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  Israel fears extinction

  by abiather in

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  what a spirited, brilliant speech isreali pm mr. nethanyahu delivered yesterday to the congress against the negotiated nuclear deal with iran which israel fears would make iran a legitimate nuclear power with the ability to wipe out israel.

  (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/netanyuahu-congress-iran-nuclear-deal-path-to-bomb).

  he also said: if no one supports, israel would defend itself alone.

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  Abiather, you were doing ok until the last sentence: "Interestingly, war with Iran is a trigger to greater nuclear use in Nostradamus prophecy."
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  2034 is going to be a huge letdown for the dubs

  by wha happened? in

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  2. bible

  i've seen a few postings of a possible "next date" for dubs of 2034. based on an article they published comparing the last days to the days of noah.

  preaching for 120 years.

  however, i noticed a little tidbit from wiki about age:.

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  They would need to drop the "overlapping generation" teaching before they replace it with the Noah's flood generation. It wouldn't add up since Jesus spoke of a single generation but hell, nothing adds up in JWdom.

  I think that those who believe the Watchtower will implode completely are a little optimistic. They may lose a lot of members like in Rutherford's day but they came out of that stronger.
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  Newest Caleb & Sophia video is a commercial

  by cappytan in

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  2. beliefs

  caleb states, "now i can speak to chinese people.

  " ummm, there are many chinese people that speak english, caleb.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p2tgjvxdb4.

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  When I was a teenage JW I carried this huge suitcase filled with literature including multiple language ones just in case we ran into a foreign householder. I remember an Asian lady who didn't speak a word of English. I had no clue as to what she was saying so I pulled out literature in an Asian language. When I presented to her she shook her head not being able to understand the characters on the book. Of course, I didn't have literature in every Asian language.
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  Watchtower switching to selling children's toys that have corporation approval

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. scandals

  hey put a good video out about the evil toys on the market and the possibility of making jehovah very very sad by having these things in your house and demons start to party on your sofa.

  then wait a couple of weeks and offer a entire line of acceptable toys and charge the hypnotized families a stiff price/suggested contribution.

  could make a few million and help pay off some of these child molestation lawsuits.. i can just see tony morris singing 'rubber ducky' and offering the latest marketing scam of a toy that don't make jehovah so sad.

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  David

  

  Goliath

  

  Samson

  

  Leviathan

  

  Noah's ark

  

  Jesus and his apostles

  
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  Watchtower switching to selling children's toys that have corporation approval

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  hey put a good video out about the evil toys on the market and the possibility of making jehovah very very sad by having these things in your house and demons start to party on your sofa.

  then wait a couple of weeks and offer a entire line of acceptable toys and charge the hypnotized families a stiff price/suggested contribution.

  could make a few million and help pay off some of these child molestation lawsuits.. i can just see tony morris singing 'rubber ducky' and offering the latest marketing scam of a toy that don't make jehovah so sad.

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  with what then seemed to be Jehovah’s will

  by berrygerry in

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  interesting phrase.. jan 15, 2001 wt.

  there was one exception.

  in 1940, hayden c. covingtonthen the societys legal counsel and one of the other sheep, with the earthly hopewas elected a director of the society.

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  That was way back then when they probably believed in their own bunk.
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  Rational Buddhism?

  by cappytan in

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  does a type of buddhism exist that doesn't include the metaphysical aspects of traditional buddhism?

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  “If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.” - Dalai Lama
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  What would happen if life was found elsewhere?

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  see jws have said time and again jesus died once for all time... a quote from hebrews.

  okay rule out humn-like aliens what about animals plants and microbes... i once had a hot fight with an elder when i still believed that here was no reason to doubt alien animals etc.

  yet not based on any wt article witnesses reject this often.. lets suppose say in a month microbes are found on ceres (i doubt it will happen but let's roll with it) they are living as much as our cells are and reporduce... okay what would mother say in the magazines when millions of jehovah's witnesses demand to know why jehovah created microbes on a dwarf planet?.

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  HowTheBibleWasCreated:

  "Okay rule out humn-like aliens what about animals plants and microbes... I once had a hot fight with an elder when I still believed that here was no reason to doubt alien animals etc. Yet NOT based on any WT article witnesses reject this often.

  There is a 'reason' why fundamentalist Christians would not believe in any life out there. It simply diminishes the Genesis account were all plants and animals were created for the benefit of Adam and Eve.
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  Newest Caleb & Sophia video is a commercial

  by cappytan in

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  caleb states, "now i can speak to chinese people.

  " ummm, there are many chinese people that speak english, caleb.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p2tgjvxdb4.

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  Who pays for those translator tablets? Or is it an app? And goodness, doesn't the organization know that the door to door preaching doesn't yield results?

  I could hardly see them having a meaningful conversation in spite of translations.
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  Has anybody got a copy of the older New World Translation ? (pre : the new simplified version ?)

  by ukgirl in

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  2. bible

  hey so i'm currently doing a uni project and making a film exploring my leaving of the witnesses.

  i wanted to begin with an intro where i revisit the genesis account of god creating the heavens and the earth.

  i remember it to be quite visually descriptive, so i wanted to take the account and illustrate it myself with narration over the top.

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  I've got the large size bible which identifies itself as: First revision 1961; Second revision 1970; Third revision with footnotes, 1971.

  The quote for Genesis 1:1-3 is:

  1 In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon [the] surface of the watery deep; and God's active force was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.

  3 And God proceeded to say: "Let light come to be." Then there came to be light.