Visible to the naked eye?
About 3000 to 6000.
Certainly possible to name everyone of them back in the days of the desert dwelling shepherds.
Perhaps whoever wrote that verse didn't know about the other hundreds of billions.
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Next time two Witnesses come to my door,
by ThomasCovenant ini'm going to ask three questions,.
i'm going to ask the first witness, .
q. are you allowed to ask me to donate my blood so that they can extract the fractions needed, to use in an attempt to save your partner's life?''.
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I'm going to ask three questions,
I'm going to ask the first Witness,
Q. ''Imagine you are dying on a hospital bed, and they offer you blood fractions in a bid to save your life. Are you allowed to take them?''
A. ''Yes.''
Turning to the second Witness,
Q. The hospital ask you to donate your blood, so that they can extract the fractions needed to use in an attempt to save your partner's life. Are you allowed to donate your blood?''
A. ''No.''
Q. Are you allowed to ask me to donate my blood so that they can extract the fractions needed, to use in an attempt to save your partner's life?''
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Who On This Site Would You Like To Meet?
by minimus inthere are a lot of interesting people that frequent this site.. sometimes, we get an idea of what the posters are really like in "real life".
and i'm sure i could be easily surprised by some that you think might be strong personalities because of their board presence, and in reality, they might be shy in a face to face setting.. i would enjoy meeting simon.
simon used to be terribly annoyed by my posting and now i think he's accepted with tolerance my being here.. farkel seems like a grouchy cantankerous fellow but i think he'd be very interesting company!.
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How many JW pedofiles do you personally know?
by oldlightnewshite ini was just thinking that out of the 200 jws that i actually know, at least 4 of them to my knowledge are pedophiles.
i know for a fact, through personal confidences.
that means, as far as my circle of jovo friends/acquaintances goes, 2% of them are kiddy fiddlers.. without mentioning names or details, how many do you know of for a certainty to be pedos, and what percentage does it work out at, considering all your circle of jovo friends?.
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Jehovah's Witness Convention Dramas
by God_Delusion inhowdy,.
the district convention here in cyprus is over for another year.
being english, we attend the english speaking section of the convention and are submitted to the incredible american accents that bellow over the tannoy.. anyway, here's my take on the dramas.
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The troubled man has done one of two things.
1.) Changed his thinking so that it's in line with Jehovah's,
or 2.) Killed someone that had done something wrong.
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Jehovah's Witness Convention Dramas
by God_Delusion inhowdy,.
the district convention here in cyprus is over for another year.
being english, we attend the english speaking section of the convention and are submitted to the incredible american accents that bellow over the tannoy.. anyway, here's my take on the dramas.
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We didn't want to watch real life, we wanted the beards!
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Jehovah's Witness Convention Dramas
by God_Delusion inhowdy,.
the district convention here in cyprus is over for another year.
being english, we attend the english speaking section of the convention and are submitted to the incredible american accents that bellow over the tannoy.. anyway, here's my take on the dramas.
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"Hello Susan, I'm Randy"
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Memorial attendance DECLINED by 2.4% in the US from 2011 to 2012!
by sir82 inthe september km is out, here is the thread pointing to it:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/228224/1/2012-september-kingdom-ministry.
of particular note is the "highlight" on page 4, announcing the attendance at the memorial in the usa.. the 2012 yearbook notes the memorial attendance in 2011 was 2.563,318, while in 2012, per the september 2012 km, it was 2,502,055 -- a decline of 2.4%.. .
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Why would they highlight these declines in the Kingdom Ministry?
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Memorial attendance DECLINED by 2.4% in the US from 2011 to 2012!
by sir82 inthe september km is out, here is the thread pointing to it:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/228224/1/2012-september-kingdom-ministry.
of particular note is the "highlight" on page 4, announcing the attendance at the memorial in the usa.. the 2012 yearbook notes the memorial attendance in 2011 was 2.563,318, while in 2012, per the september 2012 km, it was 2,502,055 -- a decline of 2.4%.. .
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Memorial Attendance for
Turks and Caicos
2011 = 1,441 2012 = 1,018 a decline of 42%
Bahamas
2011 = 4,609 2012 = 3,948 a decline of 14%
Bermuda
2011 = 1,121 2012 = 962 a decline of 17%
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A Wonderfully Designed Animal Kingdom...Don't you mean Re designed?
by ThomasCovenant ini have some jehovah's witness relatives that, whenever the opportunity arises, point out the marvels of design 'evident' in the plant and animal kingdom.
the way they all interact amongst themselves.
marvellous.
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I have some Jehovah's Witness relatives that, whenever the opportunity arises, point out the marvels of design 'evident' in the plant and animal kingdom. The way they all interact amongst themselves. Marvellous. Bloody marvellous. (My emphasis is on the 'bloody' bit)
They probably think that that is the way God designed everything, way, way back when the days were 7,000 years long. Or as they seem to be now, even longer.
However, God didn't design it that way. Not 48,000 years ago. Not 'at least' thousands of years ago. Not millions of years ago.
He absolutely, back to the drawing board, let's clear the decks and start all over again, shit, what do I do now,
re-designed everything from the bottom up, 4,382 years ago.
What we see around us today, (best described as bloody carnage)
was re-designed in 2370 BC.
just about the time that Stonehenge was being built and a few hundred years after the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The way animals interact with each other today has no likeness with the way God originally designed things, i.e. everything then was vegetarian.
So remember, the next time a Jehovah's Witness extols the virtues of God's 'wonderful design' please correct them by saying
God's wonderful re-design.
Awake 1986 1/22nd January pp. 29-30
Watching the World ***What was the air like 4,600 years ago? That is what scientists are hoping to discover when they penetrate an underground chamber on the southwest side of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The 96-foot-long (29 m) chamber, covered by 4- to 6-foot-thick (1.2 to 1.8 m) limestone slabs, is thought to house a second ancient funerary boat for the "soul" of Pharaoh Cheops. The first-only 12 feet (3.7 m) away from the current site-was discovered in 1954. That wooden vessel, 130 feet (40 m) in length and excellently preserved, is on display in a museum built for it. The two pits, some 30 feet (9 m) deep and covered with 10 feet (3 m) of rubble, escaped the ravages of time and tomb robbers. It is expected that the second will be like the first-hermetically sealed by gypsum cement, thus trapping the ancient air. Space-age technology will be used to penetrate the chamber without introducing outside air. This will enable the scientists to measure particularly the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the interior air, compare them with present levels, and perhaps throw some light on the question of whether the earth is really warming up as is believed by some scientists.
Watchtower 1954 1st August p. 478 The Purpose of Your Witnessing ***Each creative day was 7,000 years in length. See "New Heavens and a New Earth", pages 40-43.