MungoBaobab

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  Why would Jesus' first miracle be turning water into wine?

  by truthseeker in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently wondered why jesus would use his first miracle to make more brew - any ideas?.

  i mean, i thought the first miracle would have been a healing or a resurrection or something.. i'm sure the wedding party didn't complain.. is it possible that this account was really the first miracle performed by jesus?

  did jesus not perform miracles before his baptism?

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  MungoBaobab

  Transforming a stone into a loaf of bread to nourish the Son of God would be a selfish and frivolous display of power.

  BUT

  It's okay to call upon God's power and miraculously cater to a bunch of drunks at a party.

  Riiiiiiiight.
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  Malcom X was raised as a Witness?!?!

  by sixsixsixtynine in

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  never heard this before:

  http://www.adherents.com/people/px/malcolm_x.html

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  MungoBaobab

  I'll be damned.
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  How to keep dubs from knocking on your door

  by MsMcDucket in

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  click on the picture to enlarge it.

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  MungoBaobab

  "...But then I read the sign hung on the door. I said a quick prayer to Jehovah, and knocked on the door anyway. It turns out the previous hoseholder had put up the sign but had just moved away! The new householder had many questions about our work, and we ended up having a great conversation. He accepted the magazines, and is now one of my best return visits."

  >>applause<<

  "Well, than you very much for that up-building experience."
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  The WTS 's fear of the internet

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they pressured their own followers into not setting up websites to promote the jw religion,they have demonised the internet as if on every webpage there is someone ready to destroy the faith of a jw, and they are monitoring websites that are hostile to them to see if they can find ways to legally close them down.

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  why do they fear the net so much if they have the truth as they like to parrot so often?

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  MungoBaobab

  EXCELLENT answer, stillA.
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  The fear of "spontaneous sex"

  by free2beme in

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  when i was young and single and a witness.

  i remember often the fear older people had of putting young people together alone.

  not just for dating, but even leaving them in a car while an older couple went to a return visit.

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  MungoBaobab

  Aw geez, and here I thought I was the only sexual tyranosaurus mothers were afraid to leave alone in the car with their daughters!
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  Do you know where the first person you had sex with, lives now?

  by free2beme in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i was actually baptized in my early 20's, so i spent some time as a teen and early twenties doing things that were not witness-like.

  one of those things was sex out of marriage and to be honest, i have no regrets.

  i have wondered though sometimes, where is that person i shared such a landmark moment with in life.

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  MungoBaobab

  Hmm. Depends. Does oral count?
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  How did you overcome the allure of Paradise? Or have you?

  by M.J. in

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  i think the biggest reason someone maintains their faith in the wts is because the wts is the "ticket" to paradise earth.. how did you deal with the prospect that the "ticket" salesmen weren't totally reliable?.

  did it cause you to let go of your hope in paradise earth?

  did it redirect it to another hope?.

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  MungoBaobab

  One thing that really did it for me was the promise of all the "fulfilling" hard work we would be doing to turn the earth into a paradise. If you'll remember, "toiling in the field" or somesuch was the punishment for losing paradise in the Garden of Eden. All my life I've hated yardwork.

  On top of that, like blondie says, I remember a comedian whose routine went something like this:

  "One of those resplendant Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door today. 'But sir, don't you want eternal life?' I was like, 'Not if it's going to be a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses everywhere!'"
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  "THIS IS JEHOVAH'S HOUSE..." GAG!

  by stillAwitness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  some of the kids my age in my hall are just an insult to my generation.

  at the service meeting last week i was talking with one and we were near the front of the hall and there were a bunch of little kids running and jumping around the stage.

  she goes: "what a shame.

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  MungoBaobab

  No, better make is a she-bear, whatever the fluck difference that makes!
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  Campaign to destroy "lol"

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not sure where this idea came from, but apparently it's been discovered that hardly anyone is actually "laughing out loud" when using the term "lol".

  lol if they really are laughing out loud, there is something wrong with them (they could be retarded or have a bad sense of humor lol).

  please show your support for my new cause in which i attempt to bannish the term lol from the english language.

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  MungoBaobab

  Just think: somewhere out there some poor bastard actually invented the term "LOL," and whenever he tries to tell anyone they don't believe him and think he's nuts.
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  Creationism - Evolution humor

  by TD in

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  i tried a serious topic on this subject and got a grand total of 1 response

  how about some humor for a change?

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  MungoBaobab

  Heh.