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  Bearded students on Ministry school?

  by NikL in

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  so at last nights ministry school we had 2...yes that's right two that had parts and gave them with beards.. i found it interesting.

  i thought the consensus was that you couldn't have any extra privileges if you wore one.. maybe the school is different?.

  anyway, anybody else seen this in the u.s.?.

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  What was the part in the Ministry School about? Did it involve beards?
  
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  Jehovah Witnesses View on medical marijuana?

  by Slade1224 in

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  i was wondering what the view jehovah witnesses and the bible and tract society had on medical cannabis?

  i remember as a kid reading in the reasoning book that marijuana was bad and smoking it caused cancer and was worse then cigarettes.

  as more reach comes out we are leaning marijuana can cure certain forms of cancer!

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  Slade1224,

  Also there are ways to not even smoke it?
  

  There are definitely many ways of not smoking it. Vaporizers, edibles, and tinctures. You might want to google and find a whole range of options. This is a good source of information for starters.
  
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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy is a 500 page encyclopedia of Creationist folklore and their thorough scientific rebuttals. Well worth the price. Highly recommended for the Perry's of this world.
  

  https://www.amazon.com/Science-Earth-History-Evolution-Controversy/dp/1573927171
  
  
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  How long has it been since you have seen your family?

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  howdy guys!

  so how long has it been since you have seen your jw family or friends?

  or do you even care to have them in your life anymore?

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  Fortunately, I have no family in but it's been 37 years since I've seen any of my friends.
  
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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. watchtower
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  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  Finkelstein,
  

  Yes another case of creationists (Perry) being intellectually dishonest.

  Creationists indulge in what psychologists call confirmatory bias. You wouldn't catch them doing a real investigation looking at both sides of the issue. As the author Stephen Covey once said: "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
  
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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  Rainbow_Troll
  

  What scriptural justification is there for concluding that the world is six thousand years old anyways? Are Creationists just summing up the recorded lifetimes of everyone from Adam to Jesus? They do know there are huge gaps, don't they?
  

  Rainbow, Perry and company use the same logic that the Watchtower does. Any gaps, like the 'Adam and Eve Gap' of the Watchtower, doesn't faze him. It's known as Young Earth Creationism.

  There are old earth creationists who acknowledge the fact that the Earth is older than a mere 6,000 years. Perry is not one of them. He's much closer to the JWs who were inspired by the chronological ju-ju priests of the 19th century.

  There are also many Liberal Christians, and even some Evangelicals, who believe in theistic evolution. Perry is definitely not one of them. And, before Perry goes on an anti-evolution tirade, let me ask him, if he dares to reply: Is belief in old earth creationism or more importantly theistic evolution a salvation issue? Is Perry's fellow worshipper at church doomed to Gehenna if he should believe, God forbid, in theistic evolution?
  
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  What will happen if someone partake the wine and bread at memorial? Should we all do that?

  by UBM101 in

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  What will happen if someone partake the wine and bread at memorial? Should we all do that?
  

  They'll tell us to go get our own building to have our memorial.
  
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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  Perry, ice cores have yearly layers that go all the way back to 880,000 years ago. They are about 2-3 mm thick per layer. Needless to say, it doesn't take much to go over the 6,000 year limit that Young Earth Creationists like to project on the Bible.
  
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  Japan On High Alert

  by snowbird in

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  my g'daughter and her hubby are stationed in okinawa.. i talked with her a few hours earlier today, and she stated they're preparing for the worst.. young people are remarkably resilient, aren't they?.

  sylvia.

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  Snowbird,
  

  Do Koreans eat a lot of kimchi?
  

  
  

  I had to look it up but I knew it was worth it!
  
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  "The James Randi 1 Million Dollar Challenge Finally Terminated"

  by unsure in

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  the one million dollar paranormal challenge was an offer by the james randi educational foundation (jref) to pay out one million u.s. dollars to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/one_million_dollar_paranormal_challenge.

  aaaaand discuss!.

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