I'm not a JW, but i've read a fair amount of JW stuff... but never an awake or watchtower. Are these available online? Is it possible to get copies without having to deal with JWs in person?
jstalin
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Watchtower or Awake ??
by wednesday insome jw's came to our home yesterday and my hubby got out of a bath to answer the door.
they left him a magiazine, not sure what it is.
it did not have awake or watchtower on it.
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black, black coffee
by tetrapod.sapien inwhat is it with people who live life like they bought it at a store?
like they know exactly how it is supposed to work, and they live like it too?
like it's so simple.
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jstalin
A Megadeth song:
I don't remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
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A few of my experiences growing up in the 80's........
by WingCommander inaaron's thread over in the "personal experiences" section really got me thinking about how it was to grow up a jw child in the 80's.
i was born in 1979. so, i missed the 1970's.
imagine that crap!!
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jstalin
Howdy fellow 79er. I'm hoping you corrected your life's path!
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Is the Bible really inerrant?
by greendawn indo you think the bible is inerrant ie has absolutely no erroneous information or does it contain some errors?
if it does is its credibility destroyed?
i personally think that a great deal in the bible is false but still the basic ideas are correct.
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Vatican acknowledges evolution theory
by skinnyboy inhttp://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html
evolution in the bible, says vaticanfrom: by martin penner.
november 07, 2005 the vatican has issued a stout defence of charles darwin, voicing strong criticism of christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.
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jstalin
They take the reasonable view.
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Why is it that when leaves fall......
by JH ini have a neighbour that has many trees with lots of leaves on them.
when the leaves are all fallen on his lot, the wind shoots them on my side, and it whilwinds and stays here.. so, every year, i'm stuck to pick up the leaves of those who didn't pick them up on their lot and comes here and stays here, no matter how strong the wind is.
just a few days ago, i raked the whole lot and there wasn't one leaf left.
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jstalin
I have a mulching lawn mower... i just mulch the crap out of them.
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USA service report shows a decrease of 1442 publishers
by truthseeker infrom september 2004 to july 2005, there has been no increase in the number of publishers reporting for the 2005 service year, which began last september.
september 2004 - 990,551 .
october 2004 - 993,476 .
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jstalin
Splendid news. Perhaps our atheocratic warfare is working.
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If 'Intelligent Design" Is True, Why So Many Lies?
by Nate Merit inif true why so many lies ?
the following is a snippet from a new york times article on the closing arguments in the intelligent design trial.
closing arguments made in trial on intelligent design .
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jstalin
AlmostAtheist is right. No one's saying that a religious motive is bad. What is being said is that the far majority of ID supporters do so because of religous belief, but then deny that their motivation is religious. They're attempting to make ID mainstream by watering down their theological motivation and make it look like they're entering the scientific realm.
Most ID supporters will then steer interested parties to the Bible for their explanation as to what exactly the "intelligent" in intelligent design stands for. Heck, it might be ETs, it might be the flying spaghetti monster. That's where the problem comes in. Which designer do you choose when teaching intelligent design? I can argue that I created the universe and no one can disprove it.
The original article from Nate makes the point that those christians who support ID but then deny that religion is the motivating factor are in fact bad christians because they are denying their own religion. If they truly love Christ, why are they denying him?
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If 'Intelligent Design" Is True, Why So Many Lies?
by Nate Merit inif true why so many lies ?
the following is a snippet from a new york times article on the closing arguments in the intelligent design trial.
closing arguments made in trial on intelligent design .
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jstalin
Therefore, any Christian that tells you his interest in "Intelligent Design" has nothing to do with his religion is automatically a BAD Christian, a FALSE Christian...
I agree 100%. In practice, it sounds tantamount to denying Christ.
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Amount of Magazines Wasted
by Nosferatu ini wanted to figure out approximately how many magazines are thrown into the trash (for one year).
i got some almost useless statistics from jw-media.org to work with.
the statistics are for the year 2004. watchtower printing = (approx) 26.4 million.
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jstalin
There's a great article on Wikipedia explaining the FDS: