When I went out in field service I would take the Make Sure of all Things book in order to quickly research any subject that might be brought up.
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What will humans look like in 1000000 years?
by James Mixon inok, the bible is a fascinating book of fairy tales, so we move on..e. zolfagharifard, some guy states "humans will be very different creatures in just 1000 years from now due to climate change,artificial intelligence and genetic mutations are all set to transform our bodies in drastic ways.
a mixture of biology and machine on the inside.
this is only 1000 years from now, what the hell will humans look like in 100000 years????
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E. Zolfagharifard, some guy states "Humans will be very different creatures in just 1000 years from now due to climate change,artificial intelligence and genetic mutations are all set to transform our bodies in drastic ways.
A 100,000 years into the future is too long to make a meaningful explanation. A 1,000 years is doable.
Climate change would have disappeared by a 100,000 or even a thousand years from now. It only takes a few centuries for Carbon Dioxide to be stabilized by natural forces assuming no more of it is put out by the burning of fossil fuels.
A mixture of biology and machine on the inside. This is only 1000 years from now, what the hell will humans look like in 100000 years?????The big question, will JW's still be around and preaching the END is near????
We may become cyborgs, to one extent or another, a 1,000 years from now.
Medicines such as Deprenyl that exist now can extend our lives by as much as 50% as experiments with laboratory rats has shown. Calorie reduction has also extended the lives of experimental rats. You basically eat 2/3 of what you normally will eat with high potency multi-vitamins to keep you from getting malnutrition. Both of them combined might extend your lifespan even more.
In the near future we might actually figure out how to extend telomeres in our DNA with unknown improvements in our lifespan.
As for JWs and Christianity in general, they may both disappear if our world were to become a better place to live in. Religion, particularly JWs and fundamentalist Christianity, thrives on misery and a loathing of the ego. Happiness is the solution to both of them.
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Have any ex-jws considered joining the Bible Students?
by Rainbow_Troll intheir fundamental beliefs are much like jehovah's witnesses sans the paranoia, authoritarianism, stifling rules, and end-times enthusiasm.
you don't even have to become a bible student to be saved, you could be an idol worshipping heathen and still get resurrected in the milenium.
if i still believed in the divine inspiration of the scriptures, i would be a bible student.
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It took a militaristic dictator like Joseph Rutherford to greatly expand the numbers of JWs to where they're at now. The Bible Students' groups stayed small because their members had no such "visionary" and they were mild and meek.
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Have any ex-jws considered joining the Bible Students?
by Rainbow_Troll intheir fundamental beliefs are much like jehovah's witnesses sans the paranoia, authoritarianism, stifling rules, and end-times enthusiasm.
you don't even have to become a bible student to be saved, you could be an idol worshipping heathen and still get resurrected in the milenium.
if i still believed in the divine inspiration of the scriptures, i would be a bible student.
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The Bible Students still put out a reprint of Russell's first six books Studies in the Scriptures. It's printed as the 1916 edition and still has Russell's prophecy that 1799-1914 are the last days" and 1914 the beginning of the Millennium.
You can still order the set of all six books from the Chicago Bible Students for $18.
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Malicious Content on Web Servers
by TD ini hope nobody would fall for this.
not sure what can be done though.... .
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Village Idiot
I got a phone call from the usual foreign accented one and I had fun grilling him with questions. He was exasperated knowing that I wasn't going to do what he wanted but kept talking to him anyways.
Try it sometime. They're used to being hung-up on not hanging up themselves.
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Has the rebranding worked?
by MrTheocratic init's been several years since the start of the rebranding of jehovahs witnesses.
i believe it started with the website change.
ever since then the religion has moved in a more modern direction.
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Village Idiot
Schnell,
Or I could bring some creepy marionettes and just hang out.
That's your best bet. Bring the marionettes and stick apostate literature in their plastic/wooden hands then walk them over to the JWs.
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Pornography, Adult or Sexually Provocative content
If you post content which many wouldn't be comfortable viewing at work or with family members around, then it probably isn't appropriate for this site.
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13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 22:13-29 New International Version