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  The Bible...trust in Faith or trust in Fact?

  by jgnat in

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  i read the most extraordinary claim the other day.

  "the bible is factual.

  " i wondered, how could the speaker possibly back up such a claim?

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  Big Dog

  Rex,

  I guess I was just trying to say that faith, any faith I might have at least is just something I have that I don't attribute any specific reason for, sort of like unconditional love, no reason for it, it just is. I don't think it bolsters my faith to try and use scientific methods to try and prove any of it.

  By the same token the total abscence of scientific proof of a God etc. doesn't impact my faith at all. If I want to know how my computer works I rely on the scientific method which it is well suited for, if I want to ponder the nature of God I wouldn't use the scientific method, it just doesn't work.

  That's all I was trying to say, faith is like love, you can't quantify it, or measure it, or produce it in a lab, it just is.

  BD
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  Heres your chance..........

  by defd in

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  to show what we are really made of.

  i have been going through extreme stress, almost disstress.

  i will not reveal what it is at this time.

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  Not sure if anyone said this but I have always believed in attacking whatever is causing me stress. The old a good offense is the best defense. If this is the kind of problem that allows for that sort of mentality it usually works for me, I just attack whatever it is causing me stress and eliminate it, a report hanging over me, I just dive in and finish it, etc. Just my two cents.
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  The Bible...trust in Faith or trust in Fact?

  by jgnat in

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  i read the most extraordinary claim the other day.

  "the bible is factual.

  " i wondered, how could the speaker possibly back up such a claim?

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  jgnat, wonderful post/thread. I agree with all of the above, people should not try to pass their faith off as fact, nor should they try to use science on matters of faith. Each has its own domain and should stay there.
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  Watchtower Gives Up Explaining 607 BCE Date!

  by VM44 in

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  2. bible

  this is a very important observation, that the watchtower has not tried to explain in print why 607 bce is the year for the destruction of jerusalem for the last 17 years!!!.

  all that the watchtower has done over most of the last two decades is to repeat over and over the year "607bce" in its publications as if it is an unquestioned fact!.

  the last time an explaination for the year was attempted by the watchtower was in 1988 when the "insight" volumes were published, but since then, no explaination for the validity of the year has appeared in print.. this must mean something, but what?

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  Woodsman, excellent first post, welcome to the forum!!!! Hope to hear more from you.
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  oHi, short introduction

  by Sugarcane in

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  2. experiences

  glad i found this board and hope to have some interesting discussions.

  i'll post my story later today, but in the meantime; i'm a single parent with 2 kids, was a jw for 26 years in total (born one, left at 17 years, went back at 21), became inactive 4 years ago and disassociated myself 4 weeks ago!.

  my experience with the bible org.

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  Welcome Sugarcane, make yourself at home.
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  Say a prayer :)

  by JH in

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  yes brothers and sisters, feel free to say a prayer on my thread.

  no need to wear a hat sisters.. i'll start: god almighty, i want to thank you for jwd, a place where beer and women and funny posts collide.

  thank-you for the beer i'm drinking right now.

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  Big Dog

  In heaven there is no beer, so we might as well drink it here.
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  JW Ladies: starved for love?

  by 144001 in

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  ok, in another thread, a poster referred to incidents of "sisters" out in "field service" attempting to "hit" on the males they encountered at the doors.

  i have personally had this experience, and also noticed that the last time i visited a kingdom hall, the females in the hall were very, very flirty (including those who were married).

  it was as if i had entered a place inhabited soley by women who had been denied male companionship for years!

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  Well, think about the men in the congos, I mean, looking back the group at the hall I grew up in were pretty well emasculated by adulthood. Never participating in normal young man activities and being taught that being a spineless wimp was the ideal mode of existence, well, I just don't see these guys inflaming their ladies with passion and taking care of business in the bedroom. I can recall in the gossip mill that was the Kingdom Hall many stories about brothers that didn't have the desire much less the first clue about what to do in the bedroom.
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  "This just can't last much longer...."

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  i went over and visited my parents today.

  my mom broke her hip while we were in hawaii, and i've been mostly house/bed ridden myself since we got home.

  so i finally got over there today.. we talked a little about the hurricane, which was on the news she turned off.

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  Virgogirl, first welcome to the forum. Second, my 85 year old mother is one of them, she clings to it because she has invested so heavily in it. She told me recently though if her father was still alive he would have left the org. She just figures at this point in her life what can she do.
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  Question for Defd

  by gringojj in

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  defd we were talking earlier and i didnt want to hijack the other post.

  we were talking about how i believe it is unfair for god to murder his children even though it is his fault that they dont follow his wishes not because they dont want to but because he did not make his wishes clear.. you said that his wishes are clear, but the devil distorts them.. you promised me you would provide me with some examples.

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  Cool, it appears reports of Defd's demise were greatly exaggerated! Hang in there Derrick.
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  Is there anything that "only the JW's preach" you still believe in?

  by JH in

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  i don't know what to answer to my own question.... i guess that i still believe in a paradise earth where humans could live forever.

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  No, if there is anything to christianity, certainly none of their exclusive teachings make any sense to me at all.