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  Infinity and god - why wait to create the universe?

  by Simon in

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  here's the problem with infinity ... we can't comprehend it.. it's bad enough when it's space, but when it's time as well and then we throw in some all powerful creature supposedly existing forever ... well, it just doesn't make sense and raises questions.. such as why wait?

  why didn't god create the universe the day before he did?

  or the day before that?

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  A great scientist once said ' The bible tells us how to go to heaven not how the heavens go'.

  Those words were first said by Galileo and later repeated by John Paul 2 when Galileo was exhonerated in 1979
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  WTS admits U.S. pubs. # not keeping up w/U.S. population #

  by Gayle in

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  in the worldwide service reports show:.

  2010 pubs were 1/259 population.

  so there it shows pubs "not" keeping up with population!

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  barry

  Its better to have less pubs the abuse of Alcohol in the community in enormous. 250 people per Pub is far too high if we had that many here their would be a national outcry
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  7 graphs that prove America is overrated

  by Simon in

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  before the usual suspects start reaching for the pich-forks and forming a mob, i invite you to actually read and consider this, not just leap to conclusions.. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130607/7-graphs-america-overrated-nsa-prism-privacy.

  why do i care?

  it seems the people being screwed the most are also the most visciferous defenders of the status quo which sees them being severely disadvantaged.. maternity leave?

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  We all have opinions an preferences on where we would like to live but I don't see the USA as one that I would easily disregard as a place to live.

  The graphs do give some insight on deficiencies that would be experianced if one was to live in the USA but then there are far worse countries Rwanda has more women in Government so does that make it a better country. Here in Australia we have a women prime minister that will lose her job soon or will be voted out at the soon comming election.

  The countries that require a vacation are USA and China. Everyone now should now know that China is the workshop of the world and no one can compete with her but that is because the Chinese work cheaper than anyone else. This will bring benefits to China above what she would otherwise have. Benefits to workers comes at a cost of jobs. Every country has to be compeditive because so the USA may be more so than many others that give better benefits to their workers. In the sixties workers in England worked for an extra hour every working day to make their country more compeditive and address their BOP problems.

  Australians say that 'Australia is the lucky country' and I would agree with that however when Australia experianced BOP problems we changed our mind and said 'Australia is the smart country'in an effort for us to use our brains more in making us more compeditive.

  One valid critisism of America is they left the Empire and kicked out the British and sent our poor king crazy but we just might forgive them for that in another 100 or so.

  According to these graphs a person may easily think many other countries are better than the US and as a result be seriously misinformed. Barry
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  7 graphs that prove America is overrated

  by Simon in

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  before the usual suspects start reaching for the pich-forks and forming a mob, i invite you to actually read and consider this, not just leap to conclusions.. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130607/7-graphs-america-overrated-nsa-prism-privacy.

  why do i care?

  it seems the people being screwed the most are also the most visciferous defenders of the status quo which sees them being severely disadvantaged.. maternity leave?

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  The jobs market in the USA has improved recently and as a result our Aussie dollar droped from $1.05 American to $0.92 American it seems the Americans are on the way back.

  Barry
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  JW Middle Schoolers vs Non JW Middle Schoolers - what was your middle/high school experience?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i'm a secondary school teacher and i've spent a lot of time at school this year since i've left jws simply observing student dynamics.

  i do a lot of playground duty and have the opportunity to observe the kids at play and in the classroom.

  i've especially had the opportunity to observe middle school kids, that is, kids between 12 and 15 in my state.. my observations of these 'worldly' children are:.

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  I thought the JWs were cool at high school because when we all had to go to our scripture class the JWs were allowed to just hang out together.

  I don't know if they have religious instruction these days but we had it for one period every week.

  I was brought up SDA but because there was no SDA minister in the town I went to the Anglican religious instruction class.
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  Confessing Sins !.... to Man, Priest. Non - Biblical Teaching ?

  by *lost* in

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  is this not one of the statement jw's use against the church.. that it is non-biblical.. .

  can anyone add to this, very interesting me thinks.. ( will look it up in more detail and add to it ).

  thanks.

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  Protestants are also encouraged to talk to a priest for confession of sins but the priest has no authority to forgive sins that is Gods work. Isn't it better to get advice from someone who is well trained and a professional rather than a window cleaner and had the assurance of confidentiality. Barry
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  Was Kate Bush thinking of the JWs or did she just want her teeth checked by her dentist

  by barry in

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  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfntpbhkp0u.

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  Kate Bush SAid in the video,

  They arrived at an inconvenient time. I had shut the people out of my life.

  So now I take the opportunities wonderful teachers ready to teach me.

  She says a number of times . Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.

  so far it could be the witnesses but then she says.

  They read me Gurdjieff and Jesu

  I think Gurdjieff is a christian who believed we are all only partly awake and if we fully wake up things will be clearer to us all.
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  Was Kate Bush thinking of the JWs or did she just want her teeth checked by her dentist

  by barry in

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  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfntpbhkp0u.

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  www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNtPbHkp0U
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  I celebrated my daughters birthday for the first time...

  by cognac in

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  it was so nerve racking!

  it wasn't anything big, but its all she ever talks about in front of all my family!!!

  i mean, she talks about it almost every single frigging day.

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  Once she gets to 30 she won't any more birthdays. I don't like them myself they remind us all of our mortality.
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  "The Finished Mystery" - William Miller, a member of the "little flock"

  by EdenOne in

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  wiki: "william miller (february 15, 1782 december 20, 1849) was an american baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century north american religious movement now known as adventism.

  among his direct spiritual heirs are several major religious denominations, including seventh-day adventists and advent christians.

  later movements found inspiration in miller's emphasis on bible prophecy.

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  The SDA church still holds to the date of 1844 but when jesus didn't come they then believed in the Shut Door in which probation was closed to all exept the little flock or the Adventist believers. They held to this for seven years and then decided it didn't promote church growth. This seven years was also referred to the tarring time .

  The 1844 was later about the 1860s reinterpreted as the cleansing of the heavenly santuary [Daniel 8.14] where Jesus moved from the holy place to the most holy as the high priest does once a year on the day of atonement. This according to Adventists also marks the final atonement in heaven and is the start of the investigative judgement where the records in heaven are investigated to see who is worthy of the benefits of christs atonement.

  The Adventists have never said Jesus came to earth invisibly this is a second Adventist construct.

  Of course these theorys are not biblical and most Adventist theologians know this and many church members do also. I know a few Adventist ministers who don't believe the investigative judgement when they teach it they just teach it as church history. The German Adventists don't even teach it they believe its just an American thing.

  Funny with many Adventist you can believe in evolution, disagree with the trinity and disagree with th evirgin birth but belief in the investigative is manditory because it is the one doctrine other churches don't have and identifys the Adventists as special. Barry