good to see the energy still here on thread...
Posts by besty
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2596The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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besty
@flamegrilled - you are giving God a free pass on natural disasters because 0.1% potential disconfirmation* of your worldview is an acceptable cost to you
atheists (me, us, cofty, whoever) have used a different scale in our observation. Massive scale death of the innocents are yet more evidence 'He' probably doesn't exist.
* " If a good friend told you the truth 999 times, but then said said something that appeared to be untruthful..."
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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besty
94 pages in and here we are:
If intervention in natural disasters at this time is counter to God's ultimate purpose for his creation then I am prepared to accept that there is good reason for that.
Theist believers want to believe, sans evidence
Atheists haven't seen evidence yet.
I'm sure there is a genetic or personality type aspect to this, but I dont have the evidence yet ;-)
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Should I meet with the elders?
by winnie12 inso i posted my story somewhere on this board but long story short i have been expressing my doubts to my mom who is a jw.
i have been fading since december 2013 and went to a sunday meeting for the first time maybe two weeks ago.
i went only because i wanted to use the library that my hall has which had books published by the society from the early 1900's.
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besty
welcome to JWN
your opening post is here if you cant find it...http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/268774/1/New-here#.UuJZw43FK2w
don't meet with elder(s)
make a plan for moving on with your life before planning on how to help your family
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Top evolution researchers agree: There is A Creator! The Watchtower is Right!
by mariu inokay, it's just one scientist: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201404/frederic-dumoulin-interview/.
but he's a very eminent one!.
for more than a decade, frederic dumoulin has worked in the field of pharmaceutical research ... studied the effects of medications and toxins on living creatures ... such design simply could not have evolved.
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besty
" For me, such design simply could not have evolved."
appeal to personal incredulity, much?
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The future according to Bill Gates
by sspo inhttp://b-gat.es/1g26ks2.
the world has never been better than what we have today and the future is very bright..... how different from the gloomy world that the witness preach about, the bad conditions we live in and the that the world is getting worse.. .
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besty
great letter #stopthemyth
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Uk bethel "university campus but nicer"
by snare&racket innew essex bethel plans include.... "its accommodation, predominantly for young members, would resemble a university campus but "nicer".
erghhhh..... don't become a lawyer or an engineer, a doctor or a nurse or a teacher.... come spend 3 years working for us at our factory for free.
look we have wifi...(no porn!).
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Uk bethel "university campus but nicer"
by snare&racket innew essex bethel plans include.... "its accommodation, predominantly for young members, would resemble a university campus but "nicer".
erghhhh..... don't become a lawyer or an engineer, a doctor or a nurse or a teacher.... come spend 3 years working for us at our factory for free.
look we have wifi...(no porn!).
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besty
this newspaper article is lacking comments...
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Yearbook Chart Re-posted - Math explained. Top 7 countries account for 50% growth
by Westenddave insorted from high to low.
net increase in publishers2013 ave. pubs2012 ave. pubsincrease/ decrease in publishersincrease in pubs cumulative.
% increase cumulative columnabcde =a-b mexico (g-31)777,429749,58527,84427,84417.47%legend united states of america (e-32)1,167,7231,156,15011,57339,41724.73%red: latin/spanish landscongo, dem.
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besty
Britain Branch must be delighted with their +0.5% increase despite a 2% share of total publishers...
would be interesting to run that comparison for all countries to see who is under and over performing....
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Yearbook Chart Re-posted - Math explained. Top 7 countries account for 50% growth
by Westenddave insorted from high to low.
net increase in publishers2013 ave. pubs2012 ave. pubsincrease/ decrease in publishersincrease in pubs cumulative.
% increase cumulative columnabcde =a-b mexico (g-31)777,429749,58527,84427,84417.47%legend united states of america (e-32)1,167,7231,156,15011,57339,41724.73%red: latin/spanish landscongo, dem.
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besty
this is discussed in detail at http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php