Village Idiot

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  lets make something up, so say the writters of the wt magazines

  by sowhatnow in

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  'ok people, we have 3 awake magazines with 8 pages each to pump out before the end of the month, no politics, no sex, no mention of education, no recreation, no religious topics, no medical advice, limit music only to instruments ' .

  say the gb.

  'oh a deadline, gee, 3 'whole' magazines, and so few topics, what ever will we print in them???

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  Village Idiot

  • Was Hitler Gay?
  • Is Obama a gay Muslim?
  • Should Christians exorcise used cars whose previous owners were Hindu?
  • Is eating kosher food considered association with false religion?
  • Is the English alphabet full of pagan symbols?
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  How old were you ??

  by Clambake in

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  when you had to start dumping your worldy friends ??.

  just curious that's all.

  not being a witness ( ubm here ) i think everyone has known a jw kid and at a certain age " my mommy won't let me play with you ".

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  Village Idiot

  I never dumped my high school buddy who was a Baptist but then the elders did not know about it.
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  Stop Writing People Off

  by Coded Logic in

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  if you choose to enter into a discussion on this site and you don't have the time, or patience, or are just too damn lazy to defend your position on any given topic that is perfectly fine.

  i'm not going to bash you over the head about it.

  however, please don't tell me that i'm "wasting my time" or that the person i'm trying to convince, "will never learn.

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  Village Idiot

  @ Coded Logic:

  "If the people on this site were incapable of changing their minds they wouldn't be here in the first place."

  Some people on this site are incapable of changing their minds and the only reason they come to this site is to convert other people. I could name one obvious example but I won't.
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  Where did this picture of GB singing come from?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  sorry.

  i see it is on jw survey and from one of their earth shaking, mind bending, nausea producing jw.org broadcasts.. .

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  Village Idiot

  @ DesirousOfChange, "Is that a tall Eddie Munster in the back row?"
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  Do you feel bad throwing away literature?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  so do you feel bad throwing away your old literature?.

  what about your old song book or bible from your early days in the org?.

  if so, is it because of sentimentality, monetary cost or because it might be 'sacred' ?.

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  Village Idiot

  Give them away to those in the 'apostate' community who would gladly take them.
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  If this isn't the truth, then what is our hope?

  by Gigi2121 in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm new here but not new to researching and questioning the jw beliefs.

  i have quite a story.... one that's been haunting me for awhile... but first, i'd like to hear what people have to say about this topic question, please.. -gigi.

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  Village Idiot

  There is little to add that hasn't already been said on this thread but I support those who have said that living this life to the full is the way to go.
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  The Organization is destined to fade away

  by suavojr in

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  the borg might not fall and disappear, but it's sure heading into the oblivion.

  they predicted their future in last week's study.. last week during the cong book study they mentioned the following:.

  15. to illustrate: a supertanker or a freight train might be awesome in terms of size and power.

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  Village Idiot

  "Such rigidity has bankrupted corporations and even toppled governments. (Proverbs 16:18) How happy we can be that neither Jehovah nor his organization is anything like that!"

  They figure that they are the exception since they are changing their organization from the ground up.
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  Do you feel bad throwing away literature?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  so do you feel bad throwing away your old literature?.

  what about your old song book or bible from your early days in the org?.

  if so, is it because of sentimentality, monetary cost or because it might be 'sacred' ?.

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  I could have kept them for documentation of what the Watchtower has been saying throughout the decades.

  One particular set of books that I regret having tossed was my collection of the blue 'Truth' book - in 65 different languages. Don't know how much good they would have done but I wish I had kept them.
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  Answers in Genesis

  by DATA-DOG in

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  this video contains "the truth!!

  " can you accept it??.

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=et8f6p6blfg.

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  Village Idiot

  Let him have a discussion with Old Earth creationists.
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  Ooops. They're back at the anti-type game.

  by scotoma in

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  i thought it was ex"plane"d at the corporate meeting that type-antitypes were finished unless it expressly is stated in the bible.. from the feb 22 study article.

  question on paragraph 11- what comparison found at psalm 122:3,4 could be applied to god's people today?.

  during the coming time of trouble for this system, we will have to be truly united.

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  Village Idiot

  The most potent argument against 1914 is not necessarily the overlapping generations issue or the 607 versus 587 but the assumptions that this account in the Bible can be used to calculate anything of any worth.

  First off, neither Jewish nor Babylonian years were 360 days long. They were based on very complex lunar cycles. The solar years, on the other hand, were 365.25 days long. This (let's subtract the fraction .25) gives out a result of 7 X 365 = 2555 'days'. So add 35 to 1914 and get 1959.

  I would not even get into the 607 vs. 587 issue as the individual might think that the Society has better information than all scholars.

  Then secondly I would point out that the 'typical' king - Nebuchadnezzar - was supposed to have been insane for those 7 years but was given his sanity back after they were complete.

  How does this figure out for the 'anti-type', all the nations of the world, which were supposed to have been insane like that king during those "Gentile Times" but got even more insane in 1914 with all the commotion that World War I started?

  It made better sense with the original 1914 teaching which had 'Armageddon' starting before 1914 with the Millennium starting in 1914. But they had to change that when world events falsified their 'prophecy' and they adopted the newer explanation (which they changed again in the 1990s.).

  They were not able to reconcile everything in their new 1914 teaching.

  Those are their two major weaknesses.