AlmostAtheist

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  Special announcement next week?????

  by seek2find in

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  it was announced at the meeting last night that next week all should be in attendance at the service meeting as a special important letter will be read.

  this is in addition to the letter about the district convention.

  any idea what it's about?

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  AlmostAtheist

  You gotta love an announcement about an announcement.

  Dave
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  Pick a Title

  by kwr in

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  AlmostAtheist

  Kayak - $500

  Panama Hat - $30

  Sending that idiot on the last vacation he'll ever take: Priceless
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  Did you read the whole Bible when you were a JW?

  by outofthebox in

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  after an informal poll in my congregation (and many awkward responses) i found out that almost nobody had read the whole bible ever, not even the elders (surprise!).

  brothers and sisters with 20, 30, 40 and 50 years as jws don't know what the bible says.

  so, if god decides that a test is coming, will they pass it?

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  AlmostAtheist

  Yes, though I was a JW at the time so I read it through their lens.

  Dave
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  2008 Memorial...How will Brooklyn fix this MASSIVE blunder?

  by A-Team in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ....brooklyn forgot that this year is a leap year in the hebrew calendar, and passover begins @ sundown on april 20th of 2008. now, will they fix this mistake, or come up with some crap excuse on why its not on nissan 14th this year?

  either way, they are in a massive jam.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Their calculations are still flawed

  GB: "Our calculations are fine. Reality, on the other hand, may be off a bit here and there..."

  Dave
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  How much of the bible....

  by bite me in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i think this is the perfect time and chance to see how much of the bible jw's really get through over the year.

  i'd like for whoever can post the verses that were covered each time.

  and if possible the length of time spent on that verse.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Ah, here it is! http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/138217/1.ashx

  I can't access the first link (firewall blocking it) and the second link is dead. So I can't tell if the spreadsheet is still available, but the discussion is interesting.

  Dave
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  How much of the bible....

  by bite me in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i think this is the perfect time and chance to see how much of the bible jw's really get through over the year.

  i'd like for whoever can post the verses that were covered each time.

  and if possible the length of time spent on that verse.

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  AlmostAtheist

  I can't help put the graph together, but I understand what you're saying. The average JW thinks he reads the entire Bible pretty often, due to the citations of the scriptures in the literature, and the ones he looks up during his prestudy. The point you're making, I think, is that JW's only ever look at a subset of the whole Bible.

  For instance, they read Matthew 24:14 a billion times a week, but they almost never read Jonah 1:6. (Whatever that says)

  And they certainly don't read any of the "stickler" verses that might give a JW pause.

  I do recall someone on JWD doing an analysis of verses cited in the magazines. It was in a spreadsheet, and based on the books of the Bible. Maybe even the chapters, I can't recall now. Anybody remember that?

  Dave
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  Unexplained Mormon "miracles"...Unexplained JW "miracles"

  by FormerMormon in

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  ok... lets get the ribbing aside.

  our mormon "miracles" are more unexplainable than yours.... one of the many tools used by the morg to keep it's members active is the use of faith promoting stories involving apparent miracles... or the unexplainable.

  there are unexplainable stories even in my own family.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Grab a copy of the Christian Scientist's extra-Bible-book... what's it called? Ummm... "Science and Health With Key To The Scriptures"!

  The last chapter or two of that book details the wonderful things that have happened because of members' adherence to their faith.

  And of course you can find accounts of every other type of miracle in every faith. Just look around. Neither Mormons nor Christians in general have a monopoly on "miracles".

  Dave
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  I Am Legend JW email

  by Descender in

  1. jw
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  so my sister-in-law, who is a pretty hardcore jw, showed me an email that looked like it had been passed around quite a bit, so i figured someone on here had probably seen it.

  supposedley it's a picture from the movie "i am legend" where will smith is walking through new york and all the buildings in the background are in ruins except for the bethel building, which stands out, undamaged and clean.

  i watched the movie and don't remember seeing anything like that so i just figured that some jw photoshopped it and sent it out to the jw community to show that the bethel building is protected by god even in a post apocaliptical world run over with zombie vampires.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Are they "perfect" flesh eating Zombies????

  LOL!
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  I Am Legend JW email

  by Descender in

  1. jw
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  so my sister-in-law, who is a pretty hardcore jw, showed me an email that looked like it had been passed around quite a bit, so i figured someone on here had probably seen it.

  supposedley it's a picture from the movie "i am legend" where will smith is walking through new york and all the buildings in the background are in ruins except for the bethel building, which stands out, undamaged and clean.

  i watched the movie and don't remember seeing anything like that so i just figured that some jw photoshopped it and sent it out to the jw community to show that the bethel building is protected by god even in a post apocaliptical world run over with zombie vampires.

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  AlmostAtheist

  Apparently it's not a photoshop job, since it appears on this version on the warner brothers site: http://iamlegend.warnerbros.com/media/images/downloads/wallpapers/IAL-Wallpaper15_1024.jpg

  Dave
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  I Am Legend JW email

  by Descender in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my sister-in-law, who is a pretty hardcore jw, showed me an email that looked like it had been passed around quite a bit, so i figured someone on here had probably seen it.

  supposedley it's a picture from the movie "i am legend" where will smith is walking through new york and all the buildings in the background are in ruins except for the bethel building, which stands out, undamaged and clean.

  i watched the movie and don't remember seeing anything like that so i just figured that some jw photoshopped it and sent it out to the jw community to show that the bethel building is protected by god even in a post apocaliptical world run over with zombie vampires.

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  AlmostAtheist

  You can see it here: http://www.mydaedalus.com/?p=10

  Dave