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  Please Focus on the Bible

  by terrypike in

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  hi people, may i firstly thank those who have responded to to my intro article, i am replying to you all as a new topic because the direct messaging is not working for me at the moment so i can clarify my perspective on bible study.

  yes there are many arguments that are put forward to demonstrate for example that the bible has been composed of numerous preexisting creation story's ect, my focus is to give the bible the same opportunity to defend itself as anyone reasonably expects if charged with some crime they are not guilty of.. i find for example the account of jesus response when questioned about the divorce certificate 'but it was not so in the beginning' confirms that moses allowed changes to be made to the original, that said consider also the religious traditions moses people had been exposed to, the story of the god enki who seduced even his own grandchildren and the well known incest of the egyptian royalty, given the genetic cost, are such practices any more right now than they were then?

  communities that practice close relative marriages today are well documented for there higher risk of numerous health problems so how would you find moses on that basis, guilty or not guilty as jesus did because he understood why moses took the creation story's of other cultures and gave his people there own creation story that taught them to avoid the general pagan practice of incest.before looking any deeper at moses creation story may i also ask the question why does jesus knowing that god promised he would never again destroy the world by a flood as he did in noah's day say 'as in the days of noah ..the flood came and took them all away' so what did jesus actually mean mt 24:.

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  @ terrypike:

  "...Othodox Muslims respectfully keep old worn out scripts often laid to rest in the roof space, there were tens of thousands of fragments from about a thousand different Koran, some of those fragment showed distinct differences from the standard text of the Koran.

  "These were examined in 1981 and since then it has been found that they were sheets of scripture written in the early hijazi text which made them peaces of the earliest Korans known to exist, the full article is several pages long by Tony Lester called What is the Koran?"

  And what is the Bible? It too has mutated with books having extra chapters in older texts like the Septuagint.
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  New Picture for Memorial Season

  by Doctor Who in

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  i think this would work well.... .

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  Demoralization has taken the bite, all pun intended, out of JWs. We can pass by one or two of their corpses and they wouldn't even move.
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  Boycott the Bank ????????

  by artcritic in

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  2. current

  should people boycott the bank?

  watch video link below and see.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhcp7sfae48.

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  Seven years ago, during the banking collapse, this might have had an impact.
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  Just woke up

  by Doctor Who in

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  2. experiences

  new to the site.

  currently i am a ministerial servant and was told i was appointed to be an elder.

  i told the brothers i was not ready for that assignment.

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  Welcome Doctor Who. I'll be the third one to recommend Crisis of Conscience. Best book ever on the Witnesses.
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  Circuit Overseer's Cars - Anybody got the answers?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  atlantis provided a uk branch letter regarding a 3 levy per publisher to pay for the britain branch c.o.s 85 new cars.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/126700001/2-new-boes-watchtower-begging-money-volunteers.

  with approximately 120,000 publishers in the uk, that will rake in 360,000. .

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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

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  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  Jo_Sunshine, you're in a very tight spot because of your job situation. I hope your moving out of state helps your situation. Until then a simple fade is highly recommended. Don't do anything "official" like disassociating. The Elders are simply not worthy of it.

  Tempest in a Teacup, I don't mean to be mean but I think that brother is on his way out.
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  @ the comet: "I know of 1 df'd person in the hall who is awake but trying to get reinstated for family reasons only."

  Not that it might be relevant but do you know if that person got disfellowshipped for apostasy?

  UFCFan, it's a long list, you're in.

  crazyhorse, sorry to hear about your family and your loneliness. It seems like there's no hope for those who are not independent minded but you never know what could happen.
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

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  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  @ prologos: "...This is not an underground movement like the resistance in france or the partisans in Yugoslavia..."

  It would be great if such a resistance could be formed but it might never happen. Everyone will have to go their separate way.

  It's good to hear that there might be three mentally out thinkers.
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

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  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  cappytan, that's a pretty big congregation. Are you fading?

  Edit: Never mind the question, I just saw your thread about your wife.
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

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  2. beliefs

  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  I think that any fader who doesn't have family to worry about might try an experiment with others that are fading and see whether they are TTATTs. They can pose a question like "I've noticed you haven't been at the meetings lately. Do you still think it's the truth?"

  If he dodges the question that might be a signal that he is mentally out. You should not get in trouble with the elders for asking that question since it is one that they themselves may pose. Worth trying unless you think he/she might get in trouble.