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  "How Do We Know the End if Near?"

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  that was the talk yesterday.

  the speaker started by asking for a "show of hands" of who thought the end was very near?

  i was sitting in the back row and believe i was the only one who didn't raise my hand.

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  I found a site that has some of the prophcies about the end times. it includes those which have past and those which are to come as well as those in progress. http://www.100prophecies.org/default.htm check it out, it is facinating. and they remember that fellow named Christ too! mnb77
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  Simple ignorance

  by hillbillygal in

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  ok, i have browsed through the jw sites & guess i am missing it, what is the big controversy about jw?

  i simply do not know, i have heard it called a "cult" and understood that they did not believe that christ is our savior.

  i know they are an organized religion, not a "cult" i just haven't ever learned enough to know.

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  hillbillygal,

  check out this site http://www.carm.org/witnesses.htm, it gives a history and combat for the teaching of the JW cult. it is very informative and will show you how this man made organization is incorrect in a lot of its teachings. mnb
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  If you feel like vomiting..

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  2. bible

  heres a link to a video dealing with 'end time prophecys' by some apocalypse sect - http://tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw/telecast/tw-telecast.cgi?action=view_telecast .

  it was spooky how much these guys remind me of the witnesses.

  the video i watched was at the bottom left of the page.

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  GBL, that site is affiliated with the SDA (seven day adventist). I checked their links and found the part about worshiping on saturday not on sunday. In my research, they are very simular in their strict teachings like the JW.
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  Can it be proven that the WTS is NOT God's personal organization?

  by M.J. in

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  2. beliefs

  imagine trying to prove to someone that firmly believes in leprechauns that they simply don't exist.

  where do you start?

  an excellent saying i have heard is "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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  God's personal organization would probalbly not say God said something he didn't:

  1931 "There was a measure of disappointment on the part of Jehovah's faithful ones on earth concerning the years 1917, 1918, and 1925, which disappointment lasted for a time...and they also learned to quit fixing dates." Vindication, page 338.

  1968 "Why are you looking forward to 1975?" The Watchtower, 8/15/68, page 494.

  1968 "True, there have been those in times past who predicted an ?end to the world', even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened. The ?end' did not come. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing?.. Missing from such people were God's truths and evidence that he was using and guiding them." Awake, 10/8/68.

  god's personal organization wouldn't be wrong, would they?

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  What does Russell, Masons and Satan have in common?

  by mnb77 in

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  freemasons (aka: masons) are under the control of satan and russell was there with them...

  now we come to russell's part.

  russell was a freemason.

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  http://www.freedomdomain.com/freemason.html

  this site denies that freemasons have anything to do with satan, but it does claim that Russell was a 32 degree Freemason

  http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/russell.html

  this site has connections about freemasons and LDS leader and Russell

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  is the future more or less bleak for the atheist?

  by doogie in

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  a thread from yesterday got me thinking about something.

  is it possible that human life is less bleak if not viewed through the eyes of theism?

  traditionally, i think there?s a general understanding that to look at the world through ?god-colored?

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  my point was just that i wonder if atheists are actually better equipped than theists to see the good (both present and future) in human society rather than focus on the negative aspects.

  when you say this, I think that most theists do look only at the bad, but I, being a theist dont focus on the bad the human society has given us, but i rather focus on the present oppotunities (good) and the furture hope of what is to come (typically good)--(Christian-jew. pt of view)
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  New Ways to look at things..........

  by Sunnygal41 in

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  i realize not everyone will find this list applicable or useful, but, i will share it in the spirit of "take what you need and leave the rest"........

  ancora imparo - "i am still learning" ~ michelangelo

  ' your biography becomes your biology.

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  wow thats a bunch of stuff...
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  hmmmm

  by missy04 in

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  i have been wondering lately.. .

  for a while now i don't really hear from my witness friend and not that it bothers me much anymore, but i call her like once a month or so and she usually stays on the phone long enough to tell me how much she "misses me," for like 5 minutes (as opposed to the hours that she used to call me to talk for every night.

  ) then she says "well i will call you later, ok?

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  Sorry to hear that. I've had the same thing sort of happen to me. Jw friend use to email me all the time and we would discuss the differences between the religions we took part in and then she got a new job and the interaction tappered off and I haven't heard from her for several months. Sad that I could draw her away from the Jw and show her her freedoms she could have.
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  Is this WTS teaching a contradiction?

  by Honesty in

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  the wts does not believe the soul is anything other than a person's whole being but they teach that the 144,000 are resurrected to heaven as immortal beings.

  can anyone explain what they really are trying to say?

  i hope this makes a little bit of sense.

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  they get this from where it speaks in the bible about the gloified bodies, at least I would think cause of what it says about christ had when he defeated death. Jw dont teach about the gloified body of christ but that he was a spirit I must contradict that will how christ was able to eat and drink with the diciples.

  just some thoughts from conversations and reading on the JWs

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  Name your new "Wild Beast"

  by jula71 in

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  ok, in the ever-changing world of ?new light?

  who is going to be the new ?wild beast??

  i was just watching the news and the un is in some pretty bad trouble, teenage prostitution scandal, oil for food scandal, ect.. it seems that they are slipping quickly into insignificance.

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  well I had a friend that grew up in a country where religion was illegal. She said it was like this for many of the countries around her's.