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  How do they get people to believe this one?

  by A Paduan in

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  2. beliefs

  "in 1914 jesus came to earth, invisibly, and invisibly looked around at the various religions and chose the jehovah witness group because they were the good and best ones who were believing him correctly"

  i get it about subtle doctrinal things and swaying people with this and that

  bu$$@#*t

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  jstalin

  Terry - outstanding post!
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  Gays and Angels

  by truthseeker in

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  what's the historical background of angels and angel wings in gay culture?.

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  jstalin

  You learn something new every day. I guess I'll have to go out and buy an angel.
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  How greedy is "greedy"?

  by scout575 in

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  at 1 corinthians 5:11 christians are commanded "not to keep company" and "not to eat" with a fellow believer who is "covetous" ( greedy - nwt ).

  what signs of greediness in a fellow believer would make a christian obey this nt command and begin to "not keep company" and 'not eat' with his or her greedy, fellow christian?

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  self interest is not greed. we have to have a certain amount of it to survive and thrive, but when we let this get out of control and continue to want more and more beyond what we need, that is greed.

  I can agree with that. But I don't think greed is a bad thing. It makes the world go 'round.
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  Damn, I hate the secrecy!

  by Star Moore in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i really hate the secrecy in jw's ...i felt like the low man on the totem pole even though i was a pioneer.

  the big important men decide things behind closed doors and you can't know anything.

  i can understand why someone said it was a pediphile's paradise, or anyone's who done really bad things.

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  I really hate the secrecy in JW's ...I felt like the low man on the totem pole even though I was a pioneer. ; The Big Important Men ;decide things behind closed doors and you can't know anything. ; I can understand why someone said it was a pediphile's paradise, or anyone's who done really bad things. ; Everyone sits at the meeting pretending to be perfect. ; Hated that. ; Then they tell you to shun someone and you're not allowed to know or ask what they even did... ; But then I'm only a woman.....

  You just outlined one of the basic definitions of "cult."
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  How greedy is "greedy"?

  by scout575 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at 1 corinthians 5:11 christians are commanded "not to keep company" and "not to eat" with a fellow believer who is "covetous" ( greedy - nwt ).

  what signs of greediness in a fellow believer would make a christian obey this nt command and begin to "not keep company" and 'not eat' with his or her greedy, fellow christian?

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  I believe everything we do is based on greed. I guess it depends on how you define greed, but self-interest is the most basic form. I don't believe anyone is selfless.
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  WHAT HAS JESUS BEEN DOING AS ENTHRONED KING since 1914?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not much.. he is directing the watchtower society to print magazines that contain errors.. the goats he separated from the sheep have had to be put back in with the sheep because of policy changes.. stray sheep have been ostracized and turned into lamb stew.. the war to end all wars (wwi) has been followed by wwii, korea, viet nam, and the cold one.

  (no need to mention the war on terror.).

  there have been earthquakes, famine, disease and a lot of marrying and eating at fine restaurants.. 1925 came and went without any ancient worthies moving in to the residence at beth sarim.. the world got so dangerous in 1975 nobody noticed it.. the generation that saw all the signs and wonders has been dropping dead like flies.. brothers and sisters who use to serve jehovah and reverence jesus now know it is the governing body who calls the shots and jesus is only "a" god with a widdle "g".. the preaching work has been so successful that not one person in a hundred can give a coherent answer to what jehovah's witnesses actually believe.. hundreds of books printed by the watchtower society have begun with the stale adam and eve story and thousands of jw's have nodded off at meetings hearing it all for the umpteenth time.. the end has been "near" but, the answer "to what" needs shaping up a bit.. jesus use to be clean shaven, but, now has a beard like christendom said he did.. the superior authorities use to be jesus and jehovah, but, now they are the earthly governments just like christendom said they were.. all in all, as ceo of the hottest most wonderful government ever known to mankind (albeit invisible) jesus hasn't had a hit since wwi and is turning into the biggest disappointment since milli vanilli.. tsk tsk tsk.. .

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  jstalin

  Sounds like he needs to take a management class or two.
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  New Video of DF announcement at door

  by inbyathread in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  starting a new thread so that everyone can find the link.. this is the video of the elders trying to act smart stupid.

  http://www.savefile.com/files2.php?fid=5509435.

  they will keep the file as long as it is downloaded once every 14 days.. enjoy

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  LOL
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  What are these things?

  by skyman in

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  go to link this link and let it down load then start watching the video at 21minutes into the nasa video.

  you see things passing behind the tether, since they pass behind the tether they can not be ice crystals.

  the camera if i remember right is 75 miles away makings some of these things enormously huge.

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  Yes, I watched the entire video - including the fuzzy things floating by in an even fuzzier background - at 21 minutes. And what am I supposed to be convinced of? Does that video convince anyone of anything? All I'm convinced of is that there's a lot of junk floating around in space.
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  Statistics for JW's in useable format?

  by ackack in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have the jw stats in an excel spreadsheet or xml file or any kind of useable format?

  i wanted to run some stats against it if its possible.. thanks.

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  Which stats are you looking for? I've compiled the US numbers and posted them here recently:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/103946/1798552/post.ashx#1798552
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  What are these things?

  by skyman in

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  go to link this link and let it down load then start watching the video at 21minutes into the nasa video.

  you see things passing behind the tether, since they pass behind the tether they can not be ice crystals.

  the camera if i remember right is 75 miles away makings some of these things enormously huge.

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  I watched the video and all I see are things floating by in space. The only items that's mildly interesting is the one that changes course.

  The UFO world has a problem. They have yet to produce the slightest bit of convincing, clear, unambiguous evidence. I guess I'm one of those "blinded by scientific dogma," which means that I demand proof and evidence.

  Heck, we have video of the plane slamming into the first world trade center tower - a one in a trillion event. But there's no clear video of a "UFO" yet. Don't leave one world of flimsy logic and evidence (the JWs) for another (UFO "investigators").

  I'm completely open to the possiblity of alien life and would be extremely interested in both the technology and life forms, but I have yet to see the slightest bit of evidence that comes close to convincing me that that life is visiting earth.