Posts by ThomasCovenant

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Your All - Time Favorite Music Groups ? Solo Artist or Groups ?

by flipper in

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mine in kind of this order close give or take a few.. 1. the beatles.

2. led zeppelin.

3. pink floyd.

The Watchtower Didn't Make Me An Atheist

by B_Deserter in

ive posted on this before, but i figured i should lay my thoughts out again on the subject.

there are some in the ex-jw community who are saddened because the watchtower organization has turned me and others like me off to god.

the watchtower attacks and debunks other religions on a regular basis, often giving us the sense that if the watchtower is wrong, then there cant be a god.

ThomasCovenant

B_Deserter

Your post was one of the best I have read on this forum in many a year. Thank you.

Thomas Covenant

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Letter to UK Chaities Commission

by stillajwexelder in

spelling and grammar need to be improved and perhaps it should be toned down a little.

ThomasCovenant

I have 3 degrees and teach in University

So? I have 4 degrees and teach in 2 universities. Plus, all of Diana Ross's solo albums. And a bigger doo daa.

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Does the WT Society trade/own stocks?

by ThomasCovenant in

hi.

is there a way of showing a jw that the society deals in stocks and shares and therefore it is ok for individual jw's to do likewise?.

thomas covenant.

ThomasCovenant

Hi

Is there a way of showing a JW that the Society deals in stocks and shares and therefore it is ok for individual JW's to do likewise?

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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Do you wish SUFFERING on some human beings? Should you?

by BonaFide in

with the recent illness of a gb member who has hurt many people, some have commented that they would like to have him suffer, various ways have been mentioned including having his mind fine, but his body suffering.. we all here have a hatred for child molesters, abusers, those who make others suffer.. and there are many examples in history as well.

hitler, josef mengele, john wayne gacy, and many others.. is it right to want them to suffer for what they have done?

should they be made to undergo the exact same suffering they inflicted on others?.

ThomasCovenant

Hi

I think this is a very interesting question that is probably a lot more complex to answer than most think.

I would have to say, Yes I do wish suffering on some human beings.

Is it right to wish that? I don't know. But I still wish it.

Should they suffer the same hurt and pain? Well that would seem just and fair to me. Probably impractical and most likely not even possible.

Would I carry out the punishment? In some cases, most definitely. In most other cases I would 'chicken' out.

Would carrying out the punishment make me a better person? Probably not.

Many people say they don't judge others. Some even say they leave it to Zeus or whatever they call their god to do the judging.

I do judge people. Whether I'm correct in the judgements I make is a different matter. But I most certainly do judge others and I suspect so does everyone else but are afraid to admit it.

Interesting question.

Thanks

Thomas Covenant

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For any current 'bible studies' and 'return visits', try this......

by ThomasCovenant in

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friends

ask the witness at your home whether he'll take up this challenge:.

''you try and convince me jw's are the true religion using nothing but the bible.

and i'll try and convince you jw's are not the true religion using nothing but jw publications''.

ThomasCovenant

Ask the Witness at your home whether he'll take up this challenge:

''You try and convince me JW's are the true religion using nothing but the Bible

and I'll try and convince you JW's are not the true religion using nothing but JW publications''

See how you get on

Thomas Covenant

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The "swagger" of the Organization is gone - or is it my imagination?

by BonaFide in

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friends

i am in my early forties.

grew up in the truth.

i remember talks at the assemblies by the governing body in the 80's.

ThomasCovenant

Mary,

That was spot on

Thank you

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Can anyone make out what language this video is in? And if so can you tell me what the host is laughing about?

by StoneWall in

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friends

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1viyze3ws.

ThomasCovenant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_De_Gloria

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Can anyone make out what language this video is in? And if so can you tell me what the host is laughing about?

by StoneWall in

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friends

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x1viyze3ws.

ThomasCovenant

Belgian or Dutch tv comedy sketch 'In De Gloria' according to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_De_Gloria

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How to get this Forum/website higher up the Google search rankings?

by ThomasCovenant in

are there any ways we can increase the google search position for this site by the way we access it?.

(i'm definitely not computer / tinternet savvy.).

i haven't got this site stored in bookmarks/favourites.

ThomasCovenant

Hi

Are there any ways we can increase the Google search position for this site by the way we access it?

(I'm definitely not computer / tinternet savvy.)

I haven't got this site stored in bookmarks/favourites. I always go to my homepage of Google and type in 'JWD'. Inevitably this forum comes up in the top 5 positions. Sometimes it's 4th, today it was 2nd.

However, if I type in 'Jehovah's Witness' or 'Jehovah's Witnesses' I can't see JWD/JWN on any of the first 4 pages at least. I gave up then.

Are there ways this positioning can be increased simply by the search terms we enter in the search box?

i.e. if more of us firstly typed in 'Jehovah's Witness' and took the time to eventually find it via Google's results would this then push the site up the rankings?

I would hope that 'newly interested ones' would find this site easier than having to type in 'jehovahs witness discussion forum'.

I hope I've explained this well enough.

Thanks

Thomas Covenant