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  Why are people 'Bad' ?

  by Caliban in

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  2. friends

  as far as i see it, people are bad / evil (call it what you will) because of two possible things:.

  1. they are genetically that way.

  they are born like that.. 2. the way they have been brought up has made them that way.. either way, the influences are out of their control.

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  To wait or not to wait?

  by Frenchy in

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  2. friends

  okay, this need not necessarily be controversial but i would like some honest opinions on the matter.

  from time to time (in last sundays wt lesson for example) i read in the magazines or hear brothers say this in their talks.

  (with some variation) arent we grateful that jehovah has waited this long before loosing armageddon on mankind?

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  Question for this forum???

  by spectromize in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how many here still believe the organization is ahead of any other religion as far as teaching truth from the bible despite some of the wrong teachings that we perhaps have???.

  i will be the first to answer in saying, i still believe we are ahead of any other religion for the present but it can change.

  only time will tell wether the organization wants to adjust to some of their mistaken chronology and teachings.

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  Dinosaur's & fossils records

  by moman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have been in the "truth" for some yrs., & just can't seem to reconsile the huge fossile record with the society's timetable.

  if each creative day waz 7k yrs., that means the dinosaurs only lived on this earth for a few thousand yrs.= (sixth creative day 7k yrs.

  to noah's flood).

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  What do you like best about the Bible?

  by spectromize in

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  just a question trying to find out what most of you like best about learning some things taught in the scriptures and our worship as jw's.

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  I still like the old stuff!

  by Frenchy in

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  i've been reading sf since grade school.

  i love the old masters like heinlein, norton, asimov, wells, clarke.

  i must admit that the little that i have read of the new stuff is mostly incomprehensible to me.

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  What's Sacred, what's not?

  by Frenchy in

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  let's put forth a question here that should provoke some interesting responses.

  please feel free to give your thoughts on the matter inasmuch as that is the purpose of these boards.

  we (jehovah's witnesses) do not accept blood transfusions on the principle that 'blood is sacred'.

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  Keep doing this until I return

  by Caliban in

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  if jesus said to keep celebrating the memorial 'until he returned' and he returned in 1914 then why do we still celebrate the memorial?

  isn't he here already!?!.

  can anyone enlighten me?

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  Challenges Facing us in the New System

  by stevieb in

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  2. friends

  from time to time some of us may have wondered about the amount of work that we will have to do restoring the post-armageddon world into a paradise.

  think of all that construction and all that clearing up!

  how long is it going to take?.

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  What is truth?

  by spectromize in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ah!

  yes, that remark made by pilate after pilate had asked jesus wether he was a king.

  ( john 18:37-38 ).. how would you answer the question according to what we know from the bibles definition, and how the faithful and discreet slave have endeavored to give us spiritual food at the proper time?.

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