Topics Started by Jaypeeto

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Jw view please
by A Paduan in
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if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out

what does this mean to jws ?
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What's Everyone's Favorite JW "Urban Legend?"
by Jaypeeto in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my personal favorite, popular in my area in 1982, was the story that little plastic "smurf" dolls were biting the ankles of hapless witness moms who had bought the demonic toys for their little children.

does everyone have a favorite laugh-out-loud jw urban legend?

please share!.
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Parousia- Is it just me? Has anyone else noticed this?
by upside/down in
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2. bible
the entire premise of the debate of christ's "presence" as discussed in matt24:3 to me makes no sense.

here's why: we have to assume by the question asked by the apostles, that they understood the whole "presence" concept, which they didn't.

they were merely asking him when "the end" would come, i'm not even sure if they know what "the end" really meant.
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I took the "1914 Generation" prophecy seriously. Did you?
by nicolaou in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was born in 1964, a convenient 50 years after 1914. even in my early teens i was doing the sums.

i had a worse case scenario figured out - if the 1914 generation could apply to babies and even if they lived to be a 120, i would still only be about 70 years old after they'd all died!

i figured that i was part of the first wave of 'jehovah's people' that really would live to see the new order - guaranteed!!
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As a young kid how did you invision Armagedon?
by PinTail in
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2. bible
as a kid i felt that jehovah would bring his big hand down from the sky and slap the hell out of the ground, and if i was under it then it would be real bad.

the fact is i found it hard to camp outside and enjoy looking at the night sky with all of its stars, fearing the big old hand was going to slap the area around me at that very moment and ruin trees shrubs the fish we had caught our tent my dads truck, and us oh man everthing else too.

shane
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How is Everyone? I've been off the "net a Long Time!!
by Jaypeeto in
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2. bible
i have been off the internet for a long time.

i see some familiar names here from the old h2o site.. how is everyone?

i'm still a catholic...interesting posts about 2034 being the new date for the end.... jaypeeto
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Why did we become JW?
by BigG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was brought up in the 'truth' for many years until i was 20 or thereabouts and now being on the outside looking in i see not only jw's for what they really are but i believe i see religion for what it really is too.. consider this point, and this reminds me of a song written by alanis morrisette entitled, forgiven which is a pretty cool stab at religion itself if you read the lyrics closely...one part of the lyrics is 'we all had our reasons to be there'.

if you came into the truth, consider the reasons why, what were the circumstances of your life...were you searching for something.

even if they were brought up in it...consider the reasons why their parents started to believe.
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Best Bible Translation?
by mywifeisaJW in
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2. bible
my wife has been a jw for about 10 years (we have been married 15 years).

over the years i have tried various strategies to deal with this, which i won't go into here...except that i have agreed to "read the bible" with my wife...and i get to pick the translation.. what translation would be best recommended to help highlight the errors of the nwt and jw thinking in general?

i have seen here that today's english version has been recommended...anything else?
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Have you re-read the bible since leaving the Kingdom Hall?
by Eyebrow2 in
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2. bible
i always wanted to re-read the bible after i left the org; to be able to read it without having to feel like i had to apply something, or to have to read it out of obedience, etc.... well, i have always liked the new world translation, i know it isn't perfect, but i think it is better than some.

but i have always wanted to get a different modern english translation, and read that.

well, i finally picked up a new international version at wal-mart the other day...under $6, what a bargain.. started last night, and finished genesis today, and am just starting into exodous.
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Another example of WTS anthropology - The Flood and racial differences
by Pole in
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2. bible
here is another paradox resulting from the wts stand on the flood:

1. jws seriously believe in 2370 bc as the date of the flood

2. they also believe that by the 1st century ad racial differences had been well developed (i mean differences in the outward appearance of course, and not their early racist views for instance).